Author: Shalem John
Eunice wept bitterly almost every night after she was diagnosed with HIV in 2015. The 40-year-old single mother feared friends and family would stigmatize her and began to sink into depression. She didn’t tell her 13-year-old daughter—not at first. Instead, Eunice walked alone to the church-run St Raphael’s Clinic about a mile away, where she secretly received donor-funded anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) free of charge. Eunice lived in a low-income area in Nairobi, Kenya, where one-tenth of the country’s 1.4 million HIV-positive people live. Nairobi is Kenya’s most populous city and has the most people in the nation at risk for…
When evangelist Billy Graham came to West Germany in 1954, more than 80,000 people packed into Berlin’s Olympic Stadium to hear the American preacher’s message. It’s hard to imagine that big of a crowd gathering in Germany to hear a sermon these days. The more than 1,000 Christian leaders who assembled on Thursday at the JW Marriott near Berlin’s famous Potsdamer Platz all share the conviction that Europe needs to hear the gospel again. But they’re concerned it is harder and harder to proclaim the Good News in Europe. “Nations and governments that used to be friendly to Christianity have…
On May 1, 2025, the National Day of Prayer, Paula White-Cain stood in the White House Rose Garden and called President Donald Trump “the greatest champion of faith we’ve ever had.” She then led religious leaders and Trump cabinet members in singing “Great Are You Lord” and “Amazing Grace.” The president, seated at a desk amid the group, signed an executive order establishing his Religious Liberty Commission, with Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick as chair. The commission will work alongside the White House Faith Office, directed by White-Cain. White-Cain’s life is rags to riches: hardship, struggle, faith in Christ and positive thinking, victory,…