Hundreds of friends, parishioners and Korean-Canadian religious leaders gathered at a suburban Toronto church on Mondayto pray for a Canadian pastor detained in February by North Korean authorities while on a humanitarian mission.

TULSA, Okla. — Oral Roberts University successfully broke the Guinness World Record for the number of people popping bubble wrap simultaneously. The university surpassed the current world record on January 26, 2015, when they hosted the “Pop ‘Til You Drop Bubble Wrap Challenge” in honor of National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day.

Nationally acclaimed Christian speakers and educators at the upcoming Outcomes Conference (www.OutcomesConference.org) will offer unparalleled insight and strategies for church and Christian nonprofit leaders who want to understand and be equipped for the critical times in which they live.

Mildred Lowery, wife of well-known evangelist and former member of the Church of God Executive Committee, T.L. Lowery, passed away on Saturday afternoon, March 7. She was 84.

Further to our fervent need to uphold Nigeria and its general elections coming later in the month into God’s hand, the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans, CANAN, is partnering with several other leading US-based groups to pray.

Reach Beyond (www.reachbeyond.org) is expanding its reach for Christ by sending 4,000 new SonSet® radios that have FM, AM, satellite and shortwave capabilities to the Asia Pacific Region for distribution in multiple countries.

A school district in Southern California has added legal muscle to its defense against a lawsuit that was filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Director of the Church of God Benefits Board, Art Rhodes, recently compiled an explanation of policies regarding local churches providing health care benefits to their employees as it relates to the Affordable Care Act.

The distribution of 1.65 million Scripture leaflets designed to bring comfort to a nation in mourning is well under way across Egypt, following the murder of 21 young Egyptian Christians by ISIS in Libya last month.