More Than 1,000 Christians Worship Together to Usher in Messiah's Return

More than a thousand Christians gathered last week for a special international conference called “Gather America” in Dallas, Texas. The event was co-founded by Joshua Aaron, an award-winning American-Israeli Messianic singer, along with his brother, Jason Eli. Its purpose was to unite people from around the world to worship together to help usher in the … Read more

How the Psalms have been central to worship through history

(Photo: Unsplash/Kelly Sikkema) The Psalms have played an important role in Jewish and Christian tradition from ancient times until today. It is the oldest continually used songbook in human history. This is the story… Origin of the Word The English term Psalm is from the Greek word for a song accompanied by a musical instrument. … Read more

Police-issued questionnaires make Christians hesitant to even attend Sunday worship

(Photo: Pixabay) Christians are concerned that a 16-point questionnaire given by the police to at least 40 churches in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, may be used as a weapon by radical Hindus to harm them. Church leaders claim that because only Christians received the police’s surveys, they are invasive and biassed. Bishop Chacko Thottumarickal of the … Read more

Abducted American missionary says Elevation Worship song was her ‘battle cry’ in captivity

American nurse, Alix Dorsainvil (L), and her husband, Sandro Dorsainvil (R), founder and director of the El Roi Academy and Institution Mixte Vwatizang Ayisyen Yo, a Christian ministry in Haiti. (Photo: El Roi Haiti) An American nurse who was kidnapped in Haiti and released last week says that one worship song in particular had become … Read more

Canadian Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals over worship restrictions on churches

(Photo: Unsplash/Tom Carnegie) The Supreme Court of Canada has declined to hear appeals from churches in Ontario and British Columbia that challenged pandemic restrictions on in-person worship. The churches had been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for violating gathering limits. Pastor Henry Hildebrandt of the Church of God in Aylmer, Ontario, expressed his disappointment … Read more