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.

Why do we celebrate Jesus’ birth more than His resurrection?

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to hear Elane Photography v. Willock, the case of a photographer who was told by the New Mexico Supreme Court that she must, as “the price of citizenship,” use her creative talents to communicate a message with which she disagrees or suffer punishment.

The Global Diaspora Network (GDN) has announced that a Global Diaspora Forum is scheduled to convene in Manila, Philippines on March 24 – 28, 2015. According to Dr. Grant McClung, President of Missions Resource Group (www.MissionsResourceGroup.org), “The Manila forum will bring together some 500 international missions and church leaders to assess the current status and set a future agenda for reaching, discipling, and multiplying churches among ‘people on the move.’” McClung, a charter member of the GDN International Advisory Board, also noted that a ground-breaking textbook in the emerging missions discipline of “diaspora missiology” will be launched at the Manila conclave. He is one of the section co-editors for the compendium project.

Church of God Communications was recently recognized with two Telly Awards for creative excellence in video production. For over a quarter century, the Telly statuette has been a symbol of creative excellence and honors the very best film and video productions, groundbreaking online video content, and outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs.

The publisher of Dr. Herbert Lockyer’s book, All the Prayers of the Bible, suggests there are no fewer 650 prayers in Scripture with 450 recorded answers. Can you imagine if all of our prayers were recorded and later published for the world to read? I shudder at the thought!

The YouVersion Bible app team tracked the opening of the movie Noah, and during the three-day opening weekend, the app reported a 300 percent increase in people reading or listening to the Noah story from the book of Genesis.

On the heels of last month’s jury verdict for a Christian professor punished by his employer for his conservative and Christian speech, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) team is pleased to report yet another victory for religious liberty.