Author and speaker Ruth Graham, daughter of famed evangelist Billy Graham, has voiced her support for the Ark of Noah foundation, www.ArkofNoah.org, asking the public to help fund its crowdfunding efforts. The life-size replica of the Bible’s Noah’s Ark is preparing to take sail from The Netherlands traveling to Brazil during the 2016 Olympic Games and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Paralympic summer games. From there it will visit many other harbors on its journey through South, Central and North America. While still in the early planning phase, desired ports to visit include: Montevideo and Buenos Aires, Havana, Panama, Columbia and then off to the United States: San Diego, Long Beach, San Francisco and Seattle.
Gospel for Asia (GFA)-supported workers followed Christ’s admonition to heal the sick and assist the poor last Thursday by conducting dozens of medical clinics and health education events in three Asian countries on World Health Day.
A suicide bomber killed at least 65 people, mostly women and children, at a park in Lahore on Sunday in an attack claimed by a Pakistani Taliban faction which said it had targeted Christians.
More than 300 other people were wounded, officials said.
Gospel for Asia (GFA) supported workers continue to help residents affected by a terrible fire that – in December – razed 2,000 homes and killed multiple people in a poor area of Mumbai.
CHICAGO, Jan. 7, 2016 — Children who have been abused, those living in poverty, foster kids aging out of a broken system, and those who don’t have enough to eat are easy targets for those who wish to misuse them. You want to help, but you don’t know where to begin. What can one person possibly do that will make a difference?
A coalition of Protestant and Catholic organizations has reached an agreement with the Italian government to provide travel and integration services for refugees from North Africa and the Middle East. The government will provide humanitarian visas to ensure the right to take up residence; the visas will not allow passage to other countries in the European Union. Christian agencies will furnish airline tickets to Italy as well as accommodation, assistance with asylum procedures, educational opportunities and Italian language courses.
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