End-times theology influences politics

Since Trump’s oil blockade of Cuba, citizens have struggle to find fuel, food, and medicine. Many are turning to churches and Christian groups for help.

Renewed war between Israel and Hezbollah has left Christians in southern Lebanon unsure whether to stay or flee.

Amid the war in Iran, Russell Moore wonders if in 21st-century America, "it’s not so much that end times theology influences politics as the other way around."

In Nigeria, government officials demolished a historic floating slum, displacing 40,000 people.

Behind the Story

From Nigeria-based correspondent Emmanuel Nwachukwu: Most of my articles for CT include getting on the phone from the comfort of my apartment and listening to people share their stories. This time I enjoyed stepping out to cover last week’s gathering of conservative global Anglicans, known as Gafcon, for CT. The opening service started with a 30-minute live procession of all the church leaders, the longest I’ve ever seen.

I come from a Reformed church tradition without processions but with a love of hymns I share with the Anglicans. We sang "The Church’s One Foundation," and it captured what Gafcon was fighting for—its leaders believed the church led by the Archbishop of Canterbury had shifted away from Scripture and was following culture instead. The cathedral was filled with hundreds of believers from the West, Africa, Asia, Latin America. Beside me, an elderly couple leaned close. The husband, with wrinkled hands, nodded slowly with each line: "One Lord, one faith, one birth."   A bill that would have imposed the death penalty for having an abortion failed in the Tennessee legislature as the bill’s supporters chanted "Christ is king." In Nigeria, nine Fulani herdsmen are on trial in connection to the massacre in Benue State last June that killed more than 200 Christians. CT reported on the massacre and the fear of food shortages that followed. The Vatican warned against trends like cosmetic surgery that "reduce the body to biological material to be enhanced, transformed, and reshaped at will."