Managing editor Kim Lawton returns to the church, clinic, and school her missionary grandparents helped to establish in Haiti more than 30 years ago. More →

April 23, 2010

Faith-based groups are raising money, sending supplies, providing emergency medical help, and trying to locate staff, missionaries, and workers. In the US there are special prayer services and vigils for the victims. More →

January 15, 2010

FRED DE SAM LAZARO, guest anchor: Hundreds of government officials and activists wrapped up a meeting in Bangkok this week by calling for more efforts to curb the exploitation of children. East Asia and the Pacific region have been especially … More →

August 22, 2008

  LUCKY SEVERSON, guest anchor: In reaction to the kidnapping of South Korean church members, Christian groups there are scaling back operations in dangerous parts of the world. It’s a significant decision considering South Korean churches send out about 17,000 … More →

August 10, 2007

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — the Mormons — barred African-Americans from full membership until 1978. Since then, the church has increased its outreach to African-American communities, but has yet to repudiate its old teachings that blacks were cursed by God as descendents of Cain or Ham. More →

March 31, 2006