World Vision
World Vision tinkers with child sponsorship model that brought in millions
By David King — November 4, 2019
(The Conversation) — World Vision is now flipping its marketing script that critics said demeaned those it wanted to help. Instead of donors choosing children to support, children are beginning to choose donors.
After cyclone disaster, church organizations mobilize to help devastated Africans
By Paul O'Donnell — March 25, 2019
(RNS) — Christian relief organizations and agencies raced to aid Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, the three countries most affected by the tropical storm.
Rich Stearns to retire from charity behemoth World Vision
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 10, 2018
(RNS) — During his tenure, World Vision grew to collect $1 billion in annual revenue in 2017, making it No. 15 on Forbes’ list of the nation’s largest charities.
When the evangelical establishment comes after you
By David P. Gushee — July 17, 2017
(RNS) — Whatever abuse you take for standing with LGBTQ people is nothing compared to the abuse they suffer every day.
Religious leaders urge Congress to protect foreign aid
By Adelle M. Banks — March 16, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) President Trump’s 2018 budget calls for $25.6 billion in funding for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, a 28 percent decrease from the 2017 budget.
World Vision ‘shocked’ by allegations its Gaza operative funneled money to Hamas
By Yonat Shimron — August 4, 2016
JERUSALEM (RNS) The Shin Bet said in a statement that Mohammed El Halabi admitted to being a Hamas activist.
Evangelicals and refugees: Care first, conversion maybe later
By Adelle M. Banks — June 24, 2016
(RNS) 'We feel like as a church our first step is to serve and to do that not so that they’ll become Christians, but because we are Christians,' one pastor said.
World Vision president: Treat refugees as guests
By Timothy C. Morgan — May 16, 2016
(RNS) Christians in Iraq’s Kurdish north, Jordan, and Lebanon are becoming more innovative in responding to the needs of refugees. U.S. churches can learn from them, Rich Stearns said.
Faith-based groups help quake-stricken Ecuador
By Timothy C. Morgan — April 19, 2016
(RNS) Georgia-based MAP International has joined World Vision, Plan International, Save the Children, UNICEF, CARE and Samaritan's Purse to help with rescue and recovery.
Evangelicals commit to refugee resettlement efforts
By Timothy C. Morgan — December 18, 2015
WHEATON, Ill. (RNS) They said there are nearly 60 million displaced or refugee people worldwide, “a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented size.”
Forced sex camps prepare girls for child marriage in Zambia and Mozambique
By Reuters — May 22, 2015
CASABLANCA (Reuters) Girls as young as eight are forced to go to camps where they are shown how to please a man in bed in order to prepare them for married life, activists said at an international conference on ending child marriage.
On conservative religious activism, the numbers speak for themselves (COMMENTARY)
By Rob Schwarzwalder — May 13, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam says churches are "entirely focused" on abortion and same-sex marriage. The numbers tell a different story.
World Vision suspends operations in key South Sudan state over escalating violence
By Fredrick Nzwili — May 13, 2015
(RNS) Africa’s newest nation descended into chaos in December 2013 after a dispute in the ruling party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement.
In Boston, engaging both sides of the church’s debate on gays (ANALYSIS)
By Jonathan Merritt — April 24, 2015
BOSTON (RNS) The shift in this year's Q conference reflects the reality that conversations about human sexality do not occur in echo chambers of monologue, isolated from those who disagree.
Faith-based aid groups face a hurdle: the faith that drives them
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — March 6, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) Faith and foreign aid make a complex, controversial mix. Yet leaders of faith-based nonprofits say the two can't be separated.
