23 July 2016
Africa, the “dark” continent brought to light by missionary David Livingston, stretches from the Mediterranean in the north to the mixing of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans in the south. Soon...
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21 June 2016
Spiritual movements produce bizarre and often cult-like offshoots. Nowhere is this truer than in Brazil. The explosion of Christian faith in Latin America, and indeed in the world, occurs in an...
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14 June 2016
If you think you have grasped the history of Argentina by seeing Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita, or having heard “Don’t cry for me, Argentina,” at least do a Google search. The...
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19 October 2015
Flying low over the sparse rolling hills of Mongolia, it is hard to imagine that from this barren, landlocked landscape rose one of the most widespread and powerful empires in human history. In 209 BC a...
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