The following report was sent to Rae Burnett, Africa Director for Christian Aid Mission, by Gabriel Barau, the leader of Missionary Crusaders Ministries in Nigeria. The Jos community, still in recovery mode from Januarys violence, was awakened at 2 a.m. on March 7 by Fulani Muslims who set fire to houses and vehicles, and butchered or shot those who tried to escape. They killed over 500 people, mostly women and children. Read more.

"We need to train missionaries and send them to rural areas," urges a leader of a ministry in Sri Lanka, "those called to reach the unreached with the gospel of Christ." In the beginning an accredited teacher went from village to village preaching the gospel, as well as teaching and discipling new believers. In time, others who shared his vision joined him. Together, they traveled about presenting teaching seminars and conferences for rural pastors. Read more.

Some 2 million people in Chile were affected in one way or another by the fifth most powerful earthquake in the last 100 years. The strong tremors began early Saturday morning with an 8.8 magnitude quake followed by more than 90 aftershocks. As of Monday, March 1 over 700 people were reported dead, with more than 540 deaths in the Maule region, along the southern coast. It was reported that over 500,000 homes sustained considerable damage. Read more.

Beginning with the Apostle Paul's use of the Roman highway networks, Christians throughout history have commonly employed the latest technology of their times to proclaim the Word of God. From the Gutenberg Printing Press to "YouTube", Christian missionaries have been quick to seize upon new mass media to make our Lord known. Today, broadcasting and the Internet are helping native missionaries break down barriers with the gospel as they obey the Lord's command to reach all nations. Read more.

A mighty movement of God is surging through China, bringing historically unprecedented growth in Christianity. When the Communists took over in 1949, there were fewer than one million Protestants in China. Today the number is estimated to be 200 million. Read more.

48 Laotian Christians, marched from their village at gunpoint, have been abandoned on the roadside three miles from their homes. Their return to home and family is blocked by armed police squads. Read more.

Flooding and drought have resulted in famine conditions for millions in this desperately poor West African country. Children are especially at risk. Christian Aid’s Africa Director Rae Burnett, travelling in Central and West Africa, received this urgent cry for help from indigenous missionaries helped by Christian Aid in Niger. Read more.

Thanks to gifts from concerned friends in the United States, construction has begun on replacement housing in some flood-ravaged villages of South India. The aid was given as Christian Aid supporters responded to appeals for help during terrible flooding there last fall. Read more.

People who give to charities providing earthquake relief in Haiti may claim these donations on their 2009 tax returns, according to the Internal Revenue Service. Read more.

Rae Burnett, Africa Director for Christian Aid, sends the following report directly from her travels in West Africa where she has remained in close touch with ministry leaders in Jos, Nigeria. Read more.

In some countries, like the Philippines, missionaries can freely proclaim the gospel; but in countries where Islam is dominant, there is strong opposition toward Christians. Read more.

Read this urgent appeal for prayer and support to the international community from survivors of last week’s horror in Nigeria. Over 500 were killed in Muslim/Christian massacres. Read more.

The homeless and injured need our prayers and compassionate aid as another wave of Muslim/Christian violence sweeps the city of Jos in central Nigeria. Muslims burned churches with worshippers inside. Gun battles kill hundreds. Native missionaries share God’s love and the gospel in a time of terror and crisis. Read more.

When the Soviet Empire collapsed about 20 years ago Christian Aid moved quickly to get behind native missionaries who were spreading the gospel of salvation among their people. We joined forces with Slavik who has been for the cause of Christ in Ukraine and other former Soviet states what Billy Graham has been to America. Read more.

Modern technology is speaking the Gospel and teaching the Word of God to oral cultures in the Middle East. Media players have become much more than entertainment toys. Indigenous missionaries are creating programs for these hand-held devices. Read more.

Slavik Radchuk is helping local mission and church leaders train the next generation of indigenous missionaries in the former USSR. Through mission’s mobilization conferences, practical evangelistic outreaches and Video Bible Schools, he hopes to be able to mobilize another 3000 native missionaries in Eurasia. Read more.

While massive American aid is flowing into Haiti this week, Christian Aid Mission is looking at long-term support to indigenous missionaries. While emergency medical relief is being sent, overseas directors see a three or four year rebuilding program. Read more.

Haitian officials estimate that 100,000 may have been killed in the monster quake that hit the island Tuesday. The death toll is climbing by the hour in the wake of the magnitude 7.0 quake that tore through the capital of Port-au-Prince. Read more.

According to their motto, the New Life in Jesus ministry’s objective is to "plant churches and transform people for Jesus in Paraguay." Founder and director Osvaldo Simari has passionately poured his life into fulfilling that mission for more than 50 years. Read more.

SINCE 1993, Rae Burnett has served as Field Director for Christian Aid’s Africa Division. She has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles over land, sea, and air, penetrating the depths of this dark continent to find indigenous ministries which are reaching those in their nations who have never heard the gospel. Thus far, she has been to 45 of Africa’s 54 countries, most of them many times. Read more.

While paying high tribute to pioneers of the past, and expressing appreciation for their labors, this 285 page book declares that a new day has come in foreign missions. It shows how indigenous missions do 90 percent of the work with less than 10 percent of the total funds given for missionary work. Read more.

In the heights of India’s Himalaya Mountains, where the waters of the Ganges are thought to be a mystical spring of life, Hinduism’s iron grip on the hearts of the people stands in firm opposition to the gospel. In this region, God’s Word has been sparse historically, but nonetheless powerful when applied to sinners upon whom He has extended His grace. Read more.

A represive communist regime has been seeking to stamp out Christianity in Vietnam for decades. As in China, however, persecution has not succeeded in thwarting the growth of zealous, witnessing churches. Read more.

A century ago there were hardly any indigenous missions in all of India. Today more than 3000 of them deploy over 100,000 native missionaries who are winning souls and planting churches among the 1600 different tribes and nations scattered throughout that vast subcontinent. Read more.

"We are very thankful for your help these many years for homeless children in Ukraine. Praise God, we are now caring for 1200 children in 20 homes." Read more.

Believers in the Philippines are constantly assaulted by two forces: natural disaster and human cruelty. Read more.

This is to help us pray with knowledge for those who are suffering in Africa as we thank the Lord for our abundant blessings and prosperity. Donations for famine relief will be used 100% by indigenous missionaries to minister physical help in Jesus’ name. Read more.

On your birthday, do your friends and family send gifts to one another? Of course not. Birthday gifts celebrate the one who was born that day. So how should we celebrate the birth of our Saviour? By exchanging presents with loved ones who already have what they need? Why not rather give to our Lord Himself? Read more.