"If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth."
"Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence."
-Pope John Paul II

Resources

1. Feeding Profit: How food environments are failing children. Child Nutrition Report 2025. Report Brief. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) New York, September 2025.

2. Food Security Update: World Bank Solutions to Food Insecurity

3. Securing Africa’s Future Water Needs

Clean Water & Sanitation

1. Clean water: Clean and safe water is essential for good health. How did access change over time? Where do people lack access? By Hannah Ritchie, Fiona Spooner, and Max Roser. First published in 2019, with an update in 2024

2. Co-benefits of Investing in Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH). United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Report. New York, February 2026

3. Global map and country ranking.

4. Securing Africa's Future Water Needs (CSIS)video link

5. Water, sanitation, hygiene, health care waste and electricity services in health care facilities: Essential services for quality care Global progress report. World Health Organiation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2025

6. Program Update: Water Access, Sanitation, Hygiene. Transforming Communities Through Clean Water and Sanitation: The Result of Compassion, Stories of Change, Downloadable Resources. Nazarene Compasionate Ministries. 2025.

Entrepreneurship & Economic Development

1. Vision of Humanity: Navigating the effects of a rising youth population in Africa.

2. World Economic Forum. Youth Perspectives: How Africa’s youth will drive global growth, August 16, 2023.

3. What is Economic Development?

wallstreetmojo,com blog, by Author, Aswathi Jayachandran; Editor, Alfina L.; Reviewer, Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM. Publication Date: February 27, 2023. Describes the definition, characteristics, stages, causes and importance of economic development.

4. A series of Hope International blogs that describe outcomes of multiple economic development projects in 2026 throughout Rwanda, the Philippines, Ukraine and Malawi.

5. Work and Employment, by Bertha Rohenkohl, Pablo Arriagada and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, (2026),

published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from: Jttps://ourworldindata.org/work-employment {online Resource]. Deceibes both employment and unemployment data, types of employment and trends around the globe.

6. National Association of Evangelicals Calls for Renewed Commitment to Stewardship, Global Compassion. March 11, 2025 Press Release.

Faith & Healthcare

1. Ruark, A., Fountain, D., & Bormet, M. (2025). Contribution of Faith-based Healthcare Facilities and Organizations to Primary Health Care, Part : Global Landscape. Christian Connections for International Health.

2. Opio, J., Fountain, D. & Bormet, M., (2025). Contribution of Faith-Based healthcare Facilities and Organizations to Primary Healthcare Part 2: Uganda Intensive Landscape. Christian Connections for International Health.

3. Crossroads: Exploring research on religion, spirituality, and health, Volume 15, Issue 9, March 2026. Newsletter of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke University.

HIV/AIDS

1. To truly defeat HIV/Aids, the United States must address countries and communities that could e left behind, by Hannah Johnson, der. William R. Steiger, Deborah L. Birx, MD. The George W Bush Presidential Center. January 27, 2026.

2. The Trump Administration’s Foreign Aid Review: Stats of PEPFAR. Kaiser4 Family Foundation, October 16, 2025

3. UNAIDS Data: Driving the HIV Response, Version 2.0, 24 March 2025

4. Strengthening National Leadership for Sustainable HIV Progrrams: A Policy Brief for Government Leaders, Management Sciences for Health, Inc., May 2025

5. Sustaining PEPFAR’s Success Beyond 2030 by Hannah Johnson, Devorah L Birx, MD and Dr. William R. Steiger. George W. Bush Presidential Center. September 23,2024

Human Trafficking

1. UNICEF’s Action Against Child Trafficking: Strengthening systems to prevent child trafficking, protect children, and enable recovery and reintegration of survivors. UNICEF report, New York, July 2025.

2. Understanding Human Trafficking: Fact Sheet. Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S State Department, January 29, 2025

3. 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report. Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. State Department.

4. Unleashing the Impact of the Church. National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) Podcast by Noemi Chavez, Co-Founder of Brave Global, and Walter Kim, NAE President.

Malaria

Maternal/Child Health

1. World Health Organization (WHO) Maternal Health Resources Including: News, Fact Sheets, Databases & Tools, WHO Resolutions, Infographics, Videos

2.Faith-based Collaboration to Address Maternal and Child Mortality through Midwifery Training: A Case Study from Sierra Leone.

- Authors: Yasmine Vaughan, Molli Goetz, Tainxin Yang, Magdalene Philip Umoh, Sia Mamie Koroma, Mark Sanjoh. Christian Journal of Global Health. Volume 12, Issue 3, November 4, 2025.

3. The Influence of Religious Leaders on Use of Antenatal and Delivery Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review.

