Faculty at Makumira University College in Tanzania use the DACB. Maverick economist E. F. Schumacher once stood on a street corner in Leningrad, Russia, trying to understand the map his Russian hosts had given him. He was confused. While there was some correspondence between what the map registered and what he could see with his own […]
At the time, it seemed very innovative, and, indeed, odd. Go to worship God in someone’s home? But while the Chinese Home (or House) Church Movement had started in the 1950s as a reaction against the religious clamp-down of the Communist takeover in 1949, and the burgeoning African Independent Churches had been meeting in homes […]
Two workers for Christian Life Bangladesh, a partner agency of Campus Crusade for Christ, were recently murdered in Faridpur for their work in local health awareness programs and their part in the showing of the JESUS film. Lipial Marandi, 21, and Tapan Kumar Roy, 27, had spent the last eight months in the Bangladesh region, […]
The number of persecuted Christians is on the rise worldwide, according to Professor Thomas Schirrmacher, director of the Religious Liberty Commission of the German Evangelical Alliance. Three in four cases of severe persecution are targeted at Christians and at least fifty-five thousand Christians are killed each year for religious reasons, he said in a lecture […]
A new bachelor of arts translation degree program has been launched by the Theological College of Northern Nigeria to train Africans for Bible translation. Dr. David Crozier, a Wycliffe Bible Translator member, is serving as head of the college’s Bible translation department. (Wycliffe)
The Apostle Paul used Roman roads and ships (the transportation technology) and papyri (the communication technology of the first-century Church) to aggressively deliver the gospel of Jesus Christ. Paul’s clarion call was to preach the gospel “by all possible means.” In the twenty-first century, five breakthrough innovations developed by secular, multinational corporations have stunning potential […]
A massive growth in Christian presence in the southern continents meant that by the middle of the twentieth century Christian faith had developed into a “non-Western religion.”1 With the rise of churches and prophet movements of African provenance at the turn of the twentieth century, Christianity grew by leaps and bounds in sub-Saharan Africa. These […]
The fourth trial for Archbishop Jovan, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Macedonia, began in Veles on 29 September. Only six days earlier, the court found him guilty of embezzling 57,180 Euros donated for church reconstruction when he was bishop of the Macedonian Orthodox Church three years ago. Archbishop Jovan’s two-year sentence will be […]
Registration is now open for Urbana 06, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s twenty-first student missions convention to be held 27-31 December 2006, in the Edward Jones Dome at the America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Jim Tebbe, InterVarsity’s vice president for missions and the director of Urbana, says he believes Urbana 06, in its new location, […]
More than a year after 331 people (including 186 children) were killed by explosions and gunfire in a terrorist attack in Beslan, a new Calvary Chapel has opened to provide hope for those still suffering from the school attack. After serving with Calvary Chapel Jerusalem, missionary Jason Calzone visited Beslan and has partnered with Beslan […]
The recent staging of the African Football Federation’s Under-17 Africa Cup tournament in Lomé provided an opportunity for the Bible Society of Togo and other Christian organisations to bring God’s Word to many sports fans. Teams and their supporters from South Africa, Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, Tunisia and Togo gathered for two weeks […]
A four-fold agenda for urban churches to reach their communities for Christ.Read more… The origin of the dichotomy of the presence of Muslims and Christians.Read more… How worldviews greatly affect the context in Niger in which church leaders operate.Read more… Factors that have contributed to the strength and vigor of the evangelical Church in Lima.Read […]
It started off as an informal chat between two friends on a quiet Sunday afternoon. A colleague and I were several hours from home, teaching at a seminary during summer school. We decided to take a break and get something to drink. A local café seemed like an ideal setting. The waiter was in a […]
Lutheran leaders in Germany say they hope the global assembly of the Lutheran World Federation scheduled to meet in their country in 2010 will boost links with other Protestant denominations. The federation’s German National Committee has proposed that governing bodies of other global Church groupings should meet in parallel with the Lutheran assembly taking place […]
