Assemblies of God
With pilgrimages on hold, Holy Land Easter programming fills a gap
By Yonat Shimron — March 29, 2024
(RNS) — Franklin Graham's 30-minute Easter special from Jerusalem is one of many programs airing amid a huge downturn in Holy Land tourism since Oct. 7.
US Hispanic Protestant churches are young, growing and largely new to the country
By Alejandra Molina — January 30, 2023
(RNS) — 'We see more and more English-speaking churches either planting a Hispanic church or adding a service in Spanish to their current congregation,' said Giancarlo Montemayor with Lifeway Recursos.
Bishop Robert Stearns wants to reinvent evangelicalism without leaving it behind
By Benjamin Spratt and Joshua Stanton — August 31, 2022
(RNS) — The pastor from western New York is one of a rising cohort of evangelical leaders who are looking beyond partisan politics and messaging based on fear.
George O. Wood, dead at 80, remembered as ‘door-opener’ in leadership of AG
By Erica Ramirez — January 16, 2022
(RNS) — The longtime general superintendent of the Assembles of God saw the Pentecostal denomination to its highest levels of membership and promoted the leadership of women and minorities.
Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal denomination, hosts biennial convening in Orlando
By Alejandra Molina — August 4, 2021
(RNS) — There are nearly 13,000 Assemblies of God churches across the U.S., according to the denomination.
Charismatic TikTok divided over praying in tongues
By Renée Roden — August 3, 2021
(RNS) — ‘I think words are not the greatest at describing the sensation. It’s being filled, it’s being baptized. It’s a little mysterious,' said one TikToker.
‘Wisdom gushing out of him’: A remembrance of Robert E. Cooley
By Jerry Pattengale — April 1, 2021
(RNS) — Cooley, former president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, died Thursday (April 1) at age 91.
Memorial for Reinhard Bonnke, ‘the Billy Graham of Africa,’ draws thousands
By Mark I. Pinsky — January 4, 2020
ORLANDO, Fla.(RNS) — The Pentecostal pastor died Dec. 7 in Orlando, where he moved his international ministry, Christ for All Nations, in the early 2000s.
Remembering Jesse Miranda and the complicated history of Latinx Pentecostals
By Arlene Sanchez-Walsh — July 16, 2019
(RNS) — Jesse Miranda’s dream was to found a quasi-civil rights organization akin to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for Latinx. Such an organization would harness the political power of Latinx Pentecostals and evangelicals along a socially conservative track with exceptions being issues such as immigration.
Sowing division, Islamists target Christians in Burkina Faso
By Paul O'Donnell — May 14, 2019
(RNS) — Since 2016, at least 300 violent incidents have been reported in Burkina Faso, resulting in the death of more than 360 people, including policemen and soldiers, school teachers and religious leaders.
US Assemblies of God elects first woman executive in more than a century
By Adelle M. Banks — April 24, 2018
(RNS) — The election of the Rev. Donna L. Barrett as general secretary of the denomination's top American board harks back to the church's early days, when women played important public roles in its congregations.
In Brazil, religious gang leaders say they’re waging a holy war
By Robert Muggah — November 3, 2017
(THE CONVERSATION) — The expression 'evangelical drug trafficker' may sound incongruous, but in Rio de Janeiro, it’s an increasingly familiar phenomenon.
Southern Baptists decline as Assemblies of God grow
By Adelle M. Banks — June 7, 2016
(RNS) The Assemblies of God are benefiting from immigration -- particularly from Central and South America as well as Africa -- much more than the Southern Baptist Convention, an expert said.
What to make of Southern Baptists’ declining numbers (COMMENTARY)
By Trevin Wax — June 16, 2015
(RNS) The largest Protestant denomination in the United States is meeting this week, but it’s not as large as it was last year, or the year before. What’s going on?
Latino evangelicals call for end to death penalty. Will others follow?
By Jonathan Merritt — March 27, 2015
The National Latino Evangelical Coalition urged their 3,000 member congregations to end capital punishment. They are the first major evangelical association to take this position publicly, but support for the death penalty among Christians is waning.
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