A 7.4 magnitude earthquake centered off the Pacific coast of Guatemala last week devastated sections of the country and shook an area from Mexico City to El Salvador. Forty-eight are reported dead so far, at least one Church of God congregation in San Pedro has been left without a building, and further damage reports are expected, said Tim Hill, general director of World Missions. Our missionaries and the orphanage were shaken, but safe.

A blog post by president of Project Pray, P. Douglas Small.

Four months after Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi was elected president, assaults on Christians and their places of worship have intensified. Most recently, Salafists—who follow the radical Wahhabi doctrine of Islam found in Saudi Arabia—broke into a plot of land in Cairo owned by the Coptic Church and built a makeshift mosque on the property.

Bott Radio Network (BRN) — a pioneer in the development of Christian talk radio — marks its 50th anniversary this month as the nation’s leader in quality Bible teaching, Christian news and information.

How will the end of the world arrive? Fire and brimstone? Zombie apocalypse? If you believe the Mayan Long Count calendar, the end will come Dec. 21 of this year. But if you believe the book of Revelation, the exact date and time are unknown.

Operation Compassion is expanding disaster relief efforts while maintaining and re-supplying those already established. Throughout the disaster relief process, Operation Compassion is always looking for better ways to help more victims. Utilizing their strategic partnerships, Operation Compassion is expanding their scope of recovery efforts into new areas of destruction.

The American Center for Law and Justice recently helped a student at a public university in Ohio obtain a religious exemption from her university’s requirement to live on campus. As a result, she will be able to live off campus in a faith-based household with other students who share her religious values.

Evangelical congregations on storm-damaged Staten Island are outshining federal agencies in the arduous task of helping residents recover from the devastating effects of super storm Sandy. Almost immediately after the weather abated, Staten Island evangelical clergy organized and began deploying aid. The same response from federal agencies took days and are still woefully inadequate to the recovery effort.

Giving Tuesday began with a simple thought: we designate Thanksgiving as a day for gratitude and Black Friday and Cyber Monday as two days for getting deals. Wouldn’t it be great to have a day for giving back? As a Giving Tuesday partner, World Vision, is challenging Americans to take part in this new national movement on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving by showing they can give as good as they get.