Veteran healing-evangelist Oral Roberts said the university he founded is headed in the right direction under the leadership of board chair Mart Green and his family, whose $70 million gift last year helped save the school from near-financial ruin.

By Steve Strang

This week I’m presenting an eyewitness account of the devastation in Southern Israel that is the result of the violence perpetrated against Israel by Hamas. The account is written by my good friend, Rabbi Aaron Rubinger.

By Tom Rosson, president, Eurasian Theological Seminary

MOSCOW, Russia — The visiting team from the Euro-Asian Accrediting Association (EAAA), recently completed a two-day visit to the Eurasian Theological Seminary, a Church of God institution in Moscow. The EAAA informed us that they will be recommending to their General Council in June that ETSM be accredited for its Bachelor of Theology and Bachelor in Pastoral Ministry programs. It is a real milestone for the school to have this official recognition of accreditation from the Euro-Asian Accrediting Association.

Todd Starnes, a FOX News radio personality who is a Lee alumnus, has signed a contract with the Church of God’s Pathway Press to tell his amazing recovery from near death obesity.

By Paul Steven Ghiringhelli

A pro-life leader faces up to two years in prison and as much as $4,000 in fines for offering sidewalk counseling at an Oakland, Calif., abortion clinic. Pastor Walter B. Hoye, founder of the Issues4Life Foundation, is to be sentenced today after being found guilty on Jan. 15 of “unlawful approach” under an Oakland city ordinance that bars picketers from coming within eight feet of women entering an abortion clinic.

During the 2008 Christmas season Church of God missionaries Tommi and Poppi Smith were able to minister the joy of Jesus to more than 1,500 children, many from the slums of Jakarta, during several outreaches.

Felicia Barton, a worship leader at Freedom Fellowship Church of God in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has been selected to be in the top 36 of Season 8 of American Idol.

When God calls Christians to serve abroad in missions, He equips them for their calling. But who equips the parents of missionaries (POMs) for the loss of their loved one?

After waiting nearly five days in Birmingham, Alabama, the Survivors are now back on their nationwide abortion awareness campaign with their video equipment in hand. The property was illegally seized by police during the arrests of nine of the team members last Thursday. The team spent more than 14 hours in jail for simply standing on a public sidewalk holding a sign and handing out literature in front of Parker High School. Adding insult to injury, when the team was finally released Friday morning, the police stalled the release of the team’s camera equipment and video recordings of the event at Parker High School.