Before Slumdog Millionaire made the world’s largest garbage dump famous, Biju Thampy was feeding the children who live there.

Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson on Tuesday announced plans to retire as president of Regent University during a meeting with the school’s Board of Trustees. Robertson founded the Virginia Beach, Va., school in 1978 and will step down as president effective July 1, 2010.

The gesture of throwing a baby shower for friends or loved ones is a common, and cherished tradition for most Americans — providing new parents with all the necessities to care for their infant. In the Holy Land, the gesture is difficult to come by for expectant mothers who live in a region that many would consider primitive and impoverished.

“Kari and I have found that it is always when you expect it the least that God blesses you the most….”

The Church of God World Missions’ children’s Web site, Mission Possible, has been updated with tools to help celebrate the upcoming Centennial of World Missions.

The American Family Association (AFA) is urging Christians to contact their representatives to oppose a bill that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes under federal hate crimes law.

In response to recent efforts by international pro-abortion groups seeking to decriminalize abortion in the Dominican Republic, legislators permanently enshrined the right to life for pre-born humans by rewriting the Constitution of the Dominican Republic with the words “the right to life is inviolable from conception until death.”

I recently returned from Jamaica, where we began construction on a new church building. It is located about two hours out of Kingston, in a place called Cross Keys. The church had been destroyed by a hurricane last year.

SCOTLAND — With the cares and concerns of her communities at heart, Church of God Missionary Sheila McLaughlan was recently voted in as woman of the year for the Christian Party in the United Kingdom.