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Colombia: Flash Update 009 - Update on the Impact of the Earthquake in Colombia - August 24, 2026
. SITUATION OVERVIEW Following up on the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck at 7:34 a.m. on 10 August 2026 in the municipality of San José del Palmar, Chocó, the event caused impacts across 15 departments and 494 municipalities. Since its occurrence, 332 aftershocks have been r...
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oPt: “No healthcare worker should have to choose between speaking out and detention”: MAP demands release of Dr Dima and detained Palestinian healthcare workers
. Her detention has since been extended despite her undergoing cardiac catheterisation in custody and, according to her lawyer, spending several days in solitary confinement. Aseel Baidoun, MAP’s Deputy Director of Advocacy and Communications, based in Ramallah, said: “What is ha...
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Ukraine: Ctrl+SAFE: Empowering Children, Parents, Caregivers and Digital Service Providers for a Safe and Responsible Use of Digital Services
. Current risks regarding child safety online This section provides an overview of the risks and challenges affecting children and young people (1117 years old) in the digital environment in Ukraine. Overall Landscape of Risks The most prevalent online risks for children in Ukrai...
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The Gambia — Climate Vulnerability Assessment I Migration and climate change - August 2026 Data collection period: November 2025 - February 2026
. INTRODUCTION The Gambia, like many countries in West Africa, is increasingly affected by the consequences of climate change and environmental degradation. Changing rain patterns, rising temperatures, recurrent droughts, floods and land degradation threaten the livelihoods and f...
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Ethiopia: A Long Road to Care - Supporting Patients at Maiani General Hospital in Tigray
. Maiani General Hospital, run by the Ministry of Health and supported by Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF), was severely affected during the conflict and now serves around 250,000 people in Sheraro and surrounding communities. MSF began supporting the hosp...
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What Your Generosity Made Possible
When Christianity Today launched The One Kingdom Campaign, the Church was navigating deep division, cultural upheaval, political polarization, and spiritual uncertainty. We believed there was an opportunity to help the Church rediscover the beauty of Christ and his kingdom. Becau...
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COI Report - Sudan: Country Focus - August 2026
. The purpose of this report is to provide relevant information for the assessment of applications for international protection from Sudanese nationals, and in particular for use in updating EUAA’s Country Guidance on Sudan. The report covers the period of 22 March 2025 – 30 Apri...
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South Sudan: UNHCR - IOM Sudan Emergency Response I Vulnerability Profiling of Families
Countries: South Sudan, Sudan .
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UNHCR South Sudan - New Arrivals Population Tracking - Sudan Situation - 31 July 2026
Countries: South Sudan, Sudan .
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South Sudan Refugees and Asylum-seekers I Persons with Specific Needs - 31 July 2026
Countries: South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan .
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South Sudan: Sudan Situation - Refugees and Asylum-seekers Movement and Presence - 31 July 2026
Countries: South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan .
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South Sudan - Refugee, Returnee and IDP Population Map - 31 July 2026
Countries: South Sudan, Sudan .
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South Sudan - Refugee Population in Upper Nile State - 31 July 2026
Countries: South Sudan, Sudan .
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Bangladesh: Children arrive sicker, later, and harder to save at MSF’s Kutupalong hospital in Rohingya camps
Countries: Bangladesh, Myanmar . Children arrive at medical facilities later, sicker, and with complex, overlapping physical and psychological health needs. Nine years after fleeing extreme violence in Myanmar, children make up more than half of the 1.3 million refugees living in...
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World: Financing Nutrition at Scale: Capital Market Strategies for Investors
. Financing Nutrition at Scale: Capital Market Strategies for Investors explores how investors can help close the global nutrition financing gap by integrating nutrition into climate, agrifood, health and sustainable finance strategies. Developed by the SUN Movement under the Ini...
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Case study: Cultivating Nutrition in Honduras - Community solutions for a changing climate
. Honduras has spent twenty years building a policy framework to fight malnutrition, and since joining the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement in 2019 that framework has been strengthened by a 45-institution multi-stakeholder platform spanning agriculture, health, education and s...
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Yemen: Situation Update: Marib, Al Makha and Taiz Areas
. Highlights 9 civilians reportedly killed and 54 injured due to reported escalation across Marib, Ta’iz and west coast areas. 162 households displaced across Ta’iz, Al Hodeidah, Lahj and Marib. Al Makha Port suspended operations; shelter damage reported in Marib. Pressure on hea...
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Myanmar: ASEAN Weekly Disaster Update Week 34 | 17 - 23 August 2026
Countries: Myanmar, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic (the), Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam . REGIONAL SUMMARY: During the thirty-fourth week of 2026, a total of 9 disaster events were reported across ASEAN, including droughts, floods, landslides, storms, and wind-rela...
