PRAY: Wife gives update on MAF pilot imprisoned in Mozambique for 2 months

Ryan Koher has spent over two months in a prison in Mozambique after delivering a routine supply of necessities to orphans. 

Koher works for Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF). Koher and his wife Annabel have been working as missionaries for MAF since 2019. In December 2021 they moved to Mozambique with their two young sons. 

Drugs, suicide attempts and jail time: How God helped restore Sharon Dutra's life

Most childhood memories involve special family moments, playful times and plenty of laughter. For Sharon Dutra, it was a very different story.

Sharon was born in Los Angles. Her mother left when she was just five years old, and her father was an alcoholic who was married four times by the time Sharon was 17.

Brazilian pastor and wife drowned trying to save son

The congregation of a Brazilian church is mourning the loss of their pastor and his wife after the couple went after their son in an attempt to save him while visiting a beach. 

Felisberto Sampaio, 43, and his wife, Inalda Sampaio, 42 lead the Assembly of God Church in Quixaba, Paraíba. The family was visiting Paraíba city of Lucena for a few days and went to the beach on January 10. 

The couple saw that their 13-year-old son Ian was struggling in the water at Camacari Beach. They both immediately went into the water after him. 

Open Doors releases 2023 World Watch list with change in top spot

There is a new World Watch list of the top 50 countries in the world that see the most Christian persecution.

The World Watch list was started by the ministry Open Doors back in 1992, and ever since, North Korea has been in the number one spot for the hardest place to live as a Christian. In 2022 North Korea took second place as Afghanistan moved into the first spot after the Taliban took over the government. 

'You're losing your best friend little by little': Life after an Alzheimer's diagnosis

January is Alzheimer's awareness month. 

Today, more than half a million Canadians are living with dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. By the year 2050, more than 1.7 million people in Canada will be living with dementia, according to the Alzheimer's Society of Canada.

French protesters call for extradition of retired priest to Canada

Activists are calling on France to extradite a retired priest to Canada to face allegations that he sexually abused Inuit children in Nunavut decades ago. 

Nearly a dozen members of BeBrave France, the French chapter of a global advocacy movement that aims to end sexual violence against children, demonstrated outside the retirement home of Johannes Rivoire in Lyon, France on Monday.

They held signs and banners, painted messages on the sidewalk and spoke over a microphone to demand justice.

17 killed and dozens wounded in attack on church in DR Congo

Seventeen people have been killed in a terrorist attack that has also left around 20 people seriously injured in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The bomb blast occurred during Sunday worship at a Pentecostal church in Kasindi (Eglise du Christ au Congo ECC) in the northern part of the country, near the Ugandan border.

How God can use you – one at a time – to change the world

No one wants to spend their lives being time-wasters, space-takers, binge-watchers, or game-players. We all want to be difference-makers. But where do you start?

In One at a Time, bestselling author and pastor Kyle Idleman uniquely reveals how Jesus valued people and shows us Jesus' way of changing the world--by loving people one at a time.