USAID freeze: Christian aid groups weigh life-threatening choices about who to help
TIFFANY STANLEY, of Associated Press, reports on the tough decisions facing non-profits after the Trump administration froze most foreign aid and sidelined the US Agency for International Development…
Essay: USAID – The best of bipartisan and faithful work now nearly lost
Former Biden administration USAID official, ADAM NICHOLAS PHILLIPS, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says it is perplexing to hear Vice President JD Vance champion faith-based aid initiatives while, at the same time, funds for efforts like these are literally being turned off…
In the US state of North Carolina, the sound of chainsaws brings hope as faith-based workers clear roads
United States RNS In the days since Hurricane Helene swept through mostly rural areas of nine states, Kevin King, executive director of Mennonite Disaster Service, has been working to make plans for how to best respond, despite spotty phone service due to downed cell towers and roads and bridges that have been washed out or […]
Empty beds, lost jobs: The price of India’s crackdown on NGO funds
Narendra Modi’s government cancelled FCRA licences for thousands of charities, halting foreign funds; critics say move costs jobs, services. KUNAL PUROHIT, of Context, reports…
Essay: The children of Sudan have been forgotten
EDGAR SANDOVAL, SR, president and CEO of World Vision US, says the details of the crisis are horrifying…
A “crazy” dream? How World Vision is leading efforts to rehabilitate a billion hectares of land over the next 10 years
Geelong, Australia Australian agronomist Tony Rinaudo has a dream – to see trees regenerated on a billion hectares of degraded land within the next decade using a process known as Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration. “On a human level, that’s crazy…” said Rinaudo, noting that it equates to three hectares per second for every second over […]
Sudan’s increased fighting empties Christian clerics from the capital Khartoum
Nairobi, Kenya RNS An attack on a Coptic Christian church during Mass on Sunday in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum is drawing attention to the plight of Christians in the north-eastern African country, where a raging civil war is forcing out Christian clerics. The attack on the Coptic Mar Girgis (St George) Church in Omdurman, […]
Essay: Responding to catastrophe
World Vision’s CLYNTON BEUKES – based in Amman, Jordan, outlines World Vision’s reponse to the earthquake that’s devastated large parts of Turkey and Syria…
Jack Hayford, prominent Pentecostal pastor in Southern California, has died
United States RNS Rev Jack Hayford, a popular Pentecostal leader and pioneer of the megachurch movement, often regarded as a “pastor to pastors,” died on Sunday (8th January) at age 88. Hayford died peacefully in his San Fernando Valley home in Southern California, according to a statement from The Church on the Way, a church in Sherman […]
“Situation worsening”: In Haiti, a crisis of violence, chaos, and cholera goes largely ignored by outside world
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service reports that charities do what they can to help the impoverished nation, but international action is needed to bring order and restore infrastructure, experts on the ground say…