Christian Today

Polish Baptists Deny "BWA Alternative" Meeting

Polish Baptist representatives may not be meeting with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leaders to consider an "alternative" to the Baptist World Alliance (BWA)...

New Sudan Council of Churches Consider Merge with Sudan Council of Churches

Sudanese Christian leaders were encouraged to set a clear plan of action for the six-year window when the nation is united under an interim government, during a two-day meeting of African Christian leaders in Nairobi...

Thousands Flock to California, USA for Largest Christian Communications Convention

Several thousand Christian ministry and media representatives flocked to the Anaheim Convention Centre in California, USA for the 62nd annual National Religious Broadcasters' (NRB) Convention and Exposition...

World Vision Giving Relief in Cooperation with Sri Lanka Government

In coordination with government authorities, one of the largest Christian relief organisations in the world plans to complete the distributions of household items to 2,500 families in Sri Lanka's tsunami-hit Kalutara...

Methodists Open Sudan Mission Centre in Darfur

The United Methodist Committee on Relief opened new doors to mission and servitude in the poverty-stricken Darfur region of Sudan. The new mission centre, which launched early February, will provide emergency aid and development services...

Repositioning "Evangelical"

When Archbishop Fisher went home on the night of the Queen's Coronation in 1952 he made a momentous entry in his diary. "Today," he declared, "Great Britain has come close to the Kingdom of Heaven." What was even more remarkable was that the newspapers agreed with him the following day...

Who influences whom?

Billy Graham may not be as active or as publicly visible as he once was, but he remains the most trusted spokesman for the Christian faith in the U.S. His ministry peers also regard him as the person who has the greatest influence on American churches and church leaders...

The Church and the Charity Commission - Friend or Foe?

Winston Churchill once described Russia as a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'. I have no doubt that many Church leaders would say the same thing about the charity commission! Too often, the Commission has been seen to be something of an administrative Goliath towering over a tiny David...

SBC President: The World is Waiting for a Revival

"Many people are waiting for the harvesters to come," said Bobby Welch, president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), as he prepared to lead some 100 seminary students to a day-long evangelism blitz...

Christians in Iran Continue to Suffer Repression

Many Iranians find the religious-political situation in Iran today stifling, repressive and depressing, according to the religious liberty commission of a global network representing some 150 million Christians in 115 countries...

American Tract Society Celebrates 180 Years Of Changing Hearts

This year, one of the oldest faith-based organisations still operating today will mark 180 years. Instituted in 1825, the American Tract Society traces its lineage back through the New York Tract Society...

VOM Expose Severe Persecution in Rural Ethiopia

In a report released today by Voice of the Martyrs, the persecution watchdog group documented recent cases of severe physical abuse and other atrocities in the Southern Region of Ethiopia...

Give Your Burden to Me

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

In our lives there are always times that come to us when we are fed up and feel the weight of the world on our shoulders...