What are the main social and political challenges facing Africa? How are the Evangelical churches responding? Are they able to stand up to the pandemic of corruption in Africa? And how can we partner in prayer with the churches in Africa? To answer these questions, Wissam al-Saliby interviewed Rev. Dr Goodwill Shana on the margins of a church consultation in Abuja, Nigeria. Dr Shana is the Founder and Senior Pastor of Word of Life International Ministries, founded in the City of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, in 1990. Dr Shana serves as the Chair of the International Council of the World Evangelical Alliance and President of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa. Prior, he had served as the President of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe. A lawyer by training, Dr Shana provides in this episode a glimpse into his advocacy against corruption in Zimbabwe, where he served as a commissioner on the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and as the chair of Transparency International Zimbabwe. Show links: Word of Life International Ministries - Leadership https://wolim.org/ourleadership/ World Evangelical Alliance – Leadership - Rev. Dr. Goodwill Shana https://worldea.org/leader/rev-dr-goodwill-shana/ Dr Goodwill Shana: Corruption is rife in the church, Dec. 17, 2012 https://relzim.org/news/dr-goodwill-shana-corruption-is-rife-in-the-church/  Zimbabwe corrupt heavyweights escape investigation, Oct. 20, 2013 https://thestandard.newsday.co.zw/2013/10/20/zimbabwe-corrupt-heavyweights-escape-investigation The Lausanne and World Evangelical Alliance Integrity and Anti-Corruption Network https://www.globalintegritynetwork.org/ Connect with the Didomi Collective via: Email contact@didomi.co  Newsletter https://podcast.ausha.co/didomi?s=1  Twitter https://www.twitter.com/didomi_co Instagram https://www.instagram.com/didomi_co  Music was generously provided by artist C4C.

Listen to Ara Badalian, senior pastor of the National Evangelical Baptist Church in Baghdad, share about the opportunities and challenges of ministry in Iraq, multi-faith dialogue, and the surprising source of the lingering discrimination against Evangelical Churches in Iraq.  Episode co-hosts are Wissam al-Saliby and Tabea Kryemadhi.

In this Didomi Podcast episode, Wissam al-Saliby interviews Canon Dr Andrew Smith (https://twitter.com/Drsmeeee), Director of Interfaith Relations for the Bishop of Birmingham of the Church of England. Dr Smith shares, “We are not called to tolerate our neighbour or to respect him. I am commanded to love him!”  But what does it mean to show Muslims, Hindus and followers of other religions in the United Kingdom that we love them? And how did the peacemaking efforts that Dr Smith has led since 2000 influence his response to this month’s tensions in his city and to the violence that erupted between Hindus and Muslims in Leicester and Birmingham in the UK? Show links: https://thefeast.org.uk/ Connect with the Didomi Collective via: Email contact at didomi.co  Newsletter https://podcast.ausha.co/didomi?s=1 Twitter https://www.twitter.com/didomi_co Instagram https://www.instagram.com/didomi_co

On 13 September 2022, Azerbaijan launched an all-out assault on the Republic of Armenia, killing hundreds in what seemed a prelude to an invasion. It was the latest round of violence against this tiny nation, known for being both the "first Christian nation" and the victim of the 20th century's first genocide. A ceasefire has paused the fighting, but Armenians live in fear of the next attack. We are privileged to discuss this recent developments crisis from Craig Simonian, an Armenian-American pastor, theologian, and development specialist. He serves as the Director of the World Evangelical Alliance's Peace and Reconciliation Network in Yerevan, Armenia. Join us as we hear from Craig about how he pursues his Christian calling to peace, reconciliation, and forgiveness in the midst of an ongoing conflict, weighed down by past trauma and facing an uncertain future. The hosts for this episode are Wissam al-Saliby, Director of the Geneva Office of the World Evangelical Alliance, and Joel Veldkamp, Head of International Communications, Christian Solidarity International. Show links: https://csi-usa.org/no-more-armenian-genocides-the-world-must-restrain-azerbaijan-and-turkey/  https://evangelicalfocus.com/world/18639/armenians-pray-that-god-will-uphold-the-sovereign-borders-and-end-the-conflict-with-azerbaijan/  https://www.reconciledworld.net/ 

