The effects of lockdown continue to cause all sorts of difficulties for families of children with additional needs and disabilities.

Fulani herdsmen have increasingly adopted ideology and methods similar to Islamic extremist groups like Boko Haram. The kidnapped girls are forcefully converted to Islam and married off.

Churches following Covid-19 secure guidelines, can hold more than six people in total. “We want to make Jesus known and do lots to help rebuild this nation”, the EAUK says.

It was time to go back. Nervous days led up to the big day, a sleepless night the night before, and that was just me!

The German Evangelical Alliance praises the “good intentions” of the parliamentary majority but calls the government to better implement the rights that children and parents already have.

Fulani herdsmen attacked a village, burned the a Baptist church, killed a man and abducted seven Christians.

Whether it’s coming to somewhere like the beach, or even if it’s just spending some quality time on the sofa watching a film and eating some popcorn together, these times matter.

It’s not weak to reach out for help, this really is “being the strong one”.

A quarter of the Bibles distributed were in a digital format. Most downloaded scriptures were in Spanish and Portuguese.

We are just like candles, shining a light on a part of the world that the world often chooses to ignore.

Parenting a child or young person with additional needs or disability can be isolating sometimes, and not everyone understands what it can be like.

Christian NGO World Vision, warns that “coronavirus is forcing parents to expose their children to begging or child labour”. Only in Asia, 110 million children suffer hunger.

“Surrogacy is a serious violation of the rights of the child”, the French Evangelical Committee for Human Dignity says to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

A research of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecasts world population to shrink after mid-century. “The solution are open migration policies and social measures to support families”.

A mental model for the missiology of risk.

The US Commission for International Religious Freedom asks for the release of pastor Jesus Quinones, and the right of Cuban parents to “raise their children pursuant to their own faith”.

Technology is fast encroaching on family primacy and we are seeing an increasingly premature loss of childhood innocence. The author encourages parents to be approachable, calm, informed and realistic.

Jesus met the parents of five children whom he subsequently healed or raised from the dead. In each case there is learning for us all.

Tatiana Anchundia shares how the Post-Abortion Syndrome affected the relationship with her children, in the #Breakingthesilence campaign of Christian pro-life organisation, Aesvida.

It is the highest number since the Abortion Act was introduced. The official annual report shows that the abortion rate was highest for women aged 22.

‘Out’ is Disney Pixar’s first film with a homosexual couple in the main role. Margunn S. Dahle, a researcher in media, children and worldviews, gives answers to questions that many parents may ask.

Children of the refugee camps in Lebanon who do not have access to schooling, are the main focus of the Christian NGO Together For the Family.

A union of Pentecostal churches denounces the “profitable business that turns a mother into an exploited object and her child into a living commodity”.

Norwegian politicians took one more step in the direction of a society where babies are regarded a commodity to be ordered and traded, not as a child created in the image of God.

Some of these characters, and their stories, can be helpful in raising awareness and in some cases acceptance of additional needs and disability.