Contact: Mildia, 866-919-2743, info@gospelmusicarts.orgTRI-CITIES, Va. - Tenn., Oct. 19 /Christian Newswire/ -- The debut of a unique and exciting show on television draws countless viewers from everywhere."Diane and Mildred's Gospel Music Arts"has emerged as the coolest, most innovative and inspirational series on TV. By its entertaining exploration of the diversity of Bluegrass, Country and Southern Gospel music styles, viewers are delighted, informed, and surprised by its lively an Source: Diane McKoy&A Small Few

Contact: Brian Mayes, Nashville Publicity Group, 615-771-2040NASHVILLE, Oct. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- Following the success of Kevin LeVar's 2008 debut album,"Let's Come Together,"God Glorified Music and Habakkuk Music will release"Let's Come Together (Deluxe Edition)"- an all-new expanded version that hits stores October 26th via Universal Music Christian Distribution. The enhanced version includes four new songs plus a bonus DVD filled with extra content, including music vide Source: Nashville Publicity Group

Contact: Paul Spremulli, 401-932-8888; www.AngelDigest.comCRANSTON, RI, Oct. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- Sometimes ordinary people have the most extraordinary true stories about angel encounters. Angelnook Publishing is it seeking such stories for its planned Angel Digest publication.The digest will give hope and inspiration to thousands of people who have experienced such miraculous encounters, as well as those seeking truth. These heartwarming and often moving stories cross nearly all Source: Angelnook Publishing

Prime Time Special to Also Feature Performances by Gospel Music StarsContact: Mark Braff, 201-612-0707ATLANTA, Oct. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- GMC announced today that Stellar, Grammy, and Dove award-winner Donnie McClurkin, one of gospel music's greatest stars, will host the network's exclusive live coverage of the 2011 Stellar Awards nomination announcements and concert performances. The prime time special will air from Nashville on Sat., Oct. 23 at 8 p.m. ET.GMC, America's Source: Braff Communications LLC

Contact: Don Beehler, 615-566-0776NASHVILLE, Oct. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- LifeWay's True Love Waits ministry has started a blog to address current issues and provide updated information about the student sexual-abstinence movement."We recognized the need to provide more information, more often, about what God is doing through True Love Waits worldwide, as well as respond to issues and questions related to sexual-abstinence-until-marriage,"said Jimmy Hester, cofounder of True Lov Source: ABC&D Communications

Contact: Mike Goss, 713-728-8401, mike@abstinenceamerica.org; www.sex-edforparents.orgMEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- Mike Goss, President and founder of Abstinence America, is challenging parents to recognize the power they have to influence their children and to use that influence to help kids avoid the devastating consequences of early sexual experimentation. Goss has spent the last seven years talking to more than 30,000 young people about character, responsibility, rela Source: Dracos Genuine Communications

Africa is hungry - 240 million people are undernourished. Now,for the first-time, small African farmers have been properlyconsulted on how to solve the problem of feeding sub-SaharanAfrica. Their answers appear to directly repudiate a massiveinternational effort to launch an African Green Revolutionfunded in large part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

A new international treaty on the safe use of modern biotechnology has justcome into being, but developing countries say the real challenge lies in how itslofty ideas can be transferred into practical realities.

With a record number of people undernourished last year–andthat number only down about 10 percent this year–this year'sWorld Food Day, to take place Saturday, carries with it a newsense of urgency. But in the conferences and events being heldto commemorate the day, there will also likely be a sense ofhope and opportunity.

Just over three years after having voted against it at theUnited Nations, the United States is in the process ofreviewing its position on the U.N. Declaration on the Rightsof Indigenous Peoples.

For over a decade, seasoned activist Sarojini Rengam's efforts to storm thebureaucratic barricades at global food security meetings in Rome hardlyproduced any cracks. The tightly structured agenda at the Food and AgricultureOrganisation (FAO) gatherings she went to were unequivocal about whereactivists stood–in the margins.

Contact: Kelli Bolton, 614-599-0197MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 16 /Christian Newswire/ -- Kelli Bolton's dedication to young people is evident as she shows them what a positive image of"love"looks like in her debut novel"You Said You Loved Me"a Christian fiction book addressing teen dating and domestic violence.The book details the ills of a relationship of two teenagers that ends due to domestic violence. It provides the reader with a helpful guide to evaluate the level of domestic v Source: Bolton Press, LLC

While questions of funding and accountability shadow therealisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), someactors have taken matters into their own hands. On Wednesday,the Glasgow-based International Network for Street Papers(INSP) announced that it has helped 200,000 people to get offthe streets and onto a path of opportunity.

The rule of law - a critical element of good governance–thrives best in Sweden, the Netherlands and in several otherwealthy nations but is sorely lacking in Pakistan, Kenya, andLiberia, among other poor countries, according to a major newindex released here Thursday by the World Justice Project(WPJ).

When Sri Lanka's External Affairs Minister Gamini LakshmanPeiris was at the United Nations last month, he challengedhuman rights groups to appear before a government-appointed'Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission' (LLRC) probinghuman rights violations during the country's civil war.