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Televangelist Brian Carn Jr., the self-styled prophet who leads Kingdom City Church, is behind bars — despite publicly insisting he'd never see the inside of a cell. Prison records show the 37-year-old began a nine-month sentence Friday at the Federal Correctional Institution in Bennettsville, South Carolina, after pleading guilty in January to obstructing IRS efforts to collect more than $600,000 in unpaid taxes. Prosecutors say Carn earned over $1.4 million in 2015, then amended his return to erase nearly $1.3 million in income and concealed assets, costing the Treasury between $550,000 and $1.5 million. At a July service, Carn declared, "I'll never spend a day in jail... I ain't scared." On Sunday, associate pastor J.R. Butler called him "the world's prophet" and "the devil's nightmare," urging members to keep giving.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/brian-carn-is-imprisoned-after-declaring-hed-never-go-to-jail.html
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Kansas Senate candidate Adam Hamilton's campaign is pushing back after a 2022 sermon clip resurfaced online, in which the United Methodist pastor suggested non-Christians may reach Heaven. Hamilton, lead pastor of the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, won the August 4th Democratic primary and will challenge Republican Senator Roger Marshall. In the clip, circulated by Breitbart News, Hamilton said of other faiths, "when they get to Heaven, they're going to see Jesus," adding, "I don't fear that those folks will spend eternity in Hell." His campaign told The Christian Post that Hamilton "was not speaking of universalism," but rather "inclusivism," noting inclusivists "are not saying that all religions are equally valid paths." Texas Senator Ted Cruz called the sermon "heretical," citing John 14:6.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/adam-hamilton-campaign-responds-to-universalism-claims.html
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The Babylon Bee has filed a federal lawsuit against New Mexico officials over a state law requiring warning labels on AI-generated political satire. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, challenges House Bill 182, which bans AI-created satire of political candidates or issues without a state-mandated disclaimer, applies year-round, and carries fines up to twenty thousand dollars. The complaint argues the law lets officials "punish core political speech for no reason other than that they disapprove it." Bee CEO Seth Dillon said, "We're used to getting pulled over by the joke police, but comedy isn't a crime." Alliance Defending Freedom is representing the Bee. Bill sponsor Rep. Charlotte Little countered that the law "simply requires a disclosure," and doesn't ban AI. The Bee previously won similar challenges in California and Hawaii.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/babylon-bee-sues-new-mexico-over-law-requiring-ai-satire-warning.html
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Christian relief organizations are mobilizing in western Colombia after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake — the country's strongest in a decade — killed hundreds and left thousands homeless. Samaritan's Purse airlifted 100,000 pounds of supplies aboard a Boeing 767 from Greensboro, North Carolina, including more than 3,000 hygiene kits, 3,000 solar lights and 1,200 rolls of emergency tarp. Disaster response manager Nick Bechert says a Colombian national team is coordinating with churches, having already heard from over 100 pastors, aiming to meet physical needs while "connecting with the spiritual trauma that people are going through." President Franklin Graham urged prayer, noting, "People are sleeping on the streets in fear because of the strong aftershocks." The group Unto is also responding. CEO Al Goff estimates more than 50,000 buildings damaged, saying, "getting people praying for them is job one."
https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-aid-groups-helping-earthquake-survivors-in-colombia.html
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Chinese authorities in Wenzhou — the coastal city long known as "China's Jerusalem" — have detained a prominent house church pastor and six others, all of whom have since disappeared. According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide and the Texas-based watchdog ChinaAid, Shanghai police carried out the raid around 7:30 a.m. on August fifth, seizing Pastor David Tang, a church financial administrator and five ministry workers from Shanghai. Tang leads Wenzhou's Purpose Driven Church, also called Biaogan Church, which never registered with the state-run Three-Self Patriotic Movement and was ordered closed. CSW President Mervyn Thomas called it an incommunicado detention, urging Beijing to reveal their whereabouts and grant access to lawyers and family. ChinaAid's Bob Fu said authorities increasingly rely on "intimidation, enforced disappearances and the misuse of criminal law," favoring fraud and financial charges over religious ones.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-from-jerusalem-of-china-disappeared-after-police-raid.html
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An Arizona judge has sentenced 52-year-old Adam Sheafe to life in prison for the crucifixion-style killing of Pastor Bill Schonemann, the 76-year-old leader known to his New River congregation as "Pastor Bill." Schonemann was found dead and bloodied in his bed in April 2025, his arms outstretched and hands pinned to a wall. Sheafe, who represented himself, also received a 35-year term and two 25-year terms for attempted murder, all running consecutively, under a June plea deal that took the death penalty off the table. He confessed to placing thorns around the pastor's head and said 13 more Christian leaders were on his list, once saying he wanted to "execute every single priest and burn every church to the ground." At sentencing, Sheafe asked the family's forgiveness, saying the pastor had done nothing to him personally.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/man-given-life-sentence-for-crucifixion-style-murder-of-pastor.html
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A new film is putting one of the Cold War's most consequential standoffs back in the spotlight — and highlighting the role faith played in it. "The Brink of War" stars Jeff Daniels as President Ronald Reagan and Jared Harris as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, dramatizing the high-stakes negotiations between the two superpower leaders. According to The Christian Post, the film reveals how faith, religious freedom and the persecution of believers inside the Soviet Union shaped Reagan's approach to the talks — pressing Gorbachev not only on nuclear arms, but on the right of Soviet citizens to worship freely. Daniels and Harris, both acclaimed for their portrayals of real-life figures, bring the tense diplomatic showdown to life. The project underscores a chapter of Cold War history often overshadowed by missile counts and summit theatrics.
https://www.christianpost.com/video/the-brink-of-war-reagans-fight-for-religious-freedom-is-ussr.html
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