There’s hardly a young person out there without a mobile phone and a British church hopes to tap into their technological dexterity with a new campaign encouraging young people to text about their faith. Textify was recently launched by Hope Revolution, a youth outreach at the Redeemed Christian Church of God’s Festival of Life in Manchester, England. As part…

The leadership of the African nation of Ghana’s opposition New Patriotic Party has directed all of its party branches nationwide to set up prayer groups, both Christian and Muslim, by August 20 “to seek God’s favor in their quest to win the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections.” Earlier, the party had criticized Ghana’s President John Atta Mills…

Half a million people participated in Anaheim’s 22nd annual Harvest Crusade — 115,000 in person and 404,222 online, reports Eric Carpenter writing for the Orange County Register newspaper. Hosted by 215 churches from Riverside to Irvine to Temecula, the event hosted by local pastor Greg Laurie drew people from 34 states and 11 countries. At the…

“America has been blessed by God in unique ways — we are not just another country, but neither are we God’s special people,” writes Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. “I do not believe that America is God’s chosen nation. “We do not have ‘God on our side.’ We…

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