Christian music legends Amy Grant and Kirk Franklin have been announced as the hosts for the 44th Annual GMA Dove Awards.

On National Life Chain Sunday 2013 — October 6, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM in each time zone across America and Canada — sidewalks in 1500 cities and towns will again proclaim Life Chain’s irrefutable messages, among them Abortion Kills Children, Adoption: The Loving Option, Jesus Forgives and Heals, and Abortion Hurts Women.

September 24, 2013–Cleveland, TN–The International Council of the Church of God, meeting in session at the Church of God International Offices, concluded their biennial gathering today with a joint session with the International Executive Council, comprised of the Council of Eighteen and the Executive Committee.

Open Doors USA is calling for prayers for the victims and families of a massacre at a church in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sunday and for the ongoing attack and hostage situation at a mall in Nairobi, Kenya.

Dr. William M. Wilson—better known as Billy—was inaugurated Friday as the fourth president of Oral Roberts University. I had the privilege of enjoying the pomp and ceremony, and of being reminded of the special vision that birthed this great educational institution.

A crimson-colored “LU,” emblazoned in 11-foot letters on a forested mountainside against a backdrop of white limestone, tells students and their families they have arrived at Liberty University. The cacophony of construction across the 7,000-acre campus it overlooks suggests that the once-struggling Christian college has not only arrived but also plans to stick around.

citylife church in Tampa, Florida, a Church of God congregation pastored by Tony and Kaci Stewart, was featured in the September issue of Outreach magazine’s “Top 100 Fastest-Growing Churches in America for 2013.”

Co-author of the best-selling Left Behind series, award-winning novelist Jerry B. Jenkins will be speaking at the Religion Newswriters Association’s 2013 Awards Banquet, to be held Sept. 28, 2013 at the Sheraton Austin Hotel in Austin, Texas, at the conclusion of the 64th Annual Conference of the Religion Newswriters Association.

A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a 130-year-old Anglican church in Pakistan after Sunday Mass, killing at least 78 people in the deadliest attack on Christians in the predominantly Muslim country.