Lockdowns at two Davie schools lifted after suspect who fled officers taken into custody

Two Broward County Public Schools in Davie were locked down and pick up was delayed Monday afternoon as police searched for a suspect who had a warrant for his arrest and fled. Fox Trail Elementary School at 1250 S. Nob Hill Road and Indian Ridge Middle School at 1355 S. Nob Hill Road were locked down for at least an hour before officers found the suspect and took him into custody, Davie Police said in a tweet shortly before 4:30 p.m. Advertisement Officers were searching for the... Read More

What Language Is This? Coptic Comes to Christmas

A new song highlights a growing interest outside the Egyptian church in reviving an ancient language of the Christian world. The darkened New York church was packed with almost 1,000 congregants holding candles, as a group of six singers sung out Christmas news in an ancient language few New Yorkers had ever heard. “Shere Veth-le-em, etpolis enni-epro-feetees, the-etav-mes Pikhrestos en-khets, pi-mah esnav en-Adam,” they sang at Calvary-St. George Episcopal Church’s... Read More

This holiday, stuff your tank with cheaper gas. It’s heading below $3.

Gas prices are continuing to fall ahead of the Christmas holiday weekend, making it cheaper to drive over the river and through the woods this year. That’s great news for the 5.8 million Florida residents projected to take a year-end holiday road trip, said Mark Jenkins, spokesman for travel club AAA. Advertisement Monday’s average per-gallon price in Florida was $3.03, according to AAA’s weekly Gas Price Update. That’s 12 cents less than a week ago, and 55 cents since... Read More

Bones uncovered in Denmark believed to be human sacrifice from thousands of years ago

As archaeologists in Denmark were working on a pre-construction excavation in October, they uncovered a number of ancient artifacts. The group found animal bones and ceramics from a bog as … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Christians Respond to Nationalists’ Call to Boycott Christmas in China

Chinese believers reflect on the relationship between faith and culture and rethink their seasonal evangelism. On Christmas Eve in 2018, media technology researcher Su Lun experienced a sense of depression while walking on the campus of Nanjing University. It was like walking into Narnia in the middle of a hundred-year-long winter “surrounded by few people and silence, and not feeling any semblance of a Christmas atmosphere.” On the same day, he received a notice in a college... Read More

Is Christmas a ‘Western’ Holiday in Asia?

Theologians and church leaders around the region share how December 25 is perceived in their contexts. Christmas is widely celebrated in Asia. But is it seen as a secular holiday imported from the West or a religious one? CT spoke with seven theologians and church leaders from Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam to find out how Christmas is regarded in their contexts, the unique traditions that take place, and how evangelicals celebrate the birth of Christ... Read More