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Countries: Ukraine, Latvia, Moldova, Romania . President, Today marks four and a half years since the Russian Federation launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in blatant violation of the Charter of the United Nations and international law. For four and a half years, this w...
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On August 4, 2020, an explosion at the Port of Beirut devastated Lebanon’s capital, becoming one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. The blast killed more than 200 people, injured more than 6,000, and damaged or destroyed thousands of homes, schools, hospitals...
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. Photo : Antoine Lemonnier/OIM 2026. Oulan-Bator, 24 août 2026 – À la dix-septième session de la Conférence des Parties à la Convention des Nations Unies sur la lutte contre la désertification (CNULCD COP17), l'Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) appelle à des ...
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. Foto: Antoine Lemonnier/OIM 2026. Ulán Bator, 24 de agosto de 2026 – En el decimoséptimo período de sesiones de la Conferencia de las Partes en la Convención de las Naciones Unidas de Lucha contra la Desertificación (COP17 de la CNULD), la Organización Internacional para las Mi...
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. Ahead of the Council’s 63rd session (7 September-7 October 2026), we, the undersigned civil society organisations, write to stress the importance of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burundi and urge your delegation to support a new extensi...
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Across Lebanon, communities continue to face insecurity, displacement, and humanitarian needs. Since early March 2026, renewed violence has affected multiple areas of the country, including Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Bekaa Valley, and South Lebanon. Children are bearing...
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. Mission conjointe d'évaluation organisée par le Cluster Education dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du projet « Réponse intégrée à l'Éducation d'urgence dans l'Est de la RDC», financé par Education Cannot Wait (ECW) et mis en œuvre par le consortium composé de War Child Allianc...
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. Mission conjointe d'évaluation organisée par le Cluster Education dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du projet « Réponse intégrée à l'Éducation d'urgence dans l'Est de la RDC», financé par Education Cannot Wait (ECW) et mis en œuvre par le consortium composé de War Child Allianc...
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. Acute malnutrition among children under five was low. Chronic malnutrition, or stunting - an indicator of impaired linear growth that reflects cumulative nutritional and health conditions over time - affected 12.2 per cent of children under five. Overweight affected 4.0 per cen...
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. On 10 August 2026 at 07:34 local time, a magnitude 7.4 (Mw) earthquake struck western Colombia, with its epicentre located approximately 20 km from San José del Palmar in the department of Chocó. According to the Servicio Geológico Colombiano, the earthquake occurred at an esti...
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. In July 2026, Gender-Based Violence (GBV) risks across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) States were driven by conflict, food insecurity, camp closures, and the ongoing cholera outbreak. During the June–August lean season, 6.4 million people BAY States were projected to face severe...
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.7-magnitude earthquake struck Flores, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), children are still facing serious health, protection and psychosocial risks as families remain displaced and aftershocks continue. According to Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) reported 161,084...
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. Through their testimonies, women and girls described GBV as a pervasive part of everyday life in Yemen. Conflict, economic collapse, displacement, and restrictive gender norms intersect to shape women’s and girls’ safety, mobility, opportunities, and participation in public lif...
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. August 24th, 2026 ― Doha, Qatar: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has launched a large-scale ophthalmology and anti-blindness campaign in Niger, aimed at giving the most vulnerable populations better access to specialized ophthalmology services. Being implemented by Niger’s Na...
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. On average, since 2020, an aid worker has been arrested or detained almost every day Every year on 19 August, World Humanitarian Day focuses attention on the risks faced by humanitarian personnel. In the last three years, more than 1,000 aid workers have been killed and many ot...
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Countries: Bangladesh, Myanmar . A Decade On, We Must Not Allow the Rohingya Crisis to Become Normal Anil Pant Interim Country Director, Oxfam in Bangladesh Nearly a decade after the large-scale Rohingya influx of 2017, one of the greatest risks is not that the world has forgotte...
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Countries: Bangladesh, Myanmar . HOLDING SERVICES, PROTECTING DIGNITY Anil Pant Interim Country Director Oxfam in Bangladesh As the Rohingya crisis enters its tenth year, the response in Cox’s Bazar remains a critical need. What began as a humanitarian emergency has become a prol...
