Entertainment
The filmmakers who led the “Son of God” project, Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, joined forces with Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures to plan for the production of a new Ben Hur movie, scheduled to be released some time in 2016. READ MORE
World
Professor Fenggang Yang from Purdue University’s sociology department has announced that China will have the largest Christian (Protestant) population in the world by the year 2025. Specifically, it is expected to reach approximately 160 million by then. However, the expert also expressed that the global community may not be ready for such a drastic change. READ MORE
Ministries
Today was the day of 2014’s E-Crusade, KCCC (Korea Campus Crusade for Christ)’s annual high school outreach event. This year, the theme for the event was “High School’s Got Talent” where students from various EM ministries were invited to display their talents as well as get to hear about God’s love and plan for their lives. READ MORE
Society
Clayton Kershaw, the Cy Young Award winning National League pitcher of the Los Angeles Dodgers has joined up with Pastor Tommy Barnett along with some of his fellow Dodgers players and their wives at the L.A. Dream Center to distribute groceries to families in need. READ MORE
Society
Bryan and Lannette Davies, a couple from Sacramento, California have been found to be running a store selling marijuana to help the needy and spread the Gospel. They told Time Magazine that they had been told by God to open the store. They went as far as to refer to themselves as the only medical cannabis in Sacramento. READ MORE
World
The rescue for survivors from the capsizing of the South Korean ferry continues. So far, however, the navy and civilian rescue personnel have only managed to uncover bodies. The death toll has now reached approximately 150. Additional crew members were arrested along with the captain (Jun-seok Lee) concerning their questionable decisions that played a decisive role in the disaster. READ MORE
Entertainment
“Heaven Is For Real”, the newly released faith-based film made a rather astounding box office debut over the Easter weekend. The motion picture grossed over 20 million dollars, more than twice than that of Johnny Depp’s “Transcendence”, a sci-fi blockbuster. READ MORE
Church
NexGen, a gathering of 2nd generation Korean American pastors has hosted this year’s joint EM worship in Los Angeles where several EM ministries from Korean churches all over Southern California gathered to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. READ MORE
Church
The Korean American Christian Scholarship Foundation of Greater Washington has started looking for candidates to receive the 2014 series of scholarship awards. The main targets are second generation Korean Americans who have a passions for studies in theology who are either bound to enroll in divinity schools and even current students of theology. READ MORE
Ministries
It is the season for preparation for short term missions for Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC). The students from over 12 different college campuses and over 16 mission teams are gathering in various areas around California with ways to raise funds for Project Friendship, KCCC’s annual summer missions project. READ MORE
World
Last Saturday, the captain, Jun-seok Lee and two other crew members of the capsized South Korean ferry Sewol were arrested. Over 200 passengers, most of them students from Danwon High School (Ansan, South Korea) are still missing. Around 30 of the Sewol passengers are reported to have been lost, and the principle of Danwon High School was believed to have commiteed suicide out of guilt. READ MORE
World
The rescue for the South Korean ferry Sewol is finally coming underway with divers who are reported to have penetrated the dining areas of the third level of the ship. The maritime rescue teams have now started to pump air into the capsized vessel and have even brought cranes to salvage the hull. READ MORE
Ministries
It is believed by many research organizations believe that sex trafficking has in fact become one of the fastest growing industries in the world, and it is happening almost everywhere in the world, even in Korea Town in Los Angeles. A college club at the University of Southern California known as Korean Culture Knight hosted a theatrical performance to address the seriousness of this issue. READ MORE
Recently there was a great deal of talk on the internet of an Ancient Coptic manuscript that was discovered in 2012. Many headlines online have stated that archeologists have determined that Jesus Christ in fact had a wife. READ MORE
US
Representatives of major Korean churches in Southern California will be joining with Christians from all over America to be a part of the National Day of Prayer which happens on the first Thursday of every May. The theme for this year will be “One Voice United in Prayer”, inspired by Romans 15:6 (“that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ”). READ MORE
The Sunday Assembly, also known as the “Atheist Church”, based in the United Kingdom is scheduled to have its first global assembly. The “church” is also known to have a branch and ...
World May 06, 2014 02:34 AM EDTThe leaders of the DPRK have been making very strong statements regarding human rights. A representative from the North Korean government has stated in a speech that the U.S. is a ‘living ...
World May 08, 2014 03:08 AM EDT
