Madrid's regional parliament has passed a law recognizing unborn children as family members for administrative purposes, making the Spanish capital the first region in the country to extend government benefits to families from the start of pregnancy, according to reporting by Evangelical Focus and Protestante Digital.
As Lebanon suffers under yet another war, the campus of a local seminary has become a safe haven for traumatized children; helping them to process their emotions in a healthy way guided by the Bible. Here is a glimpse into the Salt and Light program for children at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary.
While Christianity has declined recently in the West, the Church continues to grow in new contexts. Even so, 3.42 billion people remain outside our faith. The most open among them are the children. These precious ones are the present and future hope of the global Church. We do well to help the little children come to Jesus.
A minister with four decades of experience speaks directly to young men navigating adulthood in an era marked by isolation and institutional decline. Rather than scolding or pathologizing them, here is a candid and compassionate message: no one becomes a grounded, healthy man without mentorship, community, and support.
James 1:27 calls us to look after orphans and widows in their distress. It is a very clear and direct command repeated across scripture. But what if the way we have been expressing that love, however well-intentioned, has sometimes caused harm? The World Evangelical Alliance has released a statement on this matter for International Children's Day (June 1).
A coalition of governments formally launched a political declaration at the United Nations on June 22 calling for an international moratorium on surrogacy, framing the practice as incompatible with human rights protections for women and children.
“How do we prevent suicide among your teenage friends?” This powerful question sits at the heart of today's episode of Faith Without Frontiers, where host Gordon Showell-Rogers speaks with Geordon Rendle, Youth for Christ’s global youth advocate, about faith, mental health, grief, hope, and the urgent need to truly listen to today’s teenagers.
A proposed African charter aimed at promoting family values, national sovereignty and cultural identity is drawing support from lawmakers and religious leaders across the continent while sparking opposition from human rights groups and some governments who say it could undermine existing protections for women and minority groups.
The majority of Australian churches have developed formal policies for protecting children and vulnerable people, according to findings published in April from the National Church Life Survey, though a wide gap remains between what church leaders know and what ordinary congregants understand about reporting abuse.
A new study has challenged decades of academic and policy assumptions about the role of marriage in family stability, arguing that its benefits have been significantly underestimated.
The South Australian Parliament has decisively rejected a controversial bill that aimed to ban most late-term abortions in the state. Abortion is legal in South Australia for up to 22 weeks and six days. A late-term abortion, however, is allowed if two doctors agree the mother’s health is in danger or the child has severe fetal abnormalities.
Churches on the Isle of Man are urging members of parliament to reject an assisted dying bill they say is rushed and fails to protect vulnerable people.
