State Superintendent fundraising to buy 55K ‘God Bless The USA’ Bibles
Oklahoma’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is asking Americans to donate money to send leather-bound Bibles into Sooner State public school classrooms, now that the state legislature nixed a funding request.
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Last Friday (Feb. 28) MinistryWatch President Warren Smith delivered a plenary session speech to the “To Be Human” conference hosted by St. Luke’s Anglican Church at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Below is ...
Three bills currently proposed would void NDAs when they prohibit reporting and disclosure of child sexual abuse.
Texas legislators have proposed bills that would make certain nondisclosure agreements in child sexual abuse cases void and unenforceable. State Rep. Jeff Leach, a Republican from Plano, authored House Bill (HB) 748, and Republican Sen. ...
After years of faithful giving, one woman watched her husband shift from chasing money to chasing God’s call for generosity
Mark and his wife Carol spoke to attendees of the 2023 Celebration of Generosity Conference, held in Scottsdale, Arizona. They shared their decision to build a medical facility in Uganda and how encouraging others through ...
Terminations come despite two separate lawsuits aimed at Trump’s freeze of refugee program
President Donald Trump’s administration is making moves to shutter a decades-old partnership between the government and a group of mostly religious organizations to resettle refugees.
At NRB Conference, attendees express ambivalence about squabble over what to call Gulf of Mexico.
Normally more likely to voice support for President Donald Trump’s decisions, attendees and speakers at a gathering of conservative Christian broadcasters expressed ambivalence this week about the White House’s resolve to bar The Associated Press ...
MinistryWatch asked that question of the largest Christian ministries in our quarterly survey.
The majority of U.S.-based Christian ministry executives are optimistic about the impact the new administration of President Donald Trump will have on the ministries they lead.
Another preliminary injunction also restricted immigration raids at churches
Religious groups challenging President Donald Trump won a pair of legal victories this week, blocking the administration’s efforts to dismantle the refugee program and reinstating sensitive-location protections from immigration enforcement in some houses of worship.
The Summit Church, led by J.D. Greear, claims religious discrimination
A prominent Durham, N.C. megachurch is suing its local government after county commissioners rejected its rezoning request to build a new regional campus in a rural area.
AI and pastors, Ponzi scheme settlement, UMC General Conference delayed, Wheaton rescinds Bilezikian’s title, and Bill Gothard resigns
ONE YEAR AGO: On Feb. 29, 2024, MinistryWatch reported about the use of artificial intelligence by pastors in creating, developing, and repurposing sermons. Read more here. TWO YEARS AGO: On March 6, 2023, MinistryWatch reported that Toronto-Dominion ...