January 24, 2013–Church of God General Overseer Mark Williams recently updated the International Executive Council on the progress of five ministry initiatives. The initiatives were first conceived by the general overseer, then ratified and adopted by the Executive Committee as emphases for the 2012-2016 period.

An atheist has lost his final battle over an 11-story cross in Southern Illinois.

Pastor Peter Conforti and the members of Full Gospel Church (Assembly of God) of Island Park, N.Y., were left shocked, speechless—struck to the core. When Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast late in October, damage was expected. But this—this was much more than anyone imagined.

Imagine a television station, airing Christian programming, broadcasting throughout the land of Israel, Palestinian territories and beyond.

Cleveland, TN–Members of the Executive Council of the Church of God gathered this week at the International Offices, the first of three regularly-scheduled meetings of the body this year.

Farshid Fathi, an Iranian Christian pastor, is beginning the third year of a six-year prison sentence on a conviction of “being chief-director of foreign organizations in Iran and gathering funds for these organizations.”

From the debt to guns, America seems more divided than united. Now, some are bonding–not in spite of their political differences but because of them.

The United States honored the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday by holding tributes and commemorative services, with crowds of people expected to attend events in Atlanta, hometown of the slain civil rights leader.

Coordinators and directors from Church of God USA Missions, Men’s and Women’s Discipleship, Music Ministries, Pathway Press, and the General Overseer’s Office, met on Thursday, January 17, 2013 to discuss the implementation of the MY HOPE WITH BILLY GRAHAM outreach project slated for November 2013.