Pumpelly to lead True Love Waits in Africa

June 7, 2007

NASHVILLE — Sharon Pumpelly, who with her husband Larry spent 25 years as an International Mission Board (IMB) missionary in Uganda and Kenya, has been

Egyptian officials release jailed Christian convert

June 7, 2007

CAIRO, Egypt — In a surprise gesture, Egyptian authorities released a Christian convert from Islam who had been jailed for two years without charges under

WMU’s Pure Water, Pure Love celebrates 10 years of clean water for missionaries

May 31, 2007

The streets of the villages in Mali are awfully dusty, and Monica Maxwell gets really thirsty. Maxwell, a member of Clearwater Community Church, Birmingham, in

Nightmares won’t keep missionary from her medical calling in Kenya

May 31, 2007

For most rape victims, returning to the scene of the crime would be unthinkable. But for Carol Spears, it was the only way to follow

Baptist missionaries reach out to Muslim people in Niger

May 10, 2007

Pregnant Songhai women approach the cinder-block, tin-roofed clinic of Kanazi for routine checkups. They come one by one. When Sally Womble reminds them to return

Christians killed in Sudan after evangelism

May 10, 2007

GNAYA, Sudan — An Egyptian and three Sudanese Christians were killed the night of April 27 when their truck came under gunfire after holding an

Presbyterian church members arrested in Eritrea

May 10, 2007

ASMARA, Eritrea — In still another police raid in the Eritrean capital, local authorities arrested 80 members of the Mehrete Yesus Evangelical Presbyterian Church in