Ruslan Maliuta serves as Network Strategist at OneHope, a global ministry that helps children engage with God’s story. He is also on the Global Leadership Team of the 4/14 Window Movement and serves on the World Evangelical Alliance General Assembly Committee. Ruslan is also Ukrainian. In episode 15 fo the Didomi Podcast, Wissam al-Saliby (https://www.twitter.com/walsaliby) and Matt Jones interviewed Ruslan in order to understand how to pray and live as peacemakers and ambassadors of Christ when faced with the evil of war and its destruction. Stay up-to-date with Didomi podcasts via our newsletter (https://podcast.ausha.co/didomi?s=1), Twitter @didomi_co (https://www.twitter.com/didomi_co), and Instagram @didomi_co (https://www.instagram.com/didomi_co). We appreciate your feedback via email at contact@didomi.co. Sound editing was done by Fabio Khoury Muller. Music was generously provided by artist C4C.

“Every Sunday, we bring our waste to the Lord, so why not as a church bring our physical waste to the Lord at the same time,” said a pastor in a church in Accra, Ghana, running a plastic waste recycling program. Why is creation care essential for him? And why are creation care and climate change important for me as a Christian? Is there anything that we can do about it? Is there tension between the Christian narrative on action for creation care and the other narratives about fighting climate change? How are Evangelical churches building momentum after COP26 and ahead of future global gatherings?  To answer all these questions and more, Wissam al-Saliby and Joel Veldkamp interviewed Matthias Boehnig for Episode 14 of the Didomi Podcast. Matthias is the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) Permanent Representative to the UN in Bonn and the WEA Sustainability Center director, also in Bonn (Twitter @mkboehning (https://twitter.com/mkboehning)). Wissam al-Saliby is the WEA Advocacy Officer in Geneva (Twitter: @walsaliby (https://www.twitter.com/walsaliby)). Joel Veldkamp Head of International Communications for Christian Solidarity International (Twitter @JoelVeldkamp (https://www.twitter.com/JoelVeldkamp)). For more information on the episode's subject: October 2021 Didomi Podcast interview with Dr. Chris Elisara, Director of the WEA Creation Care Taskforce (https://podcast.ausha.co/didomi/cop26-what-can-we-expect-and-how-are-evangelicals-engaging)WEA Sustainability Center website (https://wea-sc.org) WEA SC webpage: #WhatCanWePrayFor (https://wea-sc.org/en/activities/prayer)  Connect with the Didomi Collective via: Email contact@didomi.co  Newsletter https://podcast.ausha.co/didomi?s=1 Twitter @didomi_co (https://www.twitter.com/didomi_co)  Instagram @didomi_co (https://www.instagram.com/didomi_co)  Sound editing was done by Fabio Khoury Muller. Music was generously provided by artist C4C. 

When it comes to abortion, many of us may hesitant about the best way to engage faithfully. Pro-choice and pro-life advocates can be loud, combative and assertive. In many countries, the issue is extremely divisive. And yet, while keeping in mind that the battle is the Lord’s and that He is sovereign, we are called to speak truth and justice in the public sphere with humility and grace. In part one of a two-part interview, Didomi podcast co-hosts Manal El Tayyar and Matthew Jones ask medical doctor and ethicist Calum Miller some difficult questions to help equip us to better engage on the topic of abortion. It is our hope that this episode and the next one equip us to understand what roles we, as a church and as Christians, need to play to care for women who are faced with one of the most difficult choices in life. Dr Miller graduated from the University of Oxford Medical School in 2015, and currently works as a medical doctor in the UK. He holds a Master’s Degree in Biblical Studies and teaches Philosophy at the University of Oxford, where his research focuses on abortion policy in practice. Based in Lebanon, episode co-host Manal El Tayar is the Regional Fragile States and Peacebuilding Advisor with TearFund. Based in Geneva, episode co-host Matthew Jones is a human rights advocate working to strengthen civil society space across Europe and the South Caucasus. Stay up-to-date with Didomi podcasts via our newsletter (https://podcast.ausha.co/didomi?s=1), Twitter @didomi_co (https://www.twitter.com/didomi_co) and Instagram @didomi_co (https://www.instagram.com/didomi_co). We appreciate your feedback via email at: contact at didomi.co. Music was generously provided by artist C4C.

