This newsletter gives readers updated reports on prayer and church growth. The newsletter is available in English, Dutch and Czech. Atop the shaky tectonic rift that cleaves the Horn of Africa lies one of the continent s smallest nations and one of the world s hottest places, a land that was known to humanity s oldest ancestors. Today Djibouti is also a cultural meeting place, with a legacy in the salt trade, searching for prosperity amid the region s no less tectonic politics. Anyone who says life is hard, wrote French poet Arthur Rimbaud, during his sojourn in Djibouti, should come here to study philosophy.
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To help raise consciousness among Christians concerning children at risk, the LAM-related ministry, Viva Network, is organising a worldwide day of prayer on June 2, 2001. The United Nations estimates that 52.5 million people worldwide lived in refugee-like conditions in 1999. This will be the first ever international consultation on the subject and it will be sponsored by the World Evangelical Fellowship. This is the term used to describe the land, air and water migration routes taken by displaced people moving across countries and continents to escape war, disaster or persecution. Some 1,500 leaders from sixteen mission networks are expected to convene in Orlando, Florida, September 20-23, 2001.