At York College’s recent homecoming, the Sikes family was presented with the Legacy Award for its deep impact on the Christian college in Nebraska.

A Detroit-area Church of Christ minister reported missing this week has been located and is receiving professional care, a statement on the church website says.

Counting Churches of Christ in Africa is exceedingly difficult. Between 2009 and 2010, the vast continent surpassed 1 billion souls, according to population researchers. Churches of Christ have flourished across the continent in the past century. Some have more than 1,000 members and meet in grand auditoriums. Others have 20 members who meet under the shade of a mango tree.

Understandably, we have received responses to the stories as they appeared in the November print issue. Statements in our front-page story led some readers to believe that we were linking the protests against the film to the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya, and a statement in the editorial made a direct link between the two. Recent news reports indicate that the death of Stevens was the result of a terrorist attack that was not connected to the demonstrations. We have corrected the references in the story and editorial and sincerely apologize for the error.

We reported earlier this week on the death of Faulkner University student Major Sanders. The Montgomery Advertiser has this update.

Times may have changed over 100 years, but the work of the Van Buren, Ark., Pleasant Valley Church of Christ hasn’t changed.

Eugene Hibbett died on Saturday after suffering from encephalopathy because of the West Nile virus, Jackie Hibbett said.

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Acappella is one of five finalists competing for online votes to get the chance to perform with Lady Antebellum in a special December event in Nashville, Tenn.

Paul Coffman of Lubbock primarily helped assemble the Fat Man bomb that struck Nagasaki. But he also worked for a brief time on Little Boy, which eradicated much of Hiroshima as the first target of an atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945.