Monthly Archives: December 2011

NEARLY 30,000 people gathered in the rain on Nov. 15 at Pacaembu Municipal Stadium in Sao Paulo for the final service of a weeklong celebration commemorating 100 years of Assemblies of God ministry in the nation.

A Christian couple is facing false charges of theft after police in Abbottabad severely beat the pregnant woman and her husband for three days when they refused to confess, they told Compass.

NIGERIA, Africa’s most populous nation, split between Muslims and Christians, is set to vote on legislation criminalizing same-sex marriage.

ACCORDING to an update on his condition provided by the Billy Graham Evangelical Association (BGEA), Graham was encouraged this morning by a visit from his pastor, Dr. Don Wilton, who shared a passage from the book of Ephesians.

REESE, an IMB missionary in Brazil who works in the gang-controlled favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro, often ministers to gang leaders, drug dealers and prostitutes, frequently finding himself in dangerous situations on streets where violence often rules.

Israel's Ministry of Tourism has opened the "Gospel Trail," a 37-mile route from Jesus' birthplace in Nazarus to Capernaum, the main focus of his ministry and a city on the Sea of Galilee, according to The Jerusalem Post.

PETER'S life of crime started after he got hooked on drugs as a teenager. He began selling things from his parents' home to support his marijuana and cocaine habit and even sold his mother's wedding ring.

THE 93-year-old Graham was admitted to Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., "alert, smiling and waving at hospital staff," according to the statement. The hospital is near his Montreat, N.C., home.