isabel ong

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asia editor at christianity today (currently on maternity leave). opinions are mine 🇸🇬 in 🇨🇦

Absent from protests, some Twin Cities churches are nonetheless mobilizing quietly to help foreign-born neighbors—delivering food, driving kids to and from school, committing to assume parental rights if the worst happens. Great dispatch from my colleague @emilybelz.bsky.social

In a Tense Minnesota, Christians Help Immigrant Neighbors - Christianity Today

As the Twin Cities reel from ICE arrests and the killing of Alex Pretti, churchgoers drive immigrants to work and doctor’s appointments.

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Adoption fraud in South Korea is a “state-driven act—an actual crime,” Kim Do-hyun of Christian nonprofit KoRoot said. “These false records erased the truth of [a person’s] birth and enabled abuse, alienation, and despair." More in @christianitytoday.com: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/sout...

‘Every Adoptee’s Worst Nightmare’ - Christianity Today

The horrifying history of adoption fraud in South Korea has spurred Christians to finally care for orphans in their own country.

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“The largest obstacle to evangelism in Japan may be a deeply internalized identity of ‘Japaneseness,’ which is inevitably entangled with a Shinto worldview,” evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi says. More @christianitytoday.com: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/shin...

Missions and Evangelism in a Shinto-influenced Culture - Christianity Today

"We must avoid both excessive fear and uncritical sentimentalism of Shinto," evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi argues.

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Although institutional Shinto is declining, Japanese people still have a Shinto-influenced worldview which makes it difficult for them to ascribe to Christianity’s exclusive claims, says evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi @christianitytoday.com: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/shin...

Christianity and Shinto - Christianity Today

Japanese believers must be wary of falling into syncretism again, evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi warns.

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