Giving readers an innovative new way to experience a sacred text, the Bible Audio Pronunciations iPhone application announces its recent launch, featuring audio recordings of over 1,000 challenging words.

The regularly-scheduled monthly Web cast with Church of God General Overseer Raymond Culpepper will take place tonight (July 12) at 7:00 p.m. EST.

This month will be the first back after a hiatus in June to allow the general overseer to represent the Church of God at numerous camp meetings across the nation.

Culpepper will resume the format of answering questions and inquiries which have come into the general offices through a special link on the Church of God Web site. The last Web cast in early May was devoted to a special report and update on the devastating storms which ravaged the southeast on April 27, including nine deaths in Bradley County, Tennessee, the home county of the international offices.

Anyone may submit a question to be considered during the Web cast, including up to and during the event itself. Staff will be on duty to receive questions between the 60+ minute presentation.

To submit a question or to view past Web casts, visit www.churchofgod.org and click on the Web cast graphic.

USA Today College recently listed Lee University among the 20 Colleges Most Committed to Community Service.

Georgia has passed one of the nation’s toughest laws on human sex trafficking, giving victims advocates greater hope that other states will follow suit.

Pottermania will experience one last spasm as the Grand Finale of Harry Potter movies, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, opens July 15.

An evangelical pastor, once jailed by the regime of Fidel Castro, arrived in the United States from Cuba yesterday with his family under a special resettlement program for political refugees.

A group of investment managers has initiated a divestment campaign against publicly traded companies that are state-owned by the government of the People’s Republic of China. This action is intended as a sanction against the Chinese government for their persecution of Christians and for the violation of human and religious rights.

The head of a Minnesota-based Messianic Jewish ministry is defending a Republican challenger labeled as “extreme” and “intolerant” by Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison.

Franklin Graham will be a witness to South Sudan history this weekend.

The CEO and President of both Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association will be on hand to celebrate South Sudan’s first weekend of Independence from Sudan.