Eurasia News

By Ava Thomas LONDON — Brian Scott sees every day what it’s like to live with hurdles — he’s had a “hurdler” living in his home for the past few years. “Our foster daughter Rachel, who’s 24, is paralyzed on one side, and she has difficulties from a brain surgery she had when she was [...]

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 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 [...]

By Ava Thomas LONDON — Bikes. That’s what Parveen* sells. Not the racing kind that will be flying around the track in the new Olympic Velodrome soon, the ones competing just across the street from where she works in London’s Stratford community. What Parveen would like to sell you from her street stand is the [...]

By Elaine Gaston LONDON — To prepare a city even as sophisticated as London for a concentrated influx of hundreds of thousands international visitors and athletes is a massive undertaking. Because of that, London began planning even before the city won the bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. Once the bid was secure, preparations [...]

By Elaine Gaston LONDON — In the heart of a bustling borough of London, Doug and Marcy Shaw are trying warm things up at a chilly Baptist church. He’s coaxing the heaters to work, and she’s making tea. And they’re both warming up their Polish language skills —because the neighbors are coming. “There’s a good-sized [...]

By Ava Thomas ENGLAND — Snowflakes dance around the old stone church and dust the detailed crevices of its exterior like highlights. Snow is not common in southern England, but Lizzie Baker’s getting accustomed to seeing it blanket the town around her church a little more frequently than it used to. Much like political correctness [...]

By Elaine Gaston LONDON — For more than 200 years, London has been the dwelling place of some of the globe’s most remarkable cultural treasures. In an hour’s stroll through the British Museum, a visitor can view Greek statues from the Parthenon and colossal stone winged lions from an Assyrian palace. You can also see [...]