Survey finds nondenominational churches have the least baggage in people’s minds. Most Americans are open to a variety of denominations of Christian churches, including many people of other faiths or ...

(RNS) — In Africa, river baptism is popular, particularly among the Pentecostal and charismatic churches. (RNS) — It’s a rite that dates to the time of Jesus, who was dunked in the River Jordan by ...

Up to 20,000 African-American Christians will gather today in Baltimore for three days of prayer, preaching and praise, all part of a decade-old movement that advocates a controversial fusion of the ...

“Holy Spirit religion” is quietly infiltrating the church, revitalizing us all. I recently attended a Midwestern Baptist church in which the pastor directed his congregation to pray with hands ...

Baptism in (or of) the Holy Spirit, in-filling of the Holy Spirit The primary experience in the pentecostal and charismatic movements, in which the believer receives spiritual gifts and empowerment, ...

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.Acts 2:4 THREE days before the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a different sort ...

Carolyn Yeldell Staley knew about the "old time power, the Pentecostal power" -- she was a preacher's daughter and she'd sung about it. But she never encountered it, in its fullness, until she started ...