Tag: christianity
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Colorado Springs-based Navigators releases free discipleship app
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For 92 years, Navigators, a quiet, $170 million, Colorado Springs-based international ministry, has focused on discipleship: helping believers deepen their faith and become committed disciples of Christ who reproduce such faith in others. But research conducted with nearly 5,500 people in 2020 and 2021 showed…
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Friend of Iranian man seized by ICE says his arrest was based on lies
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Mehrdad Mehdipour was arrested on June 22 by federal immigration agents at the home of his Colorado Springs host and friend, Iranian Christian-advocate Mohamad Faridi, Faridi was angered. Mehdipour had been surrounded, cuffed and hauled away based on “lies from the pit of hell,”…
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Group behind ‘He gets us’ Super Bowl ads has roots in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ken Calwell enjoyed a long, successful career as an executive with Domino’s Pizza, Wendy’s, Papa Murphy’s and Pizza Hut, where in 1995 he led the national launch of a phenomenally popular item: the stuffed crust…
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Colorado-based Youth For Christ still reaching out at 80
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The 19th century saw the rise of ministries targeting young people, including England’s Young Men’s Christian Association, founded in 1844. In the 1930s, Christian groups in Britain and North America organized energetic, entertaining evangelistic rallies designed to attract and evangelize young people. These youth outreaches…
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Appeals court finds judge did not punish man for religious beliefs when giving ex-wife parenting authority
Colorado’s second-highest court last month rejected a man’s claim that a Larimer County judge unconstitutionally penalized him for expressing religious beliefs critical of homosexuality when she awarded parental decision-making to his ex-wife. District Court Judge Laurie K. Dean gave Brandon Ribble’s ex-wife broad decision-making responsibility for the couple’s children as a result of their divorce.…
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Liberty University will pay $14 million, the largest fine ever levied under the federal Clery Act
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The U.S. Department of Education says Liberty University has agreed to pay an unprecedented $14 million fine after the large Christian school in Virginia failed to disclose information about crimes on campus
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Greece becomes first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage
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Greece has become the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from Church officials
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Greece becomes first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece becomes first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage.
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In this centuries-old English pancake race, ‘you just have to go flat out’
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For centuries, women in one English town have run a pancake race to mark the day before the start of Lent
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As Indonesia goes to the polls, women and minority candidates face challenges
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As the world’s third-largest democracy prepares for national elections on Wednesday, women and minority candidates face questions about whether voters will accept them