Sight-Seeing: American Christians must humbly look to global church for solutions to decline
TOM LIN, president and CEO of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, on what the ‘majority world’ church has to teach Christians in the US (and the Western world in general)…
Bombers aim for buses in new tactic to spread death and fear in Afghanistan
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters Militants in Afghanistan are adopting a new tactic to spread fear in the capital, Kabul, especially among the the ethnic Hazara minority, planting bombs on crowded buses that have until now largely been spared such bloodshed. Two blasts on buses in an area dominated by Shi’ite Muslim Hazaras killed at least 12 people […]
Millions in Syria face disaster if aid crossing is shut – UN
Reyhanli, TurkeyReuters Millions of people in north-west Syria face disaster if the United Nations fails to approve an extension of cross-border humanitarian operations next month, a senior UN aid official said on Thursday. Some three million people, many of them displaced by fighting elsewhere in Syria during the decade-long conflict, have sought shelter near the […]