Many are not aware that the STEP (Summer Training Evangelism Partners) program offered by the Church of God Youth and Christian Education department sponsors student groups to mission sites within the United States as well as to other parts of the world. Participant Brad Schalk offers this assessment of his experience to Chicago earlier this summer:

Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world’s largest faith and family friendly network, now offers video archives of broadcasts for Praise The Lord and Behind The Scenes for viewers who may have missed a program or want to watch a show more than once.

ChristiaNet.com, the world’s largest Christian portal with twelve million monthly page loads, asked participants in a recent poll, “Is ‘The Simpsons Movie’ appropriate for Christians?” The majority of Christians polled had not seen the movie, but based their answers on their opinion of the TV show.

The last time I had lived overseas was in 2003, so I was looking forward to being out of the country again. I have lived before in Colombia and Ecuador, both nations with similar cultures to that of Mexico, and even the same language.

When Troy and Kathy Johnson began ministering in Tanzania, they met a man named Habibu. Habibu, a Muslim man, was an outcast among his own people. No one would talk to him.

The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that an Egyptian Christian working in Saudi Arabia as a surgeon has been repeatedly blocked from going home for over two years. The Saudi government has intentionally run him in circles, promising he can leave, then refusing to let him go.

By Ed Thomas, OneNewsNow.com The ACLU has failed to have opening prayer before school board meetings of the Tangipahoa Parish district of Louisiana declared unconstitutional. A ruling this week by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allows for the prayer and overturns a two-year-old district court opinion barring it.

On July 28, a personal friend of Pope Benedict XVI will publicly defend the Pope’s recent controversial remarks in support of the traditional Mass in Latin and calling non-Catholic communities “defective” and not truly churches.

The Ivorian Civil War was a civil war in Cote d’Ivoire that began on September 19, 2002. Although most of the fighting ended by late 2004, the country remains split in two with a rebel-held north and a government-held south.