Adrienne S. Gaines

A former missionary believes God has given him a tool that will transform Africa. Paul Schneider Jr., founder of Aid the Children in Newnan, Ga., says a natural sea mineral concentrate has shown "exciting" results in improving the health of HIV-positive children in Africa.

With unemployment at record highs, churches and Christian organizations are stepping in to help job seekers both practically and spiritually.Ministries such as Florida-based Christian HELP and Career Solutions in Dallas began helping the unemployed find work long before the recession hit in 2008. But since the unemployment rate shot up from 6.6 percent in October…

The pastor of the largest Pentecostal church in Russia's predominantly Muslim region of Dagestan died Friday after being shot in the head outside his church. Artur Suleimanov, 49, himself a convert from Islam, was shot late Thursday by a gunman as the pastor got into a car outside Hosanna House of Prayer in the capital,…

9A0807 Jackson v. District of Columbia BD. of Elections and Ethics Traditional marriage supporters may challenge an appeals court ruling Thursday blocking a public vote on same-sex marriage in the nation's capital. In its 5-4 decision, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled that the city's Elections Board acted appropriately when it decided that…

A Florida evangelist is responding to efforts to build a multimillion-dollar mosque two blocks from Ground Zero with plans to open a religious center of his own. Bill Keller (pictured), host of the evangelistic website Liveprayer.com, said his 9/11 Christian Center near Ground Zero will begin holding Sunday prayer meetings Sept. 5. The services will…

 Grammy-winning gospel artist Walter Hawkins died Sunday afternoon at his Ripon, Calif., home after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 61. "Only blessed thoughts and prayers go out to the Hawkins family and everyone who loved Bishop Walter Hawkins," read a message on gospel artist Shirley Caesar's Facebook page Sunday. "May he rest in…

The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel has made the most significant female executive appointment in 50 years with the selection of the Rev. Tammy Dunahoo as general supervisor of the Pentecostal denomination. Foursquare's board of directors named Dunahoo to the denomination's second-highest position last month. She had served as interim general supervisor since September,…

Oral Roberts University (ORU) has sold its former presidential estate for $1.55 million. The nine-acre property was the home of former ORU President Richard Roberts until he resigned in 2007 amid allegations of financial impropriety.

A Christian legal firm is suing a southwest Florida school district that prohibited Bible distribution on public school campuses. Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of World Changers of Florida challenging the Collier County school district's decision to prohibit the Naples, Fla.-based ministry from passing out free Bibles on Religious Freedom Day, which…

Pentecostal pastor Samuel Rodriguez said Hispanic leaders who met with President Obama this week to discuss immigration reform left "re-energized" by his commitment to address the controversial topic this year. "We walked out of the meeting revitalized to a degree, re-energized, understanding that this president will not surrender the issue of immigration reform for the…

The son of a Hamas founder who converted to Christianity and spied for Israel can stay in the U.S. pending fingerprinting and a routine background check, a U.S. immigration judge said Wednesday.  Mosab Hassan Yousef, 32, had been denied political asylum in February 2009 because the Department of Homeland Security said he posed a terrorist…

A 5-4 Supreme Court decision Monday requiring Christian campus groups on public universities to accept gay students as members and leaders may signal the beginning of religious persecution in the U.S., says prayer leader Lou Engle.“This is the first time in U.S. history where the Supreme Court has actually ruled that gender rights now trump…

Promise Keepers (PK) has sustained "substantial" losses after a fire broke out at its ministry headquarters in Denver Sunday. No one was hurt in the blaze that firefighters say started in a closet around 10:30 p.m., Denver's CBS affiliate reported. The fire may have been electrical, firefighters said.

A charismatic pastor says Muslims in Dearborn, Mich., a heavily Islamic Detroit suburb, are showing a surprising openness to the gospel, with more than a dozen coming to Christ during a recent evangelistic event.Barbara J. Yoder, senior pastor of Shekinah Christian Church in Ann Arbor, Mich., said roughly 150 Muslim men and women packed into…

Leaders of the Gulf Coast states have designated Sunday a day of prayer for the regions affected by the oil spill that has sent millions of gallons of crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the last 66 days. The governors of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, and the Lt. Governor of Florida issued…