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Family

Who’s Watching the Children?

Imagine yourself as a single mom with three young children. Your doctor discovers a health issue that requires surgery and a hospital stay. Your parents live in another state and

Opinion

5 Steps When You’ve Offended Someone

By Ron Edmondson All of us say things we wish we hadn’t said. We all offend people at times. Everyone knows what it is like to put foot in mouth.

Church & Ministries

Christian leader gunned down by Islamic militants in Nigeria

A Nigerian Christian leader was killed when suspected Muslim militants burst into his home and shot him, as the religious fighting in Africa’s most populous nation continues to worsen.Two members

News

Ghana launches miniature satellite to signal its space ambitions

Ghana will launch its first satellite as part of its new space programme today, as college students send a tiny model satellite the size of a coke can 200 yards

News

Bank of Ghana Sees Second-Half Dollars Stemming Cedi Fall

Ghana’s cedi, West Africa’s worst performer against the dollar this year, may halt its decline in the second half of the year as the country gets more foreign currency to

News

World Bank, AFDB to Fund $1.26 Billion Ethiopia-Kenya Power Line

The World Bank and African Development Bank will provide 80 percent of the funds needed for a $1.26 billion line that will take power to Kenya from Ethiopia. The World

Africa Opinion

Understanding the causes of violent extremism in West Africa

DAKAR,  (IRIN) – Academics and government, military and civil society representatives gathered for a conference in the Senegalese capital this week to assess the interplay between development and violent extremism

Church & Ministries Headlines

Africa: Global Survey Aims to Equip Anglicans to Engage in Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu commends the “exciting and promising initiative”. The Anglican Communion’s Anglican Peace and Justice Network (APJN) has launched a worldwide survey to gather the experience of Anglicans

Prayer

Do You Pray?

By Kelly Givens “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

Life

Idle of the Heart

By Joe Thorn: I continually run into young men who are frustrated at their stage in life in part because of a lack of clarity about their calling, or a