Updated: UN authorises Haiti security mission to fight gangs
Updated 5:15pm (AEST)United NationsReuters The United Nations Security Council on Monday authorised a foreign security mission to Haiti, a year after the Caribbean country asked for help to fight violent gangs that have largely overrun its capital Port-au-Prince. “More than just a simple vote, this is in fact an expression of solidarity with a population […]
Lifestory: Missionary statesman George Verwer dies at 84
JO KADLECEK pays tribute to the life of the founder of mission organisation OM…
“A real head-scratcher”: Missionary pilot Ryan Koher remains in custody in Mozambique, six weeks after arrest
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on the arrest of pilot Ryan Koher…
“More difficult than ever”: US faith groups curb Haiti work due to chaos, 2021 kidnapping
PETER SMITH and DAVID CRARY, of Associated Press, report on the impact the deteriorating situation in Haiti is having on US-based Christian aid and relief groups operating there…
Sight-Seeing: A tight job market is a chance for Christians to rethink work
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says ‘ministry’ is not defined by who signs our payslip…
Essay: BepiColombo’s first close-up pictures of Mercury’s surface hint at answers to the planet’s secrets
DAVID ROTHERY, professor of planetary geosciences at The Open University, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the BepiColombo mission to Mercury and what its closest images yet have revealed…
Sight-Seeing: Seeing mission as worship
BEN BOOKLESS, of OM in the UK, writes that it’s time to broaden the way we view mission…
Rethinking church: How San Xavier del Bac Mission is reconsidering the impact of tourism
A correspondent for the Associated Press reports from the US state of Arizona on how the coronavirus pandemic has helped one mission church consider a different future…
“Proclamation and demonstration”: OM Ships marks 50 years with a renewed vision for sharing the Gospel
As OM Ships International marks 50 years of ministry, DAVID ADAMS speaks with CEO Seelan Govender about the organisation’s impact, how it’s fared during the COVID-19 pandemic and a vision for the future…
The call to mission: OM’s hope more Christians will take the Gospel to unreached places
DAVID ADAMS speaks with Matthew Skirton, chief executive of Christian mission organisation OM in the UK, about the organisation’s research into the “mission gap” and its hopes that more Christians will engage with the idea of cross-cultural mission…