Authors Basambo Fabrics Vernyuy, Heather Sipsma. Christian Journal for Global Health. Volume 12, Issue 3. November 4, 2025

4. Maternal and child health policy: a global review of current practices and future directions.

Authors: Evangel Chinyere Anyanwu, Chinedu Paschal Maduka, Oluwatoyin Ayo-Farai, Chaimaka Chinaemelum Okongwu, Andrew Ifesinachi Daraojimba. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024, 21(02), 1770-178.

Mental Health

1. US Government Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) definition of mental health, description of mental health conditions, early warning signs & symptoms and additional resources.

2. Mental Health fact sheet from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (2024) plus quotes by Rick & Kay Warren regarding mental health and inspirational Scripture.

3. Hope for Brighter Tomorrows information about suicide including: prevention, resources to learn more; discussion of spiritual truths & hope (Kay Warren & Pastor Tom Holladay) suggestions on how to talk with a suicide survivor; information on finding support groups, treatment

4. World Health Organization (WHO) mental health resources including: Fact Sheets, Databases and tools, Initiatives and Groups, WHO resolutions, infographics; videos & World Mental Health Day information.

Neglected Tropical Diseases

1. Advancing prevention and treatment of NTDs (IMA World Health)

https://imaworldhealth.org/ntds Neglected Tropical Diseases: Advancing prevention and treatment of NTDs. IMA World Health [online resource]

2. Neglected Tropical Diseases (Our World in Data)

https://ourworldindata.org/neglected-tropical-diseases Saloni Dattani, Fiona Spooner, and Max Roser (2024) – “Neglected Tropical Diseases” Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from the link above. [Online Resource]

3. Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Comprehensive Review (NIH)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10925483/ Ca J, Kumar P VB, Kandi V, N G, K S, Dharshini D, Batchu SVC, Bhanu P. Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Comprehensive Review. Cureus. 2024 Feb 9;16(2):e53933. doi: 10.7759/cureus.53933. PMID: 38468991; PMCID: PMC10925483

4. Holistic Management of Skin Neglected Tropical Diseases Through Church Networks in the Songololo Territory, The Democratic Republic of Congo: a Retrospective Evaluation.

Authors: Delphin Mavinga Phanzu, Saidi Kashindi, Cesar-Augustin Muaka Khoso, Frederic Kitsasa Kamba, Pierre Soki-Kangi Mbombolo, George Gitau, Stefanie Weiland, Melissa Edminston. Christian Journal for Global Health. Volume 112, Issue 1. March 19, 2025.

Orphans & Vulnerable Children

1. United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF) State of the World’s Children Report 2025. Executive Summary, UNICEF. New York, November 2025.

2. On Understanding Orphan Statistics: Christian Alliance for Orphans White Paper (CAFO). CAFO Research Center ? 2025.

3. What Works to Prevent Sexual Violence Against Children: Executive Summary. Ligiero, D., Hart, C., Fulu, E., Thomas, A. & Radford, L (2019).

Together for Girls. Research on which the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS) were designed, a project led by country leadership with technical assistance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of a partnership with Together for Girls. VACS are nationally representative population-based surveys13- to 24-year old males and females. VACS are designed to measure the prevalence, past 12-month incidence and circumstances surrounding sexual, physical and emotional violence in childhood, adolescence (before age 18) and young adulthood (ages 18 to 24 years). They surveys also identify risk actors, protective factors and consequences of violence. VACS results are published in national reports, used in the development of national action plans, and guide effective evidence-based programs and policies.

4. How a decade of data is leading solutions to keep children safe. Blog by Daniela Ligiero, CEO & President of Together for Girls and Greta Massetti, Principle Deputy Director, CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, April 19, 2024.

Discussion about how the data collected in the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS) have led to country led program and policy solutions that have positively impacted violence against youth.

5. Preach: Key principles and themes to use when preaching and teaching on God’s heart for the vulnerable.

Developed by the Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) as part of their Pure Religion Project.

Refugee Resettlement

1. 21 Bible Verses about Refugees. World Relief Blog, June 4. 2025. Listen or read content.

2. 7 Ways to Help Refugees. World Relief Blog, June 6, 2025, Listen or read content.

3. 2025 Evangelical Views on Immigration Study. A survey of American Evangelicals

sponsored by the Evangelical Imigration Table (World Relief, National Latino Evangelical Coalition, and the National Association of Evangelicals) and conducted by Lifeway Research. According to the survey, 71 percent of evangelical Christians believe the United States has a moral responsibility to receive refugees.

4. Migration by Fiona Spooner, Tuna Acisu, Simon van Teutem, Hannah Richie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Marcel Gerber and Max Toser.(2022)

Published online at OurWorldinData.org [Online Resource]. Migration has been an important source of economic development and poverty reduction. Explore data on global migration.

