March 2025

Globalization, one of today’s trendiest buzzwords, is nevertheless an amazingly potent force. The world economy has become porous beyond imagination. Existing transnational alliances, treaty organizations, and long-standing boundaries are now fading in significance. The word “Europe” now refers to a single, economic commonwealth. The bottom line? The same global upheavals which are forcing international business […]

Only by looking back at our history can we be properly rooted and guided in our trajectory for the future.Read more… Formerly vice president of Moody Broadcasting, Wayne Pederson is HCJB GlobalÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s new president.Read more… Leaders from twelve East African nations gather to discuss how to fulfill the task of reaching the “least and the […]

A banner announcing Christian radio station Radio Impacto hangs across a busy street in the Guatemalan border town of La Mesilla. Photo credit: Polly MacHarg. Radio Impacto, a small, 1,000-watt FM Christian radio station in La Mesilla, Guatemala, is also planting churches. “Our goal is to reach Chiapas state [in southern Mexico] with the gospel,” […]

Week-long celebrations were held in July in Chennai to mark the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the first Protestant missionary to India. “The arrival of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg in Tranquebar in 1706 no doubt marked a remarkable change in the lives of the Tamils in that area,” declared Surjit Singh Barnala, governor of India’s Tamil […]

The Africa Inland Church (AIC) Missionary College in Eldoret, Kenya, is dedicated to training cross-cultural church planters for Africa. It was opened in 1986 at the request of the AIC (the church founded by the Africa Inland Mission), for the purpose of cross-cultural training for pastors and their wives. It began with three expatriate couples […]

How many people groups are there in the world? How many are unreached? Which numbers are correct and which list of people groups is “right”? The varying answers to these questions can cause confusion in the mission community. The Lord has graciously provided the global mission community with several sets of people group information. Each […]

  Long steeped in print-based systems, you can imagine my surprise when Jim Bowman approached us and asked, “Can you folks help us develop an oral partnership training course?” It was about seven or eight years ago. Somewhat wide-eyed, I was talking with Jim Bowman, who, along with his wife Carla, pioneered oral Bible training […]

The leaders of two worldwide church groupings have proposed the creation of a new global body called the World Reformed Communion to unite the more than eighty million Protestants in their two organizations. “We … believe that this new, united, Reformed body will be a blessing to the broader ecumenical movement and to the reconciliation […]

The results of the 2005 English Church Census were published in September 2006 in a book called Pulling Out of the Nosedive. The detailed county results are given in Religious Trends No. 6 2006/2007. Both were published and distributed by Christian Research in September 2006. Figure 1 shows the distribution of churches of different sizes […]

Overview of Phnom Penh, Cambodia Cambodia is only slowly starting to recover socially, politically, and economically from the four years of Khmer Rouge rule from 1975-1979. In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, political and social unrest brought the Khmer Rouge to power. Once they took control of Phnom Penh in 1975, the Khmer Rouge […]

(Editor’s note: Azumah’s latest book, My Neighbour’s Faith, is on the topics discussed in this article. See sidebar inthis article for Azumah’s comments on his latest book, along with publisher information.) One of the crucial issues facing Christians around the world today is finding the right balance in our response to the various challenges posed […]

A church in Minnesota (USA) played a key role in leadership development for an international ministry operating in 150 countries. In March 2008 members of the Ebenezer Lutheran Brethren Church of Minneapolis hosted Daniel Bourdanné, the general secretary of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES). The meeting was a joyous reunion of the type […]

China’s official media has confirmed that two people have been arrested after reports that about three thousand Christians in eastern China’s Zhejiang province clashed with police over the demolition of a church building for a denomination not officially recognized by the government. The acknowledgement of the arrest by the official Xinhua news agency came after […]

The Brno Sports Blitz, the largest event that the Majak Ministry Center has ever hosted, took place 8-18 June. Eighty-three student athletes, coaches and support staff from several colleges in the US converged in Brno. After two days of intensive training, the teams began visiting schools, conducting clinics and playing exhibition games. Time was taken […]