4,000 churches closed in 2024, while only 3,800 were started, Lifeway Research reports.
Older congregations are struggling, with many facing declining attendance.
Churches shuttered in 2024 represent nearly 1.4% of the Protestant churches highlighted in the 2020 U.S. Religion Census.
Rev. A. Robert Hirschfeld talks of a new era of martyrdom
The death of an amazing pastor left South Florida shaken
Father Beaudelaire describes the situation in Haiti as unacceptable, intolerable, and inconceivable.
Kenyan commander talks to Jacqueline Charles (Miami Herald) about a failed operation in Ganthier near the border with the Dominican Republic.
Jacqueline Charles reports on the fear of Bobby and Sherry Burnette, two US citizen running an orphanage in Fonds Parisien, Haiti amid fresh attack in nearby Ganthier by 400 Mawozo. They feel like sitting duck after a failed operation of the Haitian police and the Kenyan forces to regain control of Ganthier.
The shared experience of Philomene Dayiti, 65, who fled her home to live in a camp for internally displaced people at a local church in the Delmas district of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the IRS's approach, confirming that IRS's actions to subpoena bank records from God's Storehouse align with federal law and that the IRS can get church's records through third party holders (like banks, accountants, etc.). This decision emphasizes that the specific IRS requirements for initiating church taxation inquiries do not pertain to third-party summons.
President William Ruto is requesting help from Christian evangelical pastors to help guide the mission to Haiti.
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