The somber facts delineated in the State Department’s 2015 International Religious Freedom (IRF) Report, released this week, are not reflected in the Obama Administration’s foreign policy actions and priorities.

Facing what the Los Angeles Times called “intense opposition from religious colleges in California,” state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) has removed a provision that would have stripped those schools of their religious liberty protections and made it easier for LGBT students to sue for “discrimination.”

Items debated by the General Council of the Church of God, as well as resolutions, were recently adopted at the 76th International General Assembly in Nashville, Tennessee.

As a people of faith, many followers of Christ would love to see prayer become part of our schools in America again. But I would suggest we first bring prayer back into the churches of America. The vast majority of churches in America give more time in their worship services to promoting their next event than they give to practicing prayer.

Workers supported by Gospel for Asia (GFA) are distributing supplies, including food, mosquito netting, hygiene products and blankets, to villagers fleeing widespread monsoon flooding across certain parts of Asia. The monsoons have killed more than 42 people and driven millions more from their homes in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal and India.

A couple years ago, I spent several hours with a group of young pastors. It was a cross representation of church planters and pastors of established churches—healthy churches and unhealthy; growing, plateauing and declining.

Operation Compassion is partnering with Feed the Children to help the Church of God provide kids with the supplies they need to go back to school.

Evangelist Alveda King, Director of Civil Rights for The Unborn, Priests for Life, recently released the following statement:

I have one of the coolest roles in the world right now. I get to hang out with, encourage and support Team USA athletes during the Olympics.