Latin America
Guatemala: prayer prompts embassy move
President Morales has announced that the Guatemalan embassy will be moved to Jerusalem in May, just two days after the United States. The president, an outspoken Christian Evangelical, has been publicly supportive of…
Argentina: G20 and state-owned enterprises
Argentina has recently hosted a meeting of the G20 anti-corruption group, with national delegations and international organisations seeking to address the best ways of curtailing corruption and promoting integrity in state-owned enterprises (SOEs).…
Bolivia: Urgent Prayer Request
We extend greetings and blessings from the Christian church in Bolivia. We are very grateful for your prayers in favor of our continent. Those who could participate in the UPRISING organized in Bolivia…
Latin America: survivors of trafficking
The International Justice Mission (IJM) writes, ‘Praise God for a successful and restoring 2017! Our Latin America teams walked faithfully alongside seventy boys and girls who are survivors of sexual violence and sex…
UPRISING Bolivia 29 Nov – 2 Dec 2017
May our Abba fulfil you with His everlasting joy, love, grace and revelation. We, the planning team would like to invite you to join us for the UPRISING Bolivia Gathering to be held…
First official sentenced in US FIFA scandal
Former Guatemalan football federation official Hector Trujillo, arrested in December 2015 in Florida, has become the first person to be sentenced in investigations into corruption in FIFA. He had accepted almost $200,000 in…
Venezuela: A sham election
President Nicolás Maduro won a controversial election for a new Constituent Assembly with the power to rewrite Venezuela’s constitution, allowing him to replace the current National Assembly with an assembly of 545 members…
Nicaragua: despite suffering, God is on the move
Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, civil wars, and oppressive dictatorships all play a part in the story of Nicaragua. This nation of only 6.3 million people is physically the largest of the Central American…
Easter in Mexico
Semana Santa (Holy Week) is very important in Mexico. Processions and passion plays take place throughout the country, with different areas and communities celebrating in varying ways and varying degrees of lavishness. On…
Mexico: journalist’s murder could lead to a ‘silence zone’
Last week veteran newspaper journalist Miroslava Breach was shot eight times in front of her youngest son, in the Sierra Tarahumara region. She is the second journalist murdered in a week, and the…
