Christians in the US will be taking the power of prayer straight to the heart of Hollywood this March.

TheCRY Hollywood is taking place on March 15 at the Gibson Ampitheatre close to Universal Studios.

Director and organiser Faytene Grasseschi is keen to stress it is not a concert or conference but a time to ask God to move in one of the biggest global influencers today.

“This is a cry for God to move with His love and power in entertainment media in a way that will impact the masses,” she says.

According to Grasseschi, the average American spends less than 28 hours a year in church but around six hours a day engaging in some kind of media.

A recent Nelson study found that there are more TVs in America than human beings, while according to the Kaiser Family Foundation the average child will have watched 4,000 hours of TV before reaching Kindergarten age.

If media were only exposing people to positive values that might not be so bad, but if stats from the National Institute on Media and Family are anything to go by, prayer for Hollywood is greatly needed.

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Two churches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country’s second-largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in Kano City.

The latest attacks came in the neighboring state of Bauchi, the state police commissioner said in a statement. At least 11 people, including police and army personnel, were killed in the checkpoint attack, the commissioner has reported, although no casualties have been reported from the church attacks.

President Jonathan visited numerous bomb sites in Kano City Sunday, as well as the local hospital to see victims and their families to offer his condolences and words of comfort.

The terror attacks by Islamic group Boko Haram hit eight separate sites and have devastated the local communities, resulting in a curfew being put in place between 7pm to 6am in the region.

President Jonathan posted this message on his official Facebook page following his Kano visit: “The message I had for the people of Kano is the same message I have for all Nigerians: A terrorist attack on one person is an attack on all of us.”

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Saturday 11 February 12 noon – 4 pm

New Malden Studios

Cocks Crescent KT3 4TA

You are warmly invited to the open day to celebrate our 9th birthday. The doors of the studios will be open at 12 noon.

See the studios; meet the presenters; join in a time of sharing and worship starting around 1:30 – Howard, Lesley, Gordon and Lorna will be sharing plus others in the team; all this plus tea and cakes - what more do you want?

Please do join us but please let us know by phone if you are coming – 0208 972 1400 or send an email – please DO NOT just hit reply send it to info@revelationtv.com.

There will be no parking in the studio but there are two car parks as you come into Cocks Crescent. New Malden railway station is 5 minutes walk away. Do contact us, details as above, if you need more help or would like a map.

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Also on Tuesday 14^th February, our actual birthday, there …

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Christian Aid is providing relief to some of the tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting in South Sudan.

It has called for a “swift end” to the escalating inter-communal violence in the Pipor area of Jonglei state.

The fighting between the Lou Nuer and Murle ethnic groups was sparked by recent cattle raids and child abductions.

Christian Aid said inter-ethnic conflict in South Sudan was being fuelled by decades of underdevelopment and the proliferation of small arms in the newly independent country's largest state.

The South Sudanese government has declared Jonglei a “human disaster area” and has appealed for international assistance to bring the crisis to an end.

Christian Aid said the emergency in Jonglei was creating a humanitarian challenge for the country.

“There can be no meaningful development or any sustainable nationhood unless fundamental issues which affect the essence of interdependence and peaceful co-existence between different ethnic communities in South Sudan are addressed,” said Yitna Tekaligne Country Manager, for Christian Aid, Sudan and South Sudan.

The UN estimates that more than 60,000 people have been displaced by the latest round of fighting.

Christian Aid and partner organisation the …

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With the nations of the world coming to London for the Olympics this year, Frontiers international director Tim Lewis is asking British Christians to remember those who have yet to hear.

Frontiers specialises in mission in majority-Muslim contexts, many of which lie in the 10/40 window.

The ministry recently reported that Muslims continue to come to faith through visions and dreams.

They are being baptised and discipled, and some are now helping to establish new churches among their own people.

In one South-East Asian country, a husband and wife team saw very little fruit until their 18 eighteenth year when one woman received Christ and brought her whole family to faith.

The missionaries have now been able to step back and move on to a new area, trusting that the Gospel will continue to spread through the fledgling church.

In a message to supporters, Lewis said his priority focus for 2012 remained the unengaged Muslim communities of the world.

He said the ministry was especially looking at how the Gospel can be planted into family structures and existing social networks.

Mr Lewis said he hoped the Olympics in London would be …

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