How does a pair of rabbits, chickens, pigs or goats relate to the greatest gift of all?

By being a part of the “Critter Campaign” (www.gfa.org/info/critter), an annual Christmas-season program of Gospel for Asia (GFA), gifts of livestock give impoverished families in South Asia an opportunity to have their daily needs met, provide a long-term income source and open the door to hear about God’s ultimate gift — the love of Jesus.

Bishop Samuel Santana, who along with his wife Yvette, oversee the Southwestern Spanish Region for the Church of God, was selected to serve as one of the six pastors on Focus on the Family’s Pastor Ambassador Team (P.A.T.). Focus on the Family is an interdenominational ministry in Colorado Springs, Colorado, founded by Dr. James Dobson.

s Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Christmas, some North Korean defectors remind us about the reason for the season. Attendees of Seoul USA’s Underground University recently performed a unique North Korean-style dramatization of the Nativity story.

The Christmas holiday brings peak attendance for most churches, and an increasing number of U.S. religious groups are using the boom time to wow parishioners with virtual choirs on YouTube and Instagram advent calendars.

South Dakota Congresswoman Kristi Noem is making her mark not just within the Republican Party but in the kingdom of God too.

In their annual convention late last month, the ministers of the Church of God in Scotland—only 15 pastors representing 13 churches—gave a generous $1,600 for typhoon relief for the Church of God in the Philippines.

One of the most spectacular and moving Christmas displays is live again this year at Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Holy Land Experience, the Orlando, Florida family vacation destination that brings the land of the Bible to life through impacting theater, music, historical displays, and life-changing exhibits.

In rural Brazil, a group of mothers met for a health class. The missionary was talking about diarrhea. If not treated, the baby loses fluids and the soft spot on the baby’s head sinks in. One mother offered: “That happened to my baby in the morning and she was dead at night.”

Is there anyone hoping to make a child happy this Christmas morning who doesn’t grieve with this mother in Brazil? But what can anyone do about a problem so overwhelming?

empty tomb, inc., thinks Christians need not get overwhelmed. Instead, they can get organized.

In an audience at the Vatican City last week the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), H.E. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, discussed issues of mutual concern with His Holiness Pope Francis. This was the first ever meeting between an OIC Secretary General and Pope.