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Burkina Faso Podcast

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Listen to my TPExtra Podcast with Managing Editor Kirk Noon. We compare notes as I wrote about Burkina Faso in a World Missions Edition a few years ago.

This photo was on the cover of our first Burkina Faso issue.
Read “A Mission Field Called Home” by Kirk Noonan. A story of God at work in Burkina […]

Ukraine: 22 Years Since Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Evangelical Theological Seminary in Kiev, Ukraine
The AP reported today:
Dozens of mourners gathered in the Ukrainian capital on Saturday to mark 22 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Holding candles and portraits of relatives, the mourners laid flowers at a memorial to victims of the accident.
Reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl, in what is now northern Ukraine, exploded […]

In the News: Praying to the Dead

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

The AP reported today from San Giovanni Rotondo in Italy:
The body of Padre Pio, a hugely popular Italian saint, goes on public display Thursday in a southern Italian town where thousands have gathered to pray to the mystic monk….
This kind of woeful superstition and benighted religion persists in much of the world. Unfortunately, this is […]

The Broom (From Africa)

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Wayne and Sylvia Turner are Assemblies of God missionaries to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I traveled there and did a story for our World Missions Edition some years ago. I received the following in February:
The Broom
By Sylvia Turner
On national television, the newly elected president’s wife prayed that each day the Lord would take […]

Churches and Cathedrals

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

One of my favorite photographic subjects is churches and cathedrals. I have shot many on my trips for the World Missions Edition of Today’s Pentecostal Evangel, but I have sought out others on my own as well. I love the way the cross fits into the lines of the Palma Cathedral (pictured here) in Palma […]