Author: Shalem John

Birth: 18-07-1792 Home Calling :10-02-1822 Native Place: Massachusetts Country: United States of America Place of Vision: Palestine, Asia Minor and Egypt Just like prophet Samuel, Levi Parsons was dedicated by his mother to serve the Lord all the days of his life. Although he had a religious upbringing, he lived a life of a hypocrite. He read the word of God, feared it, yet couldn’t mould his life according to it. He was torn with distressing internal conflicts. Once he participated in a revival meeting where God spoke to him through the verse – “O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself”…

Susanna Liew hasn’t seen her husband, Malaysian pastor Raymond Koh, in eight years. She has spent the past five years in a legal battle over his abduction, which authorities failed to investigate thoroughly. This week, Malaysia finally acknowledged what she had suspected all along. In a high court ruling issued Wednesday, a judge found sufficient evidence that the government and police played a role in Koh’s 2017 disappearance. The verdict granted Koh’s family a total of over 37 million Malaysian ringgit (RM; $8.8 million USD). The outcome was “unbelievable,” Liew, 69, said, after years of advocating and rallying Christians on…

More than 70 years ago, when St. Jude Catholic Parish was established in Joliet, Illinois, the community boasted a robust manufacturing sector with Caterpillar, Texaco, and US Steel among the big companies with plants in or near the gritty far-southwest suburb of Chicago. But just as that area’s industry has since faded, Joliet’s Catholic congregations have also declined. Last year, the local bishop merged St. Jude into several other parishes, closed the sanctuary, and sold the property. Buying the church structure and adjacent buildings, nearly eight acres in total: a growing evangelical congregation affiliated with the Assemblies of God. Victory…