April 29, 2014–The Kimberly Church of God in Kimberly, Alabama was destroyed yesterday as a strong line of tornadoes ravaged much of the Southern United States.

After ghostwriting and editing more than 300 published books, several which have become national bestsellers, Neil Eskelin, publisher of LifeBridge Books, has announced a major expansion of the 12-year-old company to help pastors turn their sermon series into nationally distributed books.

Millions of Americans are praying for the USA on the National Day of Prayer, Thursday May 1st. National Day of Prayer Revival Force chairman, Pastor Steven Andrew, and guest speakers invite Americans to re-dedicate the USA to God and to ask forgiveness for our sins to heal our land.

Chinese authorities in Zhejiang province used explosives to demolish the Sanjiang Christian Church in Wenzhou, China. The demolition reportedly took place at 8:35 p.m. on Sunday, Beijing time, after protesters—including church members—were dispersed by police.

April 28, 2014–Cleveland, TN–The Church of God International Executive Council (IEC) began their regularly-scheduled April meeting today at the International Offices with a full agenda highlighted by the finalization of the General Council agenda for the upcoming 75th General Assembly.

In 1954, the United States Congress added the words under God to the country’s Pledge of Allegiance. Sixty years later, most Americans would like to keep it that way, despite ongoing legal challenges to the pledge.

Right now there are over 300,000 Protestant churches in America. Just do the division—300,000 divided by 50 states—and that equals 6,000 churches per state. Wow! That’s a lot of churches!

Mark Burnett and Roma Downey (Son of God) have joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Paramount Pictures’ Ben-Hur, Gary Barber, MGM’s chairman and CEO at Paramount Pictures, announced Friday.

Church of God Missionaries Rodger and Saundra Wikelund founded Emma’s Kids in Zambia many years ago and have since seen miraculous testimonies of deliverance from the children who come under their care. Saundra shares one recent inspirational story.