Argentina joined the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and Strengthening the Family on Aug. 13, becoming part of an international initiative that says there is no international right to abortion and that each country retains sovereignty over its own abortion policies and laws.
A question everyone should ask themselves when they open a retouching app: who decides what my face should look like? Increasingly, the answer is an algorithm, and that has consequences that go far beyond vanity. Artificial Intelligence-powered beauty filter apps have amassed staggering numbers of users, and that is a serious problem for humanity. The gospel presents us with a different image.
Argentina’s adherence to the Geneva Consensus reopens the debate over the defense of life, the family, and national sovereignty in relation to abortion.
AI systems are designed to affirm your pre-existing bias, whether that bias is liberal or conservative, and therein lies the danger. What we actually need are instruments that help us find out when we are wrong. That used to be called education, and was essential to discipleship. We need to be wary of technology tuned to our tribal biases.
Ethics cannot be limited to just one area of life like business. Unfortunately, it is a subject almost forgotten by institutions and organizations in many parts of the world. Christians should not ignore biblically-based ethics in business. In any workplace our most profitable course of action is to be the kind of person or organization our colleagues and clients want to do business with.
Sixto Porras, regional director of Focus on the Family, sat down with ChatGPT to test what artificial intelligence can and cannot do — and to warn evangelical families not to let algorithms replace spiritual discernment, empathy, or genuine human connection.
Guatemala's Constitutional Court unanimously rejected a provisional challenge to the country's legal definition of marriage, blocking an effort by LGBTIQ+ rights group Lambda Association to open same-sex unions to legal recognition.
Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader has publicly credited prayer and his relationship with God as the source of strength behind his work in office.
The Buenos Aires City Police graduated 1,022 new officers at a ceremony featuring an address from Pastor Osvaldo Carnival, Argentina's first Evangelical Police Chief Chaplain, who urged the new officers to serve with integrity, protect their families and trust in God.
The government of Chile has launched a coordination effort across multiple ministries to advance the legal regularization of churches located on state-owned and privately owned land — a situation affecting numerous evangelical congregations that, in some cases, has remained unresolved for decades.
A government-convened meeting between Peru's Ministry of Justice and representatives of the country's religious confessions produced no concrete agreements, the president of the National Evangelical Council of Peru (CONEP) said, with a new government set to take office later this month.
The International Mission Board has commissioned RJ and Elayna Locklear as its first Lumbee Native American missionary couple, sending them to serve Canada's First Nations communities in and around Calgary, Alberta.
