Life can be difficult for some people to bear. The Church should not make it even more difficult for them or those caring for them. Suicide is an extreme response to those difficulties. We need to appreciate better how complex that issue is and respond with greater pastoral sensitivity.
Children, young people, or adults, who cannot speak or choose not to speak will use a variety of ways to communicate. By adapting our communication to meet the needs of others we can enter their world. Like Zechariah's audience, you might be surprised what they have to tell us!
"I wished I had been born white, so I could be loved for who I was and treated as a person." Being a child of a migrant can be intensely lonely and confusing. This is the experience of one migrant child's journey from crisis and counter evangelism to Christ.
Sometimes that which we want most alludes us because of our yearning for it. In times of crisis and grief the hardest response is to surrender, but that is precisely what God asks us to do so that we can find fulfillment.
Presented by Hope Media Group and Compassion International, the four-part adaptation brings Dickens’ timeless message of transformation and compassion to life with an all-star cast that includes Sean Astin, Rhys-Davies’ “Rings” co-star, as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge.
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) has expressed concerns about the lack of age and consent verification by pornography platforms in an opinion submission to a parliamentary committee. The group issued a statement to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights at the House of Commons, meeting Oct. 31 at the Canadian Parliament, in support of Bill c-270, “An Act to amend the Criminal Code (pornographic material)."
The head of the worldwide Anglican Communion - the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Rev. Justin Welby, has announced today (November 12) his resignation following concerns about his handling of a sex abuse case involving the deceased John Smyth QC who sexually abused countless boys and young men in the 1970s and 1980s.
12,000 Christians, young, old, male and female, and of various ethnicities, walked through the center of the city of Dublin in excited solidarity for the faith at the first ever “March for Jesus.” All Nations Church and Betania Church, both based in the city, organized the event on Oct. 26, supported by other churches in both Ireland and Northern Ireland.
For the Christian community, every day is a good day to pray for orphaned and vulnerable children. Yet one day on the calendar uniquely reminds us of that invitation—Orphan Sunday, which is being observed on November 10 this year. Find out more here...
Daily missiles and drone attacks against Ukraine have traumatized the country’s children. Amid very difficult circumstances, the Association of Christian Camps and Conference Centers, known as CCI-Ukraine, is working hard to provide camp activities where youngsters can receive care, refuge and teaching about God’s love.
Churches' focus on the young and nuclear families has a danger of neglecting the elderly and other forms of family. Reflecting on her experience at Lausanne 4, an Asian doctor appeals to churches to take seriously the challenges of aging and isolation, not to forget, but to re-member them into the Body of Christ.
A pastor and his family have gone into hiding after a Muslim neighbor who raped his 14-year-old daughter tried to kidnap her and force her to convert to Islam and marry her, he said.
