Some of the stories that come across the desk of civil rights attorney Jarrett Adams can be both heartbreaking and infuriating. However, he understands the task at hand and is fully committed to seeking justice for those who have been wronged.
Christian charity Help The Persecuted recently discovered that a young man who had been living in one of their Safe Houses in the Middle East received a bullet in the post with a note saying:
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden”—Matthew 5:14 (ESV).
In 2018, the incoming class at Columbia Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) seminary in the tree-lined suburbs of Atlanta, was 47% white and 16% Black. Just three years later, a 2021 admissions brochure advertised an incoming class that was more than 64% Black and 32% white.
State governments have become the new battleground for abortion rights in the United States. Nearly half of all 50 states currently protect abortion access, while “trigger laws” banning abortion went into effect in 11 states when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The second annual International Religious Freedom Summit concludes in the U.S. capital today. More about that here.
Roughly half of the Ukrainians who fled to another country when Russia invaded have now returned, but the number of people displaced by conflict inside Ukraine remains high at 6.2 million.
Flooding has killed dozens in northeast Bangladesh. It’s the worst flooding in over a century for the South Asian nation. Thousands have lost their homes and all their property.
Colombia has elected its first ever leftist president. Gustavo Petro, a former rebel, served as a senator for many years in South America’s second-largest country. He received more than 50 percent of the vote, beating out an influential businessman.
Christian leaders around the world need space to rest and reflect on God’s love.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has cut off the supply of wheat to many countries in Africa and the Middle East. The Russians blockaded Ukrainian Black Sea ports, leaving last year’s wheat harvest to rot in warehouses.
For decades, evangelical and Catholic communities in Lebanon have lived in their own bubbles.
