IPC Connections
Yemen has been undergoing a major civil war over the past three years. Cities are continuing to be bombed and the infrastructure is collapsing. The media reports that over 10,000 people have been killed with three million displaced from their homes. There is severe famine in parts of the country.…
By John D. Robb For today's hyperactive missions leaders, apart from opening and closing meetings, saying grace at the table or as a special consolation in time of emergency or stress, prayer is most often treated as a harmless pastime rather than a strategic resource. In our attitude we often…
URGENT CALL TO PRAYER You are probably as shocked as I was to learn of the spate of attacks and deaths that greeted the New Year in Nigeria. Worshippers who had just had Crossover Service in their church in Omoku, Rivers State, were gruesomely murdered by heartless cultists. Over 15…
"That is why Jesus became one of us. He died to destroy the devil, who had power over death. But he also died to rescue all of us who live each day in fear of dying." — Hebrews 2:14–15 (CEV) Last year, SCWA sent a team of workers to travel the length of Togo,…
China has been building what it calls "the world's biggest camera surveillance network". Across the country, 170 million CCTV cameras are already in place and an estimated 400 million new ones will be installed in the next three years. Many of the cameras are fitted with artificial intelligence, including facial recognition…
Confronting the Jewish Holocaust in Nazi Germany, Dietrich Bonhoeffer boldly declared: “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” This holds true in America today, given our own holocaust of abortion, where 60…
Kim Jong Out? Some see signs of collapse No shots fired at defector, U.S. preps 'infiltration,' economy on brink http://www.wnd.com/2017/12/kim-jong-out-some-see-signs-of-collapse/ North Korean source of massive computer worm attack. TheWashington Postreports the Trump administrationidentified North Korea as the source of the WannaCry computer worm that affected 230,000 computers earlier this year. The administration…
9 killed, over 50 injured in church bombing in Pakistan 18 December 2017 On Sunday, 17 December, a suicide bomber targeted a Methodist Church in Quetta, Pakistan leaving nine dead and more than fifty injured. According to reports, though two attackers targeted the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church, only one managed…
Sixty-day-old Nadia Ahmad Sabri, who suffers from severe malnutrition, lies in a bed at a malnutrition treatment center in Hodeidah, Yemen, on Wednesday. (Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters) David Miliband, president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee and former British foreign secretary, is the author of “Rescue: Refugees and the Political…
Australia Christian prayer leaders invite their brothers and sisters in Christ, prayer groups, prayer networks and churches to join with them all over the world to pray at sunrise on New Year's Day 2018 at a public location such as a hill, lookout or landmark in your city or town.…
600+ mission people gathered at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, December 5-7, for the Finishing the Task event. Our purpose was to focus on the remaining unengaged unreached people groups, whole ethnolinguistic and cultural groups that still do not have exposure to Christ’s Good News through a resident team…
The UPRising PH has come at a very crucial time for the nation. When the Lord led the National Dream Team to do the gathering in Davao City, Mindanao, little did they know that the Marawi War would take place and that the country’s President would put Mindanao under Martial…