March 6 is World Day of Prayer. Initiated by women in the 1890s, World Prayer Day is a day to pray for and look for ways to support women and children in need as well as to pray for and support local and foreign missions.
This year’s many risks, from fuel-price riots in Haiti to violent unrest in Nicaragua, have forced a fresh reckoning with thorny questions: How much risk is too much?
Latino churches with immigrant congregations are working to support ministriesin their home countries, and its work that is spreading to other congregations, but it’s also ministry that isn’t always easy.
A Christian doctor and a Jewish philanthropist have joined forces to provide medical care to the impoverished people of Burundi, a small country in south-central Africa.
