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Drugs Don’t Cure Leprosy
Drugs to not cure leprosy. I can almost hear it now. Doctors, researchers and other leprosy experts who read this title are asking, “What’s wrong with this fellow? Doesn’t he know anything about...
View ArticleCANADA
The Canadian Foodgrains Bank, owned by thirteen Canadian church agencies, is responding to the food crisis which is impacting nearly twelve million people in southern Africa. More than 6,500 metric...
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Christian leaders in Zimbabwe have launched a new HIV/AIDS policy for churches in this southern African country of 12.7 million people, where the pandemic kills an average of 2,000 people every week....
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The five-year “Unite for Children. Unite Against AIDS” campaign was recently launched by leaders of UNICEF, UNAIDS and other global HIV/AIDS organizations. The campaign is a worldwide effort to raise...
View ArticleZAMBIA
Seven major faith groups have signed a communique stating their plans to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS in Zambia. The document was signed at the First Zambian Open Day for Care and Compassion for People...
View ArticleSixth Asia Lausanne Conference on Evangelism
The Executive Committee of Asia Lausanne invites everyone to the Sixth Asia Lausanne Conference on Evangelism (ALCOE VI). ALCOE VI will be held 22-26 May 2006 at the Legend Villas, Mandaluyong City,...
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The Alaska Baptist Convention (ABC) recently marked sixty years of ministry in the northwestern state. The meeting’s theme, “Light Up Alaska,” encompassed the mission’s emphasis on missions, prayer and...
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IN THIS ISSUE…HIV/AIDS and the Gospel and Other Issues of Global Interest
HIV/AIDS and the Gospel Peoples of the WorldHIV/AIDS Home-Based Care in Nairobi
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After more than twenty-five years, the Gullah people now have a completed New Testament. For decades, translators with JAARS have been working with the Gullah people, descendants of West African slaves...
View ArticleTrans World Radio and Kerus Global Education Unite to Mobilize African Youth...
Every day 14,000 Africans become infected with HIV/AIDS. In an effort to counter the spread of this unrelenting enemy on the continent, international Christian broadcaster Trans World Radio (TWR) and...
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HIV/AIDS and the Church: We Cannot Look the Other Way
Only a few days ago, we lost another little child. One of his friends had been praying for him, just as he had prayed for two other friends, Kamau and Kimani. Now, this friend was gone too. “But I...
View ArticleGlobal AIDS and World Evangelization
During the 2004 Lausanne Conference in Pattaya, Thailand, the study group meeting to discuss holistic mission turned their attention to the AIDS pandemic as the most urgent of world concerns needing...
View ArticleRUSSIA
With United Nations reports stating that Russia has one of the highest HIV/AIDS growth rates in the world, the Russian Orthodox Church has launched a new program to combat the epidemic. The program...
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He Intends Victory a Paradigm for the Acceptance of the Church in HIV/AIDS
“I really think it’s best if you don’t come back to church here anymore!” Can you imagine what it’s like to hear those words from your pastor? You may wonder what you did to deserve excommunication....
View ArticleThe North American Church’s Role in HIV/AIDS Care
The issue of HIV/AIDS in the world today is so large that it may appear beyond hope. According to the UNAIDS/WHO 2004 AIDS Epidemic Update, there are more than 13,400 new infections and 8,400 deaths...
View ArticleQATAR
For the first time since the arrival of Islam in the seventh century, a Christian church, headed by Scottish archdeacon Ven Ian Young, will be built in conservative Muslim Qatar. Work on the Anglican...
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International Orality Network 2005 Annual Working Conference: Making...
A provocative call to radically rethink our communication of the gospel was the central theme of the 2005 International Orality Network (ION) Annual Working Conference held recently in Anaheim, CA,...
View ArticleThe Rise (and Fall?) of HIV
An estimated thirty-eight million adults and children are infected with HIV/AIDS today; twenty million have died from the disease so far. By 2050, some 297 million people the equivalent of the entire...
View ArticlePAKISTAN
Reeling from the 8 October 7.6 magnitude earthquake which left tens of thousands dead and millions homeless, Pakistan may now be facing more catastrophes–widespread disease and illness, a lack of...
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HIV/AIDS Home-Based Care in Nairobi
Over one and half million people live in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. That is half the city’s population. More than 300,000 people are crowded together in Karagoche, Nairobi’s worst slum. Families live...
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