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. Executive summary The Special Fund for Emergency and Resilience Activities (SFERA) enables the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to take rapid and effective action in response to food and agricultural threats and emergencies. SFERA has three componen...
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. This snapshot provides an extract from International Migrant Worker Survey (Round 7) conducted by the Mobility Tracking Matrix (MTM) in Kazakhstan from July to September 2025. This snapshot is produced with a focus on Uzbek nationals working in Kazakhstan. MTM is a system that ...
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. IOM Yemen DTM’s Rapid Displacement Tracking (RDT) tool collects data on estimated numbers of households forced to flee on a daily basis from their locations of origin or displacement, allowing for regular reporting of new displacements in terms of estimated numbers, geography, ...
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. Qatar Charity's Sri Lanka Office has successfully completed a major vision care initiative under its global health programs as part of the Challenge 27 Campaign, bringing renewed hope and improved quality of life to hundreds of vulnerable individuals across the country. With a ...
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For children in conflict-affected areas of the Middle East, the sounds of armed violence have become a heartbreaking part of daily life. Schools that once provided safety and learning have closed, and many classrooms have turned into makeshift shelters. Millions of children face ...
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. Using data collected by Insecurity Insight, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) identified 134 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Sudan in 2025. Among the incidents, health facilities were damaged or destroyed 40 times, 54 health wor...
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What hope is there for blinded hearts? John Piper opens 2 Corinthians 4:4–6 to show that God grants sight by shining Christ’s glory within.Watch Now
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Does eternal punishment in hell bring God glory? Pastor John challenges the rejection of God’s judgment by pointing to his unmerited mercies and perfect righteousness.Listen Now...
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When we think about early Christianity, we often imagine a group of radical believers huddled in a shadowy catacomb, communicating surreptitiously to avoid Roman persecution. In the popular imagination, somehow these tiny churches survived and spread little by little until Consta...
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“I’m not an intellectual—theology isn’t for me,” replied my friend from church when I invited her to join a theology reading group. I get why she turned me down. Our church community has plenty of theology “professionals,” folks with advanced degrees who work in the academy or se...
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The question isn't simply whether AI is good or bad, but good or bad for whom? This episode with Joshua Baru is shaped by that question. Joshua is an AI researcher and data science lead in Nairobi, Kenya, and he brings a perspective too often missing from Western AI conversations...
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Few if any technologies in history have spawned such wildly different predictions as artificial intelligence. In a single week, you might hear one expert prophesy AI as the end of humanity, another herald it as the solution to all scarcity, and a third dismiss it as overhyped non...
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Morocco (MNN)—In late July, an estimated 50-60,000 Moroccans surged the border into Ceuta, a Spanish enclave. In Ceuta, the migrants faced severe racism, lack of shelter, and violence. Most have since been returned to Morocco. Some of these migrants were fueled to leave Morocco d...
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Afghanistan (MNN) — August marks five years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. What has happened to the nation since the 2021 takeover, and how is God working in the midst of it? While the Taliban’s military rule appears entrenched, conditions are worse for the averag...
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International (MNN) — About 15 years ago, unfoldingWord released Open Bible Stories (OBS) as one of the first open-license ministry resources. OBS has been translated into roughly 214 languages worldwide since then. 98 are available in audio, and 118 in text, with numbers increas...
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Carey Moore is a fourth-generation Memphian. But she was in her 60s before she first visited the neighborhood of Orange Mound. Originally a family plantation, the land was purchased by developer E. E. Meacham and subdivided in 1890. He sold the plots to African American families,...
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The war against abortion did not begin with the now-overturned 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. From the church’s earliest days, church fathers taught “life for life” restitution for the death of an unborn child (Exodus 21:23–25) and cited David’s praise for God forming “my inward part...
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From the moment I was diagnosed with a glioblastoma, we began to hear stories. Stories of people who had lived 5, 10, even 14 years with the same kind of tumor. The intention was to encourage us that, even though the doctors warn that I have a short time left to live, people have...
