In October 2013, long-retired United Methodist Bishop Melvin Talbert invaded the North Alabama territory of Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett to perform a same-sex union, disregarding the protests of the latter and the leadership of the denomination’s Council of Bishops. The United Methodist Church’s governing Discipline teaches that sex is only for marriage between one man and one woman, and forbids same-sex union ceremonies.

Sevierville, TN–Management of Swaggerty Sausage Company, Inc. of Kodak, Tennessee, recently chose the Church of God’s Smoky Mountain Children’s Home to receive a financial blessing for the Christmas season.

Some churches conduct pageants. Some temples host dinners. And others spend weeks or months meticulously planning how to break a Guinness World Record.

The site where Jesus may have been tried, prior to his crucifixion, is now open to the public for the very first time.

If headlines are to be believed, America at the dawn of 2015 is a divided nation. From violent and lawless protests over alleged racial injustice by law enforcement and attacks on time-honored marriage to the dismissal of the rule of law in favor of judicial and executive activism and the attempted marginalization of voices that hold to objective morality, warring factors are only partially hidden behind the guise of national peace.

Beginning January 10, 2015, Church of God Prayer Ministries is calling for 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting for revival in the church and awakening in the nation.

A new survey conducted by Operation Rescue of all abortion facilities in the United States has confirmed that the abortion clinic closure trend continued strongly in 2014.

A Sudanese woman sentenced to die for her faith, church disputes and friction between religious freedom and LGBTQ causes made news throughout 2014. Below are IRD’s top church news stories for the year.

Christian Film Database, the most extensive database of “Christian Movies,” releases it’s annual Top 100 Christian Films on CFDb for the year 2014.