Projections by the United Nations show that 68 percent of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050. Missional leaders with ministry expertise in cities and the market workplace discussed befitting general evangelistic strategies for the future at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Incheon, Korea.
The fulfillment of the Great Commission requires a complete surrender to serving God and others in the current era, delegates heard at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Incheon, Korea. Dr. Philip Graham Ryken, a member of the Lausanne Board of Directors, and the eighth president of Wheaton College, also a board member for the National Association of Evangelicals and The Gospel Coalition, issued the challenge during a morning plenary session entitled, “Christlike Servanthood
A distinguished atmospheric scientist from Canada made an impassioned plea to the evangelical community to heed God’s word and take climate change seriously, when speaking about integrating science and faith at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelism held in Incheon, Korea. However, it is not fear that motivates believers but love, she said.
Dr. Billy Wilson called on evangelicals to open their hearts to being “accelerated” by the Holy Spirit to witness for Christ to keep pace with a fast-changing world grappling with speedy developments in areas of general knowledge, technology, inventions and science.
The father of a young missionary killed with his wife, alongside a local mission director, by an armed gang in Haiti has given an update from his home in Oklahoma about the ongoing work of the Christian ministry on the gang-dominated Caribbean island. David Lloyd III, 23, and his wife Natalie, 21, married in June 2022, were killed on May 23 2024 during an armed gang raid alongside local mission director Jude Montis, 45, as previously reported by Christian Daily International. David Lloyd Jr, fat
Most evangelical Protestant churches in the U.S. use a form of small group as part of weekly activities but latest figures from Lifeway Research suggest the definitions of what that involves differ widely. The results, based on 1,021 adult Bible study group ministry leaders surveyed between May 27 to June 27 (2024), show that 56 percent of respondents see “Sunday School” as the most accurate description of their group’s activity.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is safe after an assassination attempt at his West Palm Beach golf club in Florida on Sunday. The second such attempt renews questions about the polarized and at times extreme rhetoric that has marked this election season.
From September 12-14, the Glocal Association of Communicators is holding the Media Music Marketing Hispanic Summit in the city of Miami, starting with the Fiesta de la Hispanidad, in commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month. The opening of the event took place this Thursday at the Hilton Miami Airport Blue Lagoon Hotel, venue of the event for the second consecutive year.
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) has urged Canadian authorities to repeal euthanasia laws for mental illness, revealing a negative effect on women with disabilities, and to create a new anti-human trafficking strategy – in a nine-page submission to the United Nations (UN). The brief was written for the 89th session of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly. It is part of a review of Canada’s con
96 percent of American children and teens use social media on a daily basis and nearly half say they use it “almost constantly”, according to the Pew Research Center (PRC). The situation seems comparable in many other countries around the world. While experts have yet to confirm a direct correlation between social media use and poor mental health, there is growing evidence suggesting a connection to anxiety, depression and loneliness.
From August 26 to September 4, a Chinese Christian delegation composed of 18 representatives from the political, religious, and academic sectors visited the United States, led by Rev. Wu Wei, president of the China Christian Council (CCC) and president of Nanjing Union Theological Seminary. This visit marks the first official group visit to the U.S. by the China Christian Council and National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (CCC&TSPM) since 2016.
Even before the WEA officially announced its next General Assembly in Seoul, Korea from October 27-31, 2025, news of the plans has been met with criticisms by Korean church groups who called for the preparations to be put on hold until their concerns about certain WEA leaders and the organization’s theological views are addressed. While the two first statements focused primarily on questions around pluralism and syncretism due to WEA’s engagement with Catholics, ecumenical and Muslim groups, the
