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If an animal could describe the Pentecostal movement, it would be the tribble, a cute furry fictional animal, well-known to Star Trek fans. Tribbles, the story had it, were born pregnant, reproduced ...

AS the Apostolic Pentecostal body in Jamaica celebrates 100 years of existence and service to the island, several communities will experience facelifts through various projects to be undertaken by the ...

There are a lot of stereotypes and caricatures that attach themselves to Pentecostal and Charismatic forms of Christianity. Preeminent among them is the jet-setting, charismatic preacher who needs his ...

“Pentecost Has Come,” roared the September 1906 headline of the Apostolic Faith newspaper, published by an obscure mission on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. New Testament Christianity finally was being ...

Pentecostalism's beginnings are rooted in the description of "tongues of fire" that fell upon the heads of Jesus' followers who gathered to pray in Jerusalem around the time of the Jewish Festival of ...

Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Ky., clerk jailed for five days for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, identifies as an Apostolic Christian and attends Solid Rock Apostolic Church ...

(RNS) Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Ky., clerk jailed for five days for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, identifies as an Apostolic Christian and attends Solid Rock Apostolic ...