Nearly 20 years ago, my graduate advisor at Ohio University said of Sudan, a nation he loved and visited frequently, “It’s hard to watch a nation commit suicide.” I think often of his words, more so ...

This weekend the world meets to commit to the Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. For 10 million stateless people worldwide this will ...

Like much of West Africa, Liberia is a country of dark, heavy skies emerging from bloody civil war. But like everywhere else in West Africa, there’s also much more to the place — elements that make it ...

BLAINE, Minn. — A Twin Cities couple emptied what little savings they had to start a mission and a movement that is saving hundreds of abandoned children. Agnes and Prince Cole know the struggle.

Diabetes is on the rise globally. Since the 1980s the number of people living with the disease has quadrupled from 108 million to 537 million. This dramatic increase is largely due to the rise in type ...

HUDSONVILLE, Mich.-- When siblings Abraham and Jacey Rappuhn were little, they were living in Liberia and had to fight for their lives every day. On Sunday, they gave people an idea of what it's like ...

Living Word Lutheran Church, 3700 S. Mason Road in Katy, will show the film, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, at 7 p.m. Aug. 14. After the film, Pastor Emmanuel Jackson will hold a moderated discussion ...

I leaned on my father’s long leg as I awaited my vaccination at the local UN office. We were Jamaican expatriates living in Liberia at the time of the seventh cholera pandemic almost 50 years ago.