CDI Staff

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7 Jul, 2026 09:05 EDT

Africa Church & Missions

Faith Without Frontiers explores grief, apologetics and reaching Africa's next generation with Andy Mburu

By CDI Staff

In today's episode of Faith Without Frontiers, host Gordon Showell-Rogers travels to Nairobi, Kenya, to speak with Andy Mburu, founder of Litmus Africa, about one of the greatest challenges facing the African church: reaching a generation that is asking difficult questions about faith, identity and truth.
6 Jul, 2026 18:25 EDT

Asia Society & Culture

Chinese firm markets lifelike humanoid robots as remedy for loneliness

By CDI Staff

A Chinese robotics company has introduced a line of lifelike humanoid robots built as personal companions, presenting the machines as an answer to loneliness among single adults and older people.
6 Jul, 2026 11:04 EDT

Europe Church & Missions Arts & Media

'Gott is ma untakemma': Austrian churches launch faith-story campaign in Burgenland

By CDI Staff

Churches and ministries in Austria's easternmost province have begun a media campaign inviting residents to watch video testimonies of personal faith, part of a series of regional efforts that organizers say have drawn millions of online views.
5 Jul, 2026 07:41 EDT

Asia Religious Freedom

Chinese underground church pastor Ezra Jin freed, arrives in US weeks after Trump raised case with Xi

By CDI Staff

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, leader of one of China's largest underground churches, has been released from detention and reunited with his family in the United States, less than two months after U.S. President Donald Trump personally raised his case with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, his family and rights advocates said Saturday, according to The Associated Press.
3 Jul, 2026 16:40 EDT

Europe Society & Culture Church & Missions

Swiss free church president calls quiet end of clergy military exemption a state 'self-secularization'

By CDI Staff

The end of a long-standing exemption from compulsory military service for clergy in Switzerland points to a broader retreat by the state from the idea that churches serve a public purpose, a leading free church figure has argued, while faulting the government for changing the law without consulting the churches affected.
3 Jul, 2026 10:14 EDT

US & Canada Church & Missions Society & Culture

YWAM deploys sports ministries as 2026 FIFA World Cup enters knockout rounds

By CDI Staff

International missionary movement Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is running a coordinated outreach campaign across Canada, Mexico, and the United States as the 2026 FIFA World Cup advances through its intense knockout stages.
3 Jul, 2026 09:15 EDT

Africa Migration

South Africa: Prayer answered with peaceful protests, but immigrants still stuck in make-shift camps

By CDI Staff

South Africa remained relatively calm on June 30th as an unofficial ultimatum from anti-immigration groups expired without the violence many had feared. Save for a few isolated incidents, major cities avoided the looting and destruction seen in past protests, thanks to a robust police deployment and the government’s firm stance against lawlessness
2 Jul, 2026 18:33 EDT

Europe Religious Freedom

UK ministry Release International renamed Voice of Persecuted Christians

By CDI Staff

Release International, a British Christian ministry that assists believers facing persecution in about 30 countries, has adopted a new name: Voice of Persecuted Christians.
2 Jul, 2026 18:13 EDT

US & Canada Society & Culture

Evangelical Press Association announces search for new executive director

By CDI Staff

The Evangelical Press Association has opened a national search for its next executive director, a position overseeing the U.S.-based group's membership, annual convention, awards contest and finances, according to the association's announcement.
2 Jul, 2026 12:15 EDT

Asia Society & Culture Family & Children

Bill seeks to replace colonial-era Christian marriage law in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

By CDI Staff

A woman lawmaker in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly has introduced a private member's bill seeking to replace the province’s 154-year-old Christian marriage law with modern legislation aimed at strengthening legal protections for Christian families.
1 Jul, 2026 12:59 EDT

Africa Europe Asia Caribbean Middle East Oceania US & Canada Latin America Family & Children

New book calls churches to make child protection a gospel priority

By CDI Staff

Church leaders, theologians and child advocacy practitioners from around the world gathered online to launch God's Heart for Child Protection and Safeguarding, a new volume urging Christians to view safeguarding not as an administrative requirement but as a central expression of the gospel.
25 Jun, 2026 07:35 EDT

Europe Church & Missions Society & Culture

Swiss Christian website jesus.ch relaunches with new design, expanded content

By CDI Staff

One of Switzerland's most-visited Christian websites has relaunched with a redesigned platform after hundreds of hours of development work, according to a report by Livenet.ch, a Swiss Christian news outlet.

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