The sprawling area of Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has endured three big fires in the span of three months, leaving 75,000 homeless, hundreds injured, and missing, and many dead.
Heavy rain and flooding killed three people in northern Haiti last week. To make matter worse, many Haitians now face starvation due to crop damage.
Gujarat becomes the third Indian state in three months to pass anti-conversion legislation. Uttar Pradesh led the way in February with its Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Bill 2021, and Madhya Pradesh followed in March. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rules all three states.
The fallout from COVID-19 lockdowns is severe. See our full coronavirus coverage here. Millions have been forced into extreme poverty. Suicide and domestic abuse rates hit record-setting highs across the globe.
Osama bin Laden, who helped plan the 9/11 terror attacks, was killed in 2011. Ever since, his compound in Abbottabad, Iraq has sat in ruins. Some want it transformed into a playground for children. Others think it should become a cemetery.
This week, India became the world’s second-largest COVID-19 hotspot outside of the United States. Brazil leads non-U.S. nations with more than 13 million cases.
Kenya, near the border of Somalia, has become an increasingly dangerous place for Christians. Unrest and violence tend to spill over from Somalia, and Kenya does not monitor the border closely.
Floods and landslides have killed over 150 in East Timor, Indonesia. Rescuers continue searching for as many as 70 missing people. See video footage of the disaster here.
Translating God’s Word is not a cushy office job with regular hours. Every day presents a new challenge for Indonesian Bible translators, Wycliffe USA’s Melissa Stillman says. “Many of the translation team members have a full-time job. They have family commitments, and they’re working to translate Scripture,” she […]
God is moving mightily in the Muslim world, and Ramadan is the perfect time for Him to show up. Each year during this Islamic holy month, Muslims worldwide fast from sunrise to sunset and intently study the Quran. More Ramadan headlines here.
One of Asia’s largest humanitarian agencies is calling on Christians to pray for Myanmar’s suffering people in the throes of the South Asia nation’s bloody military coup.
Over two months have passed since Myanmar’s military seized power of the country from the elected government. In that time, well over 500 people have been killed. Read more here.
