A sheriff in Mississippi told media this week that a 37-year-old man walked into his office and confessed to killing a 48-year-old man, and that he felt convicted after having a life-changing encounter at a Christian discipleship program.
Events that happened this week in Christian history include the death of a female Protestant Reformation leader, the expulsion of a Protestant missionary from Macao, and the birth of a leader of the Third Crusade.
A Kansas public school teacher has reached a $95,000 settlement with her employer after the school district suspended her for calling a trans-identified student by the student's legal name instead of their chosen name after self-identifying as a different gender.
An 83-year-old American nun, who was kidnapped by gunmen in northern Burkina Faso in April, has been rescued. Many believe her release was part of a U.S. forces’ special operations rescue mission.
Nyack College, a 140-year-old Christian academic institution founded as the Missionary Training Institute, is changing its name after selling its campus in Nyack New York.
A new Texas law that requires all public schools statewide to display the national motto "In God We Trust" is facing a challenge over its rejection of signs with the phrase written in Arabic and one with a rainbow background.
Gorbachev was desperate to reduce defense expenditures in order to reform a stagnant, moribund economy. Reagan sensed an opening and the two ended up meeting at a historic summit in Iceland in October 1986.
