AIDS

The Community of Sant´Egidio, a Catholic lay group, is encouraging a glass of good wine with supper.

Molly Marsh 12-01-2007

One of the opening scenes in Angels in the Dust shows waking children, some two to a bed, others with cats curled up beside them, greeting what looks like a chilly day in South Africa.

Laurel A. Dykstra 12-01-2007

December 1 is World AIDS Day. Worldwide, 15 million children have lost one or both parents to the AIDS pandemic; in Zimbabwe, one in five children are orphans.

Adam Russell Taylor 11-30-2007

On Dec. 1, the world commemorates World AIDS Day, a day in which we pause and remember the 25 million lives lost to the deadly epidemic. The day also challenges us to redouble our efforts to show greater solidarity with the estimated 33 million people worldwide living with HIV. The day's slogan is "Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise". This is a direct appeal to governments, policy makers, and regional [...]

Mark Tyndall 8-01-2007

In "With Eyes to See" (by Bob Smietana, April 2007), megachurch leaders Kay Warren and Lynne Hybels appear to have discovered the devastating AIDS epidemic that has been raging in Africa for more t

Kimberly Burge 8-01-2007
A journalist's portrait of a pandemic.
Jim Wallis 8-01-2007

An eyewitness to massacre and genocide finds shame, hope, and possibility for a moral world.

Bob Smietana 4-01-2007

Megachurch leaders Kay Waren and Lynne Hybels confront the challenges of HIV/AIDS, personally and globally.

Three hundred Christian and Muslim religious leaders from 20 Arab countries met in Cairo to launch the region's first faith-based network focused on HIV/AIDS.

Dale Hanson Bourke 2-01-2007

The problem with a disease defined by an extraordinary number of dead, infected, and orphaned is that it is all too easy to lose sight of the individual.

Bill Williams 1-01-2007

Each day, 6,600 Africans die of AIDS.

Dale Hanson Bourke 12-01-2006
(and why you should be too.)
Robert Roth 9-01-2006
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for October.
Ten years after the formal dismantling of apartheid, economic injustice, HIV/AIDS, and poverty stand in the way of real reconciliation - and present daunting challenges for the South African church.
Susan Oatis 4-01-2006

The trade-off outlined in David Batstone’s “The HIV Trade-Off” (February 2006) doesn’t have to be made.

Molly Marsh 3-01-2006

Communities at Risk

“AIDS is born in the house of poverty,” an Indian health worker says on Making Ends Meet: AIDS and Poverty, a new resource from the Mennonite Central Committee. The 18-minute DVD looks at communities in India and South Africa and how AIDS is impacting the economies of each. The DVD includes additional interviews, a 25-minute story on church workers in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and other features. Excellent for Sunday school or study groups. www.mcc.org/aids

Robert Roth 3-01-2006

Covenants order our lives, our faith communities, and, in the best of times, our nations. The promises and agreements God makes to us, and that we make to one another, are sometimes made binding by oaths or rituals. Sometimes God simply sends someone down from the mountain with a covenant fully formed and sealed.

David Batstone 2-01-2006
Is 'cost-effective' the right criterion for judging AIDS drugs?
Molly Marsh 2-01-2006
Today's scrapbooks don't look a thing like our grandmother's albums.
Dale Hanson Bourke 12-01-2005

Overcoming the mythology of AIDS.