North Carolina native creates dresses for Africa’s orphans
April 30, 2009
The orphaned girls stood silently as the brown-paper parcels were opened, their eyes widening as they began to think maybe this was something for them.
16-year-old’s vision to make change brings clean water to Darfur village
April 16, 2009
Joshua Guthrie was a troubled teen. Like many others of his generation, the high school sophomore was troubled by the needless suffering of so many
Baptists urged to help terminally ill in Africa through in-home care kits
April 2, 2009
Terminally ill people in sub-Saharan Africa with afflictions like AIDS will be receiving practical help from Southern Baptists through a new nationwide initiative of Baptist
Thanks to Southern Baptists, goats give sustenance to families
March 26, 2009
At night, a bamboo partition is the only thing separating a family of five in the Horn of Africa from the three goats living with
Mercy Corps says millions left at risk in Sudan
March 19, 2009
PORTLAND, Ore. — Sudan’s decision to expel Mercy Corps and 12 other humanitarian organizations from the war-torn nation risks millions of lives, says Neal Keny-Guyer,
Christian missions in Nairobi sets focus on urban areas
March 5, 2009
Sixty-six “poor urban settlements” — some small, some enormous — bump against Nairobi’s sleek, downtown skyline like moths circling a light bulb. Kibera, a 6-kilometer-long
Christian brothers sentenced for resisting arrest
February 12, 2009
PORT SA’ID, Egypt — Following a brutal raid on six Christian brothers and their café because they had opened for business during Ramadan, the Muslim
Arrested Christian woman set free, threatened
February 5, 2009
CAIRO, Egypt — After her arrest at Cairo’s airport Dec. 13 while attempting to flee anti-Christian hostilities in Egypt, convert Martha Samuel Makkar was granted
