What does it take to reach the nations with the gospel? Ashley Unzicker discovered that a sincere commitment to ethnic diversity and a little bit of everyday evangelism can go a long way. On a warm day last year, a few dozen children from around the world played on the lawn of a Durham, N.C., …
Continue...“I don’t want to go back,” Naomi* said, her voice thick with emotion. The middle-aged woman wiped away tears with the tail of her headscarf as she recounted how a Muslim group beat her husband near death over an alleged blasphemy charge. Naomi’s youngest two sons, ages 12 and 17, sat quietly on the concrete …
Continue...A Hand of Hope Pregnancy Resource Center faced another setback Feb. 13 when the Raleigh Board of Adjustment re-classified the organization as a medical facility, overturning the city attorney’s designation of the pro-life ministry as a civic group, according to The News & Observer. The board’s designation effectively bars Hand of Hope from operating out of its …
Continue...“Europe faces an imminent humanitarian crisis,” warned the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) in a March 1 report that focused on the rapid build-up of migrants in Eidomeni, Greece. A team of North Carolina Baptists recently volunteered at the border crossing to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, where they aided desperate migrants and …
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