Christian News Weekly Recap May 18 – 23, 2020
This is a recap of the past week’s daily news items from our Christian News Section.
Monday May 18, 2020
Judge Allows N.C. Churches to Meet: ‘There Is No Pandemic Exception to the Constitution’
Majority in U.S. Believe ‘God Is Telling Humanity to Change How We Are Living’
Georgia church closes two weeks after reopening as families come down with coronavirus
620 Nigerian Christians Killed So Far This Year by Muslim Militants Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Ravi Zacharias, Beloved Preacher and Apologist, Dies at 74
China Forces School Teachers to Renounce Christian Faith or Risk Being Fired
American Pastor Held on False Charges for 7 Months in India Finally Returns Home
US orders return of rare Gilgamesh Dream Tablet from Museum of the Bible
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Christian leaders pay tribute to Ravi Zacharias
Mississippi Pastor Wins NBC’s The Voice after Singing ‘I Can Only Imagine’
Justice Dept. Warns California: Church Ban Is Discriminatory, Violates Constitution
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Armed for Battle with God on Her Side
Thursday May 21, 2020
How the Church is fighting fake news & Covid-19 in South Sudan
Trump Says Dem. Governors Are Not Treating Churches with Respect
‘Bet you stay home now you hypokrits’: Miss. church destroyed in suspected arson attack
67 Percent of Young People Have Turned to Prayer, Spiritual Questions More amid the Pandemic
Friday May 22, 2020
New techniques allow researchers read ‘hidden text’ in Qumran fragments
Nigerian sentenced to 26 years after forcing Christian teen into Islamic marriage
President Trump warns of broken America if churches aren’t reopened
TX Mayor Draws Backlash for Saying Women Shouldn’t Lead City Council Prayers
Saturday May 23, 2020
Mobile Church in Kenya Takes Services to the People
How One Woman Dodged an Assassin’s Bullet and Saved the Man Sent to Take Her Out
‘I no longer believe in God,’ declares Jon Steingard of Christian band Hawk Nelson
Belief in Heaven Is a ‘Malignant Delusion’ that ‘Devalues Actual Lives,’ Harvard Professor Says