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  Church installs ice rink to celebrate Christmas

  Ruth Gledhill | Fri 27 Nov 2015 12:00 GMT

  Father Stuart Craddock of the 14th century St Wulfram's church, Grantham put an ice rink in the nave as part of the church's first Christmas tree festival and promptly fell over when demonstrating for the BBC.

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  Church of England appoints its eighth woman bishop

  Ruth Gledhill | Fri 27 Nov 2015 10:16 GMT

  Karen Gorham is to be the suffragan bishop of Sherborne, in the Salisbury diocese, where she will oversee parishes in Dorset.

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  Black church in California undergoes 'miraculous growth' after it absorbed smaller white church

  Czarina Ong | Wed 25 Nov 2015 19:38 GMT

  When a black megachurch absorbed a smaller white church last year, it experienced "miraculous" growth and incredible financial gains.

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  Pastor Carl Lentz weighs in on Starbucks cup controversy, says 'it's weird when Christians freak out about stuff like that'

  Czarina Ong | Wed 25 Nov 2015 18:57 GMT

  Senior pastor of Hillsong Church New York Carl Lentz thinks a lot of Christians are making a mountain out of a molehill when it comes to the lack of Christmas designs in Starbucks' holiday cups this year.

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  Franklin Graham 'thankful for God's love that does not change even when circumstances around the world do'

  Czarina Ong | Wed 25 Nov 2015 18:45 GMT

  The world is changing at an alarming pace, but Reverend Franklin Graham is not worried nor is he fearful for what will happen next because he feels secure with God's love.

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  Pastor collapses and dies after passionate Sunday sermon

  Czarina Ong | Wed 25 Nov 2015 15:21 GMT

  Pastor Eddie Crain from NorthPointe Community Church in Fresno, California shocked the congregation on Sunday after he suddenly collapsed after delivering a sermon and then died of a "cardiac event."

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  Australian priest raped victims weekly, abuse enquiry hears

  Harry Farley | Wed 25 Nov 2015 14:50 GMT

  A Catholic priest repeatedly raped and abused victims in south Australia, a royal commission into responses to abuse heard.

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  Franklin Graham denounces teaching of song that promotes Islam in California school

  Czarina Ong | Tue 24 Nov 2015 6:02 GMT

  Reverend Franklin Graham gets why parents whose children attend a public school in Huntington Beach, California got very upset recently.

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  God loves even those who have drifted away from Him, says Billy Graham

  Czarina Ong | Sun 22 Nov 2015 19:30 GMT

  People drift away from God for different kinds of reasons, American evangelist Billy Graham has discovered in all his years of preaching the Gospel, but he is certain that God still loves even those who drift away from Him.

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  Singapore megachurch pastor jailed for eight years for fraud

  Ruth Gledhill | Fri 20 Nov 2015 17:09 GMT

  The pastor and five other senior staff of the City Harvest megachurch in Singapre were today jailed for a fraud that revolved around misusing church finances to fund the music career of the pastor's wife.

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  Pat Robertson: Compassion, yes, but from policy standpoint, truth is 'evil people have infiltrated the refugee hordes'

  Czarina Ong | Fri 20 Nov 2015 15:35 GMT

  What would Jesus do about the Syrian refugee crisis in America? This was a questioned posed by a concerned viewer to Christian preacher Pat Robertson on Thursday during his show "The 700 Club."

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  After Paris terror attacks, evangelicals find themselves divided into 2 camps — one for war against Islam and the other for peace

  Czarina Ong | Fri 20 Nov 2015 14:30 GMT

  Evangelicals seem to have opposing views on the simultaneous terror attacks that recently hounded the city of Paris. Some believe that it's a clear sign Islam is at war with the world, but for others, peace must be upheld above all things.