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  Global Church & Missions Family & Children Society & Culture

  Refugee Highway Partnership highlights detention centers as focus for this year's World Refugee Sunday in June

  By Chris Eyte

  The Refugee Highway Partnership (RHP) is calling on churches and individuals to honor World Refugee Sunday 2025 by responding to Jesus’ words—“I was in prison, and you came to visit me” (Matthew 25:36). Observed annually on the Sunday before or after World Refugee Day on June 20, this year’s World Refugee Sunday falls on June 15 and 22 and focuses on those who find themselves stuck in detention centers.

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  US & Canada Family & Children Migration

  'Perfect exactly the way God made you': 7 highlights from Trump's address to a joint session of Congress

  By The Christian Post

  President Donald Trump delivered an address to a joint session of the United States Congress in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday, a month and a half after he took office as the 47th president of the United States.

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  Latin America Society & Culture Family & Children

  Colombia faces rising violence and forced recruitment of minors by armed groups

  By Lizzie Sotola

  The violence and forced recruitment of minors by illegal armed groups in Colombia have reached alarming levels. According to recent reports, children who refuse to join these organizations face deadly reprisals, particularly those from Christian communities.

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  Europe Church & Missions Family & Children

  Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey faces disciplinary action over handling of serial sex abuser John Smyth

  By Chris Eyte

  Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord George Carey of Clifton, 89, is facing disciplinary action by the Church of England’s National Safeguarding Team (NST) over his handling of serial sex abuser and pedophile John Smyth. The action follows a review of clergy named and criticized in the Makin Review and comes after the most recent Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Justin Welby, resigned in November 2024 over his own handling of the same offender.

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  Europe US & Canada Church & Missions Society & Culture Family & Children

  Lauding efforts to end Ukraine war, Mission Eurasia says ‘just peace cannot come at the expense of truth'

  By Chris Eyte

  Ending the war in Ukraine must not come at the expense of true justice, particularly for the 400,000 Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia, Mission Eurasia (ME) emphasized in a statement issued on Feb. 26, 2025, on behalf of Ukrainian church and ministry leaders.

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  Oceania Church & Missions Society & Culture Family & Children

  New Zealand Christian leader calls for gender issues protests to remain 'respectful', acknowledges concerns about 'rainbow ideologies'

  By Chris Eyte

  Christians protesting against the promotion of gender identities should “ensure they do so respectfully and peacefully,” the national director of the New Zealand Christian Network (NZCN) said in a recent update by the organization. His statement follows media reports of Destiny Church, the world’s largest Māori and Polynesian church, disrupting both gay pride marches and drag queen-led story times for children in public libraries, also using the traditional Māori haka.