The Senate has approved the bill, but it will not be included in the school calendar nor will it be a public holiday. The aim is to recognise the volunteering work carried out by thousands of people through churches

“We have not heard from her since her arrest five months ago, because we are strictly banned from visiting”, a relative said.

Send Relief, World Relief, the IPHC and World Vision are among the Christian organisations channelling aid through churches and local partners.

Criminals kill 47 people in one night in Kenscoff, in a country plunged into chaos that neither UN support nor foreign aid has managed to stabilise.

Over 2,400 people have died in the first one hundred days of the outbreak. Evangelical NGOs work on the ground, assisting victims and running prevention campaigns.

Over the course of these 40 years, UNEV has established an educational model that integrates faith, innovation and social commitment.

“The situation is undeniably difficult because we are deprived of fellowship. But God’s work must not stop”, says a church leader. 

More than 900 people have been injured and hundreds of buildings have collapsed, whilst rescue teams search for survivors. The 7.4-magnitude earthquake, with its epicentre in the north-west, has triggered a national emergency.

The Iranian authorities have ordered the eviction of 20 Armenian and Assyrian families living in the compound of Iran’s oldest Protestant church, founded in 1876.

Official figures indicate that at least 4,490 people have lost their lives as a result of the earthquakes. “The scale of the destruction was massive and, above all, we mourn the loss of human lives”, says Rosa Camargo, speaking from the disaster zone.

While serving as Colombia's ambassador to France, Viviane Morales stood out for her commitment to humanitarian causes, such as providing assistance to Venezuelan migrants.

Gunmen abducted the director of Scripture Union and seven others as they were returning from a Campus Fellowship gathering of the Christian ministry. 

World Vision, REMAR, Alianza Solidaria, Diaconía and several denominations have launched coordinated responses following the earthquakes on 24 June.

World Vision deploys teams on the ground as the deaths of nearly 600 people are reported. “Everything went dark and everything started shaking. Children were screaming in fear”, says one eyewitness. Alianza Solidaria and GAiN are also launching emergency campaigns.

At least 589 people have died and around have been 3,000 injured, say official reports on Friday. Affected areas include La Guaira, where a church collapsed. Thousands are trying to find relatives, pastors call to pray as Christian organisations start sending aid. 

Marking the eighth anniversary of Leah’s captivity, Christian organisations call for her release amid rising abductions of women and girls in the country.

At the conference held in Abuja (Nigeria), 340 bishops gathered to promote an alternative network of churches. The schism within global Anglicanism becomes a reality: major national churches with conservative theological views no longer recognise Canterbury as a spiritual authority.

New Life Church's Sunday School classrooms wrecked, mobile dental clinic for refugees hit, humanitarian aid vehicles affected. After the attack on 2 June, pastor Anatoly Kalushny is appealing for support to rebuild the site.

The Evangelical Fellowship India expresses “anguish” over the attack in Manipur. “The killing of unarmed church leaders returning from Christian fellowship is deeply disturbing and tragic”.

Representatives from nine regions met with World Evangelical leader General Botrus Mansour. “Strengthening kinship among the diverse regional expressions of the church” was one of the aims.

The attack was carried out by gunmen during a worship service in the south-west of the country.

A prominent tribal organisation is demanding that Christians renounce their faith by 30 April. It is happening in the state of Chhattisgarh, which has one of the most restrictive anti-conversion laws.

The proposed law aims to curb underage marriages, eliminate gender-based disparities and strengthen child protection mechanisms in the province.

Fulani terrorists raided several churches in Easter Sunday. In addition to the murders, many Christians were kidnapped, and the church buildings were damaged.

The World Evangelical Alliance secretrary general prays “it can become a permanent peace deal” and advocates for religious freedom in the conflict area.