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It may all have started with a 'big bang' but it would have been a silent bang because sound does not travel through space and there was no human ear to hear it. Creation starts in the 'silence of eternity'. Each life starts silently and unseen. The template for a...
North Africa does not get much positive press these days. Algeria seems fixed on self-destruction, caught in the midst of an horrific civil war. Libya is forever portrayed as the haven of Arab terrorism. Mauritania is rarely mentioned - a vast, mainly uninhabited sandy desert. Morocco is infamous as the...
I am reminded that it is 50 years since I first set foot on the Mount of Olives on Ascension Day. It was the beginning of my love for Israel and it also introduced me to some remarkable workers in that land. Firstly that lover of people, Tom Lambie, the...
'Travelling until journey's end'. They were both medical students in Birmingham. Maggie, who had previously trained as a nurse, was committed to work for three years with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG). Antony 'married into a missionary career'. After brief service with the Merchant Navy during...
The statistics speak for themselves. In the UK, government action and effective education leading to behavioural change brought the epidemic under control relatively quickly - though at the cost of 14,000 lives so far. Elsewhere it is a different story. With over 2 million deaths every year due to AIDS,...
Medically speaking leprosy and AIDS are worlds apart. One owes many of its symptoms to an overactive immune response whereas the other is a failure of the immune system. Yet during my elective I saw a very important link. Manoram Christian Hospital was started 40 years ago in central Thailand....
The Evangelical Reformed Church of Christ was founded by the Sudan United Mission in 1916. Today, under national leadership, it is still committed to evangelism and training believers in discipleship, while on the medical side it runs a comprehensive health centre in Alushi with 30 dispensaries, and a training school...
