Italian missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668-1714) landed on southwestern Japan's island of Yakushima in 1708, when the ...

You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements, or ...

Fifty years ago, a young Irish missionary in the Philippines founded an organization that defended the rights of abused and ...

When Shahid Qamar established Takmil, a nonprofit organization that educates kids in Pakistan, it had 50 students. Now it has ...

Jimmy Carter was the first U_S_ president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa, declaring “the day of the so-called ...

The Methodist Church Ghana has launched the 190th anniversary of its existence in Ghana.  The launching ceremony coincided with what in Methodist circles is known as, Covenant Sunday, where Methodists ...

The County Roscommon native's role was acknowledged recently at the university’s inaugural graduation ceremony.

Hazel Marie Shrull, 84, died Jan. 4, 2025, at her home in Sikeston. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until service time at noon Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, at Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church in ...

Glasgow, Kentucky, passed away peacefully at his home on Friday January 3, 2025. He was born in Glasgow, KY on October 26, ...

Not long ago, a young man approached missionary Sara Risser and said, "I'm Walter. Do you remember me?" "Oh, dear!" she answered in dismay. Risser is a 38-year veteran missionary to Ecuador. "I was a ...

It was, in fact, John Rees (who subsequently served as a missionary in Thailand) who was the first Sydney Swans chaplain and was followed by Rev Paul Cameron. I then travelled to Melbourne, the home ...