Focus on the Family is joining 11 other organizations in the “Remembering Roe” campaign to highlight the inherent value of the preborn this January, the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal.

Cleveland, TN–Dozens of people have taken 25 minute shifts to read the Bible through in seven days at the Church of God International Offices. The reading event began at 6:00 am on January 1 and is scheduled to conclude on Monday, January 7.

The death toll from a New Year’s Eve stampede during a religious vigil at an overcrowded stadium in the Angolan capital Luanda has risen to 16, state-owned daily newspaper Jornal de Angola said on Wednesday.

Christians face widespread persecution but God is on the move. Their numbers have grown from 29 people when the first church was planted in Nepal 60 years ago, to nearly 1 million today.

Our Father and our God, as we stand at the beginning of this new year we confess our need of Your presence and Your guidance as we face the future.

Cleveland, TN–The long anticipated start of the READ Bible reading initiative has now been launched and more than 100,000 people around the globe have committed together to read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation in 2013.

Please don’t judge—pray instead. God can orchestrate a miraculous turnaround in our nation.

Stella Rooks has new book “Arise in Me” is a 31-day, handbook that gives reader day-by-day steps for a new start. “Arise in Me” enables a new way of thinking, scripturally based, and is extremely user-friendly.

Oldline church disputes, threats to religious freedom and Middle East proxy battles made news throughout 2012. Below are the Institute for Religion and Democracy’s (IRD) top church news stories for the year.