


World Watch List 2023 Overview
Sub-Saharan Africa faces catastrophic collapse as Islamist violence sweepsa cross region. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces a vast humanitarian catastrophe, as a wave of religiously motivated violence nurtured in Nigeria (6) has swept across the region, targeting...
When God Goes Before You: the Story of LTC Ronie Torres Ebarita PART 2
PART 2 “What if he has a knife and stabs me? He still held his M14 rifle pressed between our bodies. What if he fires it?” As these thoughts raced through my mind, I heard the same voice earlier say, “May baril ka!” (You have a gun!). LtCol. Ebarita, who was then an...
When God Goes Before You: the Story of LTC Ronie Torres Ebarita Part 1
Childhood My six siblings and I grew up in a farming family, in the humble town of Pamplona, Negros Oriental. My parents were ordinary individuals in the community, but they were well-respected because of their character and integrity—virtues they wanted us to...
God Waits With You (PART 2)
When I was 49 years old, I started to pray, “Lord, next year I’ll be 50. Maybe there’s no one who’ll be interested in me anymore because of my age. But it’s okay, Lord, You’ve made me happy anyway.” In all those years of anxiously waiting for someone, I had been...