Cultural practices often create suffering and hardship for women. In 1996, life for women in Afghanistan changed drastically when the Taliban took over as ruling power. Educated women who once held responsible positions now have to be accompanied by a male relative to work, or even when going out in public. Women live in fear of their lives for...

There are now more martyrs in this century than all previous centuries combined. What's going on? Today, around the world, more than 480 Christians will die. Not because they live in war-torn countries. Not because our brothers and sisters do not have enough food. And not because believers face natural disasters. Instead, Christians are raped,...

This is the story of a changed life, as told to Power to Change Ministries. Born: Trang Bang, South Vietnam, 1963 It is a photograph that few are likely to forget. A little girl, her clothes seared from her body by a Napalm bomb, runs screaming from her burning village. Her arms are outstretched in terror and pain. For many, this photograph...

In the video "Tears: Women in Afghanistan," produced before September 11, an Afghan woman said: "We need the women of the world to come looking for us, we need that hope that someone would come looking for us when we're missing." I saw this video at a large women’s gathering in Houston, a week after 9-11. This statement gripped me. Did I go...

We live in a world filled with change and crisis. War, terrorist threats, natural disasters, death, human suffering and abductions are in the news 24/7. How do these events impact people? What effects have you experienced when you've watched images of the Twin Towers go up in flames, US troops engaged in battle in Iraq, suicide bombings in London,...

In the wake of the horror and suffering of the recent terrorist attacks on Manhattan and the Pentagon, and recently the attacks on London, it has been heartwarming to see so many acts of heroism, beginning with the men and women who met a hellish death as they raced up the stairs of the World Trade Center to save lives. Thousands of volunteers, lavish...

One of recent history's greatest natural disasters rocked south Asia and the Horn of Africa the day after Christmas, 2004. FoxNews.com reported, "Sunday's massive quake of 9.0 magnitude off the Indonesian island of Sumatra sent 500-mph waves surging across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal in the deadliest known tsunami since the one that devastated...