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Will the World’s Largest Church Survive Amid Growing Hostility and Oppression?
Lisa Sharon Harper’s Thick Faith
Photo Essay: Among the Bajau “Sea Gypsy” People
ASIA
Will the World’s Largest Church Survive Amid Growing Hostility and Oppression?
Christians in China are preparing to count the cost amid increasing persecution that threatens church
Photo Essay: Among the Bajau “Sea Gypsy” People
Photographer Garret King captures the story of the Bajau, “Sea Gypsy” people in the Philippines.
Photo Essay: The Cost of Education in Rural Nepal
In Nepal’s remote villages, little to no road access and the threat of tigers means it’s tough for children to attend school.
At the Edge of Civil War, An Outpouring of Love
At the edge of Myanmar’s civil war, Ray and Candace Ward find more love.
From the Front Line: Hong Kong Protests Photo Essay
“The church is learning to become more socially conscious, and trying to discern the use of violence and why it started and how it will end.”
Historical Reformer: Pandita Ramabai
The women’s liberation movement in India owes its beginnings to one woman, and the redeeming power of Christ in her life.
AFRICA
The Persecution Gospel
Imprisoned in Sudan, Petr Jasek was tortured by ISIS for his faith
In Kayamandi as it is in Heaven
Meet the Nomavuka family: locals ringing in a new era of reformation for the township of Kayamandi and surrounding communities.
The Sky is not the Limit
Milly and Robert’s faith was irresponsible. It was what I came to Uganda to find.
The Unlikely Educator
Education opened Godfrey Lugoloobi’s future. Now he’s changing the future of Uganda’s students.
The Mothers of Something New
On the island of Nosy Be, Madagascar, a group of mothers invite renewal into the community through art.
Moving Into the Neighborhood
To know Manenberg is to know a renewed world is on her way, told best by those who belong not only to her, but to one another.
EUROPE
Rags and Righteousness: Basil the Holy Fool
Basil the Holy Fool lived in the peculiar, upside-down Kingdom in which the first become last, and the last become first.
Historical Reformer: Saint Gregory Palamas
Gregory Palamas was an aristocrat who rejected wealth, an intellectual who valued experience, a monk who found a path forward into the heart of Christianity.
Bibles in the Barricades
Throughout revolution and conflict—with violence raging at its doorstep—Bespalov’s church keeps its doors open, practicing mercy and hospitality.
Growing the Global Family
“People are so drawn to freedom, especially in a country that throughout history has been overtaken and conquered and oppressed.”
Flight from an Iranian Prison
In many ways, Shamal’s life might be divided in two from this point forward. It was not the beginning of his escape from Iran that marked the separation, but the point at which he met Christ.
One Hundred Thousand Flames
GREECEI came to Greece to see refugees. Instead I met the people who will disciple Europe. By Annelise JolleyPhotos by Easton KawawakiApr 15, 2019Click below to listen to the audio version of this story. This is not a story about refugees. This is a story about what...
MIDDLE EAST
Renewed Earth, Ancient Trees
“The best thing that North American Christians can do to better engage in creation care is to listen to our brothers and sisters in the Global South.”
Volatile and Vulnerable: Inside Rojava’s Conflict
In Rojava, Syria, the Free Burma Rangers remind people that God has not forgotten them.
The Growing Witness in Iran: Pastor Wahid’s Story
Even though Wahid’s imprisonment and the subsequent pressure forced him out of his home country, the church in Iran continues to grow.
Giving Work and Waging Peace: An Interview with Jessica Courtney
Jessica Courtney shares how digital work opportunities for displaced people in Iraq provides a powerful interception point for peace.
Peace in the Holy Land
Palestinian Peacemaker Sami Awad believes that loving the enemy can turn the Holy Land into holy ground.
Remembering Sinjar
In remembrance of the Sinjar massacre, we checked in with reformer Dave Eubank about the hope he sees in Iraq.
NORTH AMERICA
This is God’s Table
Rev. Anna Woofenden is the founding pastor of the Garden Church and Feed and Be Fed Farm in San Pedro, California. She now serves as the Protestant Chaplain at Amherst College and co-hosts the Food and Faith Podcast. She is the author of This is God’s Table: Finding Church Beyond the Walls and has written for various publications.
“America is Like Heaven”
Displaced by violence, Missoula’s Congolese community fights to honor their culture while adjusting to life on a new continent.
Improbable Joy: Jeanelle Austin speaks about George Floyd, racial justice, and the discipline of hope
Reformer Jeanelle Austin invites us to build a foundation of joy to support the long work of justice and healing
A Letter From Our Founder
Watching the slow murder of George Floyd should have been incomprehensible. I’ve witnessed a flood of emotions and responses wash over social media that have mirrored my own internal world: anger, confusion, grief, hopelessness, and a sense of helplessness that has tempted me towards despair. I’ve found myself asking the tired question again, “Why is this still happening?”
Lisa Sharon Harper’s Thick Faith
We live in an age when politics and faith traditions alienate us from each other instead of unite us. Having lived and worked within political movements, I know from experience that life on the inside of politics is as dark as it looks from the outside. But when we...
Prophetic Imagination: An Interview with Shane Claiborne
Nations Media interviews Shane Claiborne, a Christian activist and author who is a leading figure in the New Monasticism movement.
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
From Nicaragua with Love
“I had every reason to be a very broken person. But I discovered a real God who healed my broken heart so I can help bring healing to other broken hearts.”
Dispatch: Nicaragua
When I think of Mike, Mauricio, and the Herrings, I think of the Kingdom of Heaven. I think of the story Jesus told of the man who discovered treasure in a field and sold all he had to obtain it.
Journey into the Amazon
For decades, followers of Christ have left the Amazonas capital city of Manaus to live out the good news of the Gospel in the Amazon River Basin’s most untouched places.
Gunshot Echoes (Part 2)
Following Peter’s attack and only halfway through their missionary commitment to ENLACE, the DeSotos decided that leaving would do more harm than good.
Gunshot Echoes (Part 1)
Peter and Dara DeSoto had an ordinary life. Many people would’ve considered it far better than ordinary: Peter, a charismatic and passionate young man
THE CARIBBEAN
Revival in Cuba’s Living Rooms
300 miles south of Miami on the island of Cuba, revival has quietly transformed a country where many believed God had been pushed out.
“Do the Stuff” | After Hurricane Maria, a Puerto Rican Pastor Moves Home
Describing life in community with their Puerto Rican neighbors, he reaches for words and settles on this: “There’s nothing like it.”
A New Era, A New Hope
In volume one, James Galt introduced you to Pastor Manuel, a humble Cuban man who leads a number of house churches in Havana, Cuba.
OCEANIA
“An Adventure in Faith”: Papua New Guinea Photo Essay
In rural Papua New Guinea, life-saving floatplanes have transformed a place with one of the world’s highest infant mortality rates.
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