In November 2021, 20,000 people will come together in Glasgow, United Kingdom, at the COP26 climate talks hosted by the United Nations. Among the conference participants is Dr. Chris Elisara, Director of the Creation Care Taskforce at the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), and Associate Director of WEA's Sustainability Center in Bonn, Germany. Chris has over 20 years of experience working in the creation care movement. Chris shares with Wissam al-Saliby @walsaliby (https://www.twitter.com/walsaliby) about WEA and Evangelical engagement at COP26, the Christian Climate Observers Program, the outcomes they are hoping for from COP26, church mobilization in support of creation care and against climate change, and his prayer requests. Show notes: WEA Creation Care Taskforce Website https://www.weacreationcare.org  WEA Sustainability Center https://wea-sc.org/  Climate Vigil Campaign https://www.climatevigil.org Christian Climate Observers Program COOP http://www.ccopclimate.org  CCOP Newsletter subscription link https://climatecaretakers.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=804df820a2b6bb42a96e4b2ea&id=c31dbf3409  WEA Clean Energy Initiative https://www.weacreationcare.org/project-20-25   Climate Tracker https://climateactiontracker.org/  Economic simulations and climate impacts https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/en-roads/ Connect with the Didomi Collective via: Email contact@didomi.co (mailto:contact@didomi.co)  Newsletter https://podcast.ausha.co/didomi?s=1  Twitter https://www.twitter.com/didomi_co Instagram https://www.instagram.com/didomi_co  Music was generously provided by artist C4C.

A pastor, two priests and three sheikhs show up together in a busy street in Sidon, South Lebanon. Listen to Bassem Melki as he tells us what happened next! Bassem also shares how he and two Lebanese Evangelical leaders took the bold step to start interfaith peacemaking, the theological foundations behind their initiative, and the fruit they have seen for God’s Kingdom. We also ask Bassem about his work with pastors from the Evangelical community to research on reconciliation within Lebanon’s Evangelical churches. And, as in every episode, we ask for prayer requests. Bassem Melki is dean of faculty at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, PhD candidate studying Arab culture and contextual biblical peacemaking, and was the pastor of a Church of God congregation in Beirut for 17 years. The show co-hosts are Michael Mutzner (Twitter @michaelmutzner (https://twitter.com/michaelmutzner)), and Wissam al-Saliby (Twitter @walsaliby (https://twitter.com/walsaliby)). Stay up-to-date with Didomi podcasts via our newsletter (subscribe here! (https://podcast.ausha.co/didomi?s=1)), Twitter @didomi_co (https://www.twitter.com/didomi_co) and Instagram @didomi_co (https://www.instagram.com/didomi_co). We appreciate your feedback via email at contact@didomi.co (mailto:contact@didomi.co). Music was generously provided by artist C4C. 

On September 26, Swiss voters will decide whether gays and lesbians have the right to marry and form a family. Those in favor of “marriage for all” are very likely to win as they represent the majority of the population. In episode 10 of the Didomi Podcast, Marc Jost will share with us why he’s campaigning against “Marriage for All,” how Christians can speak truth with grace in a polarized context, and how we can pray for him, for the churches and for Switzerland. Marc is General Secretary of the Swiss Evangelical Alliance and Chair of Interaction – Christian Evangelical NGOs platform. Twitter @marcjost (https://www.twitter.com/marcjost). Episode co-host Manal El Tayar joins us from the Lebanese mountains, and updates us on the situation in Lebanon and shares with us her prayer requests. Manal is the Regional Fragile States and Peacebuilding Advisor with TearFund. Additional co-hosts are Wissam al-Saliby, Advocacy Officer with the World Evangelical Alliance, based in Geneva, Twitter @walsaliby (https://twitter.com/walsaliby), and Arie De Pater, Brussels Representative for the European Evangelical Alliance, Twitter @ariedep (https://twitter.com/ariedep). For more information: ‘Marriage for all’ referendum is about the rights of children, say Swiss Christians (https://evangelicalfocus.com/europe/13076/the-marriage-for-all-referendum-is-an-issue-of-children-rights-say-swiss-christians), 31 August 2021  Crisis Group – Lebanon Crisis Digest (https://d2071andvip0wj.cloudfront.net/september-21-lebanon.pdf), August 2021 Stay up-to-date with Didomi podcasts via our newsletter (https://podcast.ausha.co/didomi?s=1), Twitter @didomi_co (https://www.twitter.com/didomi_co) and Instagram @didomi_co (https://www.instagram.com/didomi_co). We appreciate your feedback via email at contact@didomi.co (mailto:contact@didomi.co) . Music was generously provided by artist C4C.