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Written by Alyce GIlligan
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 00:00 |
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This past weekend, doctors worked for five and a half hours on the frail heart of a little boy named Ahmed. Ahmed is a child from Iraq who has spent the first five years of his life battling congenital heart disease. En route to Ahmed’s procedure, his parents were in a serious car accident and hospitalized themselves a few hours away. The doctors, an expert team flown into Iraq for just such desperate situations, are aware they are doing more than giving a boy a new life. They are giving a family a future. And in some small way, they are giving people hope.
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Written by Phil White
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 06:00 |
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“You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror” (TNIV). This excerpt from Psalm 10 appears at the top of a blog written by Dennis Brock, a Christian missionary whose work in the tiny, AIDS-ravaged African nation of Swaziland is inspired by God’s love for the poor. The verse has added meaning for Brock because God heard his cry of desperation earlier in life.
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Written by Evan Davies
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 00:00 |
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“It spreads the HIV through play sex.”
I received this phrase as an answer to a question on a test having nothing to do with HIV/AIDS. I knew my work was cut out for me from that point forward.
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Written by Matt Lafferty
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 07:30 |
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 Apoyo Matek! This means “thank you very much” in Luo, the language of Uganda. The locals said it so often on a recent trip that I wondered why they remained so thankful. I found their unshakable attitude for each day and every person they come across amazing, especially in the wake of such a difficult, war-torn past.
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Written by Julian Lukins
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 08:50 |
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A generation ago, the young tribal people of Papua’s remote interior roamed the highlands with stone axes and spears.
Papua’s youth still hike the misty mountain trails—only now they carry solar-powered MP3 players.
They’re not plugged into Coldplay, though. They’re listening to voices in their own dialects—young people with messages about a killer that’s sweeping through their villages. That killer is HIV/AIDS.
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