A mob of over 3000 Muslims have just attacked Copts in the village of Kobry-el-Sharbat (el-Ameriya), Alexandria, Egypt. Coptic homes and shops were looted before being set ablaze. Two Copts and a Muslim were injured.
The year was 1964 and Ral Monzn was the program director of radio station YSU in San Salvador. He had been summoned into a room at the station where Hermano Pablo (Paul Finkenbinder) had just received the news from the station’s owner that his...
Latin America’s most beloved Christian broadcaster, Hermano Pablo (Paul Edwin Finkenbinder), passed away today (Friday, January 27, 2012) in Irvine, California, at the age of 90.
February is known for cold weather, presidents birthdays and Cupid s delight. As Valentine s Day approaches, hearts flutter, lovers sigh and Charlie Brown hopes that little red-haired girl will like the card he s been gathering up the courage...
More than 150 delegates from Canada and Rwanda, including international thought and business leaders, will gather in Kigali, Rwanda for the inaugural Made in Rwanda Leadership Summit. The Summit, which takes place on Wednesday, February 15, 2012...
The other piece of the puzzle when it comes to raising up leaders in church ministry and outreach, Gospel for Asia-supported pastors don’t only look to the men in their congregations. They believe the women are just as important...
During an emotion-filled evening of worship at the Vineyard church in Laguna Niguel, several photographs taken with a digital camera reveal some unusual effects.
More than 560,000 people around the world have signed a petition asking the Pakistani government to release Asia Bibi, a Christian wife and mother falsely accused of blasphemy against Mohammed and sentenced to death by a Pakistani court.
Today (Wednesday, January 25, 2012) marks the birth date of my rather amazing mother, Anne Wooding, who was born on January 25, 1908, in Liverpool England, and died peacefully at the age of 93 in a nursing home in New Brighton, Cheshire, UK, on ...
Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that early morning attacks in Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi state on Sunday (Jan. 22) left at least seven Christians dead and a church building destroyed.
A Middle East journalist is reporting that an Egyptian court has ordered a 16-year-old Christian girl to be held in a state-owned care home, instead of returning her to her family, allegedly for expressing her wish to convert to Islam.
It was back in 1975, when as a young newspaper reporter based in London, England, I was given the rare opportunity of going to Calcutta (now known as Kolkata), to interview Mother Teresa who went onto to win the Nobel Peace Prize and was known a...
Veteran international journalist, Dan Wooding, is offering media outlets, Christian leaders, and anyone else who wants “to keep up with world news and how it affects Christians,” a free subscription to the ASSIST News Service (ANS).
He grew up as a missionary kid in Hong Kong, where he observed Christian work at his parents’ feet. But globalization and technology changes in the ensuing years have completely altered his perspective on missions and led him to embrace changes ...
From a temporary radio installation in Niger’s capital of Niamey, a new partner station is sharing the eternal message that people may find peace with God through Jesus.
Being in the cartoon business for most of my life, I am familiar with one of the standard clichs: someone arrives in Heaven and, bing, there are the Pearly Gates; a bearded St Peter; a giant guest register.
Dan Wooding’s career must rate as one of the most unusual in journalism. For he has gone from being a London correspondent for the National Enquirer and a staffer on the Sunday People and the Sunday Mirror, two of Britain s raciest tabloids, to ...
A crowd of Muslim hard-liners disrupted about 100 members of the embattled GKI Yasmin congregation as they held divine services at a member s home in Bogor, West Java, on Sunday (January 22, 2012).
