10-2006 | Lausanne World Pulse Archives

Key leaders from the world’s international missions organizations will be gathering at Mission Aviation Fellowship’s (MAF) new headquarters in Nampa, Idaho, USA 18-19 October to determine how to work together to effectively use the results of MAF’s recent landmark studyRead more…

The resource-rich Church of the North must distribute its wealth to the resource-poor Church of the South.Read more…

Christian leaders in Malaysia seek to transform their nation through seven projects.Read more…

The World Missions Atlas Project and its partners, in cooperation with the greater missions community, have released the new “Global Status of Evangelical Christianity” wall map. The map illustrates the status of evangelical Christianity and church planting based upon theRead more…

In order to confront the growing HIV/AIDS crisis in Russia, Christian organizations Tearfund (UK) and Russian Ministries (US) will hold the “HIV & AIDS Forum of Good Practice and Networking” 15-17 November 2006 at the Moscow Christian Center in Moscow,Read more…

A bishop in Pakistan has renounced his nationality in protest against discrimination and hatred he says is suffered by the minuscule Christian minority in the world’s second largest Muslim nation. “In Pakistan, Christians, including me, are facing extreme hate, discriminationRead more…

Nearly six hundred Bible League-trained Mexican church planters recently gathered in Mexico City for a congress to discuss what God has done through their ministries. The congress brought together church planters who have been trained over the past eleven years.Read more…

Representatives of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the World Evangelical Alliance met in dialogue 8-11 August 2006 on the campus of the International Baptist Theological Seminary, located in Prague, Czech Republic. Although informal contacts had occurred during the past fiftyRead more…

Statistics from the 2001 Canadian census indicate that the growth of religions such as Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism in that country are far surpassing both Protestant Christianity and Roman Catholicism and that Canada is indeed a great mission field. BetweenRead more…

Ì¢‰âÂÒThe future of the Church could be under threat unless biblical illiteracy among young people is not urgently addressed,Ì¢‰âÂå a group of Christian evangelical agencies have warned. Although young people may have well-rehearsed arguments outlining Christian responses to social andRead more…

The global website for the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP, www.idop.org) will open 12 October 2006, one month before the IDOP Day 12 November. Some countries will pray one Sunday earlier or one Sunday later butRead more…

Global Mapping International (GMI) has released The Peoples of the Buddhist World CD-ROM, a prayer guide for the peoples of the Buddhist world. It was designed for Christians, educators, churches and missionaries concerned with better understanding and praying for theRead more…

Central Asia has also sometimes also called Middle Asia or Inner Asia. Over time it has meant the land from Iran to Mongolia. Today it usually is used to refer to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Iran. TheRead more…

In 1900 the ratio of evangelist to hearer of the gospel was 2:1. Today it is 6:1. This is greatly impacting Christianity.Read more…

SIL, Wycliffe Bible Translators’ main partner working in the South Peru Scripture Advance Project, is poised to reach about a million and a half Cusco Quechua speakers. (Kaymi puntapi qelqasqa karqan qheswa rimaypi. Chayta rikuyta munaspaykiqa qhawachiq wach’ita kaypi churaspayki ÌÄå±it’iy.)Read more…

With the vast majority of Karakalpak being Sunni Muslims, this people group is in great need to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ.Read more…

Fulfilling the Great Commission among oral learners requires rethinking, recreating and reproducing resources and methods.Read more…

Finding the right kind of tools to use to share the gospel with oral cultures takes creativity and an understanding of the audience.Read more…

Answering the question of why Bible storying is important today.Read more…

Fifty-seven American college campus ministry leaders gathered for the Institute of Campus Revival and Awakening.Read more…

Reaching the seventy percent non-literate oral population in Bihar State, India has always been a problem. But doors are now opening.Read more…

Nearly 450 participants and eighty youth leaders attended this year’s EFI annual meeting.Read more…

Making Disciples of Primary Oral Learners 14-16 November 2006 www.ion2006.org The Inside Story 15-17 November 2006 www.theinsidestory06.com The International Orality Network is offering two unique, overlapping conferences in November 2006 to address distinct aspects of the orality movement. These conferencesRead more…

Communities are being transformed across Africa because communication bridges are being used to share the gospel with oral cultures.Read more…

Making disciples of oral learners means using communication forms that are familiar within the culture: stories, proverbs, drama, songs, chants and poetry.Read more…

A historical overview of the least-reached peoples of Central Asia and how to reach them through prayer and action.Read more…

Peoples of the WorldSharing the gospel in oral cultures around the world