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11/10/2025

Pastor Benny Hinn writes...

What a divine honor! I had the great privilege of meeting with His Excellency, President at the State House of Zimbabwe. With warmth and authority, he personally commissioned me to “preach the Gospel all over Zimbabwe!”

Beloved, I can only say—Zimbabwe belongs to Jesus!

This move of God is shaking the nation! News outlets and national papers are declaring it—the Gospel is being lifted high, and the eyes of the world are on Zimbabwe this weekend as multitudes gather for a harvest of souls.

To God be all the glory, honor and praise.

07/10/2025

𝐄𝐥𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐤 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐊𝐢𝐫𝐤'𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 '𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡'

Elon Musk, a man who once quipped that he's OK with going to Hell because more people will be there, is now encouraging his followers to attend church.

Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX, and CEO of the social media platform X, reposted a message from Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk on Sunday, in which she encouraged people to “Go to church.” Musk, who has taken a prominent role in American politics and public discourse since the first assassination attempt on Trump's life, has identified himself as a “cultural Christian” in the past but has stopped short of fully embracing Christianity.

In a 2024 interview with Jordan Peterson, Musk explained, “While I’m not a particularly religious person, I do believe that the teachings of Jesus are good and wise and that there’s tremendous wisdom in turning the other cheek.” He also described himself as a “big believer in the principles of Christianity,” which he praised as “very good.”

Musk also agreed with the characterization of himself as a “cultural Christian,” a label used by atheist Richard Dawkins to describe his philosophy in recent years. “I was brought up as an Anglican, and I was baptized,” Musk said during the interview.

In 2022, Musk responded to a post from an X user urging him to confess a Creator by declaring, “Thank you for the blessing, but I’m ok with going to hell, if that is indeed my destination, since the vast majority of all humans ever born will be there.”

In a 2021 interview with the Christian satire site The Babylon Bee, Musk also declined to explicitly accept Jesus Christ as his “Lord and Savior,” while stressing that he respects and agrees with “the principles that Jesus advocated,” including forgiveness and “treating people as you wish to be treated.”

Musk echoing Erika Kirk’s pitch for Americans to go to church constitutes the latest example of people who do not necessarily practice Christianity or who have stopped practicing the religion promoting or re-embracing it following Charlie Kirk’s assassination on Sept. 10.

JP De Gance, the founder and president of Communio, a ministry designed to help churches improve their evangelism and outreach, provided anecdotal examples of increased church attendance in recent weeks in an interview with The Christian Post.

De Gance told CP about “a lot of anecdotal feedback from churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Colorado reporting that they’ve seen an increase [in attendance] over the last two Sundays.” He specifically noted “one church in Michigan that said a number of young adults who were raised in the church [but] who hadn’t been there, and people hadn’t seen them for years, showed back up.”

He suggested to CP that people learning about Kirk’s Christian beliefs after his death has led to “a level of introspection” that “causes people to ask, ‘What am I living for right now?’”

Erika Kirk offered a similar analysis during an address at her husband’s memorial service on Sept. 21, reflecting on the events that have unfolded following his death. “We didn’t see violence, we didn’t see rioting, we didn’t see revolution. Instead, we saw what my husband always prayed we would see in this country: we saw revival,” she proclaimed.

“This past week, we saw people open a Bible for the first time in a decade. We saw people pray for the first time since they were children. We saw people go to a church service for the first time in their entire lives,” she added.

𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝑅𝑦𝑎𝑛 𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑦. 𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡. 𝐻𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡: 𝑟𝑦𝑎𝑛.𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑦@𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡.𝑐𝑜𝑚

07/10/2025

Televangelist Benny Hinn is scheduled to hold a Healing Crusade in Harare, Zimbabwe, from October 10 to October 12, 2025.

The event, hosted by Heartfelt International Ministries, is planned for the Miracle Grounds in Ashdown Park and is expected to draw large crowds.

07/10/2025

𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐲, 𝐋𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝

Pope Leo will travel to Turkey and Lebanon in late November, the Vatican announced on Tuesday, in the first visit outside Italy by the new leader of the 1.4-billion-member global Catholic Church.

Leo, the first U.S. pope, will visit Turkey from November 27-30 before heading to Lebanon from November 30 to December 2, where he is expected to speak about the plight of Christians in the Middle East and to make appeals for peace across the region.

Leo was elected by the world's Catholic cardinals on May 8 to replace the late Pope Francis, who had planned to visit both countries but was unable to go because of health issues.

The pope is expected to meet in Turkey with Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world's 260 million Orthodox Christians, for celebrations of the 1,700th anniversary of a major early Church council, which took place in Nicaea, now called Iznik.

