At least six Christian sanitation workers have lost their lives and one remains in serious condition after inhaling toxic gases while working in sewers over the past few weeks in Pakistan’s Punjab and Sindh provinces, despite court mandates requiring the government to implement proper safety measures for these essential workers.
The suffering of women and children often hides in plain sight, but they are not created for silence, fear, exploitation, abandonment, or shame. They are created with dignity, worth, courage, and humanity. Dr Winnie Fung is championing a wholistic approach to elevating the vulnerable and alleviating their suffering, with the local church integrally involved.
A new federation of churches in India has been launched to help protect church assets from being taken under amended laws giving authorities new powers that will negatively affect Christian witness. But the new group is already mired in controversy, for which groups it includes and which have been excluded.
Accused of orchestrating or tolerating attacks on Christians, top representatives of India's RSS went mute. A video of the scene went viral. For India to fulfill its promise in this century, its most influential non-governmental organization must lead by example in transparency, accountability and permitting space for freedom of religion.
Children today grow up inside more than one world. The AI world listens when no one else is available. It does not merely distract, it deeply forms users, and we are facing a crisis of authentic faith transmission to the AI generation. But we don't need more distracting activity, we need better formation in the midst of life's struggles.
Members of the Filipino Deaf Community participated in a review of the Filipino Sign Language (FSL) New Testament translation on April 28–29 at the Philippine Bible Society (PBS) Ministry Center in Manila.
Three years after ethnic violence erupted in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, more than 300 church buildings have been destroyed and at least 217 people killed by official count, with broader estimates exceeding 260.
Two men of traditional tribal religion in central India on April 13 assaulted a pastor and his family for their Christian faith in an attempt to chase them from their land and home, sources said.
A new global study by the Pew Research Center reports that Catholicism has experienced net losses through religious switching in nearly every country surveyed, while Protestantism has recorded gains in several regions, particularly in Latin America.
Voting has concluded across five regions in India’s most closely watched regional elections in years.
The Punjab Province Assembly in Pakistan on Monday (April 27) passed a landmark bill aimed at curbing child marriage following a heated debate between government and opposition lawmakers.
The suffering of women and children often hides in plain sight, but they are not created for silence, fear, exploitation, abandonment, or shame. They are created with dignity, worth, courage, and humanity. Dr Winnie Fung is championing a wholistic approach to elevating the vulnerable and alleviating their suffering, with the local church integrally involved.
