WORLD News Group is a nonprofit Christian newsroom in Asheville, North Carolina, and its subscriber app gathers the magazine, digital reporting, and podcasts in one place for readers who want current events reported from a biblical worldview.^1
WORLD produces sound journalism grounded in facts and Biblical truth. Through print magazines, online articles, and podcast programs, its trained journalists report on current events, both global and national, so readers and listeners can see how God is at work in the world, no matter the headlines.^1 The app gives members easy access to all of that magazine, digital, and podcast content in one place, and new readers can read or play up to three articles or podcasts before the subscription prompt, then try a free one-month subscription.^1
Joel Belz started the work in 1981 with It's God's World, a newspaper for middle school students, while he was working for The Presbyterian Journal. When families and Christian schools asked for an adult version, he oversaw the launch of WORLD Magazine in March 1986. The magazine was cancelled after 13 issues, then restarted in April 1987 after the Journal's board shut down the Journal and backed WORLD instead.^4 WORLD News Group is the name the organization took in 2012 for its print, digital, and broadcast work, and it operates as God's World Publications, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) based in Asheville.^5 Belz died in 2024, and the newsroom he founded now employs more than 100 people across print, digital, audio, and video.^4
The same newsroom serves younger readers through God's World News, with age-graded magazines from pre-readers through teens, and through WORLD Watch, a ten-minute weekday video program that delivers the day's news for students, families, and classrooms.^6
A reader quoted on the store pages writes:
"WORLD gives me the news and helps me to engage with culture in such a way that compels me to pray instead of despair." - WORLD Reader^1
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