"It is profoundly symbolical that Pope Leo ... will visit (the patriarch) on his first official journey," Rev. John Chryssavgis, an advisor to Bartholomew, told Reuters.

"Pope Leo is doubtless seeking to express and affirm his identity as a Christian in a world of many different creeds, where all people, regardless of religion and race, are called to live together in mutual understanding," said the priest.

Travelling abroad has become a major part of the modern papacy, with popes seeking to meet local Catholics, spread the faith, and conduct international diplomacy.

A new pope's first travels are usually seen as an indication of the issues the pontiff wants to highlight during his reign.

Leo had been expected for months to travel to Turkey for his first trip abroad, but the additional visit to Lebanon only emerged in discussions in recent weeks.

Vatican officials say the pontiff wants to make appeals for peace and commemorate the 2020 chemical explosion, opens new tab at the Beirut port that killed 200 people and caused billions of dollars worth of damage --- 𝑅𝑒𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠.

03/08/2025

𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐨 𝐗𝐈𝐕'𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐞

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday led a final Mass in Rome attended by more than a million Catholic youths, marking the end of a weeklong encounter with the next generation of the faithful.

The gathering represented a major organisational feat for the Vatican, with hundreds of thousands of young people in Rome for most of the week.

Pope Leo XIV presided over a final Mass in Rome for over one million young people on Sunday, the culmination of a pilgrimage that has drawn Catholics from across the world.

"Aspire to great things, to holiness, wherever you are. Do not settle for less," Pope Leo told the crowd.

The week-long "Jubilee of Youth" – a highlight of the Jubilee holy year – was an enormous undertaking for the Vatican, with a half a million young pilgrims in Rome for most of the week.

On Saturday night, before a twilight vigil led by the pope, organisers said there were 800,000 people in the vast, open-air space on Rome's eastern outskirts, and on Sunday the Vatican said that number had grown to one million.

Most of them spent the night in tents, in sleeping bags or on mats in anticipation of Sunday's Mass.

The colourful event was accompanied by music from a choir, and about 450 bishops and 700 priests, all in green robes. A towering cross dominated the massive golden arch covering the stage where the pope led Mass.

Hundreds of thousands camped out at the dusty venue, strumming guitars or singing, as music blasted from the stage where a series of religious bands entertained the crowds.

31/07/2025

𝐀 𝐒𝐚𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝: 𝐉𝐨𝐞𝐥 𝐎𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐬

Lakewood Senior Pastor Joel Osteen announced the death of his mother Dolores “Dodie” Osteen on social media Wednesday. She was 91 years old.

According to the post, Osteen’s mother died peacefully at her home of natural causes.

“She was the beloved matriarch of Lakewood Church, an inspiration to millions of people around the world, and a faithful servant of God,” Osteen said in the post. “Known as ‘Mama Dodie’ to the entire Lakewood family, together, we celebrate her amazing life and lasting legacy.”

Dodie and her husband John Osteen founded Lakewood Church in 1959 and made a historic mark on the landscape of Christianity.

Dodie Osteen was the author of “Healed of Cancer,” a book about her healing from liver cancer after doctors had given up on her.

27/07/2025

𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐧 ‘𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐞’ 𝐄𝐮𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐇𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐙𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐰𝐞

POPULAR televangelist Benny Hinn’s October visit to neighboring Zimbabwe has triggered euphoria among his followers and the Christian community at large.

This follows after his representative and mission director, Marie Doorn, is in the country ahead of the much-hyped Miracle Crusade to be held between October 10 and 12 in Harare.

The crusade is being hosted by the Apostle Taonga Vutabwashe-led Heartfelt International Ministries.

Also in the country is Ugandan preacher Pastor Robert Kayanja, leader of Robert Kayanja Ministries, a close ally of Hinn.

Both Doorn and Kayanja have visited Miracle Grounds, the venue for the crusade and holding several meetings with the hosts and other faults leaders in the country as part of the preparations for the highly anticipated event.

Another cleric who visited the country is Ugandan David Peter Makoko, who arrived few days ago ahead of the same gathering that is likely to attract tens of thousands of believers from across Zimbabwe and the region.

“I am happy to be in Zimbabwe, and I am here on behalf of Pastor Benny Hinn, who is expected for a Miracle Crusade here in October,” Doorn told journalists upon her arrival at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport this week.

“My journey here is part of the preparations ahead of the Miracle Crusade. Pastor Benny said he excited to come here, this is a peace loving country and we are praying for great moments.”

Kayanja hailed Zimbabwe and President Emmerson Mnangagwa for promoting freedom of worship.

