• Harvest America 2016: Thousands Accept Christ at Evangelical Event with Greg Laurie in Texas

  Approximately 82,000 people gathered at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, for Harvest America 2016, an evangelical outreach event, on Sunday evening. Pastor Greg Laurie, host and senior pastor of the Harvest Christian Fellowship megachurch in California, said thousands responded to his invitation to pray to accept Jesus into their lives. The event also featured musical guests Chris Tomlin, Lecrae, Switchfoot and MercyMe.

  

• Downton Abbey Series Ends Longtime Story that Banished God, Religion

  Downton Abbey creator, writer and executive producer Julian Fellowes took fans through six seasons of tribulations for the Crawleys and other characters. Yet fans had to say goodbye to the show for the final time Sunday, a television series that deliberately avoided religion and Christianity, which would have formed a central part of the lives of the aristocracy in the early 20th century.

  

• God Paints Barren Negev Desert Luscious Red in Israel

  During the months of January through March each year, blankets of red flowers called anemones, or kalaniyot in Hebrew, cover Israel's otherwise parched Negev Desert. Every year since 2005, Israelis from all over the country flock to the desert to celebrate the breathtaking site. For five or six weekends, many visitors think about relevant Biblical verses, such as: "The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land." (Song of Songs 2:1

  

• Colin Powell Asks GOP Candidates to Stop 'Belittling' United States, Presidency

  Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell waged an important message to the Republican Party this weekend: "We have to become more respectful of each other." He said even Jerry Springer thinks it's gone too far, and "when Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far." It isn't the first time the Anglican/Episcopalian military leader has issued reminders about American faith.

  

• Nano Bible Created Through Nanotechnology Provides Pin-Sized Jewelry

  Innovators have been applying nanotechnology to science, medicine and industry for decades, but an entrepreneur now found a way to turn it into a religious fashion statement and practical way to carry around the Bible. Israeli Ami Bentov founded the idea to mass-produce silicon chips containing the entire Bible, and sell them as pieces of religious jewelry, such as lapel pins, necklaces, crosses and Stars of David.