. Key Highlights The cost of living in April 2026, as measured by the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB), remained stable at Old SYP 2.66 million compared to the previous month. Despite being 22 percent higher than its value in April 2025. The Syrian pound depreciated in the parallel market, with the
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Last month the state of Arkansas, at the direction of Republican governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, launched a new prenatal and pregnancy health program through a network of Arkansas Health Units. In an effort to improve prenatal health and reduce infant and maternal mortality, the state is now offeri
Do people know what it means to be Protestant? It’s a question that has long flummoxed researchers who study American religion through surveys. In a poll conducted between 2019 and 2021, 25-year-old respondents were about three times more likely to identify their faith tradition as “just Christian”
Should pastors expose every fresh cultural outrage from the pulpit? Pastor John encourages pastors to condemn sin without being consumed.Listen Now
. HIGHLIGHTS Insecurity leads to an increase in basic commodity prices in Zemio 850 returnees receive multisectoral assistance in Ouham-Pendé Bria: Humanitarian actors assess urgent needs of CAR returnees from Sudan GENERAL CONTEXT Haut-Mbomou Prefecture – South-East For over a year, the deteriorati
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Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda . Overview of the outbreak • A new Ebola virus disease outbreak was declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on 15 May and as of 2 June, WHO has reported 344 confirmed cases, six recoveries and 60 deaths, including two internally disp
Countries: World, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo . This Regional Trends Summary of forced displacement in West and Central Africa presents forced displacement statist
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. The National Mental Health Programme (NMHP) at the Ministry of Public Health continues to lead and coordinate the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Coordination Group, co-chaired by WHO and UNICEF, with 100+ partner actors integrating MHPSS across sectors in Lebanon's emergency respon
. The National Mental Health Programme (NMHP) at the Ministry of Public Health continues to lead and coordinate the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Coordination Group, co-chaired by WHO and UNICEF, with 100+ partner actors integrating MHPSS across sectors in Lebanon's emergency respon
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. Key Highlights The cost of living in April 2026, as measured by the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB), remained stable at Old SYP 2.66 million compared to the previous month. Despite being 22 percent higher than its value in April 2025. The Syrian pound depreciated in the parallel market, with the
. Key Highlights The cost of living in April 2026, as measured by the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB), remained stable at Old SYP 2.66 million compared to the previous month. Despite being 22 percent higher than its value in April 2025. The Syrian pound depreciated in the parallel market, with the
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Countries: Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, United States of America . Regional Overview During the second half of 2025, refugee and migrant movements across Latin America and the Caribbean were increasingly shaped
Countries: Colombia, Argentina, Aruba (The Netherlands), Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Curaçao (The Netherlands), Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) . These figures represent the
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. The Palestinian Ministry of National Economy, the European Union (EU), and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) officially launched EU4Commerce, an €8.5 million strategic project designed to modernize trade infrastructure and improve the movement of goods. The initiative focuses
. The Palestinian Ministry of National Economy, the European Union (EU), and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) officially launched EU4Commerce, an €8.5 million strategic project designed to modernize trade infrastructure and improve the movement of goods. The initiative focuses
. في عام 2025، اضطر 5.4 مليون شخص للفرار من العنف والاضطهاد واللجوء إلى بلدان أخرى. لكن التقرير يظهر أن وتيرة العودة تتسارع أيضاً، إذ عاد 14.7 مليون نازح قسراً إلى مناطقهم أو بلدانهم الأصلية في عام 2025 (منهم 4.4 مليون لاجئ و10.3 مليون نازح داخلياً)، مع زيادة حادة في أفغانستان والسودان وسوريا. وكانت
A young Christian continues to share her faith despite peer pressure. When she was 12, a Kazakh girl named Adiya organized a Christmas party to share the gospel with her Muslim classmates. Her invitations stating “A big star will be there!” caused some children to wonder if they would me
A pastor’s distribution of Bibles is encouraging displaced Christians. In northern Togo, radical Muslims have attacked villages and churches and killed Christians, displacing thousands. Kodjo, a local pastor, said his church is currently serving 200 of those displaced Christians. He often hear
Front-line workers report that a family in Bangladesh is struggling physically and emotionally after continual assaults. Luck, a faithful Christian evangelist, was confronted and warned to stop her gospel work. In 2025, a radical Muslim mob attacked her home, beat Luck and her husband, and burned 15
. KEY MESSAGES • WFP continues to work with the Government in strengthening national and subnational systems for disaster risk management, social protection, and food systems – enabling faster and more scalable government-led responses for affected communities. • Through technical assistance, policy
. This situation report provides updates on the Ebola Bundibugyo Virus Disease (BVD) Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It outlines the planned telecommunications activities of the Logistics & Telecommunications Cluster1 (LTC) to support the ongoing humanitarian response. Summar
Countries: World, Afghanistan, Chad, Colombia, Germany, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Pakistan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Türkiye, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) . GINEBRA – Barham Salih, Alto Comisionado de la ONU para los Refugiados, presentó hoy el informe anual Tendencias G
Countries: World, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo . The 117.8 million people now violently displaced around the globe would constitute the world’s thirteenth largest country by population. Larger than Egypt, Germany, or the UK. A human toll of vast proportions, and a collective failure
On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers. I asked Joseph Sherrard—associate pastor of discipleship at Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church and author of The Augustinian Pastor: Deep Wisdom for Modern Ministry—about what’s on his
International (MNN) – Do you have fond memories of attending a Vacation Bible School or summer camp? Maybe you even have kids or grandkids who participate in these programs! Summer camps often mean games, friendships, and fun days outdoors. But across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, summer camps ca
Nigeria (MNN) — A moment of gladness came to Nigeria in the form of what we'll call a jailbreak. The army reported over the weekend of June 6–7, 2026 that it rescued 360 hostages from a Boko Haram stronghold in northeast Nigeria. Circumstances surrounding the freeing of the hostages are disputed by
Lebanon (MNN) – Recent Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed 17 people. The Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah stated it also carried out more attacks on Israeli troops in the region. Explosions in Lebanon. (Photo courtesy of SAT-7) As fighting has continued in recent months, more than 1.
This article was going to be about the latest controversy. But I realized that in the few days it’d take from being written to being published, few people would care enough to read about the topic. I wondered if I myself would even want to read about it since, by then, I'd need to be writing about t
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Countries: World, Afghanistan, Chad, Colombia, Germany, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Pakistan, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Türkiye, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) . With 7 in 10 refugees living in long-term displacement, UNHCR chief calls for renewed push for soluti
Countries: World, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic . The slight decline in numbers reflects returns – some, as in Syria, reflecting the end of a war — but in many places, returns forced to countries still mired in conflict and crisis. T
Countries: Philippines, Bhutan, Myanmar . BHUTAN On 7 June 2026 at 23:36 local time, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck near Punakha, Bhutan, at a depth of approximately 10 kilometres. The tremor was felt across much of the country, including in Thimphu, with stronger shaking reported in northern are
. GENÈVE – Le HCR, l’Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés, met en garde contre une grave crise humanitaire qui se profile dans l’État de Jonglei, à l’est du Soudan du Sud, où des mois de combats et d’insécurité ont contraint des centaines de milliers de personnes à fuir leurs foyers, provoquan
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