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The hardest thing about being a witness to suffering? Wondering whether what I write will make any difference.
“Wherever the church fails as a prophet it also fails as an evangelist,” said Rev. C. René Padilla at the first Lausanne Congress 50 years ago.
The hardest thing about being a witness to suffering? Wondering whether what I write will make any difference.
“Wherever the church fails as a prophet it also fails as an evangelist,” said Rev. C. René Padilla at the first Lausanne Congress 50 years ago.
In her 15-minute talk on "justice" at the Fourth Lausanne Congress, Ruth Padilla DeBorst felt it was important to name specific injustices, including Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. Many disagreed.
Monuments that bear witness to the ubiquity of death — and faith — in America’s southwestern borderlands.
Friedel Dausab on following Jesus as a “human rights fighter,” the colonial roots of Africa’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws, and inclusivity in African churches.
The testimony of Friedel Dausab, a born-again Christian whose work culminated in Namibia’s legal decision to decriminalize gay sex.
A liberation theologian on how extraction and occupation work in tandem.
“We protest the closure of our hospital in the strongest possible terms. In a time of warfare and great suffering it is essential that emergency healthcare services are maintained to treat the injured and the dying,” a statement quoted Archbishop Hosam Naoum, Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Jerusalem as saying.
The development of the capacity of lethal drones and AI targeting, along with the expansion of legal and policy parameters to permit this with little restraint, have been pioneered by the U.S. and Israel.
A group of sports and human rights groups said France’s “discrimination against women and girls wearing the hijab is particularly concerning given the IOC’s celebration of Paris 2024 as the first ‘Gender Equal Olympics.’”