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Arizona megachurch Christ’s Church of the Valley has won a public land auction in Gilbert, Arizona, securing nearly 19 acres for a new campus with a $9 million bid. The property, at East Ray Road and South Santan Village Parkway, had been valued at $6.3 million, with competing bids from Arcus, Abbot Grill LLC and LBKW Real Estate LLC all falling short. The nondenominational church, which already has 18 campuses and averages more than 56,000 weekly attendees, says it hopes to deepen its presence in the area. Executive pastor Tony Bergarello told a public hearing earlier this year, “We’re really just coming today to offer thanks,” adding, “We’d love to be a part of this community.” The expansion comes as CCV continues to face scrutiny over its past support letter for convicted sex offender Joshua Jacobsen.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/christs-church-of-the-valley-wins-19-acre-land-auction.html
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Former Harvest Christian Fellowship pastor Paul Havsgaard is asking a federal court in California to throw out a sweeping abuse lawsuit brought by 22 former residents of church-run children’s homes in Romania. In a handwritten 14-page filing, Havsgaard seeks dismissal “with prejudice,” after earlier calling the accusations “blatant, ugly lies manufactured for one purpose, to achieve a payout.” He also wrote, “I am angry because the lawsuit states these accusations as if they are facts. They are not.” The plaintiffs, who say they were abused from roughly 1998 to 2008 when they were as young as 4, allege Havsgaard lured children from the streets of Bucharest with food, shelter and promises of adoption. The lawsuit also names Harvest Christian Fellowship, founder Greg Laurie and missions pastor Richard Schutte, accusing them of negligence and a long-running cover-up.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/paul-havsgaard-asks-court-to-dismiss-abuse-lawsuit.html
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Pastor Douglas Wilson is drawing new attention after calling Mormonism “a non-Christian faith with Christian terminology” and describing members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as “polytheists” who believe in multiple gods. The comments come amid a Pentagon controversy over how religions are labeled for U.S. service members. After the Department of War streamlined its faith list and initially omitted a “Christian” designation for Latter-day Saints, backlash from Mormon lawmakers prompted officials to remove Christian labels altogether. The Pentagon says it is “not to adjudicate theological debates,” but to ensure “sincerely-held faith is respected.” Wilson, cofounder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches and linked to War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s home church, also urged “strict Trinitarian monotheism” in response to concerns from Army Reserve chaplain Andrew about Mormon influence in the Chaplain Corps.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/doug-wilson-calls-mormons-polytheists-amid-pentagon-dust-up.html
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Oxford mathematician and Christian apologist John Lennox is warning that artificial intelligence is becoming more than a tool for some people — it’s becoming, in his words, a kind of false god. Speaking with Steven Bartlett on “The Diary of a CEO,” Lennox said the rapid rise of AI and transhumanist thinking is pushing humanity toward dangerous spiritual territory. The Christian Post highlights the wide-ranging 90-minute conversation, where Lennox addressed AI, death, faith and the intellectual case for Christianity. Lennox cautioned that some are already looking to technology as a “substitute for God,” while urging listeners to think carefully about what it means to be human. The discussion also turned to Christ, mortality and meaning, as Lennox made a forceful case that Christianity offers answers technology cannot.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/john-lennox-steven-bartlett-talk-ai-christ-on-diary-of-a-ceo.html
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In New York, a Long Island town is pushing back after state lawmakers approved a bill replacing terms like “mother” and “father” in parts of state law with “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent.” Hempstead Town Supervisor John Ferretti says the town board voted unanimously and “in a bipartisan manner” to preserve those words in local code and official documents, declaring, “We have pushed back against the Albany overreach.” Ferretti said the issue hit home when his 9-year-old daughter asked, “Can I still call you daddy?” He added, “Nobody will ever change the fact that my children’s mother is their mother.” The state bill, backed by Sen. Luis Sepúlveda and Assemblymember Amy Paulin, aims to modernize family law. Paulin says it simply updates language “to respect all families in whatever form they take.”
https://www.christianpost.com/news/town-preserves-mother-and-father-after-state-bill-advances.html
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A new U.N. report says Hamas has enforced control in Gaza through what it calls murder, torture and a “fear-based” system of rule, documenting 249 cases of extrajudicial executions and severe violence between 2024 and 2025, leaving at least 108 dead and 384 injured. The report, presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, says victims were subjected to “kneecapping, bone-breaking with metal pipes or cement bricks and beatings.” Commission chair Srinivasan Muralidhar said the panel is “gravely alarmed by the severity and public nature of Hamas’ punitive measures.” The report also says Hamas forces and affiliated groups carried out public executions, used hospitals and schools, and exposed children to violence, warning that 27 public punishment incidents were witnessed by children, helping “sustain a climate of fear.”
https://www.christianpost.com/news/un-report-finds-hamas-is-controlling-gaza-with-murder-torture.html
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At the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in Orlando, messengers approved a series of resolutions addressing some of the denomination’s most pressing cultural and moral concerns. The measures, passed by raised-ballot vote, ranged from opposition to assisted suicide to commemorating America’s 250th birthday, along with debate over how churches should mourn victims of political violence. Under SBC rules, a resolution is “an expression of opinion or concern,” not a directive for official action, setting the tone for what became a broad statement of Baptist convictions. The gathering showed the convention wrestling with issues far beyond church walls, as delegates weighed public witness, national identity and ethics. Reporting from Orlando, Michael Gryboski notes the resolutions reflected both unity on key principles and vigorous debate over how those principles should be expressed.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/sbc-2026-5-key-resolutions-passed-in-orlando.html