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Events and issues facing believers around the world
- India’s Christians Brace for 2024 Election ResultsChurch leaders mobilized prayer for parliament and state elections, knowing the question wasn’t whether Hindu nationalists would win but the size of their mandate.
- Iranian Christians Contemplate God’s Justice after President’s Death in CrashBelievers in the diaspora reference Daniel and the “writing on the wall” as many mull if helicopter accident portends more changes to come.
- ‘Offering Everything They Have’: How Small Churches Are Saving Lives in Brazil’s FloodsIn the country's most secular state, tiny congregations have made a big impact by their disaster response.
- Online Witch Doctors Lure South African ChristiansChurches are combating syncretism among millennials and Gen Z amid a rise of social media healers who call on ancestral spirits.
- If Panama Closes the Darién Gap, Would Evangelicals Care?(UPDATED) Migrant rights have been off-radar for many Panamanian Christians. But as pressures increase, some are speaking out ahead of this weekend’s general elections.
- Holy Handouts: Venezuela’s Maduro Woos Evangelical Voters with Gifts and CashAs the presidential election approaches, the incumbent government seeks to win support with aid to churches and pastors.
- Forgotten War: Sudan’s Displaced Christians Brace for ‘World’s Worst’ Hunger CrisisInterview with leader of new evangelical alliance describes his escape from Khartoum and the pressure to pick a side.
- More Porridge? Senegal Protestants Debate Exchanging Holiday Foods with MuslimsNgalakh combines baobab fruit and peanuts to end Easter in West African nation, reciprocated by the sharing of meat breaking Ramadan’s fast.
- Easter Pilgrimage Bus Crash Shocks Botswana’s Christian CommunityLeaders extend prayers and lament road safety after 45 were killed on the way to Zion Christian Church in South Africa.
- Maamoul: The Easter Sweet Loved by Muslims, Christians, and JewsExperts debate the origin of the date- or nut-filled pastry, but Middle Eastern believers love the taste and the Good Friday symbolism in its shapes.
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