Latin America: Comentario is ‘A dream come true’

Launch events in several Latin American cities have celebrated the March publication of a new Spanish Bible commentary which has been 12 years in the making.

The single-volume hardback, Comentario Biblico Contemporaneo (CBC), is the work of more than 100 writers, representing most of the 16 Spanish-speaking countries in South and Central America.

The commentary, with an initial print run of 5,000, has been published jointly by Certeza Unida, the editorial branch of IFES (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students) and Ediciones Kairós in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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CHRISTIAN WOMEN PERSECUTED DISPROPORTIONATELY

The Leuven Consultation, staged in Belgium in early June, heard that 215 million Christians are experiencing high, very high or extreme persecution in more than 50 countries, with women suffering dis-proportionately.

Freed from poverty and oppression

Every year, 150–200 women are helped by Open Doors, as they escape North Korea’s poverty and oppression and flee to China

Algeria: God has raised up His church

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‘God is enlarging our dream.’

Nigeria: more girls released

 

On 8 May, the Nigerian Government said it had secured the release of 82 of the nearly 300 girls kidnapped from their school in Chibok, northern Nigeria.

Iraq: Worship returns to liberated towns

Christians celebrated Palm Sunday in the burned-out church in Qaraqosh

 

Karamles is a Christian village that was home to 800 Christian families before the invasion of IS…

9 Years of explosive growth

Shadrach Lukwago

 

We should be encouraged and challenged by how God chooses to use his people, and make sure we are part of it.

Becoming a secret pastor

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Hameedullah* works as a church leader in a country known for intense persecution of Christians.

Awakening Latin America

The Doulos in port | photo: OM

 

For the first half of the 20th century, Latin America was an almost exclusively Catholic continent. Though the gospel had been preached in Latin countries for decades, the local evangelical church hadn’t grown significantly. In 1970, only 4% of the population identified as evangelical and the continent was still considered a mission field. But this was about to change.

Indonesia & Malaysia: Sharia’s forward march

Jakarta, capital of Indonesia | photo: iStock

 

The version of Islam found in the Muslim majority countries of Southeast Asia – Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei – has long been regarded as a more moderate face of the religion.