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South Sudan - Refugee and Asylum-seeker Population
Countries: South Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan .
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Hospitals overwhelmed as child malnutrition surges across Afghanistan
. “It’s a crisis which disproportionally affects the youngest and most vulnerable: nearly 40 per cent of children admitted to hospital with severe wasting and medical complications are babies under six months old. Children under two account for 83 per cent of severe acute malnutr...
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The Mystery and Glory of God’s Name
ABSTRACT: God introduced himself to Moses by a divine name, YHWH. This name appears in various translations as Jehovah, Yahweh, and the LORD, but it always suggests the doctrine of divine aseity. Jewish tradition avoided pronouncing the divine name, leading to the New Testament a...
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1 Corinthians 1:18–25, Part 4: Philosophy and Oratory Are Powerless to Pay for Sin
Eloquence and cleverness cannot deliver us from God’s wrath. Only the death of Christ on behalf of sinners can turn condemnation into justification.Watch Now...
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Our God Hosts Parties and Tells Jokes
In an art museum in the beautiful Tuscan city of Siena hangs a 500-year-old oil painting that captures nearly everything that is wrong with our view of God. It was painted in 1513 by the Renaissance artist Domenico Beccafumi as an altarpiece for a hospital chapel and entitled the...
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The Malnourished Ministry of Relational AI
E. M. Forster’s 1909 short story “The Machine Stops” depicts a dystopian world of individuals kept apart from one another in pods. The culture Forster imagined discourages leaving one’s pod for embodied, human interaction, and—relieved of the need to work and having learned to fr...
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Died: Bryant Myers, Who Walked with the Poor
Bryant Myers passed away on August 15 after many years of helping Christian relief and development organizations, seminaries, churches, and practitioners see poverty and the people experiencing it in new ways. He worked in both the practical setting of World Vision and the academ...
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UNHCR Afghanistan Situation Regional Update July 2026
Countries: Afghanistan, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Pakistan . Operational Update Afghanistan’s operating environment in July remained fluid, as large-scale returns from Pakistan and Iran continued alongside heightened regional tensions and insecurity in several parts of the coun...
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DR Congo: République démocratique du Congo: 17ème CRISE MVE - Paquet harmonise PCI/WASH pour les interventions dans le secteur
. Le Cluster a mené une démarche participative avec la contribution des acteurs des secteurs de l’Éducation, de la Protection de l’Enfance, du WASH ainsi qu’OCHA, avec l’appui technique des spécialistes de SCI, de l’UNICEF et du NRC pour mettre en place un paquet minimum consensu...
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DR Congo: Ebola- Paquet minimum kit PCI/WASH pour les écoles
. Le Cluster a mené une démarche participative avec la contribution des acteurs des secteurs de l’Éducation, de la Protection de l’Enfance, du WASH ainsi qu’OCHA, avec l’appui technique des spécialistes de SCI, de l’UNICEF et du NRC pour mettre en place un paquet minimum consensu...
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AMDA Emergency Relief #8: Kumamoto Earthquake, Japan - 25 August 2026
. In response to the massive earthquake that struck Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture on 28 July 2026, AMDA has been continuing to provide medical support at the evacuation shelter established at Yatsushiro Municipal Daiyon Junior High School in Yatsushiro City, one of the hardest-hit ...
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World: Epidemic and emerging disease alerts in the Pacific as of 25 August 2026
Countries: World, Australia, New Caledonia (France), New Zealand, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, United States of America, Vanuatu . Highlights/updates since the last map was sent on PacNet on 18 August 2026: Dengue • American Samoa: As of 11 August 2026, a cumulative total of 1,044 labora...
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Supporting recovery in Afghanistan: The role of principled development support and engagement - INTERSOS Position Paper (August 2026)
. Afghanistan: Development assistance is necessary to build long-term change INTERSOS calls for a shift in international engagement to combine life-saving assistance with principled, targeted development support Afghanistan remains one of the world’s most severe and protracted cr...
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Syria: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict 2025 [EN/AR]
. Using data collected by Insecurity Insight, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) identified 74 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Syria in 2025. Among the incidents, 22 health workers were killed, 21 arrested and ten kidnapped. The ac...
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Myanmar: Taw Oo District Short Update: Three forcibly recruited villagers escaped Boo M’Tee army camp in Htaw Ta Htoo Township (January 2026)
. This Short Update describes events occurring in Htaw Ta Htoo (Htantabin) Township, Taw Oo (Toungoo) District. In August 2025, a man named A--- was forcibly recruited in Maubin Town, Ayeyarwady Region, after a group of armed men approached him in an unknown vehicle and forced hi...
