Building a “Firewall” in Africa is a partnership of Church of God World Missions, the Department of Youth and Discipleship, and Men and Women of Action. It begins in Senegal, moves eastward to Niger, across to Ethiopia, then turns southward through Kenya to Mozambique. The Firewall Project’s purpose is to build key ministry centers for training, and spearheading evangelistic and discipleship thrusts along this demarcation line. These areas are hostile to the Gospel.

Cleveland, TN–People for Care and Learning (PCL) recently launched a social media initiative to spark local support for the remaining Build a City houses in need of construction. The initiative carries the hashtag #last300.

Since 2010, Houston area churches have provided an alternative to frenzied Christmas shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. Continuing this tradition, Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church (MDPC), Beacon of Light Christian Center, St. John the Divine Episcopal Church, St. Francis Episcopal Church, West University Baptist Church, Crosspoint Church and The Woodlands Community Presbyterian Church, are each scheduling community service projects on Friday, November 28. Also, this year the Christian community in Seattle can join parishioners from Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church who will be helping the homeless at the St. Vincent de Paul of Seattle food bank. These churches ask families and individuals to celebrate Bless Friday® as an alternative to Black Friday.

It took one miracle to revive Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro after 45 minutes without a pulse or heartbeat.

Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed four people in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday before being shot dead by police, the deadliest such incident in six years in the holy city amid a surge in religious conflict.

In a widely anticipated decision, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago issued a ruling last week that brought an end to the suit where a lower federal court had declared the ministerial housing allowance unconstitutional.

The ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability) has announced in its 5th Annual State of Giving Report that annual cash charitable giving to ECFA-accredited organizations increased 6.9 percent between 2012 and 2013. It reflects total cash donations of $11.6 billion in 2013, an increase from the previous year’s $10.9 billion.

The first Muslim prayer service ever hosted at the National Cathedral, a landmark Christian church in the U.S. capital, was briefly interrupted on Friday by a lone anti-Islamic protester but the religious gathering continued with a theme of tolerance.

Since the United States’ founding, American civil and military leadership have taken deliberate steps to meet the religious needs of the military and to prevent it from becoming a purely secular entity. The founders were no strangers to government provision of religious support to the military.