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Pope Leo XIV cancels Assisi visit on doctors’ advice following lung cancer surgery

Pope Leo XIV cancels Assisi visit on doctors’ advice following lung cancer surgery Pope Leo XIV has canceled his planned Oct. 27 visit to Assisi, Italy, on medical advice as he continues recovering from lung cancer surgery, the Vatican announced Friday, Oct. 23. The 71-year-old pontiff was advised to avoid traveling by helicopter while recovering from an operation to remove the lower lobe of his right lung. The Vatican said the decision was intended to support the Pope’s recovery despite encouraging results from his latest medical examinations. “To support his recovery following thoracic surgery last Tuesday, and in accordance with doctors’ advice, Pope Leo XIV will be unable to attend,” the Vatican said in a statement. Leo was scheduled to attend a peace gathering with other religious leaders in Assisi, approximately 175 kilometers north of Rome. The cancellation comes as the Pope…

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Op-Ed: Stalin Believed in Predestination - Just Not the Calvinist Kind

Joseph Stalin believed in predestination. Just not the Calvinist kind. Both Stalinism and Calvinism can sound, at least superficially, as though history is moving toward an inevitable conclusion. John Calvin taught that God is sovereign over creation, that nothing ultimately escapes His providence, and that salvation rests upon divine election rather than human merit. Stalin likewise spoke the language of historical inevitability. Marxism-Leninism taught that history moved according to discernible laws, that capitalism would eventually collapse, and that socialism would triumph. But there the similarity ends. Indeed, the differences reveal two radically opposed understandings of man, history, power, and God. For Calvin, God controls history and man does not. For Stalin, there was no God, and therefore men like Stalin would have to take His place. That difference may help explain why…

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Save Yourselves from this Corrupt Generation! We Must go Through Many Hardships to Enter The Kingdom of God

“We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said. (Acts 14:22) The title of this article is a direct quote from two different chapters in the Book of Acts in the New Testament portion of the Bible (emphasis mine): “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, The evil forces behind the “corrupt/perverse generation” of Peter and Paul’s day, are the same evil forces behind the present generation that all of us are currently living in. So the instructions given to the New Testament believers, all still apply to us living today as well. Notice that in the New Testament portion of the…

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Genesis 4 -Sin Crouching at the Door

October 25, 2026 by David and Robin Watters Reading: Genesis 4; James 1:12–15; James 2:1–9; Hebrews 11:4 Key Verse: Genesis 4:7 — “Sin is crouching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.” Genesis 4 gives…

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‘Undue influence’: How a religious movement spread on university campuses

Three years ago, an anonymous user took to Reddit to write out a warning for young adults in Boston: “IF YOU ARE A STUDENT, BE CAREFUL.” The author of the post, John, a pseudonym to protect his identity due to fear of retaliation from the church, made a point to warn students specifically, writing, “Interns and ministry staff are active on college campuses in Boston trying to recruit students.” The BCOC is among four other groups barred from campus: Boston Alpha Omega, ICOC, Boston International Christian Church and NU Bible Talk. All of these groups are connected to the ICOC or BCOC and are student-focused church groups. (BCOC maintains an active webpage where individuals can express interest in joining Northeastern Bible Talk, despite being banned from campus.) The BCOC did not respond to more than a dozen requests for comment by email, website inquiries or phone calls over the course…

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