The U.S. is on heightened alert every Sept. 11. This time, the attacks are coming from atheists and the target is the cross. The American Atheists Foundation filed a lawsuit regarding the 17-foot, relic cross found amid the rubble at the World Trade Center. The lawsuit complains of unequal representation.

September 15, 2012 is the 49th anniversary of the Ku Klux Klan bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church that killed four young girls on a Youth Sunday morning. That violence and hatred corked a well of justice dug by a praying Church in Birmingham. This Saturday, September 15, the praying Church of today’s Birmingham will uncork that well of justice through humble, unified, corporate prayer and worship at Railroad Park in downtown Birmingham. We gather to honor and heal our past and to change our future.

The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, is launching inaccurate missives against religious freedom on school campuses again.

Former director of Church of God World Missions, Roland Vaughan, recently gave thought-provoking insight into “Gathering the Unreached.” His address took place at the Church of God pre-Assembly missions conference in Orlando earlier this summer.

Five years ago a network of prominent leaders from a broad coalition of evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic ministries formed the Awakening America Alliance.

Immediately following the landfall of Hurricane Isaac, Operation Compassion began its relief response to the victims. To date, seven truckloads of relief goods totaling more than 250,000 pounds have been sent to the greater New Orleans, Louisiana area. In addition, financial assistance was sent to help feed a group of 500 families evacuating to Houston and Dallas prior to Hurricane Isaac’s landfall.

What if the way to create jobs and get out of the $16-plus trillion debt was prayer and repentance? Christians nation-wide are praying September 28 to November 6 to have a God-fearing Christian government that serves the Lord Jesus Christ and follows the Holy Bible — to bring God’s blessings to the USA.

In recent months, the media has been flooded with images of citizens gathering in city centers and lining the streets holding banners, waving signs, and speaking up for their religious freedom.

Harry Luke Begay is a member of the Navajo Tribe in the State of New Mexico and has been translating for the Church of God since he was 12 years old.