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Darius Brooks hosts first summer music camp

For the first time this year, award winning gospel recording artist Darius Brooks offered a SDM Jam Session Music Camp, a week-long vocal and empowerment camp, at Rainbow/PUSH Coalition headquarters.

Foreign missionaries defy ban during Olympics

BEIJING-Christian groups who flouted a Chinese ban on foreign missionaries are calling their underground evangelizing during the Olympic Games a success. Drawn to a nation of 1.3 billion people under atheist rule, the groups prepared for years for what th

Queen of gospel doles out youth scholarships

Long live the "Queen of Gospel," Dr. Albertina Walker, who gave another outstanding scholarship benefit concert recently. "God has blessed us to receive all the blessings we have received and He didn't want us to keep it all to ourselves and for ourselves

Juanita Bynum tells how she triumphed over tragedy

Juanita Bynum is likely a household name among Christians after the release of her powerful series, No More Sheets. The Chicago native has ministered to millions in conferences and pulpits across the globe. “I’m addicted to helping people&hell

Religion news in brief

BILOXI, Miss.–The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded more than $25.4 million to continue case management work by social service organizations, including some that had worked with the Katrina Aid Today consortium, which recently ended it

Black pastor crusades against domestic violence

BALTIMORE-Bishop Cephas Richardson is a man who wears many hats–as a volunteer at a homeless shelter, an assistant at a civic association and as pastor of a Pentecostal church. But despite his activism and wideranging community involvement, Richards

$12M settlements reached in Chicago clergy abuse

The Archdiocese of Chicago agreed Tuesday to pay more than $12.6 million to settle lawsuits by 16 victims of sexual abuse by priests —bringing to $65 million the total such settlements paid by the archdiocese over three decades.

Donald Lawrence to release ‘Confessions’ this fall

Kudos to Donald Lawrence who recently rendered a spirit filled recording for his CD entitled The Law of Confession. The album is based on the teaching series of Pastor Bill Winston of Living Word Christian Center, where Lawrence has attended for the last

Cult members charged in baby’s death

Antoinette Queen, left, and Trevia Williams, alleged members of a group called 1 Mind Ministries, are seen in booking photos released by the Baltimore Police Dept. Tuesday.

Parley of Morman agency, gay support group put off?

SALT LAKE CITY–An August meeting between a gay Mormon support group and a social service agency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been indefinitely delayed. In a letter sent July 23, Fred C. Riley, the outgoing director of LDS F
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