Global Christian broadcaster, GOD TV, is planning a mammoth tour which will see thousands of Christians from different countries visit Israel next May for the holiday of a life-time, as they celebrate her 60th Anniversary as a modern nation.

By J. Lee Grady

Kevin, a 31-year-old pastor from Minnesota, asked me an honest question this week. He’s been reading about all the scandals that have rocked the charismatic world, beginning with Ted Haggard’s embarrassing moral failure late last year and continuing with the recent divorces among prominent church leaders and the allegations of financial mismanagement made against leaders at Oral Roberts University.

Gospel Music Channel (GMC), will annually honor the most-popular music videos of the year across all genres of gospel and Christian music, it was announced today by GMC founder and president Charles Humbard.

Church of God Chaplain Jeff Bartels has just returned to Iraq for a second time. Other soldiers that are with him are in Iraq for a third or even fourth time.

Gospel’s First Lady, eleven time Grammy winner, Shirley Caesar, is celebrating the 40th anniversary of her solo career (she left gospel’s most-popular female group of the 1950s, the Caravans in 1966 after an eight year stint) with her 43rd album.

Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and the Foundation for Moral Law call on the National Cemetery Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs and President George W. Bush, who has executive authority over these agencies, to immediately reverse the new rule requiring military funeral volunteers to stop reciting the significance of each fold of the American flag.

“If you’re fond of sand dunes, and salty air, quaint little villages, here and there,” you’re sure to fall in love with Gener8Xion Entertainment’s latest release, No?lle.

The international Music Advisory Council of the Church of God recently held its retreat and conference at Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs Colo.

The National Religious Broadcasters Association (NRB) announced this week that Dallas-based NeedHim Ministries has received three nominations for their 2008 Annual Media Awards. National Religious Broadcasters Association is an international association of Christian communicators with more than 1400 member organizations representing millions of viewers, listeners, and readers.