At a vibrant panel discussion during the 13th General Assembly of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa (AEA), prominent women leaders from across the continent and beyond issued a united call for greater inclusion in church leadership, emphasizing the need for biblical equality, digital relevance, and structural reform to fully engage both women and the next generation.
These days we are constantly being asked to identify our enemies and stand up against them. That is the way of the world, not the way of Jesus. The Jews were expecting their enemies to be vanquished by the Messiah, yet Jesus offered the way of reconciliation through self-giving love. We must follow Jesus.
Christian, Islamic, and secular/atheistic perspectives and politics have shaped recent world history more than any other international movement. All three have produced widespread forms of antisemitism that have repeatedly intermingled, threatening the human rights of Jewish people. It is important that Christians understand the roots of antisemitism and resist it as an evil and an affront to God.
Two sharply contrasting views of Europe surfaced last week, one from Washington, the other from Brussels. These two visions imply very different futures for Europe and the wider world. We could be headed for an unwelcome geopolitical situation that will polarize the world into a values bloc and a power bloc.
Brain-computer interfaces? Exoskeletons? Immortality? Enthusiasm for transhumanism is rising, what might it mean for the rest of us? In light of what enthusiasts are searching for, Christians can offer hope to a world searching for meaning because God has already provided it in Christ.
When mass demonstrations hit several cities and towns in Kenya in June 2024 over tax proposals contained in the Budget policy document, many - including the State and the Church - thought it was a passing cloud. But as it turned out, it has become a defining moment and possibly an inflection point in Kenya's evolving democratic journey.
Growing transatlantic opposition against the European Union’s new online censorship law has prompted free speech advocates, legal experts and Members of the European Parliament to convene at the European Parliament this Wednesday, May 21, for a first-of-its-kind conference warning that the Digital Services Act (DSA) threatens freedom of expression and democratic norms.
After years of steady decline, Bible engagement in the United States has ticked upward for the first time in four years, driven largely by a surprising demographic: younger men.
Campaigners including Christians and other religious groups, humanists, medics, and disability groupsgathered outside the Houses of Parliament in London on May 16 to protest against an Assisted Dying Bill that was tensely debated by lawmakers. The Terminally Ill (Adults) Bill legislation, devised by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater and approved in December 2024, will allow "adults who are terminally ill, subject to safeguards and protections, to request and be provided with assistance to end their own l
A chartered jet carrying 59 white South Africans arrived in the United States on Monday, marking the first group admitted under a newly created refugee pathway launched by the Trump administration. The arrivals, many of them Afrikaners, were granted entry under claims of “race-based persecution” in South Africa — a move that has triggered significant debate both internationally and within South Africa’s religious community.
In the midst of Honduras’ deepening political polarization and electoral uncertainty, evangelical pastors are calling for national repentance and forgiveness as the path toward healing and moral restoration. Appearing on the widely viewed “Frente a Frente” program on Canal 5, prominent church leaders urged political and religious actors to pursue spiritual renewal amid rising tensions.
"Immigrants are flooding in. They are taking our country over. It’s an absolute disgrace" is a common sentiment in many nations these days. Such attitudes are easily remedied by proximity, by being a good neighbor. Jesus emulates this in his encounter with the Samaritan woman.
