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City Harvest's Kong Hee appeals guilty verdict but may face extra jail time
City Harvest Church's pastor Kong Hee's eight-year prison sentence should be overturned, his lawyers claimed at an appeal court hearing yesterday.

Anti-gay pastor Steven Anderson banned from UK
Steven Anderson was due to be travelling through London en route to South Africa and Botswana. Now it has emerged he has also been banned from the UK.

Evangelicals in Egypt head to US in support of President Sisi's UN visit
A delegation from the Evangelical Church in Egypt left Cairo yesterday to head to the US in support of President Abdel-Fattah Sisi during his visit to the United Nations (UN) headquarters to attend next week's UN General Assembly.

A baby that doctors said couldn't possibly survive because of defects beats all the odds with miraculous birth
"No way will your baby be born alive." Ashley Shirley, a mother from Cincinnati, Ohio, received this brutal pronouncement from her doctors who saw all sorts of birth defects on the two-month-old baby she was carrying, CBN News reports.

Future shocker? 2 men, or even just one man, can make baby; no need for women's egg, U.K. study shows
In the future, two men can make a baby. Even more shocking, just one man can make his own offspring. Yes, no need for a woman to supply the eggs.

Syria ceasefire deal in balance as Aleppo aid plan stalls
Russia said the Syrian army had begun to withdraw from a road into Aleppo on Thursday as the government and rebels accused each other of violating a truce.

3 ways we lead our children away from God with our words
Here are three common ways that we lead our children away from God with our words.

God values relationships more than we think and here's why we should too
So many people live lives treating relationships as cheap. There are so many disposable relationships and conditional partnerships, and unknowingly it breaks us inside because we were moulded in a way that we were meant to be joint together with others in relationships.

How to pass the test of faith
Abraham wasn't perfect and he made a lot of mistakes, but this one instance He stood his ground set the example for all of us to follow today. Here are three things we can learn from Abraham to pass the test of faith.

Does someone need to ask for forgiveness to be forgiven?
Can we forgive someone who does not ask for forgiveness? Should we even think of offering forgiveness when people don't want it?

3 men in the Bible who were righteous even though they were not politically correct
There is a difference between being in right standing in the eyes of God and being politically correct

Why the cross should be the core of your marriage
A marriage that is not centred on Christ will fail to help the man and the woman pursue Christ-likeness.

How the gospel solves problems with self-condemnation
Stop condemning yourself for what Christ has already forgiven and set you free from.

So much to do in such a little time? Here's what you should do
Our time on this earth is so short. Here's what we should do.

Pro-life leaders warn against growing trend of women delaying pregnancy, freezing their egg cells
Leaders of pro-life groups are warning women against jumping into the trend of preserving their egg cells, saying this is a perversion of goodness and love that is the essence of marriage and reproduction.

Tyrese Gibson rebukes the spirits of quitting, suicide and surrendering
"Fast and Furious" star Tyrese Gibson believes there is no good reason for people to quit, commit suicide, or surrender because God will always be available to give them faith.