According to the study by Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity (CGP), church donations to international relief organizations based in the U.S. jumped 17 percent from 2006 to 2007, with 74 percent of American congregations giving toward global aid agencies. 
Continuing his week-long pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Pope Benedict XVI last week called for a “sovereign Palestinian homeland” and identified with Palestinian “suffering” during a one-day visit to Bethlehem and other parts of the West Bank.
Gospel for Asia-supported missionaries, workers and lay leaders are reaching out to thousands of Sri Lankans displaced by the most recent battles between the government and the Tamil Tigers rebel group.
How is the economic crisis affecting the people of Romania? Nearly every week I receive emails from the people that we work with, containing prayer requests. Many of the young ladies that were rescued out of the orphanages when they were younger are now working in the factories of Romania.
The gesture of throwing a baby shower for friends or loved ones is a common, and cherished tradition for most Americans — providing new parents with all the necessities to care for their infant. In the Holy Land, the gesture is difficult to come by for expectant mothers who live in a region that many would consider primitive and impoverished.
In response to recent efforts by international pro-abortion groups seeking to decriminalize abortion in the Dominican Republic, legislators permanently enshrined the right to life for pre-born humans by rewriting the Constitution of the Dominican Republic with the words “the right to life is inviolable from conception until death.”
