Christian persecution in India, the generosity of New Hope Community Church, Lysa TerKeurst divorce, and more.
ONE YEAR AGO: On December 30, 2024, MinistryWatch reported about the Christian community in India reflecting on a year marked by increasing challenges and persecution. Read more here. TWO YEARS AGO: On January 2, 2024, MinistryWatch ...
Editor’s Note: Below are Christian leaders who died in 2025, listed chronologically. To read a more complete obituary, click on the person’s name. BILL MCCARTNEY — January 10. McCartney was a former college football coach ...
Independent investigator recommends ousting Greater Grace World Outreach leadership
GRACE traced GGWO’s failures to multiple causes, including an authoritarian power structure rooted in the teachings of late founder Carl Henry Stevens Jr., who was himself accused of grooming and sexually abusing minors—allegations the report ...
Because Christmas falls on a Thursday this year, it really cuts into the work schedule of the last two weeks of the year. But we didn’t want to go two full weeks without sharing some ...
The Archbishop Steve Wood Controversy
ANALYSIS–The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), founded in 2009 as a conservative alternative to the more progressive Episcopal Church and Anglican Church of Canada, has long positioned itself as a beacon of orthodox Anglicanism. ...
Most read stories of the year.
Below is a list of the Top 25 stories of the year, as ranked by the number of page views at the MinistryWatch website, plus the first few sentences for each story. 25. AL ...
Lighthouse Christian Ministries claims the city violated its constitutional rights.
Lighthouse Christian Ministries is suing the City of Wenatchee, Washington, claiming the city violated its constitutional rights by revoking its conditional use permit to operate a soup kitchen for needy persons.
Celebrating Christmas in an age of anxiety
What arrested my attention this Christmas — which finds us in a state of political division, violence, economic uncertainty, and cultural disruption — is how the angels repeatedly began their messages with some version of ...
Free Burma Rangers targets high-risk areas inaccessible to other NGOs.
David Eubank doesn’t play by the rules of global humanitarian aid. The former U.S. special forces officer and Fuller Theological Seminary-trained minister’s Free Burma Rangers (FBR) skirts the line between humanitarian and paramilitary in a ...