It was 2 p.m. when the first families began gathering near Iglesia del Carmen, along Panama City’s main Vía España. Dressed in white, some carried balloons, others held signs with messages like “The family is God’s perfect design,” and all shared a common purpose: to march in defense of family values and lift a public prayer for the nation.
This past Saturday, we witnessed the unfortunate presence of President Javier Milei at the inauguration of the largest evangelical church in the country. It resulted in the sacred space of the pulpit being used by the president to deliver a partisan diatribe filled with false arguments, malicious distortions, and statements entirely contrary to the teachings of the gospel. This has caused much shame.
Like fine wine, people need change to mature. You can refuse to embrace change but it will come at a cost. Times of change provide opportunities for us to deal with aspects of our being that become barriers for deeper relationship with God. Doing so also helps improve our relationships with others.
Many of our societies appear to be moving back into increased lawlessness as models of justice and equity are being undermined by the powerful, allowing corruption to creep back in to the most stable of nations. This is an opportunity for the Church to preserve and shine as salt and light. But, as this pastoral opinion shows us, it will require intentionality, commitment, and sacrifice.
The global pandemic began a decade of tremendous uncertainty, loss, and suffering. It is fruitless to try and fight, control, or ignore grief. Here, we look to Scripture for healthy examples of dealing with the trials of life.
Renowned speaker Nick Vujicic delivered a pre-recorded video message to the Ibero-American Congress for Life and Family, currently taking place in Montevideo. In his address, he shared his personal testimony and encouraged attendees to stand firm in defending Judeo-Christian values amid an increasingly challenging global context.
Lawmakers from 16 Latin American and Iberian countries convened in Montevideo this week for the Ibero-American Congress for Life and Family, issuing a unified call for legislation that protects the unborn and strengthens the family as the bedrock of society. Held at Uruguay’s Legislative Palace, the event marked a growing effort among conservative legislators to push back against progressive agendas they say threaten traditional values across the region.
The Ibero-American Congress for Life and Family opened on June 18 in Montevideo with a call for unity, strategic cooperation, and the defense of Christian values in politics. The opening ceremony was led by Lic. Aarón Lara, founder and president of the Congress, who declared, “Our leadership does not belong to a party or a color; it is in heaven, in the eternal truths we represent.”
Presidential pre-candidate and senator Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot during a political rally in Bogotá on Saturday (June 7) in an attack that has been condemned both in the South American country and internationally. Uribe is a member of the right-wing Democratic Center party.
Hélder Favarin, a Brazilian-born evangelist and global youth director for Community Bible Study International, spoke on the theme “We Must Prepare Well for Preaching the Gospel” at the European Congress on Evangelism in Berlin on May 29. In a follow-up interview with Christian Daily International, the co-founding pastor of C29 Granada Church in Spain reflected on the spiritual challenges in his country and emphasized the need for evangelicals to prepare for mission work by surrendering to God, e
On Tuesday (May 27), the government of President Gabriel Boric presented a bill to the Chilean Congress to legalize abortion on demand without specific grounds up to 14 weeks of gestation. This initiative, one of the president's campaign promises, aims to "expand reproductive rights" for women in the country. The bill is scheduled to be debated in Congress starting today (June 2).
Rev. Dr. Richard Howell, former General Secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship of India and the Asia Evangelical Alliance, warned at the All India Congress on Church in Mission (AICOCIM) that pastors often struggle in deep isolation and urgently need safe spaces to share their burdens.
