Adrienne S. Gaines

Pro-life groups are largely opposed to President Obama's nomination of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Although Sotomayor is considered a centrist and upheld the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits federal funding for overseas abortion, pro-life groups say she is unlikely to overturn Roe v. Wade…

The California Supreme Court today upheld a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. But the court also ruled that the estimated 18,000 gay couples issued marriage licenses before the law took effect will remain married. The 6-1 decision rejected three lawsuits filed by gay rights activists arguing…

Rolf K. McPherson, son of Foursquare Church founder Aimee Semple McPherson and former head of the Pentecostal denomination, died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 96. One of the few surviving witnesses of the early days of the Pentecostal movement, McPherson was born on March 23, 1913, and traveled with his mother…

Ralph D. Winter, the noted missiologist who coined the term "unreached people group," died Wednesday in his Pasadena, Calif., home after a long battle with cancer. He was 84. Listed among Time magazine's 25 most influential evangelicals, Winter founded the U.S. Center for World Mission and Frontier Mission Fellowship in 1976. The following year he…

NEW DELHI, May 21 (Compass Direct News) -- Christians in India are heaving a sigh of relief after the rout of a Hindu nationalist party in national and state assembly elections in Orissa state, a scene of anti-Christian arson and carnage last year. The ruling centrist party won a second term, but concerns over persecution…

May 21, 2009 -- A Michigan church has filed a federal lawsuit against a radical gay activist group that interrupted a Sunday worship service last fall with shouting, same-sex couples kissing and a banner proclaiming "It's OK to be gay." Mount Hope Church, an Assemblies of God congregation in Lansing, filed suit in the U.S.…

May 19, 2009 -- A cross-section of Christian leaders on Tuesday issued a call for churchgoers to kneel in prayer on July 5 not for the nation but for the body of Christ. "We're asking churches as an act of humility, on behalf of the church first and the nation second, to get on our…

May 19, 2009 -- The Oklahoma State Senate unanimously adopted a concurrent resolution May 7 honoring the life of veteran healing evangelist Oral Roberts.   "I'm almost overwhelmed at this great honor that you chose me to come here today to honor my life," Roberts told state lawmakers May 7. "I'm 91 years of age,…

May 18, 2009 -- For the first time in 15 years, a majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life, according to a Gallup Poll released Friday. In a May 7-10 survey of 1,015 adults, researchers found that 51 percent of Americans consider themselves pro-life while 42 percent describe themselves as pro-choice. Just a year ago, 50…

May 15, 2009 -- South African evangelist Rodney Howard-Browne is on a mission to spark another great awakening that is marked by a wave of evangelism in the U.S. and abroad. Since February 2007, the pastor of Revival Ministries International (RMI) in Tampa, Fla., has taken his Great Awakening Tour to 50 cities across the…

May 14, 2009 -- David Turner (pictured, right) has seen the deaf receive their hearing and the blind gain their sight at crusades across India, Mexico and Malaysia. But the Phoenix-based businessman-turned evangelist believes a revival of miracles will soon hit the U.S. "I believe God is about to do an explosion in America," said…

May 13, 2009 -- Hispanic pastors in New York are mobilizing to oppose a gay marriage bill that passed in the state Assembly Tuesday night. Led by Democratic New York state Sen. Rubén Díaz (pictured), a Pentecostal pastor in the Bronx, tens of thousands of Christians are expected to gather outside Gov. David Patterson's Manhattan…

Christian beauty queen Carrie Prejean will be allowed to keep her Miss California title despite controversy over revealing photos recently leaked online and her support for traditional marriage. Donald Trump, co-owner of the Miss Universe Organization, made the announcement today during a press conference in New York. “We’ve really studied these photos,” he said. “We’ve

May 7, 2009 -- Every 15 seconds a person dies from a water-related disease. One in every six people lives without consistent access to safe drinking water. And more than a third of the world's population lacks access to proper sanitation. It's statistics like those that motivated Matt Peterson to start a water bottling company…