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On September 11, 2012, Islamist fighters attacked a United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Four Americans were killed in that attack. Just a few months later, Ronnie and Anita Smith, a young American couple, moved to Benghazi with their infant son. Their goal was t...
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Why does the same gospel message offend some and delight others? Because the message of Christ crucified lands only on those whom God has called.Watch Now...
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Every August in the United States, nearly twenty million college students go back to campus. Go back. It’s an interesting phrase. Go back sounds like the language of retreat, regression, or returning to where you once were. Sadly, that’s exactly what many people expect the colleg...
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–92) wrote more words in English than any Christian to date. His published sermons alone span 70 thick volumes, containing more than 4,000 sermons. In less than 40 years, Spurgeon published approximately 150 books. His literary output was, in a word, ...
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A growing tribalism in evangelicalism has made a lot of Christian leaders and their followers skeptical of one another. When I was a younger pastor, just coming out of seminary, movements like The Gospel Coalition and Together for the Gospel were just getting started. While they ...
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The arrest and detention of Pastor Dedi Saputra in February 2026 have continued to spark prolonged public debate in Indonesia. Saputra is an Aceh native who converted to Christianity and resides in Bengkayang, West Kalimantan. The Aceh Regional Police arrested him on allegations ...
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Why didn’t you cover XYZ? This is a common question for journalists, including at CT. A buzzy news story goes around, perhaps with some connection to Christianity, and our readers wonder—fairly!—why we don’t have the story when other outlets do. In my experience, readers often gu...
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Crowds walked through metal detectors and into the navy pews of Greater St. John African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church on Wednesday evening to celebrate what would have been Nolan Wells’s 19th birthday in a service that included worship, prayer, and calls for truth about how t...
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Families Pack School Supplies in Shoebox Gifts for Children in Need BOONE, N.C.—As the summer season comes to an end, local families are preparing for the school year with back-to-school sales, but many families are not just shopping for their own children. Families are col...
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Do you delight to fear God? The servants of the Lord on earth do. The saints before the throne of God do. Even Jesus does. Scripture makes it clear that, for those in right relationship with God, the fear of God is a particular kind of delight in God, a full-proof pleasure that r...
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From our member-exclusive livestream on August 6, hosted by CT deputy editor Bonnie Kristian and featuring Justin Giboney. They discuss Justin’s recent article, “Working Out the Grand Experiment,” and explore how the American church can move beyond culture-war gridlock to model g...
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Can the devil act outside Christ’s rule? John Piper opens Mark 1:27 to show that evil spirits obey Jesus’s command.Watch Now
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This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Charlotte and Andrew Ollerton, God’s Story, Our Story: A Family Journey Through the Bible (The Good Book Company, 2026) God’s Story, Our Story is a fun and energetic journey through the Bible, designed for parents...
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Andrew Hartley bikes to work, eats a plant-based diet, and involves himself in multiple organizations that help him do what he thinks the Bible tells him to do: care for the Earth. His employer, Hartley argues in a new lawsuit filed last week, does not share his mission. Now he i...
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Discipleship begins in the home, and one of the best ways to do this is to study the Bible as a family. Creating a regular habit of spending time together in God’s Word invites children to learn through both their parents’ instruction and their personal experience how to read, in...
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India (MNN) – India’s monsoon season may be lighter than usual this year, but the rains have still left a mark. Since July, flooding and landslides have killed at least 100 people and left families facing the difficult task of rebuilding what they’ve lost. Raina Miller with Missi...
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Syria (MNN) — Israel and Türkiye face off over Syria as the United States plays peacemaker. Meanwhile, Gospel workers eye a potential storm and offer hope to the downtrodden. Earlier this week, Israel bombed a Syrian airbase where it said Turkish troops were about to deploy. The...
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Japan (MNN) — As the latest disaster in southern Japan triggers difficult memories, local Christians step in to help survivors. Trauma resurfaces A series of strong earthquakes shook Kumamoto, Japan, in April 2016. On July 28, 2026, a pair of earthquakes struck the same area – on...
