At least 12 people were killed and one more is missing after heavy rains caused flooding in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, state governor Claudio Castro told a press conference. Castro also confirmed that some 2,400 soldiers from the Fire Department were deployed for cleanup and rescue work from the beginning of the heavy rains, with the support of drones and sniffer dogs.
Christians in Western individualistic cultures can learn much from our collectivist culture brothers and sisters. Learning the value of intergenerational engagement is one of those things, as this camping example from Brazil shows.
Sometimes that which we want most alludes us because of our yearning for it. In times of crisis and grief the hardest response is to surrender, but that is precisely what God asks us to do so that we can find fulfillment.
A very crucial issue in the church today is how we are to understand our identity. There is not much room for independent thought as we are forced to position ourselves as either individualist or collectivist. The Christian life is neither or those. It is something else altogether. For the sake of God's glory we need to realize this.
Try to imagine these three situations: a workers' conference where all the speakers are business leaders, a television debate on racism where everyone—including the moderator—is white, and a video series on women where all the presenters are men. Do they not now seem inappropriate, unreal, archaic, more typical of the middle of the last century than of this one?
After a swearing in ceremony at the National Congress, newly inaugurated President of Argentina Dr. Javier Milei participated in an interfaith ceremony at Buenos Aires Cathedral. In what Evangélico Digital reported as an unusual event for a presidential inauguration, Milei, himself of Jewish background, and several of his cabinet ministers listened to short speeches and received prayers from several faith leaders.
An exiled prisoner of conscience from Nicaragua told members of U.S. Congress he was arrested without a warrant, stripped naked and subjected to multiple interrogations about Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who was sentenced to over 20 years in prison for sermons criticizing the government's human rights violations.
Doctors Without Borders is reporting a surge in sexual violence impacting migrants traveling from Latin America to the United States as concerns about securing the southern border continue to loom large in American politics.
Samaritan’s Purse and the Adventist Development and Relief Agency are among the Christian groups providing critical aid to the thousands affected by last month’s Hurricane Otis in Mexico, which unexpectedly intensified to a Category 5 storm, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake, particularly in the city of Acapulco.
Islamic extremists on Dec. 16 killed a Christian father of three children who had fled his home in eastern Uganda due to death threats from Muslim relatives, sources said.
