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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 […]

Burkina Faso

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Our managing editor, Kirk Noonan, is on assignment in the West African Country of Burkina Faso. It has been four years since I had the privilege of traveling there to do a story for our World Missions Edition. I look forward to Kirk’s upcoming article, which will update the remarkable move of God occurring there.
Here […]

When Missionaries Itinerate

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Steve and Patti Gray, missionaries to Padua, Italy, whose ministry we wrote about in TPE WME, recently sent out their newsletter. I thought I would share an excerpt so you can have a perspective on what we call the itineration period.

We thank God that we have been able to travel the USA and worship in […]

Corinth

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

The pillars of ancient Corinth from my trip to Greece for a story for TPE.
(Double-click the photo to view all the photos on Corinth I have uploaded, or click here to view them as a slideshow.)
Read the article, “‘Also to the Greeks’: A nation at a Spiritual Crossroads,” here.
Ken Horn