Heartfelt International Ministries spokesperson Pastor Samson Nhubu said preparations ahead of the mega event are gathering momentum.

“As Heartfelt International Ministries, we are honoured to announce the arrival of Dr Marie J Doorn, the international mission and crusade director for Pastor Benny Hinn Ministries, in Harare,” he said.

“Her visit marks a major milestone in the build-up to the Benny Hinn Healing Crusade, scheduled for October 10 to12, 2025 in Harare, a landmark event anticipated to draw tens of thousands from across the region.”

Hinn is a well-known televangelist, faith healer and author.

Born in Jaffa, Israel, in 1952, he is known for his “miracle crusades” and his television programme 'This Is Your Day'.--- 𝑵𝒆𝒘𝒔𝑫𝒂𝒚.

04/07/2025

𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚’𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐞-𝐒𝐞𝐱 𝐁𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬

The leader of Africa’s Catholic bishops pushed back Tuesday on the narrative that it was only Africans who objected to a 2023 Vatican declaration permitting blessings for same-sex couples.

“The position taken by Africa [on the declaration] was also the position of so many bishops here in Europe. It’s not just an African exception,” Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu said.

The 65-year-old cardinal added that homosexuality is fundamentally a “doctrinal, theological problem,” and Church moral teaching on the subject has not changed.

Ambongo who is archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo and leader of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) told EWTN News that Africa “experienced [Fiducia Supplicans] as something that was being imposed from outside on a people that has other priorities.”

“The pastoral priority for us is not a problem of gay people, it’s not a problem of homosexuality. For us, the pastoral priority is life: How to live, how to survive,” he added. Themes such as homosexuality “are for you here in Europe, not for us in Africa.”

The cardinal, who was a member of Pope Francis’ advisory Council of Cardinals — sometimes referred to as the “C9” because for most of its history it consisted of nine cardinals — said he does not know if Pope Leo XIV will form a similar group to advise the pope.

Ambongo said during pre-conclave meetings, cardinals expressed a desire for the pope to value the input of the entire College of Cardinals, possibly even holding annual meetings. “But this small group that could also help the pope, that depends on him,” he said. --- 𝐶𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝐴𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦.

04/07/2025

𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐇𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞

Kenyan President William Ruto says he is building a church at the presidential residence in Nairobi that he will pay for himself - and says he has nothing to apologise for.

"I am not going to ask anyone for an apology for building a church. The devil might be angry and can do what he wants," Ruto said on Friday.

That statement alone has angered Kenyans already frustrated with his style of leadership and what they regard as the entanglement of the state and the church.

It is not clear who Ruto was referring to as "the devil" in his comments at State House, but he says nothing will stop the project from going ahead.

"I did not start building this church when I entered the State House. I found a church but one made out of iron sheets. Does that look befitting for the State House?" a defiant Ruto told politicians at a meeting he hosted on Friday.

On Friday, one of Kenya's leading newspapers, the Daily Nation, published architectural designs showing a large building with stained glass windows and capacity for 8,000 people.

The paper questioned whether the project was in keeping with Kenya's secular constitution.

There has also been criticism of the cost, estimated at $9m (£6.5bn), at a time when many Kenyans are struggling with the rising cost of living.

Ruto said he would pay for the church out of his own pocket, however that raises the question of whether he has the right to build such a large structure on state-owned property.

Ruto is Kenya's first evangelical Christian president, cultivating a pious image and earning him the nickname of "deputy Jesus".

Meanwhile, Nairobi's Catholic Archbishop Philip Anyolo says clarity is urgently needed about the type of structure being built, otherwise it might be seen to favour one Christian denomination over others.

"We have to be very cautious with this. Such a structure ought to have been built in an area that is not a public institution. Unless what is being built is a chaplaincy, but that is also not clear." He said. --- 𝐵𝐵𝐶 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠

04/07/2025

Lusaka’s Archbishop Alick Banda recently graced St. Joseph's Lubwe Mission celebration of 120 years since it was founded in 1905.

Under the Mansa Diocese, St. Joseph’s Lubwe Mission, celebrated its 120th anniversary with a vibrant and faith-filled gathering under the theme “𝟭𝟮𝟬 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀”.

In his homily, the Archbishop of Lusaka, Most Rev Dr. Banda, urged the faithful to emulate the spirit of the early missionaries who not only preached the Gospel but also lived by it and spread it through word and action.

04/07/2025

Last week, Israeli-born Palestinian-American-Canadian televangelist Toufik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn paid a courtesy call on Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in the capital city, Kampala.

Pastor Hinn was in the country for a three-day crusade that attracted more than 200,000 attendees.

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