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Over 22,000 churches across the United States will tune in to Billy Graham's My Hope America video program from Nov. 7-10th. Besides the churches, individual Christians are making preparations to open up their homes, or another gathering place, to invite neighbors to watch the 30-minute video featuring life-changing testimonies and Billy Graham's message, and then invite them to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior.

Bethany Hamilton, whose story of tenacity, courage and faith was brought to the big screen through "Soul Surfer," and her newly-wed husband Adam Dirks have been away from work "to pray and think on how God wants to use them as a couple," according to Hamilton's publicist at The Joy Agency and Friends of Bethany Hamilton Organization.

Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson's 2-year-old son died Friday afternoon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from injuries sustained during an aggravated assault on Wednesday, police said.

Duck Dynasty's Willie and Korie Robertson opened up about how when they tried to adopt their son 'Lil Will', when he was only 5 weeks go, they found out that they couldn't afford the adoption fees. after finding out the adoption fees.

Orange County pastor Chuck Smith, the founder of the Calvary Chapel movement, died Thursday after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 86.

Justin Bieber's mom, Pattie Mallette, loved on the students at Liberty University by sharing with them her experience of how God won her heart after going through overwhelming circumstances that most people would have lost all hope. Meanwhile, she challenged the students at the largest Christian university in United States to take actions rather than just talk about their intentions.

California public schools will be required under the "School Success and Opportunity Act" (AB1266) beginning next year to permit K-12 students to use facilities, including restrooms and showers, and participate in school programs and activities, including athletic teams, according to their self-defined gender identity, irrespective of their birth gender.

Miley Cyrus certainly made 'history' through her latest music video "Twerking Balls" that showed her naked and licking a sledgehammer and her Aug. 25 performance on MTV's VMA, twerking alongside Robin Thicke while making suggestive gestures with a foam finger.

Limbless evangelist Nick Vujicic met a little girl who was also born without arms and legs just as he was in between his speaking engagements in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Australian-motivational speaker called the meeting a "divine appointment."

Syria's deputy prime minister Quadri Jamil said at a proposed peace talks conference in Geneva that the state's civil war has reached stalemate, where "neither the armed opposition nor the regime is capable of defeating the other side."

Over 3 million people have made a decision that directly determines where they will be for eternity as a result of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) Internet Evangelism ministry, SearchForJesus.net, since its launch in May 2011.

Samaritan's Purse is seeking for large number of volunteers to go to areas affected by the catastrophic flooding in Colorado and help do the debris cleanup.

Miley Cyrus certainly made 'history' through her latest music video "Twerking Balls" that showed her naked and licking a sledgehammer, and her Aug. 25 performance on MTV's VMA, twerking alongside Robin Thicke while making suggestive gestures with a foam finger.

Pastor Samuel Lamb (Lin Xingao), one of the few China’s house church patriarch who had been jailed for more than 20 years for seeking religious freedom of believers to worship as they will, died on August 3, 2013 in Guanzhou at the age of 88.

The trailer for “Linsanity” the movie, which documents the Cinderella-like career start of first Asian-American NBA basketball player Jeremy Lin, has been released on YouTube.

Christian pro-surfer and shark-attack survivor Bethany Hamilton is enjoying her first week together with her new husband Adam Dirks after saying "I do" to each other Sunday in Hawaii. Fans from around the world gave congratulatory remarks to the newly wed.

Bethany Hamilton, whose story of resilience and faith after losing her left arm to a shark attack in 2003 that inspired the film Soul Surfer, got married to her fiancé Adam Dirks, a Christian youth minister, on Aug. 18 in Kauai, Hawaii, the pro-surfer announced on Twitter.

Jeremy Lin continues to make headlines not just about basketball but also about his newest short-video posted August 14th titled “You’ve Changed Bro,” which is a funny reflection of how fame has changed some things in his life, where he started from, and a message pointing his fans to God’s truth.

52 churches in Egypt were reportedly stormed, burnt, and destroyed Wednesday by hardliner Islamists and pro-Morsi supporters, leaving the Coptic Christian community in panic and distress.

A crowd discovered an abandoned newborn baby girl's body chewed by stray dogs near the toilet in a hospital campus in western province of Maharashtra, India, according to New Delhi Television reports. This is not the first time that dogs are found eating remains of abandoned newborn baby's body.

Former President George W. Bush is “‘in high spirits” after undergoing a heart surgery at a Dallas hospital to place a stent in a block heart artery, his office said.

Houston Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin released Tuesday his latest Youtube video called “Reloaded,” showing his offseason training and practices. Scenes of Lin breaking out in massive sweats after regimented workout routines confirm that he is on-track in his offseason goals: getting healthy, becoming better all-around shooter, and a better defender.

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Rick and Kay Warren are speaking at Saddleback Church for the first time after 16 weeks since their son Matthew committed suicide. Their return is emotionally daunting, the couple says, but their knowledge of the prevalence of mental illness has spurred them on to face a new challenge: removing the stigma of mental illness, a sickness that affects 60 million people in USA and 400 million people worldwide.

Evangelical NBA basketball player Jeremy Lin has expressed his excitement to return to Asia in mid-August in a recent blog post and has posted a picture of himself after practice. He has been showing off his progress and determination to breakthrough in the 2013-14 NBA season as NBA trade rumors continue to linger on whether he will be traded from Rockets.