Eurasia News

By Ava Thomas LONDON — “JESUS! Jesus will keep you from going straight to hell!” The Caribbean lady shouted until her voice went hoarse, parting the multicultural sea pouring out of the mall as she stood preaching in the doorway. I leaned back with a notepad against a nearby coffeehouse and watched. Young girls with [...]

By Ava Thomas LONDON — “We lit the flame and lit up the world.” Doug Shaw had to smile a little when London 2012 chairman Lord Coe closed the Olympics with those words Aug. 12. Because Shaw’s hoping that’s exactly what happened. As part of More Than Gold, a joint effort of Christian churches worldwide, [...]

By Ava Thomas LONDON — José Cárcamo learned the ways of a communist rebel a long time ago. Committed to the cause, he studied in Chile, Cuba and Russia. But it didn’t change his life the way he thought it would. “There was a lot of fighting going on in my country back then, and [...]

By Marc Ira Hooks LONDON — Though the Winter Olympic Games in Russia are still 18 months away, church planters in the host city of Sochi are already hard at work to capitalize on what the “Olympic Spirit” will bring to their city. And they recently spent time in London during the Summer Olympics getting [...]

By Ava Thomas LONDON — Bernard McGraw paused when he saw the man at the pump stacking pennies on the hood of his car. “Hey, man — do you have a quarter? I’m trying to buy a gallon of gas.” McGraw had one. He tucked it in the man’s hand, along with a business card [...]