Paul Jeffrey
A great leveler: Sri Lanka's factions deal with the tsunami
When Nadarajah Arulnathan visits his church at Pasikudah, he puts on a surgical mask because along the way he must pass rotting bodies tangled in the underbrush....
Allies against AIDS: Faith activists meet in Bangkok
We are here, we are there, we are everywhere!” Every day the Thai sex workers formed ranks and paraded through the convention center, their signs demanding acceptance, their chants in practiced Eng...
Let them eat oil: State robbery inAngola
On the flight from Johannesburg to Luanda, Angola, the airplane is packed. Half the passengers are oil workers returning for another four- or five-week stint on the wells off the coast....
Ground to a halt: Coffee farmers in peril
When the rains began in Central America in June, Alejandro Fuentes took his nine-year old son, his hair discolored by malnutrition, and walked back and forth across his small farm in the parched so...
Short-term mission trips: Beyond good intentions
After Hurricane Mitch devastated Central America in 1998, hundreds of volunteer mission teams descended on Nicaragua and Honduras. Many came from churches in the United States....
Cuba’s spirited Protestants: Church-growth challenges
The taxi's motor died three times as the driver wound his way around the fallen trees and through the flooded streets of Havana....
Tainted testimony
Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalens
By David Stoll. Westview, 336 pp.
What happened to the aid? Logistics of hurricane relief: Logistics of hurricane relief
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
...After the storm: Report from Honduras
When I moved with my family to Tegucigalpa two years ago, we assured our friends that compared to the other places we had lived in Central America, the Honduran capital was a tranquil and relativel...