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Doctors are 'confident' as Hillsong worship leader Chelsea Taylor recovers from brain aneurysm

"Her results are incredible!" said Hillsong Creative pastor Cass Langton in an Instagram stories update.

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People suffering for their faith remembered on UN's first day for religious victims of violence

Christians around the world are remembering the many believers persecuted for their faith on the first ever UN International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. …

Churches deliver emergency food to families caught up in Bangladesh floods

Over 200 families are being helped through some of the worst flooding to hit Bangladesh in years through the support of BMS World Mission. …

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• 'It was amazing being one of you, but I'm not any more,' says Hillsong's Marty Sampson

  

  After weeks of wrestling publicly with his faith, long-time Hillsong worship leader Marty Sampson appears to have said goodbye to Christianity once and for all in an emotional Instagram update posted on Friday.

• I'm still glad I kissed dating goodbye

  

  Harris gave me a vocabulary for taking dating and purity seriously in my own cultural context. He painted a picture of the way relationships could look when serving God was their focus.

• Carbon offsetting: does it work? Two Christian environmentalists weigh in

  

  Carbon offsetting received plenty of attention this week thanks to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's private jetsetting during their summer break, but what is it exactly and is it something that all of us should be doing when we travel?

• Cake slogans and Christian bakers: the right to refuse is good for everyone

  

  It was a win for everyone when the Supreme Court decided that a Christian-owned bakery in Belfast was entitled to refuse an order for a cake with a pro-gay slogan. Let's not undo that.

• Is prostitution work?

  

  We talk about the exploitation of women and applaud the MeToo movement, while at the same time permitting and encouraging young women to be purchased and exploited by older men.

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• Falling numbers of religious studies students as hundreds of schools drop it all together

  

  Religious studies is at risk of becoming an "endangered" subject, academics have warned, after research found that it has disappeared off the curriculum in hundreds of non-faith schools.

• Calls for urgent action as hundreds of places of worship are targeted in Northern Ireland

  

  A Christian advocacy group is calling for urgent action after 445 incidents of criminal damage were recorded against religious buildings, churchyards and cemeteries across Northern Ireland in the last three years.

• Student chapel numbers beat regular Sunday worship figures

  

  University students are attending chapel services at a higher rate than the rest of the population, challenging the notion that young people aren't interested in church.

• Cardinal George Pell loses appeal against child sexual abuse conviction

  

  Cardinal George Pell has lost his appeal against a child sexual abuse conviction at the Australian Supreme Court in Victoria on Wednesday.

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  Christians must speak truth to power - whatever the consequences

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  Archbishop of Canterbury backs building of divisive Holocaust memorial next to Parliament

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  Kanye West takes his Sunday Service to a real church

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  Billy Graham's grandson Tullian Tchividjian prepares to launch independent church after affairs

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  Shane Claiborne on guns, love and why he wants a new Christian narrative

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• These cathedrals aren't crazy: a golf course and helter skelter is exactly what the Church should be doing

  

  Helter skelters in the nave might be a purely 2019 phenomenon but the controversy they provoke is symptomatic of the millenia-old tension Christians face on a daily basis: being in the world but not of it, being part of modern culture yet also very distinct and different from it.

• 'It's a national crisis': The UK's birth rate is falling dramatically

  

  It may not seem a cause for concern. But with an increasingly ageing population, and Brexit due to impact on the number of non-British workers in the employment market, the UK is facing a population crisis.

• Christian Blind Mission raises over £1.8m towards sight-saving work in impoverished communities

  

  Over £1.8m has been raised towards helping recover the sight of people living in impoverished communities around the world who are unnecessarily living with blindness.

• Can football grounds be sacred places?

  

  As the controversy over Norwich Cathedral installing a helter-skelter and Rochester Cathedral hosting a crazy golf course rumbles on, I've been wondering whether only religious buildings can be sacred.