Top headlines for Saturday, April 1, 2023

Approximately 1,300 youth from 17 congregations gathered at a Georgia megachurch last weekend for a multiday worship and praise event, with many making commitments to Jesus Christ.

A small congregation in North Carolina that was planning to hold a vote to possibly disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church was instead closed down by a regional body of the denomination, citing declining attendance.

Two women who survived a Chinese “reeducation” camp for Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities provided harrowing accounts of torture, gang rapes, and brainwashing when testifying before a special United States House of Representatives committee focused on how to handle the threat of China.

Months after vowing to tell their story in the aftermath of a sex and leadership scandal that led to his firing from Hillsong Church NYC more than two years ago, Carl Lentz and his wife, Laura, are set to give their first public interview in a new docuseries set to premiere on FX in May called “The Secrets of Hillsong."

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Links to the News

• Christians ministering to tornado victims in Mississippi | U.S. News
• 1,300 youth gather for discipleship event at Georgia church | Church & Ministries News
• Va. passes law requiring gov’t to treat churches fair in pandemic | Politics News
• Supreme Court blocks New York's COVID-19 restrictions on churches | U.S. News
• Kentucky bans puberty blockers, sex-change surgeries for kids | Politics News
• Historic church trying to leave UMC closed by regional conference | Church & Ministries News
• 249 North Carolina churches leave UMC amid homosexuality schism | Church & Ministries News
• Women testify of torture, sterilization in China's prison camps | World News
• US declares China's persecution of Uyghur Muslims 'genocide' | World News
• Carl Lentz and wife Laura to spill ‘Secrets of Hillsong’ | Entertainment News