Faith News Network

Religious Freedom Day was celebrated earlier this week. It was a day to celebrate the ability to live out the Christian faith and freely share the Gospel. On this day of celebration, Christians are encouraged to recognize that religious freedom protections are being challenged across the country. Fellow churches are experiencing legal challenges relating to the use of their facilities, employment regulations, gender identity and sexual orientation laws, and more.

Faithlife Corporation opened a new, full-service customer care center, the Church Support Center, in late October. The opening coincided with the launch of Logos 8, the latest version of its popular Bible study software. The Church Support Center offers churches technical support 365 days per year. The center ensures Sunday-morning support for products like Faithlife Proclaim (church presentation software), Faithlife Giving (online and mobile giving), and all the elements of the Faithlife Equip platform for churches.

Evangelist Daniel Kolenda and the Christ for All Nations (CfaN) team recently finished a 4-day Gospel Outreach Campaign in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The event was marked by tens of thousands of decisions to follow Christ and hundreds of supernatural displays of God’s power to heal bodies, restore families and make lives whole.

Liberty Counsel has expanded its reach in Washington, D.C. by adding Faith & Action and the National Pro-Life Center to the family of ministries. Faith & Action has been a ministry in the nation’s capital since 1994. With the transition of the ministry to Liberty Counsel, Faith & Action is being renamed to Faith & Liberty.

A legal fight between America’s two long-time scouting organizations has prompted a surge of interest in a boys-only, Christian-based outdoor adventure program.

As it marks 70 years of proclaiming the gospel to some of the farthest corners of the world, FEBC (Far East Broadcasting Company, www.febc.org), the pioneering Christian broadcaster, is in a Mark Twain moment.

United Bible Societies (UBS) and the World Council of Churches (WCC) have released a joint publication entitled Your Word Is Truth: The Bible in 10 Christian Traditions. The book is a collection of essays by theologians and historians on how the Bible is used and understood in various traditions.

MELBOURNE, Australia – Planetshakers is a contemporary worship band and is world renown for their amazing artistry in music, vocals and in leading mass crowds in worship. With more than 30 internationally acclaimed albums, the band tours annually to the US, UK, Europe, South Africa, Asia, South America, Australia and New Zealand. With a global following of millions, Planetshakers are partnering with tvChaz.com to add their content to the new multimedia platform to expand their reach and be on the forefront of the advancement of technology and Christian user behaviors. The Planetshakers Conference, from Melbourne, Australia is now available for the first time on an on demand, pay per view basis on the tvChaz.com platform worldwide.

Billy Graham Rapid Response Team chaplains are on-site in Thousand Oaks, Calif., where a gunman opened fire at the Borderline Bar & Grill last night. News reports indicate that 12 people, including a law enforcement officer who responded, were murdered in the attack. The gunman has also died.

The American church’s giant isn’t sleeping, but it’s busy playing golf and taking life easy in retirement, according to the man behind a campaign to mobilize an untapped golden-years army.