Why evangelicals have taken such an interest in idols.

Part II of the Cape Town Commitment spells out what the Lausanne Movement's theological manifesto means for the practice of ministry and mission.

The new Lausanne Covenant prods us to take personal inventory.

The Third Lausanne Congress demonstrated that global evangelicalism has been transformed.

Continent-wide runup to Capetown 2010 draws more than 58,000 to Christ.

Lausanne III is pulling a cross-section of 4,000 world leaders to keep the gospel front and center.

Gideon Strauss was shaped by growing up in apartheid-era South Africa.

How to read the Global Conversation upside down.

From the oppressed side of apartheid, Albert Lutuli (1898—1967) became the first African to receive a Nobel Prize for Peace.

African churches seek a better response to polygamy than in years past as western churches address new same-sex marriages.

The untold success story of Willow Creek in Africa.

Global evangelicals don't necessarily vote like American evangelicals.

How South African churches are acting like Jesus.

South Africa is not an easy place to minister, despite the apparent normalcy.

A Zimbabwean pastor waits warily after South Africa's riots.

Racism continues to stain society and challenge the church's commitment to a color-blind gospel. Albert Lutuli's peaceful pursuit of justice in South Africa pointed a way forward for the generations to come.

One ministry's unusual approach to saving AIDS orphans in Africa.

An excerpt from Philip Jenkins' new book, The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South.

Where hope and despair live side by side.