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  Asia Society & Culture Family & Children Education

  Seoul forum highlights Christian role in education policy as leaders stress balance of identity and financial support for alternative schools

  By CDI Staff

  Education leaders in South Korea gathered Sept. 26 to discuss ways to sustain alternative schools, highlighting the need for stable financial support while preserving the schools’ unique identities. The third Education Mission Forum, held at Myongji University in Seoul, was organized by the university’s Education Mission Center and Global Vision Christian School under the theme “New Government Education Policy and the Sustainability of Alternative Education.”

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  US & Canada Latin America Science Society & Culture

  Google Digital Coach shares testimony of faith, masterclass on AI at Media Music Marketing Summit

  By Javier Bolaños

  At the Media Music Marketing Summit, Vicente Pimienta, a Google Digital Coach, combined a personal testimony of faith with a practical masterclass on artificial intelligence (AI), urging participants to see technology as a tool but perseverance as the true key to success.

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  Europe Society & Culture Health

  Awareness events call churches to consider global impact of avoidable blindness

  By Chris Eyte

  A U.K.-based Christian charity is calling on churches to prayerfully consider the needs of people living with avoidable blindness. Christian Blind Mission (CBM) Sunday, set for Oct. 12, follows World Sight Day on Oct. 9, an international awareness event that this year includes a global photo competition on eye health.

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  Europe

  Singer Jonathan Ogden releases NIGHT, a deeply personal album of grief and hope

  By Chris Eyte

  Singer-songwriter Jonathan Ogden has released what he calls his most personal project yet — an album titled NIGHT, born out of grief after losing both parents and a romantic relationship. The 13-track record, released Sept. 12, explores how God’s presence sustained him through heartbreak, loss and loneliness.

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  Africa Society & Culture

  Peter Mutharika returns to power in 2025 Malawi election, unseating evangelical leader and former Assemblies of God pastor Lazarus Chakwera

  By Ken Kagicha

  President Lazarus Chakwera has conceded defeat to Peter Mutharika in the just concluded Malawi presidential elections, becoming one of a handful of incumbent presidents to lose a presidential re-election.  

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  Asia Society & Culture Religious Freedom

  Christian leaders call Trillion Peso March a ‘miracle,’ urge Filipinos to sustain anti-corruption push

  By Ellen Gabisay

  Christian leaders hailed the Trillion Peso March as “a miracle” after more than 70,000 Filipinos gathered at the People Power Monument on Sunday in a massive prayer rally against corruption, which organizers say is tied to misuse of a trillion-peso flood control budget.