Pope Francis and Vatican officials on Thursday told U.S. President Barack Obama they were concerned about “religious freedom” in the United States, an apparent reference to the contraception mandate in Obama’s health care plan.

For Duncan Phillips, God’s Not Dead is bigger than he initially imagined.

A growing number of Americans are taking “ashes to ashes, dust to dust” literally when they die.

To orphans in Guatemala, $1,068 is an unimaginable amount of money. Yet, the children of the Casa Shalom Church of God orphanage banded together and in three months raised that sum to build a home for a needy family in Cambodia. It is part of the People for Care and Learning Build a City project.

A Crime Stoppers statement Friday announced that a $25,000 reward is being offered for any clues to help solve the $600,000 theft from Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch.

“Forget the former things; do now dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43.18 New International Version)

Retired Church of God pastor and Korean War veteran Jim Beaver, was honored last week with the Silver Star and three Purple Hearts for his military service. The following is an article from the Bristol Herald Courier:

Filmmakers Fred and Sharon Wilharm announced Tuesday that they will donate up to 10,000 pre-release copies of their new movie, “The Good Book” to be used as an outreach tool for international missions. “The Good Book” is an evangelistic silent feature film about a small Bible that is passed along to fourteen strangers, dramatically impacting the lives of seven of those individuals. Because of the nature of the silent movie, the evangelistic message can cross language and cultural barriers.

On a summer day in 2012, baker Jack Phillips had no idea just where his actions would lead or that they would place him squarely in the center of a national debate over faith and freedom. He simply knew that he needed to attend to the two men looking at cake designs in his shop.