Worldwide
Mongolia: Christian outreach
25 Aug 2017
CBN News joined 46 Christians from Russia going to remote Mongolian provinces where few have heard of Christ's love. 17-year-old Alena Barsokov said, ‘What I am attempting to do is raise a new generation of Russian…
Armed disputes reveal Iraqi Christians' discord
18 Aug 2017
On 6 August Patriarch Louis Sako, head of the Chaldean Catholic church, called on Iraqi Christians to unite under one banner and work past their various political affiliations and differing doctrines. In his statement, issued after…
Saudi Arabia: Hajj - 30 August to 1 September
18 Aug 2017
Each year, two to three million Muslims complete the Hajj to Mecca. Those who have done so add the title ‘hajji’ to their names. Jesus told people, ‘Your sins are forgiven.’ The same desire for forgiveness…
Asia / Africa: devastating floods and landslides
18 Aug 2017
The annual monsoons in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sierra Leone have caused hundreds of deaths, while thousands have fled flash floods and mudslides. In Nepal’s southern plains, the home to much of its agriculture, huge swathes…
Nigeria: unreasonable demands, further violence
18 Aug 2017
In 1966 an Igbo leader, in south-east Nigeria, said that only one thing would prevent a civil war - ‘that Nigeria be split, with all southerners in the north repatriated to the south and northerners in…
Global: poverty and slavery
18 Aug 2017
When locusts descended on the American Midwest in 1875, they didn’t just devour crops and forests. They destroyed years of hard-earned progress from settlers struggling to build a better life. In the same way, everyday violence…