Category: Lifestyle & Culture
A federal court Tuesday ordered the University of North Carolina–Wilmington to promote a professor to the rank of full professor, a position it originally denied him, and to pay him $50,000 in back pay. In March, a jury found that university officials had retaliated against criminology professor Mike Adams for expressing conservative views in his opinion columns, books and speeches when those officials denied him a promotion in 2006.
Category: Church of God News
Church of God Coordinator of Personal Evangelism Leonard Albert has announced the latest resource for winning souls.
Category: Events and Happenings
The 12th annual North American Wolof Connection Network Conference will be held on April 24-27 at Union Church, 3 Elm Street, in the Rockville section of Vernon. The theme will be “Breaking the Bonds,” focusing on bringing freedom, hope and peace to the Wolof people of West Africa. Anyone ministering to unreached people, especially to Muslims, will benefit by attending.
Category: The Persecuted Church
Thousands of Christians have formed a human shield around a newly constructed church in Zhejiang province in China after authorities earlier this week threatened to demolish the building. The Sanjiang Christian Church reportedly cost more than $4.8 million to construct and was built over a six-year period in Wenzhou, one of China’s most Christianized cities.
Category: Events and Happenings
More than 300 of the world’s leading Pentecostal and Charismatic scholars recently gathered at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, for the 43rd annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies(SPS).
Category: Church of God News
A Church of God woman pastor in the city of Choloma, Honduras, was murdered on Thursday, April 3, by two young gang members who had earlier demanded “protection tax” to keep church members safe from their attacks.
Category: Events and Happenings
The Global Diaspora Network (GDN) has announced that a Global Diaspora Forum is scheduled to convene in Manila, Philippines on March 24 – 28, 2015. According to Dr. Grant McClung, President of Missions Resource Group (www.MissionsResourceGroup.org), “The Manila forum will bring together some 500 international missions and church leaders to assess the current status and set a future agenda for reaching, discipling, and multiplying churches among ‘people on the move.’” McClung, a charter member of the GDN International Advisory Board, also noted that a ground-breaking textbook in the emerging missions discipline of “diaspora missiology” will be launched at the Manila conclave. He is one of the section co-editors for the compendium project.