Essay: What the 100 non-profits that raised the most money in 2020 indicate about charity today
SHARIQ SIDDIQUI, DAVID CAMPBELL and MIRAE KIM, three scholars of philanthropy and non-profits, weigh in on The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s list of the 100 non-profits that garnered the most funding through charitable donations in the US in 2020…
With more than a million children orphaned by COVID, faith-based groups look to mobilise support
RNS More than a million children around the world may have been orphaned by COVID-19, losing one or both parents to the disease or related causes. Another estimated 500,000 lost a grandparent or another relative who cared for them. Orphans eat a meal in Sylhet, Bangladesh, in April, 2021. PICTURE: Imdadul Hussain/Unsplash/Creative Commons The numbers […]
Essay: Children paying too high a price in Gaza
DANIEL WORDSWORTH, CEO of World Vision Australia, on why, for the sake of the children, there must be no repeat of the recent escalation in violence seen in Gaza and Israel…
Aid worker’s father appeals to Pope Francis to gain his son’s release from Israel
RNS A Palestinian man has appealed to Pope Francis to intercede with the Israeli government to release his son, a humanitarian worker with a Christian aid organisation, who has been in jail for more than five years on what the father maintains are manufactured charges. Khalil al Halabi, a former head of education at the […]
“An abrupt halt”: Christian mission and aid organisations in Uganda revise approach in the midst of a pandemic
JOHN SEMAKULA reports from Kampala on how mission organisations have weathered the coronavirus pandemic in Uganda…
Pandemic’s hard realities worsen Venezuelan child labour crisis
Cordero/Caracas, VenezuelaReuters Twelve-year-old Moises Bracamonte knows how to prepare fertiliser and water the black beans and corn that his family grows in Venezuela’s western Tachira state. He says the most difficult part of agricultural work is “breaking the ground” to sow the seeds without a tractor or an ox. “Why is it difficult with a pick? Because the […]
Books: Leadership lessons from a (sometimes frustrated) change-maker
DAVID ADAMS reads former World Vision Australia CEO Philip Hunt’s memoir, ‘Leadership & Me’…
Aid in a pandemic: World Vision faces pandemic’s “perfect storm”, seeks to meet US, global needs
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, on how Christian humanitarian agency World Vision is continuing its work around the world during the coronavirus crisis…
Essay: Seven ways a national COVID-19 day of mourning can help us heal
JAMIE ATEN and KENT ANNAN, of the Humanitarian Diasster Institute at Wheaton College in the US, writing against the backdrop of the first anniversary of the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, look at the importance of publicly marking the anniversaries of disasters and tragedies…
Economic cost of 10 years of war in Syria more than $US1.2 trillion – report
Syria’s 10 year civil war has cost more than $US1.2 trillion, according to a new report. It also found that even if the conflict ended now, the war would cost as much as an additional $US1.7 trillion by 2035. The World Vision and Frontier Economics report – Too high a price to pay: The cost of […]