A group of Nazarene leaders have organized Ì¢‰âÒBorder Initiative,Ì¢‰âÂå a project designed to strengthen churches along the Mexico/United States border. Churches and districts from northern Mexico and southwestern United States will be partnering through short-term mission trips called Ì¢‰âÒMaximum Mission.Ì¢‰âÂåRead more…

After nearly twenty years of service in the Covenant-Free Church mission office in Bangui, Rev. Jean Bete was installed as president of the new Communaute Evangelique de l’Ubangi en Mission en Afrique (CEUMA), (the Evangelical Community from the Ubangi, inRead more…

Evangelical churches and schools are temporarily housing more than 70,000 people who have been left homeless as the result of massive flooding and landslides left by Hurricane Stan. More than 2,000 people died when Stan slammed into El Salvador, GuatemalaRead more…

A Muslim in the Ili-Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region has complained of tightening restrictions on Muslims since the ban on the Sala Sufi order in August and the closure of two local mosques. “Now that the SufiRead more…

Figures from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates that one in three women in the Eastern DRC have been raped. Over 3.8 million people have died as a result of the conflict in DRC, whichRead more…

More than two and a half million people were left homeless by the earthquake that shook the Kashmir region between Pakistan and India on 8 October, reports the United Nations. With the death toll potentially exceeding 30,000, Christian organizations andRead more…

The 300-member Kurdzman Church in Iraq is collecting money to help the New Orleans (USA)-based Adullam Christian Fellowship Church, which was devastated by hurricane Katrina. Although the two-year-old congregation in Iraq is half a world away, church members were motivatedRead more…

Nearly 160 Christian leaders from countries such as Peru, Israel, Russia, Belgium, the United States, India, Spain, the Congo and Egypt met in Seoul to officially launch the Christian Global Network. CGN exists to present the gospel message to variousRead more…

The fourth trial for Archbishop Jovan, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Macedonia, began in Veles on 29 September. Only six days earlier, the court found him guilty of embezzling 57,180 Euros donated for church reconstruction when he wasRead more…

After serving with Christian Reformed World Missions in the Philippines for nearly a decade, Ontario native Rev. Bruce Adema has been appointed as the Christian Reformed Church Director of Canadian Ministries (DCM). He currently works as missionary professor and interimRead more…

The Roman Catholic Church in Pakistan is calling for the abolition of the country’s blasphemy law, following recent attacks on Christians and Hindus accused of blaspheming the prophet Muhammad. “We hold the government responsible on account of their passivity inRead more…

Several minority communities are expressing concern over the current draft of a new religious law that may affect their ability to have legal status. Set to replace the religious law established in 1948, the draft law has been rushed toRead more…

The Sri Lankan parliament is getting ready to debate a proposal to amend the Constitution to make Buddhism the state religion. Currently, the Constitution gives Buddhism the foremost place as a religion; however, it is not classified as the Ì¢‰âÒstateRead more…

Nearly eighty delegates representing Asian Covenant churches and ministries in Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Laos, the Philippines, India, China, South Korea and New Zealand recently met for the Fourth Asia Covenant Churches Consultation in Taipei. This year’s theme, Ì¢‰âÒReaching Youth,Ì¢‰âÂå focusedRead more…

Southern Baptist churches are partnering with the International Mission Board to pray for missionaries around the world through the year-long prayer call, Ì¢‰âÒLife Up Your Voice.Ì¢‰âÂå The partnership is centered on Beth Moore’s Voices of the Faithful, a new 366-pageRead more…

After spending more than thirteen years in Soviet labor camps for his faith, Pastor Ernst Sabilo has promised that the Belarusian Evangelical Church he leads in Minsk will continue to meet for worship despite the recent liquidation of its legalRead more…

Two months after a regular Sunday morning service of the New Life Church in Minsk was raided by police, a court fined the church’s administrator Vasily Yurevich the equivalent of 160 times the minimum monthly wage for organizing what theRead more…