WASHINGTON, Aug. 11, 2026 /Christian Newswire/ — The Trump Administration has mobilized an immediate response following the devastating 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck regions of Colombia on August 10. Within hours of the earthquake, the Department of State announced $15.5 million in life-saving emergency shelter, food, and protection assistance, in addition to post-earthquake structural assessments. The Department also activated a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), which includes humanitarian experts from across the State Department. Members of the DART began arriving in Colombia the day of this devastating earthquake, underscoring the Department’s commitment to immediate, life-saving action in the critical hours following natural disasters in our hemisphere. The State Department...

LOVES PARK, Ill., July 27, 2026 /Christian Newswire/ — It would have been unimaginable in the communist era—a hundred young people in Belarus openly celebrating their Christian faith. But the recent youth gathering at an evangelical church in the ex-communist nation is just the tip of a swelling movement—a new generation of young Christians across the former communist world eager to show their faith to the world. “There’s a rising hope among the young generation all across the former Soviet Union,” said Eric Mock, senior vice president of ministry operations at Illinois-based Slavic Gospel Association (SGA), a mission that supports local evangelical churches. The numbers speak for themselves. Since 2022, about 1,200 new pastors—mostly young men—have graduated from SGA-supported Bible colleges and seminaries across the region. And nearly 280,000 children and teens have participated in hundreds of SGA-supported summer Bible camps across a dozen ex-Soviet...