ST. CLAIR
First Church, Springville, will celebrate its 200th anniversary March 19, 10:30 a.m. Todd Friel, host of Wretched TV and Radio, will speak. Lunch and a special program with the presentation of certificates and plaques will follow the service. Chip Thornton is pastor.
Between Aug. 9 and Sept. 5, more than 30 Christians were killed in one state in Nigeria, a country that has for some time led the world in the number of believers slain for their faith.
Franklin Lee Kirksey, former pastor of churches in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina, died Sept. 11. He was 64.
A Pakistani Christian was fatally shot for rebuffing the advances of a male neighbor.
A Ugandan man was hospitalized for a week after his adult sons attacked and beat him for putting his faith in Jesus Christ.
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