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Tag: Ministers (Protestant)

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How Do You Move a Hundred-Year-Old Church? On Wheels, Very Slowly.

August 19, 2025August 20, 2025Isabella Kwai and Isabella AndersonComments Off on How Do You Move a Hundred-Year-Old Church? On Wheels, Very Slowly.

Mining in Kiruna, Sweden, has weakened the ground below a beloved church. It’s being rolled three miles to its new home.

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Arthur Blessitt, Who Carried a Cross Around the World, Dies at 84

January 24, 2025January 26, 2025Clay RisenComments Off on Arthur Blessitt, Who Carried a Cross Around the World, Dies at 84

A street preacher from Hollywood, he set out on a walk to New York City in 1969 with a 110-pound cross on his back. Then he kept going.

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Hillsong Says Brian Houston, Church Founder, Breached Code of Conduct

March 19, 2022March 19, 2022DAMIEN CAVEComments Off on Hillsong Says Brian Houston, Church Founder, Breached Code of Conduct

The board of the global megachurch, which got its start in Australia, apologized “unreservedly” to two women who had accused Mr. Houston of inappropriate behavior.

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In Congo, Floating Pastors Follow Mobile Flocks Along Busy River

February 1, 2022February 1, 2022Ruth Maclean, Caleb Kabanda and Nanna HeitmannComments Off on In Congo, Floating Pastors Follow Mobile Flocks Along Busy River

To find the faithful, preachers in some areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo hold church where the crowds are, on boats traveling the country’s water highway.

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After Pastor Evicts Nearly 200 Migrants, His Brother Welcomes Them All

October 5, 2021NATALIE KITROEFFComments Off on After Pastor Evicts Nearly 200 Migrants, His Brother Welcomes Them All

An evangelical minister in a Mexico border town had let dozens of migrant families live in his church. When he ousted most of them, his brother across the way invited the outcasts into his home.

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Spared for Months, Vietnam Faces a Wave of New Infections

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021Richard C. Paddock and Chau DoanComments Off on Spared for Months, Vietnam Faces a Wave of New Infections

The nation has prided itself on containing the coronavirus. But an outbreak at a church in Ho Chi Minh City and the emergence of a deadly new variant suggest its luck may be running out.

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A Brazilian Writer Saw a Tweet as Tame Satire. Then Came the Lawsuits.

November 22, 2020November 23, 2020ERNESTO LONDOÑOComments Off on A Brazilian Writer Saw a Tweet as Tame Satire. Then Came the Lawsuits.

The writer J.P. Cuenca calls it “Kafka in the tropics.” Evangelical pastors have filed at least 130 suits against him over a tweet, part of an increasingly common strategy against critics.

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Baptist Pastor Is Fired After Coming Out as Transgender

July 24, 2020CHRISTINE HAUSERComments Off on Baptist Pastor Is Fired After Coming Out as Transgender

Junia Joplin, a Baptist pastor in Ontario, asked for acceptance in a sermon: “I want to be the person that God created me to be.” The congregation narrowly voted to terminate her contract.

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Behind Hong Kong’s Protesters, an Army of Volunteer Pastors, Doctors and Artists

November 11, 2019November 12, 2019ANDREW JACOBSComments Off on Behind Hong Kong’s Protesters, an Army of Volunteer Pastors, Doctors and Artists

Away from the front lines, volunteer groups composed of retirees, pastors and housewives quietly aid the anti-government demonstrators.

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The Populist Pastor Leading a Conservative Revival in South Korea

November 8, 2019November 11, 2019CHOE SANG-HUNComments Off on The Populist Pastor Leading a Conservative Revival in South Korea

Invoking God, patriotism and family values, the Rev. Jun Kwang-hoon is creating a backlash against the “Communizing” government of President Moon Jae-in.

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