October 22, 2013
Tucked into southeast Europe, just across the Adriatic from Italy lies Albania, strung out along a mountainous coastline, unknown and unremarkable to most except for its […]
October 16, 2013
It wasn’t an unexpected visit, so when the secret police arrived asking for Paul Negrut, he knew his time had come. Others of his Christian friends […]
September 9, 2013
Life began for me on the Canadian prairies in a Pentecostal parsonage (manse). Along with four siblings I knew I was loved. Only as I began […]
September 3, 2013
News of Christians being given the boot in Muslim countries tends to override stories of remarkable opportunity, overshadowed instead by Muslim religion and politics. Malaysia, an […]
July 11, 2013
In a previous Dispatch, I identified the remarkable yet difficult terrain of Christian life in a Communist police state such as Vietnam. Tough and often unyielding, […]
July 2, 2013
We arrived in Vietnam — one of only five remaining socialistic dictatorships ruled by Communist ideology, circumscribed by its assumptions and demands. However my reading had […]
June 17, 2013
Visiting countries with recent histories of violence, dictatorships and war, I watch in amazement as people continue to live in hope even with the continuing residue […]
June 17, 2013
Visiting countries with recent histories of violence, dictatorships and war, I watch in amazement as people continue to live in hope even with the continuing residue […]
May 29, 2013
It was a two hour drive north of the Cambodian city of Siem Reap. The first hour was fine, then backroads, mud holes and wandering cattle. […]