By Geoff Tunnicliffe, Christian Post guest contributor In a few short weeks I will conclude my service as Chief Executive Officer/Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance. For the past 10 years I have had the immense privilege of leading this global community. One of my observations is that there is a growing passion amongst…
By World Evangelical Alliance The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) encourages Christians and churches around the world to remember and pray for refugees and forcibly displaced people on World Refugee Sunday, designated this year to fall on June 15 and 22. The WEA and the Refugee Highway Partnership (RHP) have prepared useful resources for local churches…
By World Evangelical Alliance The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is deeply concerned about the large-scale human suffering in the Central African Republic (CAR) with thousands being killed, up to 1 million people displaced and half of the population in need of humanitarian assistance. However, the WEA is also concerned that national and international media have…
By Jeremy Weber One of the longest-serving leaders of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) will call it quits after this year. The WEA, which represents 600 million evangelicals worldwide, announced today that Geoff Tunnicliffe will conclude his tenure as secretary general and CEO in December instead of seeking a third term in 2015. He was…
By Stoyan Zaimov The World Evangelical Alliance said it is “extremely disappointed” that the major U.N. talks on the Syrian civil war failed to make any significant progress last week, and called on an immediate end to the violence as scores of people continue dying. “We are extremely disappointed that very little progress was made…
By Stoyan Zaimov NEW YORK – The World Evangelical Alliance called for the protection of Syria’s minority Christian population ahead of the major Geneva II conference on Wednesday (Jan. 22), which is set to discuss solutions to the ongoing Syrian crisis. “The reality is that this is just part of the process. They are not…
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey NEW YORK (RNS) As the Obama administration considers a strike in response to recent chemical attacks, the head of a global evangelical group said Wednesday (Sept. 4) that Christians in the Middle East oppose military intervention in Syria. “There is major consensus amongst the Christian leaders in this region that any…