• Happy New Year! 10 Best Bible Verses to Help Ring in 2017

  As we approach 2017, let's remember to look to the Bible for direction, instruction, and encouragement. Here are ten Bible verses to us to reflect on as we ring in the New Year.

  

• Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg No Longer an Atheist, Believes Religion is 'Very Important'

  Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg has announced he is no longer an atheist, but in fact sees religion as "very important".

  

• Queen Elizabeth Calls Jesus, Christian Faith Her 'Guiding Light' in Christmas Message

  During this year's Royal Christmas message, Queen Elizabeth referred to Jesus Christ as the "guiding light" of her life and said His witness helps us to see the value of doing small things with great love.

  

• Christian Lawyer Zhang Kai Once Again Disappears in China

  Zhang Kai, a Chinese Christian lawyer who was released in March after being detained while defending churches that were being forced to remove their crosses, has once again disappeared after he was summoned to the police station in China's northern Inner Mongolia yesterday morning.

  

• Man Refuses to Deny Christ Despite Being Hanged by ISIS, Tortured With Nails and Barbed Wire

  A Christian man from IS' stronghold of Mosul, Iraq has shared, in an attempt to force him to convert to Islam, militants strung him up from the ceiling of a jail cell and violently tortured him with nails and barbed wire - yet he refused to deny Christ.