Mar. 19 — A large mob of anti-Christian extremists brutally attacked two Gospel for Asia-supported missionaries in Himachal Pradesh, India, on Saturday, March 14. After stripping them naked and beating Murari Jay and Atul Rajesh, the vicious group burned all their belongings and then had the missionaries arrested.

March 19, 2009 — The president of Burundi, a Spirit-filled Christian, took his message of peace and unity to the United Nations on Wednesday, telling delegates how he led the nation to build free primary schools to promote equality in a country long divided by ethnic conflict.

By Thomas Mills, Mental Health Chaplain, Department of Veterans Affairs, Danville, IL

Marketing and branding is no longer just a tool for Corporate America, but rather, it plays a vital role in reaching beyond the walls of the church and into the hearts and minds of a public looking for the “right” message — a Smart message — to grab their attention. A Smart church is able to successfully direct that attention toward the message of Christ.

In an overwhelming vote Sunday, the members of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church elected the Rev. Tullian Tchividjian, grandson of famed evangelist Billy Graham, to be their new pastor.

As the world mared St. Patrick’s Day this week—remembering the Irish apostle who helped turn a pagan nation into a hotbed of Christianity—a Vineyard church in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, is helping spread a new wave of spiritual renewal across the nation.

Under the theme “Together in Spirit and in Truth for a Lasting Change”, the South American Seminary (SEMISUD) in Quito, Ecuador, will gather the national bishops and directors of the Church of God in South America on March 17-20, 2009, as called by their field director, Bishop Dr. David E. Ramírez.

Author Joe Keysor combats the growing charge that Christianity fed the Nazi purge of the Jews and Hitler’s hatred in his book “Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Bible: A Scriptural Analysis of Anti- Semitism, National Socialism, and the Churches in Nazi Germany.”

Regent University’s award-winning film school is filling the gap by offering a full tuition scholarship to the winner of its ReelDreams Film Competition. Redemptive filmmaking is growing in popularity and this provides an opportunity for good redemptive filmmakers.