There are a billion stories to tell of lives in need. There are many stories of changed lives. These are just a few.

• Finding churches in unlikely corners of Mumbai By: Sophie Spencer MUMBAI, India — The city flows by in streaks of color, green foliage blurring into grey water, mottled concrete and the occasional brown cow. The train rumbles steadily through the alternating scents of burning trash, baking asphalt, car exhaust and stale fish. The “common man’s car” is unusually subdued today, as dozens…
• VHP leads mob to destroy Indian church Government officials stand by as walls come down India news briefs for March/April 2013 On March 12 in a southeast India village, the local newspaper published allegations that Divya Jyoti Church had been built on government land. The next day, a crowd equipped with a backhoe demolished the small church building, encountering no resistance from…
• Eternal death – forever, period! By Madison Strauder It is like watching a horrific wreck happen in slow motion. You are familiar with the surroundings and all the factors that led to the accident. You can picture the people earlier that day as they had their breakfast, took care of their kids and went to work. You know what they looked…
• A small church makes a big difference Jane Wise’s* heart for women and children in Bangladesh sparks her small home church to get involved hands-on in missions.
• A Window into Nepal By Hope Livingston* Legends are born every day. Some last a moment, others never die. In the South Asian country of Nepal, the legend of the “Abominable Snowman” came into existence amidst the snowy peaks of the highest mountains, the Himalayas. Early Himalayan people allegedly worshipped a “Glacier Being,” and explorers since the 1800s have…
• Indian Election Season Shaken by Bangalore Explosion By: Sophie Spenser BANGALORE, India – The same week that the international news was choked with days of fallout from both the Boston Marathon Blast and the West, Texas, explosion, the city of Bangalore was rattled by a disaster of its own. On the morning of April 17, a bomb was set off outside the…
• Window into the Maldives By Sophie Spencer* Google “Maldives.” The top search is “Maldives honeymoon,” which yields a mother lode of tropical pictures that would put the most ambitious Photoshopper to shame: sleek bamboo huts sparkling under still lamplight, emerald palms trailing their fronds in crystal waters, buff and bikinied newlyweds sipping champagne in glass-bottomed boats. Keep scrolling, and…
• Explosion in Bangalore, No Fatalities An explosion occurred Wednesday, April 17 at the headquarters of a political party in Bangalore, India, injuring 16 people—including eight police officers. The blast is suspected to have come from a motorcycle parked near the office in Malleshwaram, a residential area surrounded by information technology businesses. Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka, whose state elections…
• Seven Sisters home serves rescued girls By Hope Livingston* SOUTH ASIA — A quiet street with a two-story rescue home replaced dark, dingy alleys lined with brothels. Don and Janice Hughes, members of The Church at Agape Outpost in Colorado, retired from investigative work in South Asia to invest in a rescue home there. Their home, bright and airy, now houses…
• Volunteers connect with Raja Volunteers from America sees Raja touch lives of broken, destitute people tossed onto the streets of India.

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