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.
On Friday night, December 14, 2012, the Los Angeles Revival broke out on Bonnie Brae Street with ecstatic utterances, slaying in the Spirit, violent quaking, the laying on of hands by Evangelist Verna Linzey who was the keynote speaker and minister, crying, tears, falling on their faces, hands lifted up toward the heavens, screaming in the Spirit, calling the fiery Holy Ghost down from Heaven — in short, a repeat of the initial outbreak of the revival in 1906, except more people were present this time.
What began as a peaceful and solemn remembrance for victims of the Connecticut shooting massacre was shattered on Sunday by a telephoned bomb threat that forced the evacuation of a Roman Catholic church, deepening the distress of a town in mourning.
Recently Verna Linzey, a “daughter” of the Azusa Street Revival, was ministering in the Los Angeles Mission in Torrance when revival unexpectedly broke out with ecstatic utterances, prophecy, shaking and salvations, and this has continued at that mission.
Doug Small, the Prayer Ministries Coordinator for the Church of God, will be among the speakers at the annual ‘Heart Cry for Revival’ event planned for April 22-25, 2013 at ‘The Cove’ in Asheville, North Carolina, operated by the Billy Graham organization.
Budapest, Hungary– Over 35 leaders of Pentecostal denominations and Charismatic ministries from 16 nations across Europe united together in Budapest, Hungary, November 19-20, 2012, for a special Summit focused on the future of Spirit-empowered Christianity.
