Lausanne Report: Most Missionaries Are Reaching the Reached

Today, more than 40 percent of the world has not yet been evangelized. Yet about 97 percent of the current global total of 450,000 Christian missionaries are sent to people who already have access to the gospel. Another startling fact: In 1900, more than 80 percent of the world’s Christians lived in Europe or North Read more…

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The United Nations Is a Mission Field

I flash my United Nations (UN) access badge to the police officer, and he waves me through the security barrier. As I approach the plaza, I see snipers with rifles on the roof and hear a dozen different languages. Black limousines are everywhere as presidents and prime ministers converge in New York City, preparing their Read more…

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Mobilizers See Millions of Future Missionaries in Overseas Filipino Workers

When Delyn Garcia moved from the Philippines to Israel in 2018 to work as a caregiver, her goal was to earn enough money for her family back home to build a house. Yet life as an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) was extremely difficult. The first year, she had to pay back the agency 1 million Read more…

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Arrested Filipino Pastor Apollo Quiboloy Claims He’s the Messiah

Apollo Quiboloy called himself the “Appointed Son of God.” But to Filipino and American authorities, he was a man wanted for years on charges of sexual abuse and human trafficking. Quiboloy, the 74-year-old leader of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, surrendered to authorities on September 8 after 2,000 security officers descended on the religious sect’s Read more…

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The Rural Cambodian Community that Fostered 76 Children

In 2008, Keo Ravy and Amy Sullivan of Children in Families (CIF) drove to an orphanage outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to pick up two toddlers with severe developmental delays. They then brought the children to a rural village where they would meet their new foster families. In the car, four-year-old Sam Ang, who was Read more…

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