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David Platt, author of best-selling book "Radical" and "Follow Me" and senior pastor of the Brooks Hill Church in Birmingham, Alabama, has accepted Wednesday the role as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's mission arm, International Mission Board (IMB), the world's largest missionary sending organization.

Ebola-infected missionary Dr. Kent Brantly preached a final sermon before heading to Liberia, in which he stated that he and his family would travel to the poverty-stricken country as part of "God's calling."

Meriam Ibrahim was greeted upon her arrival in the United States Thursday at the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport by cheering friends, relatives, and fans. The Christian mother’s safe exit from Sudan has been cause for celebration around the world.

As congress continues to spar over the immigration issue in the United States, charities and churches near the U.S./Mexico border are focusing their efforts on caring for those who have entered the country illegally.

In a recent interview with Fox News, Joel Osteen expressed his concern about the distractions which seem to have drawn Millennials away from the church. The Millennial Generation - or Generation Y - spans an age range from about 14 years to 34 years old, and with growing secularism in the United States, they are the most unchurched generation in American history. Though many Millennials were raised going to church, they have largely abandoned their pursuit of Christianity later in life. Having been used greatly by God to reach many in the Millennial generation, Pastor Matt Chandler of The Village Church in Dallas, Texas believes that the only remedy is for churches to preach the Gospel rather than focusing their efforts on teaching a type of "Christian morality."

Churches surrounding the military base in Fort Hood, Texas, hold memorial services to pray for victims of the shooting spree

One year after her son's suicide, Kay Warren, wife of pastor Rick Warren, said Friday night she's ready to move on after realizing there are still beauty, meaning and goodness despite the ruins in her life.

On Saturday, a Baptist pastor became the latest victim in what activists are calling increased religious persecution in Cuba. According to statements from Christian Solidarity Worldwide, political officers arrested the Rev. Mario Felix Lleonart Barroso as he approached his home in the city of Taguayabon. After being detained for an entire day, Barroso was returned home and placed under house arrest.

William Yu, born and raised in HK, invests millions of dollars in businesses around Asia. His work schedule is frenetic. One day, he was diagnoised with stage 3 lung cancer and had a 20 percent chance of surviving. As a nominal Christian, he started to pray and request for prayers. Then, a sequence of event led to a total life transformation.

The days of freedom of religion are still non-existent in many parts of the world, and the number of devoted Christians who gave their lives for their faith proves this very fact. According to the non-denominational group, Open Doors USA, the numbers of deaths reported from martyrs have almost doubled in 2013 from the year prior.

The English department of East Coast Ambassador for Chinese Missions Convention (CMC) experienced a historic breakthrough in 2013. Lausanne Movement's executive director and CEO Michael Oh, who was one of the English speakers of the Convention, expressed his gratitude for the global role of the CMC in promoting the development of Chinese churches.

A body of a seven-year-old boy in India was retrieved from a pond last week, revealing horrific details of torture; past threats and persecutions of the family for their Christian faith indicate that the boy was targeted.

Every Tuesday, Ai Jin and two young women from one of China's underground urban churches get together to pray before their outreach. They're about to walk the streets of a red light district to tell girls as young as 13 who work in brothels that they can leave a life of prostitution.

'America's Pastor' Billy Graham, who has been the face of U.S. evangelicals for the last half century, sat among 800 guests, including Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch, Sarah Palin, on his 95th birthday celebration. They honored Graham for his more than six-decades of unwavering resolve in the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Pastor David Platt and Christian author Francis Chan plan to host a Multiply gathering tonight in Austin, Texas, challenging believers to fulfill Jesus' Great Commission.

"America's Pastor" Billy Graham will be reaching out beginning on his 95th birthday with the cooperation of over 28,000 churches in America, who will invite people into their homes and congregation, with a television and web broadcast program entitled "The Cross" from Nov. 7-10. Amid frail health, the evangelist acknowledged that this may be his last message to the nation.

World-renowned Christian evangelist and author Billy Graham plans to celebrate his ninety-fifth birthday on Thursday with hundreds of guests, and invitations extending to former president Bill Clinton, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, and North Carolina Governor Pat McCroy. Graham, who served as an advisor to presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon and preached alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., has spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to over 215 million people worldwide. His birthday will also kick start "My Hope America with Billy Graham," a series of evangelical messages to be broadcast nationwide November 7-10.

Sometime after my mother died, when I visited my father, I began to notice Scripture verses appearing all over the house-on an index card taped to the kitchen telephone, on a marker board in his study, even on a hand-lettered poster in his bedroom.

Over 3,000 Christians converged over the weekend in Japan's ancient capital Kyoto for worship, prayer, and teaching. The event coordinators believe that those gathered will become the catalyst for revival in the nation with less one percent Christian.

Saddleback Church Hong Kong campus launched on Sunday, attracting a total of 832 adult and children for the first Sunday Service and Saddleback Kids.

Saddleback Church for the first time in its 33-year history will launch campuses outside of United States. The significance is that they will be planted in 12 strategic "Gateway Cities" around the world for their proximity to the final 3,800 people groups that still do not have a church.

The once-troubled, maximum-security Darrington prison south of Houston will get a new focus that state officials hope could someday make Texas' state prison system less violent: God. In an afternoon convocation at the 1,900-convict prison, officials will inaugurate Texas' first seminary operated within a prison. The program will initially enroll 40 convicts who could eventually earn a biblical studies degree so they can minister to felons at other state prisons, according to the Austin-American Statesman.

Francis Chan, at this week's Identity Unleashed Conference with basketball super star Jeremy Lin in San Francisco, spoke about how big God is next to death. He gave a powerful message about the God in Heaven who's looking down on Earth and desires our worship and gives followers of Christ certain eternal security in Heaven with Him.

The trip didn't result in the release of imprisoned American missionary Kenneth Bae. Expectations had been high that Rodman, on his second trip to North Korea this year, would parlay his friendship with the 30-year-old dictator into the release of the jailed U.S. missionary. According to The LA Times.

Houston Rockets guard Jeremy Lin, 25, first Taiwanese-American or American of Chinese descent to play in NBA, explained to the crowd that through 'Linsanity,' a term "made by the world," he realized that even with all the fame, wealth, and approvals from others his deepest desires were not fulfilled.