FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Severe weather was likely a factor in the small plane crash that killed nine people, including a prominent Christian minister and his wife, on approach to the island of Grand Bahama, the foreign minister said Monday. Heavy rain was buffeting the region when the Lear 36 Executive Jet struck a shipping […]
A pastor in Alabama has come clean that he had AIDS and slept with members of his church without revealing his condition. A report from WSFA-TV details that the church’s pastor, Juan McFarland, made the confession recently to members of at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was removed as pastor of the […]
Lupe Fiasco is talking about his faith again and this time he held a Twitter Q&A about what it means to be Muslim as well female inequality. Fiasco believes Islam is on its way to global acceptance. A Twitter user asked if he believed “one day Islam would be the world’s religion and conquer the […]
Young Jeezy and Kendrick Lamar may be attracting attention from fans with the remix to Jeezy’s single “Holy Ghost,” but the song is garnering a different type of look from Bishop T.D. Jakes. MadameNoire.com reports the pastor’s legal team will be taking legal action against the song for the unauthorized use of his popular sermon […]
Edward J. Blum, co-author of “The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America” joined Roland Martin Wednesday on…
Leave it to Kirk Franklin to get people talking. According to AlwaysAList.com, the gospel performer is leading the way to reunite with God’s Property, a popular choir that attracted mainstream and gospel music success with their self-titled debut album. The offering, which was the choir’s only release, came out in 1997 and included the hit […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The American evangelical pastor Rick Warren, who visited Rwanda this week, told The Associated Press that he hopes to expand his ministry to East Africa. “I could take you to 10 million villages in the world, and the only thing in them is a church,” Warren said in a phone interview […]
O.J. Simpson, serving time in Nevada since 2008, has turned to Islam in a bid to change his life….according to the National Enquirer. Juice was sentenced to a total of 33 years in prison on charges of kidnapping and armed robbery over a theft of sports memorabilia at the Palace Station hotel-and-casino in Vegas. After […]
What would you do if you were told your son’s funeral would be cancelled because he was gay? A Tampa, Florida mom got the chiling phone call one day before her son was scheduled to be laid to rest. According to WFLA.com: TAMPA, FL (WFLA) -Julie Atwood was standing at her son’s casket when the […]
It looks like Mase has gone full circle: from rapper to preacher to rapper again. According to TMZ, Mase has officially left his parishioners of the El Elyon International Church high and dry … and has run back to the rap game full time. At the height of his career in 1999, Mase left the […]
Ministry and family! Take a front pew on the return of Oxygen’s Preachers of LA premiering Wednesday, August 20 at 10:00PM ET/PT. This successful docu-series made history with its freshman series averaging over one million viewers. Now they’re back to give viewers what they’ve asked for: MORE! Yes, the people want more of the returning cast: […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Christian woman sentenced to death in Sudan and later freed has been detained at an airport while trying to leave the country Tuesday, her lawyer said. Lawyer Eman Abdul-Rahim told The Associated Press that the 27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim was held along with two children and her husband at the international […]
