1,000 wells around the world
AKDESÉ, Haiti — In this remote mountain village, water gushes from a well drilled by Healing Hands International. As one woman pumps the handle, another gleefully…
International
For Korea, ‘God has a timetable’
Will it happen or not? When will it happen? And if it does happen, will anything change? Christians on the Korean peninsula waver between oh-so-cautious…
Online learning, old school
PRETORIA, South Africa — This isn’t Wakanda, the dazzling, high-tech African kingdom depicted in the blockbuster film “Black Panther.” But Pretoria is, nonetheless, an ever-modernizing metropolis,…
Around the World: New life and big crowds in central Africa
FEATURE PHOTO (above): In the central African town of Dona Manga, Chad, villagers witness one of 26 baptisms during a recent, two-day gospel meeting. Steve Worley,…
Spotlight: A rut-less church in South America
SANTIAGO, Chile — Churches of Christ can easily fall into a “rut,” said Bob Young. The Oklahoma minister and missions consultant to Spanish-speaking nations has…
A journey to the Scotland of the South Pacific
Here, it’s really another world,” Christophe Zamord said of his new home, the South Pacific islands known as New Caledonia. That’s where he and his…
Europeans pray and plan for church in Luxembourg
LUXEMBOURG — “Churches of Christ begin worship in Luxembourg,” announced a front-page headline in The Christian Chronicle in 1993. The story detailed a campaign by…
Brazilian church leader Alaor Leite dies
Alaor Leite, a man who helped dozens of missionaries in Brazil, died early Friday following complications from a surgery earlier this week. He was 75.…
Soul searching across the Sahara
DIFEMOU, Mali — There’s no electricity and no school in this small farming community near the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Girls as young as…
Around the World: Elders appointed and church reopens
FEATURE PHOTO (above): A few of the graduates of the SerCris program in Campo Grande, Brazil, celebrate. BRAZIL CAMPO GRANDE — Christians in this city…
