Aid agencies are struggling to reach the quarter million people displaced by the recent flare up between rebels and government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
0Officials say the death toll from the earthquake that devastated an impoverished valley in southwestern Pakistan has risen to 215.
0A strong earthquake struck before dawn Wednesday in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 150 people, injuring scores more and leaving an estimated 15,000 homeless, officials said.
0Leaders at the World Evangelical Alliance General Assembly have commissioned Joel Edwards as the new international director of the faith-based Micah Challenge.
1U.S. humanitarian agency USAID has shipped more than 55,000 pounds of food to feed nearly 900,000 North Koreans suffering from severe food shortages.
5Popular speaker and Christian author Joyce Meyer and her husband Dave are preparing to visit famine-stricken Ethiopia for humanitarian relief, the ministry announced on Friday.
3The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America both recently launched initiatives to raise awareness among its members about the global food crisis. PC(USA) has called its church members to go on a weekend fast at the beginning of every month.
1Christian relief groups coming off of a series of hurricanes in the past two weeks are bracing themselves for Hurricane Ike – a giant storm that fills most of the Gulf of Mexico – late on Friday or early Saturday.
0The humanitarian project of Grammy-winning band Audio Adrenaline in Haiti was dealt some major setbacks over the past couple of weeks after being hit more than once by storms that swept through the area.
0Nine people died at shelters, including two children, even as floodwaters from Hurricane Ike receded from Gonaives and a U.S. Navy hospital ship equipped with helicopters and amphibious boats arrived in the capital to deliver food and water to cities still marooned by flooding.
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