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December 30, 2009

  BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We have a moving story today on reconciliation in Rwanda.  In 1994, for 100 days while the world looked away, one group slaughtered another at the rate of 10,000 a day.  This Spring for another 100 … More →

April 17, 2009

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Pope Benedict XVI returned to the Vatican this week from his  seven-day visit to Africa, his first trip there as pope. News coverage of what happened in Africa was overshadowed by the controversy the pope himself set … More →

March 27, 2009

This week leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion called on Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, to step down and asked that a church representative be sent to Zimbabwe. Watch Rev. Thomas Shaw, Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, who visited Zimbabwe last year … More →

February 5, 2009

“Forty-five years for Kenya is very a short period of time for 45 tribes to have come together and meshed into one,” says Kenyan Quaker minister Oliver Kisaka. More →

June 13, 2008

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Between tragedies such as the one in Myanmar and the disastrous worldwide rise in food prices, a question long debated by relief experts has become urgent: What’s the best way for the U.S. to help the hungry? … More →

May 9, 2008

Read more of the R & E interview with the Rev. John Guernsey, Bishop for Congregations in America for the Church of Uganda. More →

September 21, 2007

For many physicians, there’s uncertainty about when or whether they should pray with their patients, but Mark Jacobson says it would be malpractice not to. Dr. Jacobson is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and he’s been treating Africans in Tanzania for 22 years. More →

July 20, 2007

Most tourists come to Tanzania to take a photo safari through a wonderland of wildlife. There are few places on earth that can match it. On the other hand, there are an increasing number of tourists who come to Tanzania to comfort a dying old lady or hold a little orphan girl. It’s called “voluntourism.” More →

April 6, 2007

International humanitarian crises have inspired high profile evangelical leader Rick Warren to launch a wide-ranging new global initiative. Warren is pastor of Saddleback Church, a megachurch in Southern California. But he’s best known for his mega-selling book, THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE. … More →

September 1, 2006