Churches continue to work at the grassroots to see the peace deal implemented.
Notes from the Global Church
Philip Jenkins charts developments in the Two-Thirds World
Image: Accra, Ghana. Some rights reserved by Jonatan Freund.
Mayan culture and rituals have persisted since their days of ancient glory—but not without major upheavals.
The Redeemed Christian Church of God has 5 million members—66 years after it began.
Christians organized the first relief agencies. Now Sikh, Muslim, and Buddhist groups abound.
In the 500 years since Catholicism came to Mexico, it has profoundly shaped and been shaped by the indigenous culture.
Yetemegnu Mekonnen lived faithfully in turbulent times.
In the rise of European secularism, Poland is an exception. Not in the rise of right-wing extremism.
Sinan Antoon's acclaimed novel, now out in English, sheds light on the realities faced by Christians in Iraq.
It's not just disaffection with particular state churches. People's religious orientation itself is gone.
Practices drawn from the Hebrew Bible are not new to the continent. Seeking full conversion to rabbinic Judaism is.
Ten million people still speak the language of the Inca empire and identify with its culture. Most of them are Christians.
The sect, which was founded in the 13th century, confounds the idea of irreconcilable differences between the two faiths.
People are being persecuted by anti-witchcraft vigilantes. The church can help.
“No evil shall befall us,” said St. Anthony in the desert, preachers during the Rwandan genocide, and Americans after 9/11.
The Jesuits didn't impose a European language on the Guaraní people; they actively cultivated the indigenous one.
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