Ali Eastburn

Ali Eastburn is the founder of With This Ring, a Christian organization that asks people to give up their wedding rings to buy clean water for villages in underdeveloped nations.

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African Great Lakes Initiative–Friends Peace Teams

The African Great Lakes Initiative–Friends Peace Teams — a Quaker program – supports and promotes grass-roots peace activities in the Great Lakes region of Africa. One effort brings together genocide survivors and perpetrators in Rwanda and Burundi for reconciliation and healing. The program is based in the Great Lakes region of Africa, with an office […]

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“So Much Food. So Much Hunger.”

Read a Sept. 19, 2009, New York Times story, “So Much Food. So Much Hunger,” about the persistence of hunger in the world — affecting a billion people, the United Nations estimates — even though the world produces enough food to feed everyone.

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Akintunde E. Akinade

Akintunde E. Akinade is a visiting professor at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar at Georgetown University, Tx. He was previously an associate professor in the department of religion and philosophy at High Point University in High Point, N.C. He is an expert in fundamentalism in Africa.

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Perkes

Ethnic minorities

What special issues and concerns do religion writers keep in mind when writing about the religions of ethnic minorities? By Kim Sue Lia Perkes Freelance Writer A quick review of the most recent U.S. Census shows how much the demographics of the United States have changed. Whereas white Americans were once the nation’s majority, the […]

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