As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread across Kenya, lockdowns, closure of schools, and cancellation of public meetings have caused immeasurable disruptions. 
Even prior to COVID-19, persons with disabilities were living in a world of isolation, yet the effects of the health crisis have been keenly felt. Samuel Onang’o, a father of three, is a cobbler, or shoemaker, in Kibera—he is also physically disabled.
His wife and children travelled to another region of the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/GFsoavJ_Gm8/

The numbers of refugees and immigrants are increasing, as well as the precarious situation in which a large number of citizens from different countries currently live in different parts of the world. To date, 79.5 million people have been forced to live far from their homes, according to data released by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Ecuador has the largest number of recognized refugees: 69,524 from more than 60 countries, the majority of whom are Colombians and Venezuelans who…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/OSUHFNJ6yCc/

A three-month break from friends can be difficult – especially for children. This is equally true for church congregations as many have struggled to get the same intimacy and sense of worship from a live stream or video as they get from physically attending a place of worship.
Like everywhere else, Vejlefjord Seventh-day Adventist church members have missed meeting as a congregation. Denmark was one of the earliest European countries to close churches due to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, due…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/aaxsnlWiugQ/

My daughter was six years old when she first encountered online pornography. It was during her “Angelina Ballerina” phase when one day, while she was looking for ballerina images online, a pornographic image popped up on her screen. She got a fright, shut her screen, but didn’t say anything to her dad, who was sitting right next to her but missed seeing what she’d seen.
Research suggests that the average age of first exposure to pornography is getting earlier.1 Many parents tend to assume that…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/7xF0FQgflFU/

Pioneer missionary Benny Tavodi and popular evangelist George Burnside are among the many individuals from the South Pacific Division (SPD) whose biographies feature in the new Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists (ESDA), which launches this week.
ESDA is an exciting global project for several years in the making. Of the 8500 entries documenting the history and life of the Adventist Church around the world, 611 are from the SPD, with a further 19 currently being edited. The benefit of the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/Rfk4AO543TQ/