Tuberculosis

1. Tuberculosis. By Saloni Dattani, Fiona Spooner, Hannah Ritchie, and Max Roser (2023).

Published online at OurWorldinData;org Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.oreg/tuberculosis [Online Resource] On this page explore global data and trends on tuberculosis, including testing, treatment and vaccination.

2. Global tuberculosis report 2025. World Health Organization report summary Fact Sheet.

3. Preventing Tuberculosis. US Centers for Disease Control and Pevention Fact Sheet, April 17, 2025.

4. The Global Fund and Faith-based Organizations: A Growing $3.5 billion Partnership. Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Report, May 2024.

Agriculture & Food Security

Feeding Profit: How food environments are failing children. Child Nutrition Report 2025. Report Brief. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) New York, September 2025.

Food Security Update: World Bank Solutions to Food Insecurity

Securing Africa’s Future Water Needs

Clean Water & Sanitation

Clean water: Clean and safe water is essential for good health. How did access change over time? Where do people lack access? By Hannah Ritchie, Fiona Spooner, and Max Roser. First published in 2019, with an update in 2024

Co-benefits of Investing in Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH). United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Report. New York, February 2026

Global map and country ranking.

Securing Africa's Future Water Needs (CSIS) video link

Water, sanitation, hygiene, health care waste and electricity services in health care facilities: Essential services for quality care Global progress report. World Health Organiation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2025

Program Update: Water Access, Sanitation, Hygiene. Transforming Communities Through Clean Water and Sanitation: The Result of Compassion, Stories of Change, Downloadable Resources. Nazarene Compasionate Ministries. 2025.

Construction & Community Development

Content Area Experts for Media and Special Events

Education

Entrepreneurship & Economic Development

Vision of Humanity: Navigating the effects of a rising youth population in Africa.

World Economic Forum. Youth Perspectives: How Africa’s youth will drive global growth, August 16, 2023.

What is Economic Development?

wallstreetmojo,com blog, by Author, Aswathi Jayachandran; Editor, Alfina L.; Reviewer, Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM. Publication Date: February 27, 2023. Describes the definition, characteristics, stages, causes and importance of economic development.

A series of Hope International blogs that describe outcomes of multiple economic development projects in 2026 throughout Rwanda, the Philippines, Ukraine and Malawi.

Work and Employment, by Bertha Rohenkohl, Pablo Arriagada and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, (2026),

published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from: Jttps://ourworldindata.org/work-employment {online Resource]. Deceibes both employment and unemployment data, types of employment and trends around the globe.

National Association of Evangelicals Calls for Renewed Commitment to Stewardship, Global Compassion. March 11, 2025 Press Release.

Faith & Healthcare

Ruark, A., Fountain, D., & Bormet, M. (2025). Contribution of Faith-based Healthcare Facilities and Organizations to Primary Health Care, Part : Global Landscape. Christian Connections for International Health.

Opio, J., Fountain, D. & Bormet, M., (2025). Contribution of Faith-Based healthcare Facilities and Organizations to Primary Healthcare Part 2: Uganda Intensive Landscape. Christian Connections for International Health.

Crossroads: Exploring research on religion, spirituality, and health, Volume 15, Issue 9, March 2026. Newsletter of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke University.

Family Formation: Abstinence & Faithfulness

HIV/AIDS Pandemic

Human Trafficking

UNICEF’s Action Against Child Trafficking: Strengthening systems to prevent child trafficking, protect children, and enable recovery and reintegration of survivors. UNICEF report, New York, July 2025.

Understanding Human Trafficking: Fact Sheet. Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S State Department, January 29, 2025

2025 Trafficking in Persons Report. Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. State Department.

Unleashing the Impact of the Church. National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) Podcast by Noemi Chavez, Co-Founder of Brave Global, and Walter Kim, NAE President.

Malaria

Maternal/Child Health

World Health Organization (WHO) Maternal Health Resources Including: News, Fact Sheets, Databases & Tools, WHO Resolutions, Infographics, Videos

Faith-based Collaboration to Address Maternal and Child Mortality through Midwifery Training: A Case Study from Sierra Leone.

Authors: Yasmine Vaughan, Molli Goetz, Tainxin Yang, Magdalene Philip Umoh, Sia Mamie Koroma, Mark Sanjoh. Christian Journal of Global Health. Volume 12, Issue 3, November 4, 2025.

The Influence of Religious Leaders on Use of Antenatal and Delivery Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review.

Authors Basambo Fabrics Vernyuy, Heather Sipsma. Christian Journal for Global Health. Volume 12, Issue 3. November 4, 2025

Maternal and child health policy: a global review of current practices and future directions.

Authors: Evangel Chinyere Anyanwu, Chinedu Paschal Maduka, Oluwatoyin Ayo-Farai, Chaimaka Chinaemelum Okongwu, Andrew Ifesinachi Daraojimba. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024, 21(02), 1770-178.

