Christianity is growing rapidly in Nepal, despite a ban on conversions. When Chuda Bastakoti became a Christian twelve years ago, the people in his remote village would taunt him, shouting “Christian” as an insult. “But that has changed now,Ì¢‰âÂå BastakotiRead more…

A multi-lingual online database of training courses that will allow evangelical colleges, missionary training organizations, Bible colleges and non-formal training programs to input information about their courses online has been developed. The Evangelical Training Database is available online at www.trainforChrist.orgRead more…

Few people are aware that China is a Bible-producing country, yet over the past two decades, forty million complete volumes of scripture have been produced by the Amity Printing Company alone, not counting Bibles produced for the Catholic market inRead more…

Members of Puqian Church in Fuzhou, China, have partnered with the Fuzhou Red Cross and the Fuzhou Daily for Ì¢‰âÒLove in Action,Ì¢‰âÂå a campaign designed to care for the poor and needy in a way that reflects Jesus Christ’s ministryRead more…

From 31 March to 1 April a series of evangelism training sessions was held in El Salvador for the purpose of equipping leaders with new regional evangelism resources to help renew the emphasis on evangelism in the local church. AmongRead more…

The decision by the two biggest Protestant denominations in France’s eastern Alsace-Lorraine region to form a union of churches will strengthen Christian witness, says a World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) top official. “In the face of gross injustices inRead more…

In efforts to “make Jesus famous to the next generation of Hondurans,” 274 El Salvadoran youth (ages nine and up) and their leaders traveled to Honduras to minister in eighty-four Assemblies of God churches. The missions trip was known asRead more…

For what is believed to be the first time, a Christian congregation in Israel is building its own church. Grace and Truth, a Reformed and Baptist church, is located in a Jewish area near Tel Aviv. The more than 450Read more…

History was made in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in March as Nina Gunter, the first woman elected general superintendent for the Church of the Nazarene, ordained the first women in the Papua New Guinea Church. The three women, Pastor ClaraRead more…

The World Council of Churches (WCC) says it is launching a three-year joint study project with the Vatican aimed at developing a shared code of conduct on religious conversion where charges of proselytising can trigger tensions in societies. According toRead more…

The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) unanimously voted in Ken Behr as the new president. Behr began his post 1 May, succeeding Paul Nelson, who served as president for twelve years. In its 27-year history there have only beenRead more…

More than seventy college campuses in the United States are now conducting days or weeks of 24-hour prayer for revival and spiritual transformation, said Jeremy Story, president of Campus Renewal Ministries. Story volunteered his time to program a database backendRead more…

More than seven hundred Christians of diverse cultural backgrounds convened 27-29 April at the Rehoboth Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, for the sixth Ethnic Workers’ Summit, sponsored by the Ethnic America Network (EAN) and a local committee. The summit helpedRead more…

To help North Koreans who are deprived of their religious freedom, the Korean Church has founded the Commission to Help North Korean Refugees (CNKR) in 1999 and has submitted a petition with ten million signatures for recognizing North Korean defectorsRead more…

Aid agencies around the world have mobilized to rush assistance to Indonesia’s island of Java where at least 4,900 people are reported to have been killed and another 200,000 left homeless by a powerful earthquake near the city of Yogyakarta.Read more…