U.S. church bodies, convened by the Christian anti-hunger advocacy group Bread for the World, are petitioning Congress to pass the Initiating Foreign Assistance Reform Act of 2009 (H.R. 2139). The bipartisan bill starts the process of overhauling U.S. foreign assistance programs to make them more efficient and focused on fighting poverty.

Faith Comes By Hearing, the world’s foremost Audio Bible ministry, recently launched a revolutionary Audio Bible distribution program — Audio Bible Ambassador.

On our calendar May 14 is the date of Israel’s independence. The Israelis celebrate their Independence Day on the 5th day of their month Iyar, which was April 29 this year because they go by the Jewish calendar.

Cleveland, Tennessee was the site of the Church of God Ministerial Internship Program (MIP) Commissioning service this past weekend.

Continuing his week-long pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Pope Benedict XVI last week called for a “sovereign Palestinian homeland” and identified with Palestinian “suffering” during a one-day visit to Bethlehem and other parts of the West Bank.

Just two days before Angels and Demons, the sequel to the blockbuster film The Da Vinci Code, hit theaters Friday, Westminster Theological Seminary launched a Web site www.thetruthaboutangelsanddemons.com designed to juxtapose the film’s facts from its fiction.

South African evangelist Rodney Howard-Browne is on a mission to spark another great awakening that is marked by a wave of evangelism in the U.S. and abroad.

The Church of God Chaplains Commission will be offering its Community Service Chaplaincy Basic Training Seminar on June 1-5, 2009.

Adventures In Missions (AIM), a nonprofit organization based in Gainesville, GA, launched its first Missions Photo Contest in a quest to gather photographs of ministry in action from around the globe.