It’s significant that a prayer vigil with Bound4LIFE is called a “Silent Siege.”

In the initial years of world evangelism, missionaries were welcomed and allowed into most countries to just spread the Gospel. As time and cultures progressed, a missionary now will only be accepted if he/she has a skill or career, such as medical or educational, that will benefit the society into which they are called to minister.

A team of young Christian writers & producers are collaborating with experienced Hollywood talent to create an animated feature-length action film with a Christian message. The film, titled “Heaven | The First War,” portrays the biblical story of the first war in heaven, the fall of Lucifer, the battle between forces of good and evil, and the impact of sin’s origin on the human race.

TechSoup Global (www.techsoup.org), a nonprofit that donated $37 million worth of technology products and services to nearly 10,000 churches and other religious organizations last year, is now able to offer more products to additional recipients due to an expansion of donation eligibility rules by major technology companies.

What: Roughly 100 people – including young local activists, out-of-state clergy and veteran community activists – will hear Ferguson-inspired raps, chants and skits, Justice-focused prayer and songs by clergy, and testimony from Oakland and Buffalo leaders about how community policing and high school restorative justice programs are reducing police shootings and school conflicts.

Leaders of the Church of God in the entire Caribbean region converged on the island of Puerto Rico recently for the first Leadership Orientation and Symposium following General Assembly 2014.

I’ve been in church all my life. Along the way, I’ve seen and learned a lot. Almost all the insight I have into church has come by experience.

Observing the backlash in Ferguson, Missouri, and beyond protesting the death of Michael Brown at the hands of police, Mike and Cindy Jacobs of Generals International have challenged Christians to pray for our cities.

In recent decades, Messianic Judaism, a movement of Jewish people who have accepted Yeshua (Jesus) as Messiah and continued to embrace their Jewishness, has been steadily growing—especially in the United States.