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Best Christian News Sites and Apps (2026)
Four Christian news sources compared. We looked at what it costs to read, how much daily news each one publishes, their iPhone and Android apps, and ads.
Updated October 2026
·4 Christian news sources compared
BP
🆓
Free with no ads
Baptist Press
📺 Free live news channel
CBN News
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#1
BP
Baptist Press
Free · no ads found
86/100
Winner · Free with no ads
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Christianity Today
$6/mo billed yearly · some articles free
74/100
#4 · News plus ideas and theology
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| Price and ads | ||||
| Free to read | Every article | A few articlesthen a paywall | Every article | Some articlesnumber not stated |
| Digital subscription | None needed | $3.99/monthprint + digital $6.99/month | None needed | $6/monthbilled $72 a year; print + digital same price |
| Ads on the website | None found | Yesdisplay ads on articles | Yesbanner ads on articles | Yesad spaces in articles |
| Ads in the Android app | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| The news | ||||
| Daily news | Many stories each weekday11 posts in its news list on 8 Oct | The Sift: short stories each weekday | Stories all day+ free 24/7 news channel | About one news story a daymost pieces are ideas, theology, church life |
| Daily news email | Morning and afternoon | The Sift, every weekday | Morning, mid-day and evening | CT Daily Briefing |
| Published by | Southern Baptist Conventionits official news service since 1946 | WORLD News GroupGod's World Publications | The Christian Broadcasting Network | Christianity Today Internationalnonprofit, founded 1956 |
| In its own words | "News related to Southern Baptists' concerns nationally and globally" | "Sound journalism, grounded in facts and Biblical truth" | "News from a Christian perspective" | "Make sense of today's world through a Biblical lens" |
| Apps | ||||
| iPhone app | ✓ | ✓ | ✓last updated Mar 2024 | ✓new in Apr 2026 |
| Android app | ✓last updated May 2025 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Last app update | Oct 2026 (iPhone)Android May 2025 | Aug 2026both apps | Aug 2026 (Android)iPhone Mar 2024 | Oct 2026both apps |
| App Store rating | 3.58 ratings | 4.591 ratings | 4.5513 ratings | 4.918 ratings |
| Google Play rating | 4.019 reviews, 1K+ downloads | 4.5123 reviews, 10K+ downloads | 4.62.4K reviews, 100K+ downloads | 4.325 reviews, 5K+ downloads |
| Try it | Try now | Try now | Try now | Try now |
Independent ranking. Every app here is scored the same way. Nobody can pay to rank higher. Free matters. If the best parts are locked behind a paywall, the score goes down. Every fact comes from each outlet's own website or its App Store / Google Play page, checked 9 October 2026. This page compares features only. It does not rate anyone's politics or theology.
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