Concerned young mother Emma Diack discusses the dire situation in Niger and fact that this desperate country is being largely ignored.

News from TEAR Fund emergency appeal. If you follow the news you’ll be well aware of the massive floods which are devastating Pakistan but do you realize that this flooding is becoming the biggest natural disaster in decades, affecting more people than the Haiti earthquake or the tsunami of 2004. Torrential monsoon rains swept into the northwest of Pakistan on [...]

Every year Mick Duncan ( author, lecturer, prophet/stirrer and all round good guy) with a bunch of his friends holds a Red Letters event. In some Bibles the words of Jesus are printed in red, hence the name. The event – usually held over a Friday night and Saturday – offers an odd line up of speakers. For the most [...]

Alice Palmer Foreman talks to Frank about her recent trip to Uganda especially her visit to Living Hope and other Watoto projects.

Saturday July 17th saw the world premiere of THE INSATIABLE MOON – a kiwi film written/co-produced by Mike Riddell and directed by his wife Rosemary Riddell. They’ve created a deeply emotive movie and when you consider the difficulties they overcame you realize what a remarkable achievement it is. Mike’s novel – published in 1997 – is outstanding and controversial. It [...]

New data out of the US shows that the gap between rich and poor has grown wider: the gaps in after-tax income between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle and poorest parts of the population in 2007 was the highest it’s been in 80 years, while the share of income going to the middle one-fifth of Americans [...]

Here’s an image from Reuters by Photographer/Journalist Damir Sagolj featured in the Guardian’s 24 Hours in Pictures display that they run each day. It speaks volumes. It’s often easy to glance past images without really taking them in and giving them a second thought. When we do so we miss the rich stories and reflections that they offer us. Take [...]

Drew talks to Andrew Finlay about his time at TEAR Fund and his upcoming work in Vanuatu with Nasi Tuan.

First, a theological point – Second, an exercise in an applied theological reading of a Psalm. The Christian God is a God who acts (see book by the same title, ‘A God Who Acts: Recognizing the Hand of God in Suffering and Failure‘, by Harry Blamires).  God acts both creatively and redemptively.  All.  The.  Time.

By Carl Worthington In March this year I had the privilege of visiting villages in Paratawada, India. Each of these remote rural communities are served in different capacities through TEAR Fund NZ and their partner EFICOR. A large part of their vision is to provide water to the impoverished local people through water harvesting techniques. It was very hot the day we visited the [...]

Senior International Programmes Officer – Ian McInnes – talks about his role administering TEAR Fund’s aid effort in Haiti and the situation there.

Frank Ritchie talks about the recent Israeli attack on the flotilla attempting to break the blockade and bring aid supplies into Gaza.

The information war is being employed to its fullest at the moment due to the tragic incident that took place this week where a flotilla of ships tried to break the naval blockade off the coast of Gaza and were boarded by Israeli Defense Force (IDF) commandos, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. Predictably, all involved parties are painting themselves [...]

On July 11, 1947 a ship once known as President Warfield but renamed SS Exodus, left the port of miggets Sete in France. The ship had served as part of the American navy during WW2 but was sold by the War Shipping Administration in 1946. It was purchased by the Potomac Shipwrecking Company which was acting as an agent of [...]

In my opinion, New Zealand is the security pinnacle of all societies in all of human history. I cannot think of any other country that faced fewer internal or external security threats, had less corruption, had a better quality of life for the majority of its population, or had such a responsive, transparent and democratic government. In my book, NZ [...]

I’ve got an iPhone and an Apple mini-mac.  Have you ever unwrapped a new, glistening, dripping-with-hotness Apple product? But I’ve been worried by what I’m hearing about them (see Caleb’s recent post).  I’ve heard that the casing for the new iPads already have a space ready for rear-facing cameras in the slightly-higher-retail-priced models to be put before our lusting eyes [...]