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As a student it never occurred to Dave Glover that one meeting would prove life transforming He recalls the event that is moving him on today 35 years later with a developing ministry in Latvia

The Bishop of Sheffield has commissioned six new Church Army evangelists with a reminder to them that they are being sent out by the Lord to grow new communities

More than 5,000 people gathered July 8-9 at the Pacifico Convention Center in Yokohama, Japan’s second-largest city, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the beginning of Protestant missionary work in the country. Yokohama is also the site where the first Protestant missionaries landed.
Among those who participated in the special assembly was Rev. Young Jo Ha, [...]

An estimated 75 leaders from 16 African nations will gather for the College of Prayer (COP) Summit in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, July 21-25, 2009.
“We are calling College of Prayer leaders from all across Africa for our first African Summit,” says Pastor Fred Hartley, who started the college. A movement for spiritual transformation, the COP focuses [...]

To prepare for the beginning of a new term churches are being encouraged to adopt a more liberating and holistic approach to impacting their communities

Christian Solidarity Worldwide has called into question a six year prison sentence handed on Thursday to the leader of a growing Christian organisation in Cuba

By an Alliance worker  
The following is an adaptation of an Alliance worker’s recent article, illustrating how the Great Physician is drawing Kosovars to Himself.  
God’s at work here. I want to share about His healing power in the life of Fasul.*
Last year Fasul broke his leg while in the mountains cutting timber. Because it was a [...]

Concern is growing for Christians in Egypt following another attack on the homes of Coptic Christians And a legal battle is taking place in Egypt to overturn a court ruling which denies the right of citizens to change their religious identity on their ID cards

By Tim and Penny Iverson, serving in Taiwan
In the region of Taiwan where we minister, Christians make up 0.1 percent of the population. YuanChang consists of several small villages with a total population of 32,000, yet it has only one small Christian congregation. This is one of the least-reached areas of Taiwan; and working-class people, [...]

An estimated 350,000 enslaved prostitutes live in Spain, said Betsy Blanchard in her July 4 ministry update from the southern European nation. “These women are forced to ‘work,’ sometimes 14-hour days, regularly shifted between more than 2,000 legal brothels and other venues. The stories are shocking!”
To assist these women in crisis, God has laid a [...]