A Christian leader working to connect churches with orphan-support initiatives is urging congregations to better support young adults leaving alternative care, after new research highlighted ongoing challenges they face in adulthood.
For many Christians, the idea of partnering with God has been narrowed to a familiar set of categories: church work, evangelism, discipleship, and the saving of souls. All of these matter deeply. But the biblical vision of God’s mission and our vocations is far larger than that. We need a bigger perspective: a shalom view.
It is widely understood that Nepal has a rapidly growing Christian population. As it starts to stabilize and mature, the Church in Nepal is seeking official status and protections for their many congregations. The Nepal Christian Grand Trust now provides a pathway for official recognition, while theological, spiritual, and practical leadership development remains an urgent need.
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.
Anglican leaders from across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas have issued a declaration they say will reshape the future of the global Anglican movement, arguing that the church must be reorganized around shared doctrine and biblical authority rather than historic institutional ties.
In a world where the existence of God is increasingly questioned by ideological movements opposed to biblical principles, young Costa Rican author, philosopher, and speaker Rigoberto Hidalgo presents himself as a strong advocate for the Christian faith. During a visit to Mexico, Hidalgo will hold a series of conferences titled after his book, The Circus of Atheism, in which he will refute the main arguments of modern atheism.
Missionary pilot Jim Streit has opened up about sharing the Gospel with a man who put a loaded gun to his face while trying to hijack his plane in December during a flight carrying Samaritan's Purse medical aid to a remote medical unit in South Sudan.
The Ukrainian Bible Society (UBS) reports that 1.6 million Bibles have been distributed in the country since Russia’s invasion, averaging nearly 1,000 copies per day. In 2026, demand is also rising for trauma support initiatives.
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Hartman summarises the work of Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako, drawing on his three books and more than 75 articles, and addressing that cultural baggage from a contemporary African perspective: ‘Bediako asks what it means to be African and Christian after the shortcomings of colonialism.’
Security has been significantly reinforced at churches, missionary schools and other Christian institutions across Pakistan after violent anti-US protests linked to the escalating US-Israel conflict with Iran left at least 22 people dead and over 200 injured nationwide last week.
A major new survey examining religious beliefs in Canada has found that many evangelicals hold views that deny historic Christian teaching, prompting renewed calls for stronger biblical discipleship and theological education within churches.
