Charisma Magazine

A federal judge's ruling in favor of a public university that removed a Christian student from its counseling program over her belief that homosexuality is morally wrong signals a "new day" of discrimination against Christians.

So says prayer leader Lou Engle, who worries the decision this week could set "the precedent for Christian students being expelled in universities across America who refuse to compromise biblical views on morality."

Photo: Former Eastern Michigan University graduate student Julea Ward

In the mountains near Kingston, Jamaica, City of Refuge Children’s Home is cultivating two of the country’s most precious resources: children and coffee. 

Assemblies of God missionaries Steve and Kim Puffpaff decided to open a children’s home after witnessing countless orphaned children living on the streets. In 2002, thanks to donations, the couple purchased property in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains and transformed a former luxury hotel on the property into a children’s home.

An international prophetic minister is calling for urgent prayer to avoid another U.S. economic collapse.

Cindy Jacobs, co-founder of Texas-based Generals International, said she received a "dire" word July 17 that the U.S. economy was teetering. She then saw a vision of the economy on a justice scale and says God told her that Christians must fast and pray for solutions that balance righteousness and justice to avoid another Great Depression.

Nearly three decades after Christian rock pioneer Keith Green died in a plane crash, his widow hopes his music and "no compromise" message will inspire a new generation to live revolutionary lives of faith.

On Wednesday, the 28th anniversary of his death, Melody Green is hosting a live webcast

featuring preaching and music clips from the piano-pumping powerhouse, who helped supercharge the Jesus movement with his buoyant music and lyrics. Churches nationwide are expected to participate in the event, which begins at 7:30 p.m. Eastern.

Imagine children as young as 4 and 5 years old being forced to work 14- to 16-hour days making bricks, cigarettes, rope and textiles, then being forced to beg strangers for food in order to eat. This is the picture of slavery in many Asian and Middle Eastern countries. 

“It’s a pretty harsh and brutal environment,” says evangelist Bruce Ladebu, founder of the Children’s Rescue Initiative (CRI), which has been purchasing the freedom of these victims. “The children never have any time off. They worked from sun up to sun down.”

Many have been enslaved because of debts accrued by their parents. Armed with guns and money, Ladebu and the CRI team go into these slave areas to purchase children and sometimes entire families for anywhere between $200 and $1,000 per child or family.