Josh Shepherd

From sensory-friendly activities to massive trunk-or-treats, Lakeland churches offer family fun while building community connections.

“I would like all peace-loving people to help me come back to my family,” Pastor John Cao said in a new interview from southern China. “And I firmly believe to bear the cross never means an easy path.” Today, Cao, 67, has stage 4 prostate cancer

Battling stage 4 cancer after seven years in prison, Pastor John Cao is pleading to leave China and reunite with family in the U.S.

Leaders attribute SEU’s growth to expansion strategies, local industry partnerships, and its conservative Christian identity.

Nine years after Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng disappeared, his wife still has no answers about whether he is alive, where he is being held or when their family might see him again. For Geng He, the anniversary of her husband’s

9 years after Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng disappeared, his wife has no answers about whether he's alive & where he is being held

Two toddlers watched as Chinese police took their mother away. More than 600 miles away on a ministry trip, their father could only watch from afar as his famil

Chinese police came to arrest a house church pastor. He was abroad so they took his wife instead in front of their two toddlers.

Pastor Yang Jun of Zion Church recounts how his wife, Wu Qiuyu, has been detained in China for 10 months, separating them from their young children.

The wife of imprisoned Beijing Zion Church Pastor Wang Lin urges the world not to forget eight church leaders still jailed in China.

Faith-based nonprofit Hope House Florida is set to move into the former Faith Lutheran Church building.

The local evangelical megachurch that’s grown to more than 3,000 attendees is moving to a new worship campus on a 50-acre site in south Lakeland.

A new faith-based TV drama about a widowed pastor pursuing romance with a congregant is drawing praise from some viewers but criticism from abuse survivors and experts.

After being fired for sexual misconduct involving female staffers, pastor Jordan Green has launched a new church just four miles away.

A three-day conference at a Christian university in central Florida has now stretched into more than a week of near-continuous worship.

Georgia abuse survivors and advocates urge lawmakers to ban NDAs in child sexual abuse cases as Trey’s Law advances in the state.

Podcaster Shawn Ryan says he's not backing down after Kanakuk threatened to sue him over statements about past child sex abuse at summer camp.

Oklahoma, Georgia, and Alabama advance “Trey’s Law” to ban non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that silence child sexual abuse survivors.

Alabama lawmakers have pre-filed Trey’s Law to ban NDAs in sexual abuse cases, aiming to end silence and protect survivors’ voices.

As AI-generated singer Solomon Ray tops Christian iTunes, it sparks debate among CCM artists incl Forrest Frank over the tools of creativity.