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March 11, 2026

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Today’s Briefing

Since Trump’s oil blockade of Cuba, citizens have struggle to find fuel, food, and medicine. Many are turning to churches and Christian groups for help.

Renewed war between Israel and Hezbollah has left Christians in southern Lebanon unsure whether to stay or flee.

Amid the war in Iran, Russell Moore wonders if in 21st-century America, “it’s not so much that end times theology influences politics as the other way around.”

In Nigeria, government officials demolished a historic floating slum, displacing 40,000 people.

Behind the Story

From Nigeria-based correspondent Emmanuel Nwachukwu: Most of my articles for CT include getting on the phone from the comfort of my apartment and listening to people share their stories. This time I enjoyed stepping out to cover last week’s gathering of conservative global Anglicans, known as Gafcon, for CT. The opening service started with a 30-minute live procession of all the church leaders, the longest I’ve ever seen.

I come from a Reformed church tradition without processions but with a love of hymns I share with the Anglicans. We sang “The Church’s One Foundation,” and it captured what Gafcon was fighting for—its leaders believed the church led by the Archbishop of Canterbury had shifted away from Scripture and was following culture instead. The cathedral was filled with hundreds of believers from the West, Africa, Asia, Latin America. Beside me, an elderly couple leaned close. The husband, with wrinkled hands, nodded slowly with each line: “One Lord, one faith, one birth.”

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In Other News

A bill that would have imposed the death penalty for having an abortion failed in the Tennessee legislature as the bill’s supporters chanted “Christ is king.”
In Nigeria, nine Fulani herdsmen are on trial in connection to the massacre in Benue State last June that killed more than 200 Christians. CT reported on the massacre and the fear of food shortages that followed.
The Vatican warned against trends like cosmetic surgery that “reduce the body to biological material to be enhanced, transformed, and reshaped at will.”

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Today in Christian History

March 12, 604: Gregory the Great, pope from 590 to 604, dies. Setting a high mark for the medieval papacy, he defended the primacy of the chair of Peter against even the smallest slight. He is also one of the four great Latin doctors of the church (along with Ambrose, Augustine, and Jerome), and upon his death, he was named a saint by popular acclaim.

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You Don’t Need a Decoder Ring Each Time You Suffer

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in the magazine

In this issue of Christianity Today and in this season of the Christian year, we explore the bookends of life: birth and death. You’ll read Karen Swallow Prior’s essay on childlessness and Kara Bettis Carvalho’s overview of reproductive technologies. Haleluya Hadero reports on artificially intelligent griefbots, and Kristy Etheridge discusses physician-assisted suicide. There is much work to be done to promote life. We talk with Fleming Rutledge about the Crucifixion, knowing that while suffering lasts for a season, Jesus has triumphed over death through his death. This Lenten and Easter season, may these words be a companion as you consider how you might bring life in the spaces you inhabit.

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