A significant number of people were affected by cluster munitions in 2025. The majority of those harmed were civilians, making up a large proportion of recorded casualties. Children were also among the victims.
Contaminated land remains a concern, as unexploded submunitions can lie in wait for years. Despite some progress in clearing affected areas, the issue persists. Further information on the impact of cluster munitions is available, including details on the number of people killed or injured and the countries where new victims were recorded.
Our world is profoundly distracted, disordered, and scattered. It would be tempting to attribute this to a non-Christian society—to multiplied desires and endless consumer options, to secularized pursuits of shallow pleasure. But Christians fare little better here, bombarded with...
I’ve written earlier in this series about the connection between homelessness and “adverse childhood experiences,” including unstable childhoods marked by movement around multiple foster homes. In centuries past, Americans hoped that orphanages would help to alleviate the damage ...
. Context and rationale Afghanistan continues to face one of the world's most severe nutrition crises. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) acute malnutrition analysis (June 2025–May 2026), an estimated 3.7 million children aged 6–59 months are fac...
. The escalating crisis context leaves thousands of children at heightened risk of severe illness and preventable mortality without immediate intervention. MSF, UNICEF, and humanitarian partners are raising alarm over worsening food insecurity and rapidly deteriorating malnutriti...
. The Interagency We.Link/FRRM helpline received a total of 48,490 calls and 7,770 new queries during July 2026 representing a 102.6% increase compared to June 2026. 4,748 (61.1%) new queries came from females and 3,022 (38.9%) from males. At the helpline level, 6,566 (84.50%) qu...
. In August, below-average rainfall, prolonged dry spells and above-normal temperatures threatened crop production, livestock and water availability across South Sudan. These conditions coincided with the critical June-to-September planting season and affected parts of Eastern Eq...
. Against a backdrop of continued hostilities, repeated displacement, deteriorating living conditions and growing humanitarian needs across Lebanon, the Lebanon Humanitarian Fund (LHF) allocated US$23.4 million through its 2026 Reserve Allocation, complemented by US$12 million fr...
