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| 11/20/2009 |
WORLDVIEW: A tale of five cities
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--My son wants to go to school next year in New York City. Read More |
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| 11/12/2009 |
WORLDVIEW: Where gang rape comes from
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--A 15-year-old girl steps outside of a school homecoming dance and guzzles alcohol in a hangout spot on campus. Read More |
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| 10/29/2009 |
Church aims to fill 1,200 shoe boxes
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| 10/20/2009 |
CP EMPHASIS: 'The nations came to us'
GREENSBORO, N.C. (BP)--Missions was a way of life at Friendly Avenue Baptist Church of Greensboro, N.C., where the service projects list fills a page. Then, a nation showed up ... Read More |
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| 9/29/2009 |
WHF 'thank you' video now downloadable
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| 9/28/2009 |
In Kenyan villages, drought leaves famished hearts & stomachs
SAMBURU, Kenya (BP)--Charlie Daniels (no relation to the country music legend) is in mid-sermon when an elderly woman faints. It isn't the Kenyan heat that's the culprit -- it's hunger.... Read More |
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| 9/28/2009 |
World hunger 'thank you' video, other resources available
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| 8/21/2009 |
Starvation continues to stalk millions of Maasai in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya (BP)--Starvation continues to stalk millions of Maasai people in Kenya's Rift valley, and Southern Baptists are launching a new round of hunger relief to help the neediest survive.
NAIROBI, Kenya (BP)--Starvation continues to stalk millions of Maasai people in Kenya's Rift valley, and Southern Baptists are launching a new round of hunger relief to help the neediest survive.
Almost a third of the people in Kenya's Kajiado and Narok districts are in dire need of food, and the new round of relief efforts will stave off disaster for about 180,000 people, according to the Southern Baptist missionary coordinating the project.
"These areas of Kenya have not had rain since 2007. There simply is no grass. No grass means no food for the animals. Since Maasai depend almost entirely on their animals, some people began to die -- mostly older Maasai," project director Bob Calvert said. "Their animals were emaciated and could not be sold to purchase food, so things went from bad to worse. They could not eat because their animals were either dead or dying."
The new food distribution project is the seventh this year and will cost $472,100, bringing the total disbursed in 2009 from the Southern Baptist World Hunger Fund for Kenya relief to nearly $1.1 million -- a very significant drain on the fund, said Mark Hatfield, who with his wife Susan directs work in Sub-Saharan Africa for Baptist Global Response, an international relief and development organization.
"This past 12-month period has seen exceptionally little rain. What complicates the problem is the tribal groups, who live in what are normally dry areas, live with little to no margins in their lives for drought events. There are no reserves of either food grains or stored water to use during a drought," Hatfield said. Read More |
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| 8/12/2009 |
More beheadings in Somalia reported
WASHINGTON (BP)--Four more Christians have been beheaded in Somalia, according to the Washington-based human rights organization International Christian Concern. Read More |
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| 7/22/2009 |
Beheadings mark attacks on Christians
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Islamic militants in Somalia have killed eight Christians this year, along with two sons of a Christian leader, according to reports by Reuters Africa and Compass Direct News. Read More |
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| 7/10/2009 |
Amid Kenya's drought, hunger fund feeds thousands
ILMAMEN, Kenya (BP)--The rains come too late for the crops. Cows, selling for about $5, have no meat on their bones. The drought's damage will be fatal for many.
From the Maasai Mara wildlife reserve in Kenya to Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania -- about 11,700 square miles -- everyone is hungry.
"The problem is that there is no grass," Bob Calvert says. "There is not enough water, not enough rain. For the past month, as I was waiting on relief supplies to come, I have been cutting grass around Nairobi to take to pastors for their animals to eat."
Calvert, an International Mission Board missionary, lives outside Kenya's capital, Nairobi. He partnered with Baptist Global Response, an international relief and development organization, to deliver nearly $500,000 worth of flour and cooking fat to women between May and July.
The money, provided by Southern Baptists through their World Hunger Fund, was enough to feed 180,000 people for one month -- at a cost of $2.70 each.
"Pastors started coming to me in November of last year to tell me that they needed food," Calvert recounts. "I told them to start collecting names of those who needed the food immediately -- women, orphans, old men, those with no other income."
Pastors in 238 churches collected the names of 29,280 women whose families need food. The reason for identifying the need through women is that some men have as many as four wives. This way each woman can feed her children.
Baptist Global Response worked with Calvert to develop a strategy for providing staple foods to people suffering in Kenya's Rift Valley area.
"Cyclical hunger in Africa is a fact of life," says Mark Hatfield who with his wife Susan directs Baptist Global Response work in Sub-Saharan Africa. "Environmental changes, in association with land use methods that have degraded the environment, along with a series of very poor rainy seasons, brought about this need for assistance."
Each woman received 12 five-pound bags of flour and one tub of cooking fat. While the distribution will stave off hunger for a month, it will be six months before families will have an opportunity to plant new crops. Read More |
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| 7/10/2009 |
Still alive, Samburu give thanks to God
SAMBURU, Kenya (BP)--The women danced and sang, thanking God for the food that kept their families alive for a while longer.
The food, delivered by Charlie Daniels, a Southern Baptist missionary in southern Kenya, literally kept these women and their families from starving to death. Read More |
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| 7/10/2009 |
INTERNATIONAL DIGEST: Christians in Honduras thankful for president's removal
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| 7/8/2009 |
SBC leader Ernest Mosley dies at 81
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| 7/1/2009 |
True Love Waits partners with South African government
KING WILLIAM'S TOWN, South Africa (BP)--The students chant proudly as they walk the streets, ignoring the stares and questionable looks from those they pass by.
Gaining confidence in their message, more than 300 high school students shout out in unison, "True Love Waits, True Love Waits, True Love Waits."
A dozen government departments, aid organizations and religious leaders signed an agreement June 25 with True Love Waits International to promote abstinence in schools within Eastern Cape, a province of South Africa.
Student representatives from 15 schools gathered to celebrate the partnership between TLWI and the Eastern Cape government.
"I see my prayers being answered," said Xolani Klaas, a South Africa national TLWI leader. "Most great changes come from the east in South Africa, like the sun. I see this partnership as the birth of a movement."
With the agreement, TLWI gains access to all the schools within the Eastern Cape.
South Africa is home to more than 10 million youth between the ages of 13 and 30. By the time most of them marry, studies indicate that they will have had approximately 10 different sexual partners.
In Eastern Cape, more than 1 million youth can now hear the life-changing message of abstaining from sexual impurity. Read More |
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