The ‘Antioch of Asia’?
In 1983, Ed Pousson picked up Patrick Johnstone’s Operation World prayer guide and read an entry on Singapore. In it, the Southeast Asian country was described as the ‘Antioch of Asia.’ The American missionary and his Malaysian wife, Lai Kheng, had previously lived and served in Malaysia and were planning to make their home there 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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Died: Andar Ismail, Prolific Writer Who Made Theology Simple
Andar Ismail, a prolific Christian writer who distilled theological truths into short stories accessible to ordinary Indonesians, died of congestive heart failure on August 25. He was 84. From 1981 to 2022, the pastor and seminary professor wrote 33 books, each containing 33 short stories, for his Selamatseries. Ismail described his literary style as gado-gado Read more…
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‘Nightmares and Daydreams’ Fuses Jakarta’s Social Ills With the Supernatural
Indonesia is an enchanted culture full of folklore involving ghosts, demons, and djinns (shape-shifting spirits from Arabian and Muslim mythology). These stories usually involve a moral of some kind: Do not leave a house unattended, for this invites the dwelling of demons. Always respect the elderly, lest they return to haunt you. Settle squabbles within Read more…
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