January 18, 2013–Mildred Case celebrates her 100th birthday today and has the distinction of being the oldest living Church of God missionary.

Christian Film Database, the most extensive database of “Christian Movies,” releases it’s first yearly list of the Top 100 Christian Films on CFDb for the year 2012.

The National Worship Leader Conference (NWLC), for six years the premier venue for educating, inspiring, and equipping worship leaders worldwide, will sponsor three conferences in 2013.

After winning re-election to the presidency of the United States, Barack Obama’s acceptance speech ended with the words, “Together, with your help and God’s grace, we will continue our journey forward.”

Recently, the Churches of God in both Ukraine and Russia held their annual national assemblies. The Russian conference was held in Samara in southern Russia, hosted by Interim Overseer Anatoly Kravchenko’s congregation. This was the first time that the Russian conference was held in southern Russia.

The World Council of Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME) is set to begin its yearly meeting here on Saturday, Jan. 19th. The meetings will take place over a one week period, it was announced today by Scott & Karen Seaborn and Fr. Tom Ogg, the North American Secretariat Ecclesial Team.

Wednesday saw the deadliest violence in Iraq since late November. A series of morning attacks killed at least 31 people across the country. Some reports say it’s a mark of rising tensions between Iraq’s ethnic and religious groups, which could shove the country back into chaos.

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that a chemical endangerment statute must protect children who have not been born yet. The strongly worded ruling is the most important affirmation of the personhood of the pre-born child since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

Anti-abortion groups from 20 different countries have launched a petition to ask the European Parliament to recognize that life begins at conception.