Crisis Still Needs Our Help

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA -Christian Aid Mission is increasing efforts to collect emergency help for the flood victims of the continuing crisis in Pakistan as worldwide interest from the news media wanes.

Over 20 million Pakistanis are in need of help now as massive floods have raged down the Indus River.

Meet Jean Le Maistre, the man behind 100 overseas trips sponsored over nearly four decades sponsored by the government of Jersey, an island that was occupied by the Germans during World War II

ST. HELIER, JERSEY - (ANS)-It was a rather amazing experience for me to be visiting the lovely paradise island of Jersey, which is only 14 miles long and 5 miles across. It has a population of only 90,000 and I call it "The small island with a big heart."

LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND -  When businessman Ged Tyrrell first heard the Old Testament Template teaching it completely transformed his whole outlook on life, which has now led him to establish an annual conference called City Gate to equip other Christian leaders to reach their full potential.

Tyrrell, Managing Director of a building services controls and engineering company based in Lancashire, first heard this teaching at a YWAM conference in Switzerland.

PAKISTAN - Heavy flooding in Pakistan has affected almost all four provinces with major damages in Khaber Pukhton Khawa, Punjab and now in Sindh.

According to a news release from People to People International (PTP), on Aug. 23 the situation in Sindh was becoming worse as flood water entered into major parts of Sindh province and moved toward the Arabian Sea.

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO - I met Dr. Dale Erickson at the Flying Star Restaurant, a local café located in the midst of large cottonwood trees along the Rio Grande River.

We met to discuss Africa-Zimbabwe, to be exact.

For the past 42 years, Dr. Erickson has been involved-in one way or another-with the African people, working side by side with them as a missionary and a medical doctor.

Worst floods in the South Asian country for 80 years that has displaced 17 million people and killed over 1,600

NOWSHERA, PAKISTAN - Sharing Life Ministry Pakistan (SLMP) has begun distributing vital aid to Pakistani Christians in the aftermath of the worst floods in the country in 80 years.

Pakistan's Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gillani, said on Wednesday, September 1, 2010, that Pakistan had suffered losses of about USD$43 billion because of the floods that have displaced more than 17 million people and killed over 1,600.

MUZAFARGARH, PAKISTAN - Many Pakistani living in southern Punjab's cities affected by the devastating floods are being helped by the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA).

And we can reveal that this much-needed aid is being given to people from various different religious backgrounds.

But Still Orphans First is helping some of them at the Maison-de-Lumière orphanage

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -  Almost eight months after the January 12th earthquake, Haiti's children are still hungry, thirsty and uneducated. The billions of dollars poured into this devastated nation seem to have made little impact.

Washington, DC – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned new details about recent religious persecution in Vietnam and the following brutal cover-up.

Vietnamese authorities ordered the Christian Con Dau village, near the city of Da Nang, to be abandoned to build a resort on the site. When the people resisted water irrigation was shut off to the rice fields, cutting the main source of income and food. On May 4, 2010, Vietnamese police surrounded and attacked a funeral as it approached the cemetery. Police arrested and beat 62 persons including women that were stripped naked. One pregnant woman, Le Thi Van, was struck in her stomach until she had a miscarriage.