Mental Health

US Government Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) definition of mental health, description of mental health conditions, early warning signs & symptoms and additional resources.

Mental Health fact sheet from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (2024) plus quotes by Rick & Kay Warren regarding mental health and inspirational Scripture.

Hope for Brighter Tomorrows information about suicide including: prevention, resources to learn more; discussion of spiritual truths & hope (Kay Warren & Pastor Tom Holladay) suggestions on how to talk with a suicide survivor; information on finding support groups, treatment

World Health Organization (WHO) mental health resources including: Fact Sheets, Databases and tools, Initiatives and Groups, WHO resolutions, infographics; videos & World Mental Health Day information.

Neglected Tropical Diseases

Advancing prevention and treatment of NTDs (IMA World Health)

https://imaworldhealth.org/ntds Neglected Tropical Diseases: Advancing prevention and treatment of NTDs. IMA World Health [online resource]

Neglected Tropical Diseases (Our World in Data)

https://ourworldindata.org/neglected-tropical-diseases Saloni Dattani, Fiona Spooner, and Max Roser (2024) – “Neglected Tropical Diseases” Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from the link above. [Online Resource]

Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Comprehensive Review (NIH)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10925483/ Ca J, Kumar P VB, Kandi V, N G, K S, Dharshini D, Batchu SVC, Bhanu P. Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Comprehensive Review. Cureus. 2024 Feb 9;16(2):e53933. doi: 10.7759/cureus.53933. PMID: 38468991; PMCID: PMC10925483

Holistic Management of Skin Neglected Tropical Diseases Through Church Networks in the Songololo Territory, The Democratic Republic of Congo: a Retrospective Evaluation.

Authors: Delphin Mavinga Phanzu, Saidi Kashindi, Cesar-Augustin Muaka Khoso, Frederic Kitsasa Kamba, Pierre Soki-Kangi Mbombolo, George Gitau, Stefanie Weiland, Melissa Edminston. Christian Journal for Global Health. Volume 112, Issue 1. March 19, 2025.

Orphans & Vulnerable Children

United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF) State of the World’s Children Report 2025. Executive Summary, UNICEF. New York, November 2025.

On Understanding Orphan Statistics: Christian Alliance for Orphans White Paper (CAFO). CAFO Research Center ? 2025.

What Works to Prevent Sexual Violence Against Children: Executive Summary. Ligiero, D., Hart, C., Fulu, E., Thomas, A. & Radford, L (2019).

Together for Girls. Research on which the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS) were designed, a project led by country leadership with technical assistance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of a partnership with Together for Girls. VACS are nationally representative population-based surveys13- to 24-year old males and females. VACS are designed to measure the prevalence, past 12-month incidence and circumstances surrounding sexual, physical and emotional violence in childhood, adolescence (before age 18) and young adulthood (ages 18 to 24 years). They surveys also identify risk actors, protective factors and consequences of violence. VACS results are published in national reports, used in the development of national action plans, and guide effective evidence-based programs and policies.

How a decade of data is leading solutions to keep children safe. Blog by Daniela Ligiero, CEO & President of Together for Girls and Greta Massetti, Principle Deputy Director, CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, April 19, 2024.

Discussion about how the data collected in the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS) have led to country led program and policy solutions that have positively impacted violence against youth.

Preach: Key principles and themes to use when preaching and teaching on God’s heart for the vulnerable.

Developed by the Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) as part of their Pure Religion Project.

Refugee Resettlement

21 Bible Verses about Refugees. World Relief Blog, June 4. 2025. Listen or read content.

7 Ways to Help Refugees. World Relief Blog, June 6, 2025, Listen or read content.

2025 Evangelical Views on Immigration Study. A survey of American Evangelicals

sponsored by the Evangelical Imigration Table (World Relief, National Latino Evangelical Coalition, and the National Association of Evangelicals) and conducted by Lifeway Research. According to the survey, 71 percent of evangelical Christians believe the United States has a moral responsibility to receive refugees.

Migration by Fiona Spooner, Tuna Acisu, Simon van Teutem, Hannah Richie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Marcel Gerber and Max Toser.(2022)

Published online at OurWorldinData.org [Online Resource]. Migration has been an important source of economic development and poverty reduction. Explore data on global migration.

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis. By Saloni Dattani, Fiona Spooner, Hannah Ritchie, and Max Roser (2023).

Published online at OurWorldinData;org Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.oreg/tuberculosis [Online Resource] On this page explore global data and trends on tuberculosis, including testing, treatment and vaccination.

Global tuberculosis report 2025. World Health Organization report summary Fact Sheet.

Preventing Tuberculosis. US Centers for Disease Control and Pevention Fact Sheet, April 17, 2025.

The Global Fund and Faith-based Organizations: A Growing $3.5 billion Partnership. Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Report, May 2024.