The Pentecostal Theological Seminary will host its annual “Ministers’ Week,” April 15—17, 2014 on the Seminary’s campus in Cleveland, Tennessee. This year’s conference, themed “Knowing God in the Ordinary Practices of Christian Life,” will present a number of opportunities for ministers and students to participate in worship services and breakout sessions.

As our nation struggles with continued economic insecurity, vast healthcare change, and continual challenges to basic constitutional rights, citizens of the United States are preparing to exercise one of their most precious freedoms — the right to gather, worship, and pray to God. Following in the footsteps of our nation’s founders, who fought for religious freedom, millions will assemble at thousands of local National Day of Prayer events across America, where they will take time out of their daily schedules to intercede on behalf of their communities, their nation, and their leaders.

My son, Jess Rainer, and I recently spoke in Texas on the topic of the millennials, America’s largest generation of nearly 79 million persons. Because we coauthored a book titled The Millennials, we have had the opportunity to speak on the subject on many occasions.

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.

Church of God Coordinator of Personal Evangelism Leonard Albert has announced the latest resource for winning souls.

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.

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.

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).

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.