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Doulos Hope, the international floating book fair ship, has returned to Taiwan and is now docked at Kaohsiung Port, open to the public from December 18, 2024, to January 12, 2025. Originally built in 1991 and renovated in 2022, the ship features over 2,000 books on various topics, including faith, science, and art. It is operated by a diverse crew of 140 volunteers from 25 countries, offering services such as education, healthcare, and community outreach. The ship's mission is to spread hope and knowledge through books and provide short-term mission opportunities.

Olivet University (OU), a Christian Bible college in Anza, California, announced it will continue operations in the state under its newly acquired "religious exempt school" status after a notice from the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE). This action resolves OU's two-year licensing dispute over Newsweeks' defamatory articles and BPPE's unreasonable conduct.

The Christian New Life Association (CNLA, 新生協會), an evangelical drug rehabilitation ministry in Hong Kong, held its 23rd anniversary dinner on November 23. Commemorating CNLA’s great impact over the years, patrons and participants in the program gathered in support of the night’s fundraising events for the new Lantau Rehab Village, which featured Jingdezhen blue-and-white ceramics.

One of the most vibrant ministries of the River of Life Foundation (ROLF) is its food pantry program and facilities. Their program serves over 15,000 families, an estimated 45,000 people, per month. A key component of this outreach is the annual Thanksgiving Fair and Luncheon, an event designed to give back to the community. This year, the event will be held on November 16th.

The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College is set to host a four-day international conference in Hong Kong, focusing on the Christian heritage of East Asia. Participants will also have the opportunity to join "two evening historical site tours" with a special emphasis on the Christian history of Macau.

The 2024 Stream of Praise Worship Festival kicked off with the team touring Hong Kong on August 3. They held two worship festival sessions at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, each gathering 8,000 attendees to worship and praise together.

Former North Korea political prisoner Jung, Gwangil initiated a project called “No Chain” to create songs that are almost the same as the new songs being played in the state-run broadcast. The songs are recorded in USBs, which then are transported back to North Korea, and become “an invisible gospel”.

Two teenage sisters in Laos who converted from animism to Christianity have shared how their family members, angered by their conversion, beat them, tied them up, locked them out of the house, and left them there for four days -- but their faith remains unshaken.

This year, Cross Catholic Outreach’s Box of Joy ministry will put Christmas smiles on the faces of more than 60,000 children living in extreme poverty.

Crisis-trained chaplains with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) have been deployed to Las Vegas to pray with, comfort, and minister to those affected by what has been widely recognized as the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

September 13, 2017: A Christian aid worker in Spain has shared how many Syrian refugees in the country are "frustrated" with Islam and are converting to Christianity after witnessing firsthand the love of Christ.

August 28, 2017: A Christian woman in Central Asia has shared how she refused to deny Jesus Christ even after her Muslim husband threatened to take away her child unless she converted to Islam.

July 21, 2017: A Christian woman who fled North Korea has shared how, as a child, she was too scared to even touch a Bible - but revealed Christianity is growing in the country despite the government's brutal efforts to suppress it.

July 14, 2017: A notorious drug dealer-turned-underground pastor has shared how he embraced Christianity while imprisoned for his crimes after God revealed himself in an incredible way.

July 11, 2017: A Muslim refugee who once believed the Koran was "God's final word" and Islam was "final religion eclipsing all preceding one" embraced Christianity on his deathbed - and was miraculously healed.

July 10, 2017: A staggering 60 percent of Syrian refugees born in Turkey in the past three years are physically disabled, and about 10 percent are so emotionally impaired they are unable to talk, a missionary working in the Middle East has revealed.

July 10, 2017: The Shaman of a village in northwest China has shared how she embraced Christianity after dreaming of a man dressed in a "brilliant white robe" while on her deathbed.

June 7, 2017: A Syrian pastor who has shared the gospel in the war-torn country over the past six years despite continued dangers has said he's witnessed a staggering number of Muslims, disillusioned by the atrocities committed in the name of Islam, come to Christ

Today is the third annual Red Nose Day, a charitable effort seeking to end child poverty by raising money and awareness for kids in the U.S. and around the world.

A Christian mother and her two daughters escaped China earlier this year the help of an activist who has called the ordeal nothing short of miraculous.

A blind Indonesian girl who converted to Christianity thanks to the witness of a local missionary refused to renounce the name of Jesus Christ despite continued beatings and threats carried out by her Hindu family.

WASHINGTON - Tucked inside a sleek modernist room just blocks from the U.S. Capitol sat a hand-picked group of diplomats and scholars invited to take on the weighty task of helping the world's most populous Muslim country resist becoming an Islamic state.

The prominent leader of a Hindu temple who practiced "black magic" and was left bedridden for two years due to a serious illness embraced Christianity after Jesus miraculously healed him.

Museum of the Bible has awarded a grant for the transcription and study of the Pauline Corpus principally in Greek minuscule-a Greek writing style prominent from the ninth century onward. The resulting scholarship will contribute to the creation of an Editio Critica Maior, an important new edition of the Greek-language New Testament.

A pastor in the Middle East who daily risks his life to share the truth of Jesus Christ said he's witnessed a "huge thirst" for the gospel among Muslims, who continually ask him for Bibles.