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ASIA
Photo Essay: The Settling Dust of War in Sri Lanka
How does a culture that’s experienced great amounts of unpredictable violence gain assurance in safety and stability?
Hope in the Cracks
When you slow down and begin to parse out the details from the chaotic whole, when you begin to look closely and really see, India hides breathtaking splashes of life in every corner.
Like the Blues: Where Beauty and Suffering Coexist
The juxtaposition of beauty with its opposites is a step toward reconciliation. Louis Stettner’s photographs and Blessy’s life show this.
In the Image: Vietnam Photo Essay
VIETNAMBy Brett HillyardMar 21, 2019When men and women in rural Vietnam lose their sight due to glaucoma and cataracts, many lose a sense of purpose. Simple tasks like cooking and cleaning become impossibilities, and often their ability to provide for their families...
India Photo Essay: Untouched by Time
By Kayla MendezThis video features scenes from our day spent with Gideon in the village as well as scenes from Haridwar. There, thousands of Hindus gathered to worship the Ganges River, in a traditional Hindu ceremony called a Ganga Aarti.Tucked away among the...
Prophetic Lament: An Interview with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah
By Brianna LantzCry aloud to the Lord! O wall of daughter Zion! Let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite! Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the...
AFRICA
Eric Idehen’s Legacy of Hope
By Kayla Craig“Welcome, welcome,” he says, ushering me into his home, his shoulder cradling an iPhone to his ear. He gives me a hug and I sling my bag on the floor, overhearing a thick Nigerian accent on the other side of the phone conversation. I look around at his...
An Interview with Esther Havens, Humanitarian Photographer
By Nations MediaBack in Nations Journal Volume 2, we chatted with renowned humanitarian photographer Esther Havens about photography that honors the God-given identity and dignity of its subject. Havens is an exemplar in the industry as she continues to take...
Creative Advocate Spotlight: Chandler Dixon
By Nations MediaBy day, Chandler Dixon works as an echocardiogram technician at Rady Childrenʼs Hospital in San Diego. “Essentially, I take photos with sound waves of kids’ hearts,” he explains. “In high school I picked up a camera and started taking photos for fun....
“It’s My Story:” Dispatch from a Moroccan Migrant Center
By Elizabeth Pennington*All the names in this article have been changed to protect the individuals identity. RABAT, Morocco — Maria was 28 years old when she fled war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with her two children. The drawing she showed me at the...
The Ministry of Two Hands
By Joelle MumleyIn the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, about a year after the horror and violence had ended, Pastor Charles Buregeya Mugisha stepped onto the soil of his country for the first time. For Rwandans like Charles, the end of the genocide was the...
Kissing the Witch Doctor
By Nations MediaI don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park,...
EUROPE
At Home in Athens
GREECE In Greece’s only long-term safehouse for exploited women, staff and residents recover togetherWritten by Annelise JolleyPhotos by Easton Kawawaki Mar 26, 2019Every morning, Dina walks down the path that leads from her house to the sea and swims in the Aegean....
Photo Essay: Varvakios Agora, Athens
By Easton Kawawaki After exiting the downtown metro stop, walk into the heart of Athens until you arrive at Varvakios Agora: the city’s central market. Your vision is painted by the varying displays of fruits, nuts, fresh olives, and spices. Rows upon rows of lamb...
Mountains of Silence
Germany By Derrick BillsMar 5, 2019Fog and silence crawl along the landscape of wide plains and lonely trees. My eyes run through the hills to the singular trees standing out in seas of green, looking forlorn yet stalwart. I try my best to imitate them, mimicking...
A Case for Contemplation
By Brianna LantzWhen I called my friend Eduardo Santo for this interview on a Friday morning in September, I had just seen the news that a terror attack had struck his home city of London. 29 people were injured after a bomb detonated in the Underground. I held my...
Courage to Witness
By Brianna LantzIn Volume Two we introduced you to Jacqueline Isaac, a California-based attorney and human rights advocate who defends persecuted Christians and Yazidis. For nearly two years Jacqueline has advocated for the establishment of an international court to...
Stubborn Hope
By Brianna Lantz How does a man go from the intent to kill a pastor and burn a church to the ground, to caring for orphans and seeking spiritual revival? What makes him stick around for the long haul when everyone else is fleeing the nation? What compels a person to...
MIDDLE EAST
Iran to Cyprus: A Journey of Faith
Young Iranian men who arrived on Cyprus as asylum seekers share their stories of coming to faith.
Fighting the Gates of Hell: The Hope for Christians in Iraq
She took with her a few family pictures and left behind a cross on the wall, a symbol of hope that ISIS might spare her home.
Of Love and Baklava
Despite the persecution and isolation they experienced, Manar and Nael’s bakery is a physical representation of Christ’s expansive, all-inclusive love.
Checking in with Reformer Jacqueline Isaac
IRAQ By Brianna LantzApr 23, 2019When we last saw Jacqueline Isaac, she was spearheading the healing work of Tech Over Trauma in Germany, instilling hope in a generation of girls who refuse to let their past trauma define their future. Over the last five years...
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.
Free the Oppressed
BURMABy Brianna LantzMar 13, 2019Editor’s Note: In Nations Journal Volume 1, we traveled to Thailand to introduce you to the inimitable Dave Eubank—former Special Forces Ranger, head of Free Burma Rangers—and his family. Several years later we met Eubank again, this...
NORTH AMERICA
Women of Valor: Devon Feldmeth Alchemizes Her Pain for Good
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in our “Women of Valor” series. For the next few months, we will be spotlighting courageous female reformers around the globe and throughout history. We pray that their stories will inspire you, dear reader, to boldly take...
Comrades and Co-laborers
The Sanderlins insist with their lives that the shape of Christ has never been something out of the ordinary.
Women of Valor: Rachel Held Evans
I counted on her words to remind me on the heaviest of days that light will prevail and darkness will not overcome it.
“Not Just Hearts But Shackles”
“I follow Jesus when he says he has come to bring good news to the captive. I believe he was freeing not just hearts but shackles.”
Hope for Change in an Age of #ChurchToo Sexual Abuse
Megan Lively shares the darkest trauma of her life publicly so that no one else experiences the silencing she did.
Growing the Global Family
“People are so drawn to freedom, especially in a country that throughout history has been overtaken and conquered and oppressed.”
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