Lausanne World Pulse – IN THIS ISSUE…HIV/AIDS and the Gospel and Other Issues of Global Interest

By Doug Birdsall
This past summer and fall, I had the privilege of meeting with ministry leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and Australia/Oceania who are all committed to the cause of world evangelization. Read >>

THEMED ARTICLES:

Christian AIDS Services/Association Offers Hope and Help to Many in Germany

CAH (Christian AIDS Services/Association) is an independently-registered association and member of the Deaconry Work of Hessen and Nassau in Germany. Read >>

Evangelicals Responding to the Challenge of AIDS on World AIDS Day

By Brian Considine
World AIDS Day is 1 December and the Global AIDS Prayer Partnership is launching two new initiatives to help mobilize an evangelical response to the AIDS pandemic. Read >>

Growing Interest in Medical Missions

By Grace Tazelaar
Among students in the health professions, the Annual Global Missions Health Conference (GMHC) in Louisville, KY, USA, is quickly becoming known as the “Urbana” of healthcare missions. Read >>

HIV/AIDS and the Church: We Cannot Look the Other Way

By Linda Ndethiu
Only a few days ago, we lost another little child. One of his friends had been praying for him, just as he had prayed for two other friends, Kamau and Kimani. Now, this friend was gone too. Read >>

HIV/AIDS Home-Based Care in Nairobi

By Martin Johnson
Over one and half million people live in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. That is half the city’s population. More than 300,000 people are crowded together in Karagoche, Nairobi’s worst slum. Families live in extreme poverty and struggle to make a living. Read >>

The North American Church’s Role in HIV/AIDS Care

By David Eller
The issue of HIV/AIDS in the world today is so large that it may appear beyond hope. According to the UNAIDS/WHO 2004 AIDS Epidemic Update, there are more than 13,400 new infections and 8,400 deaths each day from HIV/AIDS. Read >>

You Gave Us Your Heart: SIM’s Hope for AIDS Program Offering Hope to Many

By Russell Pratt
“You gave us your heart.” These five words are foundational in my ministry. At times it is easy to be frustrated with missions and in particular with HIV/AIDS ministries. Read >>

North American Consultation on the Role of the Church in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

By Rebecca Barnes
Abstinence is working in the fight against AIDS in Africa. Findings which have appeared controversial, contradictory or politicized to both mainstream media and secular aid agencies continue to show that the “Abstinence, Be faithful or use a Condom” (ABC) promotion in places such as Uganda, Rwanda and other African nations is slowing the numbers of people being infected and living with HIV/AIDS. Read >>

Fire of Hope: The Effects of HIV/AIDS Ministry

By Greg Forney
HIV/AIDS is a modern-day plague marching nearly unimpeded across the face of the African continent. It threatens peace and stability as it wipes out entire generations, leaving millions of orphans in its wake. The statistics are daunting. Read >>

Global AIDS and World Evangelization

By Brian Considine
During the 2004 Lausanne Conference in Pattaya, Thailand, the study group meeting to discuss holistic mission turned their attention to the AIDS pandemic as the most urgent of world concerns needing the attention of the Church. Read >>

PERSPECTIVES:

A Billion Souls: The Rise of Global Christianity

By James Davis
For more than two thousand years, the Church has worked to fulfill the Great Commission of our Lord. By 1900, 45.69% of the world was evangelized; by 2000, more than 73.09% of the world has heard the gospel. Yet there are still more than 1.8 billion people who have never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. Read >>

AIDS in China: The Amity Foundation

The first AIDS case in China was reported in 1985. The following years witnessed rapid growth of the HIV-positive population. Geographically, HIV-positive cases have now been reported in each and every one of the thirty-one provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of mainland China. Read >>

Drugs Don’t Cure Leprosy

By Christopher Doyle
Drugs do not cure leprosy. I can almost hear it now. Doctors, researchers and other leprosy experts who read this title are asking, “What’s wrong with this fellow? Doesn’t he know anything about leprosy? He’s supposed to be the president of American Leprosy Missions (ALM) and he doesn’t even know about the miraculous cure.” Read >>

European Evangelicals End Annual Assembly

European Evangelical leaders on Saturday were challenged to live out their “true identities” as “Christian nobodies” by becoming God’s catalysts for change. Read >>

He Intends Victory a Paradigm for the Acceptance of the Church in HIV/AIDS

By Bruce Sonnenberg
“I really think it’s best if you don’t come back to church here anymore!” Can you imagine what it’s like to hear those words from your pastor? Read >>

International Orality Network 2005 Annual Working Conference: Making Disciples of Oral Learners

By Durk Meijer
A provocative call to radically rethink our communication of the gospel was the central theme of the 2005 International Orality Network (ION) Annual Working Conference held recently in Anaheim, CA, USA. Read >>

Trans World Radio and Kerus Global Education Unite to Mobilize African Youth to Stem the Tide of HIV/AIDS

Every day 14,000 Africans become infected with HIV/AIDS. In an effort to counter the spread of this unrelenting enemy on the continent, international Christian broadcaster Trans World Radio (TWR) and Kerus Global Education have partnered to produce character-based radio programming geared toward helping African teenagers make responsible lifestyle choices. Read >>

On North Korea, a Country Spotlighted During the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church

By Carl Moeller
North Korea, which tops Open Door’s World Watch List of countries where persecution of Christians is the worst, was one of the countries spotlighted during the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church 13 November. Read >>

How the Unified Church Can Respond to Global Corruption: A Call which Will Impact Millions

By Robson Pereira
Life for a person living below the poverty line is short. This is the terrible conclusion one can reach by looking at indicators concerning human development.1 Read >>

URBAN COMMUNITIES:

Into Their World…The Kazakh of Kazakhstan

By Laurie Fortunak
As the second largest Muslim group in Central Asia, the Kazak people have had a tumultuous history, experiencing wars, migration and domination for centuries. One of the most influential ethnic groups in Central Asia at one time, the Kazak now dwell mainly in Kazakhstan, but can also be found in Mongolia, Ukraine and Russia. Read >>

RESEARCH:

The Changing Pattern of Marriage

By Peter Brierley
Marriages, whether in church or a Registry Office, were not counted in the United Kingdom before 1837. In the nineteenth century, the majority of weddings took place in Anglican churches. Read >>

The Rise (and Fall?) of HIV

By Justin Long
An estimated thirty-eight million adults and children are infected with HIV/AIDS today; twenty million have died from the disease so far. By 2050, some 297 million people the equivalent of the entire United States population will have perished. Any plan to reach the unreached must grapple with AIDS. Read >>