Last fall I met Bishop Beda Robles at the Lausanne 4 Congress in Korea. He told me about the surprising strength of the church in Doha, Qatar – a small nation on the Arabian Peninsula – and of his hopes…
The Peace and Reconciliation Network (PRN) is hosting Dr. Salim Munayer during an Advent tour of southern BC – The Journey of Peace. He will be speaking at several locations in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley December 3 –…
This joint statement was released November 11, the first day of COP 29 (the United Nations Climate Change Conference) which is being held in Baku, Azerbaijan until November 22. ***************** The World Evangelical Alliance [WEA], in collaboration with the World…
What the Bible Says About Work . . . Business As Mission . . . Entrepreneurial Leaders Organization . . . Evangelicals on the Job – we hear a lot about Christians in the marketplace these days. Times have changed.…
Qatar is not noted as a centre of Christian activity. But the Bishop of the Evangelical Churches Alliance Qatar (ECAQ) says God is very much at work there. When I met him in the halls of the Fourth Lausanne Congress in…
Godfrey Yogarajah, Ambassador for Religious Freedom with World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) sent this letter out to encourage Christians around the world to participate in IDOP 2024. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, As we gather for the International Day of…
I just discovered that May is GO Month, which is part of GO Movement, which in turn . . . . . . unites all believers in pursuit of our central and purest mission: praying for the harvest, caring for…
As the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches February 24, Christian leaders of Orthodox, Catholic, Evangelical and other faith traditions in Canada, together with the World Evangelical Alliance’s Peace & Reconciliation Network, The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada,…
With Mission Fest upon us (February 15 – 17 at Westside Church) I have been posting a series on Christianity as a missionary religion: Introduction 1. History of Missions 2. State of World Christianity 3. Specific Areas: Africa 4. Specific Areas: Asia 5.…
A local minister who took part in COP 28 (the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference) has mixed feeling about the results. Deborah Walker, Minister of Connection and Social Justice at Shaughnessy Heights United Church, spent about a week as…