It’s hard to believe, but it is true, that Idi Amin Dada, who became known as the “Butcher of Uganda” for his brutal, despotic rule while president of Uganda in the 1970s, and was possibly the most notorious of all Africa s post-independence dic...
During his 45 years as a journalist, ANS founder, Dan Wooding, has interviewed literally thousands of people, from Mother Teresa, to the Monty Python team, British gangsters, and even some of the Beatles.
It back in 1956 when Terry Dene, who in the 1950s at the age of 17, became Britain’s first rock and roll rebel. It was a period when the country was looking for the British Elvis and Terry, like so many others, got his big break at the 2 I s Cof...
The Shipibo people once lived in a pristine environment in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, with clean drinking water from fresh water streams, abundant fish in their rivers, and fertile soil for planting. But recently, mysterious ailments ...
She survived the Japanese invasion of her hometown during World War II. For two decades she endured backbreaking labor and near starvation in a communist prison. And last August her husband passed away after 45 years of life lived as a team. The...
How can the people of God carry out the Lord’s commandments to proclaim the Good News to the ends of the earth and make disciples of all people groups? It is intriguing to many when we ask questions like: How much and what do people need to know...
A month ago, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said he would not negotiate with the militant Islamic sect Boko Haram because they were “ghosts,” faceless adversaries who would not step forward.
Events of recent weeks throughout the United States and the rest of the world have us asking, “Where do we go from here?” Dr. Melissa Pratt, one of the nation’s most gifted young preachers, has been dealing with that theme since Easter.
Since Vladimir Putin s return to the presidency in May, civil society has been the target of a government crackdown whose scale and severity is unprecedented in post-Soviet Russia, two leading international human rights organizations said Wednesday.
Morning Star News (http://morningstarnews.org) is reporting that an attack in Nigeria that killed 18 Christians has capped two years of Islamic aggression. It says that Muslim Fulani herdsmen are suspecte...
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and therefore I would like to highlight the plight of children in the Himalayan Mountains. Children are in crisis in that part of the world. Many are living on the streets due to internal conflict, poverty, ...
Enraged demonstrators condemned the persecution of the Coptic Christians of Egypt outside the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the UK parliament, during a protest demonstration organized by Coptic United...
The BBC is reporting that, according to a church official, two bishops who were abducted earlier this week by gunmen in a rebel-held area of northern Syria have been released.
Jubilee Campaign and Representatives of religious liberty organizations have, during a gathering in Washington, DC, observed a moment of silence in honor of the hundreds of Christian victims of Nigeria s post-election violence in April 2011.
K.P. Yohannan, the founder of Gospel for Asia, is a quiet world-changer who is helping to bring the love of Christ to the “10/40 Window,” which is an area of the world that contains the largest population of non-Christians in the world – two bil...
By the time Lukia Khalid, mother of three and nearly seven months pregnant, was baptized on March 30, her Muslim husband had already forced her out of their home in western Tanzania for becoming a Christian.
Every year that Earth Day rolls around -- sometime in April -- I always ask myself, “How am I going to commemorate the day, thanking God for His gift of the natural world?”
American Pastor Saeed Abedini, a U.S. citizen who is suffering from serious injuries at the hands of his Iranian captors, has told family members he is praying for America in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings.
31 million orphans struggle to survive in India. Begging, stealing, hunger, cold, fear, sickness, disease, sexual exploitation… These are just a few words that describe their lot in life. They live in misery. Mother India, Life Through the Eyes ...
Billy Graham Crusades soloist George Beverly Shea, who passed away Tuesday, April 16, at the age of 104, was remembered today (Sunday, April 21, 2013) in a public memorial service at Anderson Auditorium in Montreat, North Carolina, the town wher...
Canon Andrew White, known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” has lived for eight years in a fortified compound in the Iraqi capital, defying the bombs to provide food, medical aid and spiritual leadership to a growing congregation — and explaining...