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WFP Yemen Country Brief, July 2026
. HIGHLIGHTS The food security situation continues to deteriorate, with 36 percent of the population facing severe food deprivation. As hostilities flare along the frontlines, WFP is maintaining a high level of operational preparedness and is actively reviewing its contingency ar...
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Colombia - Earthquake: LTC Telecoms Situation Report #01 (Reporting period: 11 - 24 August 2026)
. This Situation Report provides an overview of the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck Colombia on 10 August 2026 and its impact on telecommunications. It outlines the activities of the WFP-led Logistics and Telecommunications Cluster (LTC) 1 Telecoms Area in supporting emergen...
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Why Pascal’s Wager Still Pays Off (with Graham Tomlin)
The patron saint of cultural apologetics is Augustine of Hippo, author most famously of City of God and Confessions. Second place is up for debate. But you’ll get a lot of votes for a 17th-century disciple of Augustine, the Frenchman Blaise Pascal. Graham Tomlin describes Pascal ...
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Myanmar: Taw Oo District Situation Update: Burma Army shelling, arrests, and militarisation; drug issues; and challenges to education, transportation, and livelihood in Daw Hpah Hkoh Township (January to March 2026)
. This Situation Update describes events occurring in Daw Hpah Hkoh (Thandaunggyi) Township, Taw Oo (Toungoo) District. During the period from January to March 2026, the Burma Army shelled villages, killing two villagers and injuring four villagers. Then, the Burma Army Belu Colu...
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Separation of Church and Therapy?
We all live in a world influenced by therapy culture, whether or not we’ve been to therapy ourselves. We see evidence of therapy culture online and in popular songs, TV shows, movies, and books, and we can likely find traces of it coming out of our own mouths. Embedded in it is t...
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Scripture in sign language is changing Deaf people’s perception of God
International (MNN) — What if you never knew that God could understand your prayers? According to Rob Myers of DOOR International, that is the experience of many in the Deaf community, one of the most marginalized and unreached people groups with the Gospel. Myers says that heari...
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Iraq’s government cracks down on rampant corruption while the church ministers to those affected
Iraq (MNN) — Corruption is a huge problem in Iraq, but could things be changing? The “Dawn Crackdown,” which began at dawn on June 28 under the new prime minister and has continued for the months since, has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of embezzled money. Rece...
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Pakistan raid forces Gospel worker into hiding
Pakistan (MNN) — A Gospel worker is on the run in Pakistan following a military intelligence raid. Security forces confiscated studio equipment during last week’s raid on an underground recording studio operated by FMI. “This is not a simple ministry inconvenience,” explains an F...
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2 Witnesses of Revelation 11: A Case for Symbolism
Revelation 11 depicts “two witnesses” who minister for “1,260 days.” These witnesses possess authority to “[consume] their foes” with “fire” that comes from “their mouth.” They also “have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall” and “to turn [waters] into blood” and “str...
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UNICEF Nigeria Humanitarian Situation Report No.1 (Mid -Year), 30 June 2026
. Highlights Armed conflict, banditry, communal violence, food insecurity and persistent malnutrition, disease outbreaks, including earlier than usual cholera outbreaks and floods deepened needs during the first half of 2026, with 5.9 million people facing severe humanitarian nee...
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GIEWS Country Brief: Lesotho 24-August-2026
. FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Heavy rains curb 2026 cereal production Increased import needs in 2026/27 Food inflation stable, supported by low cereal prices Reduced harvest limits improvements in acute food insecurity in 2026 Heavy rains curb 2026 cereal production Harvesting of the ...
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NDMA Pakistan - Monsoon 2026 Daily Situation Report No. 60 (24 August 2026)
. NDMA Monsoon 2026 Daily Situation Report No 60, covering period from 1300 hours 23 August to 1300 hours 24 August 2026 along with following data as per Annexures as shown against each is enclosed....
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Secretary of State Sarai concludes visit to Lebanon and Jordan and announces funding for international assistance
Countries: Lebanon, Canada, Jordan . During the visit, Secretary of State Sarai announced almost $80 million in international assistance funding for Lebanon and Jordan, helping address urgent humanitarian needs while advancing human rights, inclusive economic opportunity and food...
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Zambia: IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analysis April 2026 - March 2027 (Published on 24 August 2026)
. Overview An estimated 698,000 people across 93 of the 116 districts in Zambia—representing 4 percent of the analysed population—are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) during the April–September 2026 current period. This represents a signifi...