The university offers its facilities, staff and equipment to the Ministry of Health. Meanwhile, Costa Rican evangelical MPs call on the nation to pray for those suffering from coronavirus.
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“The demonstrations show a number of dissatisfactions, and lay out problems that need to be faced with decision and wisdom”, says a pastor in Bogotá.
With around 420,000 deaths and rocketing unemployment, pastors hope churches can be “a refuge” in the midst of a severe crisis. “It is the biggest challenge of my professional life”, says an evangelical doctor.
Samuel Escobar, a close co-worker and friend of the Ecuadorian theologian, speaks about his legacy. “I admired that together with his seriousness at work he had a great sense of humour”.
Only by reading today with the eyes of faith the new challenges facing humanity can we better understand the renewed obedience to the Word and the creativity that the Lord demands now. In that sense, René Padilla was a theologian who responded to his time.
Through the concept of “integral mission”, he helped global evangelicals balance evangelism and social action. The pastor was one of the most influential Latin American evangelical leaders in the Lausanne Movement and IFES.
In just 2 weeks, two evangelical churches in rural areas have been destroyed. One of the firemen was injured.
Milagros Aguayo was number two on the Lima list of the Renovación Popular party for the Congress. “The gospel is a tool to participate in the public life”, she says.
Mexico now has over 14 million evangelical Christians. Catholics are still majority, despite a 5% fall since 2010.
“The stones were thrown from neighbouring courtyards” , the pastor explains. The church has been attacked before, as other churches in nearby areas.
The well-known evangelist died after a three-year battle with cancer. Palau preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ to millions in massive events in 80 countries around the world.
Traditionalist Catholics in San Cristobal (Mexico) destroyed the houses of 5 evangelical families and arrested two believers.
The Senate ratified the law in a close vote. “Argentina has moved back centuries of respect for the supreme right to life”, evangelicals say.
Thousands of activists from both sides waited for 20 hours outside the Parliament building. Evangelicals hope the Senate will vote against the law, as it happened in 2018.
“They are not as well known as Maradona, but represent hundreds of men and women of faith who died during this pandemic”, said Christian Member of Parliament Dina Rezinovsky.
The Colombian Camilo Echeverry has become a phenomenon with his first album. “God is the pillar of my walk”, he says.
Many evangelicals participated in the marches throughout the country. “We need a united Argentina, committed to human life”, the organisers said.
The church is one of the few that keeps a legal status, because it was registered before 1959. “As repression has spread, the bonds between pastors are stronger than ever", a pastor said.
The Organization of American States declares 27 October as International Day of Religious Freedom. Evangelicals participated in the sessions defending the life and the family.
A real pedagogue, he did not write for the scholars, although they admired him, but for common believers who want to think their faith.
The demonstration was organised by Panamanian evangelical leaders, now that the debate on same-sex marriage has returned to the Centre American country.
A Christian senator presented the initiative. “Religion makes the deprivation of freedom tolerable and generates a change”, the new law states.
Brazil and Mexico are the second and fourth countries with more deaths worldwide. Latin American evangelicals have been helping those affected by Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.
A Cuban pastor started using it on social media, after a pro-regime theologian appeared on national television denying the miracles of Jesus Christ.
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