Americas

Christian news from US, Canada, Latin America and around the world.

Dr Tom Little

US honors Christian worker Tom Little with highest civilian award

THE US bestowed the country’s highest civilian honor to Dr. Tom Little, a Christian workers who was murdered allegedly by the Taliban in Afghanistan last year.
Pentecostalism is on the rise in US

Pentecostal churches’ membership grows in US: 2011 Yearbook

MEMBERSHIP in the mainline Protestant denominations in the United States continues to dip even as membership in Pentecostal churches is on the rise.
Barack Obama

Respond peacefully to protesters, Obama tells govts

US President Barack Obama has urged governments in the Middle East to respond peacefully to peaceful protests in the wake of the anti-government rallies in the region.
Hamid Karzai with Barack Obama

US govt urges Afghanistan to release Christian converts

SOME international Christian organizations have joined hands with the US government to urge Afghanistan to release two men who face apostasy charges for converting to Christianity.
Every tongue, every tribe

‘Less than 10 percent of US churches multiethnic’

THOUGH the Church stands for the body of Christ where every tongue and every tribe will congregate, the reality in the US is different.
Franklin Graham

Franklin Graham defends Sarah Palin over US shootings

US evangelist Franklin Graham denounced what he described as ‘outrageous’ attempts by the political left in America to blame Sarah Palin for the Tucson rampage that left six people dead.
The suffering of Christ

The happiness of suffering

Suffering for our own mistakes tends to be a source of shame. But to suffer for the sake of righteousness (because we are followers of Jesus) is a cause for joy in the Lord.
Smith Wigglesworth

Have faith in God: Smith Wigglesworth

It is grand to see people believe God. God knew all about this leg and that it was broken in two places. I said to the woman, "When I pray, something will happen." Her husband was sitting there; he had been in his chair for four years and could not walk a step.

Churches petition Murmu to save Christians in Manipur

An estimated 35,000 Meitei Christians face “total cleansing and obliteration" in all the valley districts of the hilly state, according to their memorandum submitted to Murmu on June 26.