Because the suffering is overwhelming, the prayer needs are overwhelming. A single Sunday set aside for those prayers is only a way of reminding us to pray for the persecuted Church every day. On October 31, the day before All Saints Day, worshippers arrived at their church in the Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad to remember... Continue Reading

The Foundation’s goal…is to establish 1,000 tuition-free schools for Indonesians in rural villages and underserved urban areas, 100 schools for middle-class students, and 10 elite, more rigorous schools that prepare students to study at international universities. Last fall, Covenant College President Niel Nielson received a phone call that would eventually lead him and a group... Continue Reading

At a recent graduation ceremony, the Evangelical Reformed Seminary of Ukraine (ERSU), the seminary of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ukraine, celebrated its 10th anniversary. At present, 31 churches across Ukraine and neighboring Belarus have pastors or associate pastors trained by the seminary, including all seven churches of the Ukrainian Evangelical Reformed Churches and eight... Continue Reading

FCBH does not charge the chaplains for the BibleSticks, which are $25 each, but raises the money through its donors, churches, and Christian radio stations. Most of the requests for the military version of a popular audio Bible on an MP3 stick is coming from Afghanistan, said a spokesperson for a ministry’s Military BibleStick project... Continue Reading

Although no one has ever been executed under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws – most are freed on appeal – as many as 10 people are thought to have been murdered while on trial. Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother-of-five, denies blasphemy and told investigators that she was being persecuted for her faith in a country where Christians... Continue Reading

“The value of a human being is not about their capacity to function. They have intrinsic value that has nothing to do with function,” Kinkade told CT. “Your worth as a human being is essential, but your functions will vary.” Russ Kinkade holds up a pen. If it were broken, he says, he would toss... Continue Reading

WORLD’s CEO and Publisher also announce the Magazine’s Expanded News Coverage and Development of Digital Platforms as Olasky joins the Asheville headquarters staff effective February 1st. Olasky has resigned his post as Provost of The King’s College effective January 31st and will devote 100 percent of his energies to the transformation of WORLD from a... Continue Reading

The tent cities of Haiti were a mass of confusion as people tried to evacuate the area before tropical storm Tomas arrived. For many of the 1.3 million who are taking refuge in the flimsy tent cities following the January quake, there’s nowhere to go. The storm is expected to unleash a combination of torrential... Continue Reading

As the nation heads toward a “majority minority” population, Soong-Chan Rah argues that the evangelical church will get there faster—and has a chance to be ahead of the curve in modeling a multicultural community . His new book, Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church, offers some thoughts about what a multi-ethnic church can... Continue Reading

The U.S. government paid compensation of $8 million to the Bowers family and the pilot. CIA Director Leon Panetta said 16 current and retired agency officers received administrative punishments over the incident. Nine years after the Peruvian air force mistook a missionary flight for a drug run, the Central Intelligence Agency took responsibility for its... Continue Reading