ROMANIA

The Apostolic Church of God in Romania recently celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Pentecostal Theological Institute in Bucharest, the church’s primary training school for ministers. The school opened in 1976 when Romania was still under theRead more…

THAILAND

A team of fifty volunteers and Asia Challenge Teams workers in northeast Thailand recently traveled to three rural areas unreached with the gospel. Over one thousand people attended three days of makeshift clinics and no one was turned away. BesidesRead more…

SCOTLAND

The first ordained woman to be named to the top position of the Church of Scotland says she hopes to promote Christian unity during her year in office. “I will definitely be focusing on Christian denominations. That will be theRead more…

POLAND

The general assembly of the European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) and the European Evangelical Missionary Alliance recently launched the Polish Evangelical Alliance‘s (PEA) Ì¢‰âÒYear of Evangelical Christians in Poland,Ì¢‰âÂå with a firm belief that there is still great hope for ChristianityRead more…

INDIA

Bless Bihar Conference 2006 was held in Siwan 26-29 October 2006. More than four hundred delegates attended. Every day, after the morning worship the participants were separated into three different groups as workers, believers and Sunday school children. Classes forRead more…

ECUADOR

Despite that fact that officials of the stadium in Quito scheduled a soccer game for the same night as the 21-23 September 2006 Franklin Graham Festival was to start, more than fourteen thousand people gave their lives to Christ atRead more…

CHINA

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says he believes that in some regions in China the percentage of the population attending church on Sundays is as large as or even larger than that in most western European countries. “The astonishing andRead more…

AUSTRALIA

Church leaders in Tasmania, Australia, announced that they would run the first statewide Ì¢‰âÒJesus. All about lifeÌ¢‰âÂå (JAAL) campaign in September/October 2007. JAAL, developed by Bible Society NSW, was held in Adelaide in August 2005 and in Canberra in March/AprilRead more…

AROUND THE WORLD

Dr. Jim Montgomery, founder of Dawn Ministries and a missionary for OC International, passed away 29 October 2006 after a prolonged bout with cancer. Montgomery and his wife joined OC in April 1958; they spent four years in Taiwan andRead more…

AROUND THE WORLD

Lowell Nelson Reed was recently named the new international director for Action International Ministries (ACTION), a position he officially takes up 9 March 2007. Reed, currently the associate international director and Southeast Asia regional coordinator for ACTION, will be succeedingRead more…

An Overview of Eastern Africa

Saddled with debt and riddled with corruption, the countries in Eastern Africa today are broken and impoverished, with half to three-quarters of their people living in poverty.Read more…