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ASIA
Dispatch from Pattaya
By Nations Media“I was in a bar recently and a john told me, ‘Pattaya is where people go to die.’” The bar that Dianna Bautista refers to is one of hundreds in Pattaya’s red light district. These bars are not just bars, but also brothels—places to purchase illicit...
Forty Years a Survivor: A Story of Suffering and Freedom
By Hetta Hansen Joe Kong was qualified on all accounts to be killed by the Khmer Rouge. As an educated, high-ranking government official, he and his young family were targeted by the invading communist party. It was 1970 and the Cambodian genocide had just begun. Joe...
Dispatch: Persecution in Nepal
By Nations MediaIn October of 2017, Nepal's president signed a law criminalizing religious conversion. The law, which takes effect August 2018, prohibits religious conversion and restricts any person from encouraging conversion. The offense is punishable by up to five...
Into the Darkness
By Annelise JolleyWelcome to Pattaya On a humid Friday night, we are walking into the heart of Pattaya’s red light district. The air pulses with sound and heat. Bass thumps from deep within each bar and neon signs announce cheap beer, massages, and friendly girls....
Free the Oppressed
By Brianna LantzSecret soldiers. Commandos for Jesus. Doctors Without Borders but with guns. I did my research. I had heard the Free Burma Rangers described as these things and more. I spent most of my 24-hour flight skimming news articles, reading up on history, and...
AFRICA
How to Carry Heavy Stories
By Victoria HouserThe first time I read about the Rwandan genocide, it was like walking into a dark theater in the middle of a horror movie when I thought I had bought tickets for a tidy historical documentary. I couldn’t look away. Stories of violence began to...
Precious Kids Center in Kitale, Kenya
By Easton Kawawaki Sammy Hammork visited Kenya for the first time when she was sixteen. Over the following years, she returned to serve children with disabilities during her summer breaks from college. Originally from Southern California, Sammy eventually moved to...
Empowered to Love
By Kayla CervenkaIt was on a Monday that I made the journey through treacherous Kampala traffic and arrived at the Empower-A-Child offices nestled within the city’s maze of roads. I was ushered into an office, a relief from the unrelenting Ugandan heat. I sat gazing...
Alternate Routes: Hospitality
By Megan SextonEditor’s Note: It’s easy to feel overwhelmed or apathetic when faced with the sheer volume of need in our world. Writing a check or volunteering with a local organization are important steps to walking in justice, but they’re not the only steps....
EUROPE
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MIDDLE EAST
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...
The Repatriated Missionary
By AnonymousAmerica shields us from suffering and bombards us with pleasure, but the two years I spent with Iranian refugees in Turkey shattered that bubble. Returning from that level of intensity and suffering was—and still is—a challenge. Persian voices ring in my...
“Welcome to Our Boiling Times”
By Nations MediaAfter Mosul's liberation, a monk's view from the monastery Overlooking the Nineveh Plains, fifteen miles from Mosul, a fortress-like monastery clings to the crags of Mount Alfaf. Since 363 AD the structure has watched over the land,...
Dispatch from Iraq
By Nations MediaAfter Sixteen Months, a Reunion with the Rescued In the first volume of Nations Journal we introduced you to Dave Eubank, a former U.S. Army Special Forces and Ranger officer and founder of the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), a humanitarian service movement...
Mark and Jan Foreman Interview: Think Orphan
By Nations MediaThink Orphan, recently sat down for an interview with Mark and Jan Foreman, featured in Nations Foundation film, "Iraq: A Forgotten Hope". Listen to the podcast here for more details about: Why Mark felt led to make the film, “Iraq: The Forgotten...
Unmaking Violence, Waging Peace
By Erica GriffithPhoto by: Janssen Powers By: Erica Griffith A world at peace is a lovely sentiment. Joyful communities doing fulfilling work and caring for one another; no one lacking, violence banished and anger dissipated. But sometimes that’s all it feels like: a...
NORTH AMERICA
Photo Essay: The Faces Behind Vickery Trading Co.
The way to produce a successful image is not by capturing the perfect shot but by investing in the subjects as individuals.
The Orphanless Orphanage
Rancho de Sus Niños is a place where expectations are turned on their heads and replaced by God’s extravagant faithfulness.
The Way Down: Adam Luck’s Familial Advocacy
Means of division—the gates of hell—end up under Jesus’ feet, and the kingdom of God becomes a movement toward pain, not away from it.
Witnesses, Not Saviors: An Interview with Dr. Gaynor Yancey
By Nations MediaAt the intersection of social work and ministry, where mission meets spiritual formation, you’ll find Dr. Gaynor Yancey. An expert in social welfare policy and congregational and community development, Dr. Yancey has been galvanizing church and student...
Historical Reformer: François Fénelon
“I would rather perish by the hands of my mistaken brethren than see one of them exposed to the inevitable violence of the military.”
Beacon: Mexico City
As we talked about the spiritual landscape of Mexico City, Joshua and Naomi spoke of an awakening they’ve witnessed over the last five years.
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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