A couple uses their God-given cultural and evangelistic tools, gained from years spent in the Muslim world, to reach out to Turkish Muslims.

TASTE in Delft, Netherlands, embodies the love of Jesus in community and shares that love in practical ways with the people around.

OM Riverboat community members encourage local believers who are struggling with their faith.

OM workers Ed and Kim are learning Kurdish in order to reach out to refugees in their heart language.

Long-term workers leave Arab world to transition to new opportunity working with the spiritual needs of Syrian refugees in Europe.

Transform team provides children’s programme, conducts English classes and learns how to love Bedouin people in the desert village.

Joe, a long-term OM worker and ministry leader, shares a glimpse into the work of God inside the war-torn Syria.

OM worker in the Near East Field has a passion for Muslim women to understand the Word of God.

OM workers explain, their home has become a mix of Latin American and Middle Eastern cultures.

The Mena Travelling Team has their first outreach, travelling throughout the MENA region and doing whatever it takes to share the Gospel with the unreached.

A community of believers from across the world come together to establish houses of prayer along what has been called the Isaiah 19 Highway.

OM MENA Travelling Team (MTT) spent 26 days distributing more than 10,000 gospel tracts and spreading Scripture throughout a Muslim-majority country.

Ten years ago, Lydia* arrived on the field as a single woman. Now married and with two kids, her method of ministry has changed entirely.

An OM training conference equips a local pastor with tools to transform his Sunday service for Syrian refugees.

A local man shares his testimony, endures persecution and encourages others in the Near East to stand firm.

Restoration and hope: A Bedouin woman and her son earn new income selling beans after listening to an OM worker share ideas about starting a small business.

One worker shares how leading a short-term summer outreach changed her perspective about her country and capabilities.

Two workers in the Middle East talk about friends they’ve made at the women’s gym and why it’s a good place to invest their time.

A local partner cares for 5,500 orphans in the Near East, compromising personal health and safety for the children’s sake.

Workers from the Middle East North Africa Area share how they use strategic prayer to prepare the way for God to move across the region.

Five years of displacement has taken its toll on Syrian refugees living in Lebanon, but many have met Jesus and discovered eternal hope.

Believers bring a positive identity message to teenage girls living in a remote village.

Workers with support roles in OM's Near East Field -Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq - find opportunities to engage locals and share truth with friends.

Amidst ongoing unrest, OM supports IDP communities by sponsoring food distribution through local partners.

One missionary speaks about the challenges of taking someone with a different background into your home.

When a small team decides to focus more on church planting, God brings people into their lives in unusual ways.

Women in the Near East pray and prepare Bible stories to share with local friends through creative opportunities.

By paying rent for a small school run by a partner church, OM provides education and biblical input to children of displaced families.

Since the Syrian war began, OM workers have served alongside locals, including Muslim background believers, to spread hope amongst desperate people.

Two workers share their motivation to keep going when they encounter disappointments in ministry.

Children with disabilities blossom through a community-based rehabilitation programme and teach the women who work with them about unconditional love.

OM workers from Latin America discuss the similarities and differences to Arab culture.

OM Near East Field's internship school trains Arab Christians and others called to reach the Muslims of Iraq.

OM workers share the Bible with Muslims in the Near East.

Syrian Kurdish refugee families profess faith in Jesus Christ.

OM Near East launches a one-year Arab internship programme to equip local believers for long-term ministry among the least reached.

Ofentse Mokwena discusses what's needed for opening transport markets and unbundling transport SOEs.

Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize has won such praise for his handling of the coronavirus crisis that he’s being touted as a possible successor to President Cyril Ramaphosa.

HE has created elegant fine-dining dishes in some of the most reputable restaurants in Scotland, but chef Paul Tamburrini he is now facing his harshest critics – his family.

Travel and tourism have become casualties of coronavirus lockdown, but one travel writer has found a new way to highlight Scotland's beauty, writes Deborah Anderson

The Chaotic Scots Traveller Kay Gillespie delivers her Top 10 places She's dreaming about in Scotland

REACTION poured in following the death of rock 'n' roll pioneer Little Richard, who died yesterday at age 87.

A long-time resident of Trench Town, Donnette Dowe has seen the trials of urban life up-close and personal. Like many inner-city Jamaican communities, crime, teen pregnancy and poverty are rife.The 50-year-old mother of five children (ages 26, 24, 21, 16 and 12) is director and tour manager for Trench Town Culture Yard, a renovated tenement which was once home to Bob Marley and his family.

War is the great distraction. Right or wrong, foolish or wise, it suspends all the usual political and economic rules. Suddenly a chancellor who has spent five and a half years telling us “there is no money” can find ready billions for warfare.

IN dark times, begin by giving the Prime Minister a bit of credit. Unlike a certain predecessor, David Cameron has accepted that there needs to be an honest, public argument over the case for an escalated war in the Middle East.

Glasgow City Council has a keen sense, it seems, of what is or might be controversial. When the rest of us imagine that a handful of words to mark a long-distant historical event could never be more than anodyne, the council is alert to the affliction of controversy. It is a condition to be avoided at all costs.

IT isn’t often that a rousing speech on socialist internationalism is rewarded with a full transcript in the Spectator. In fact, it never happens. The Tory Party’s newsletter is funny like that.

If modern lives were measured in unprecedented weather events, we would all be 200 years old. Defences against floods that were supposed to happen every other century are being overtopped in the space of a few winters. The victims surveying ruined homes and businesses are ageing fast.

Award-winning Herald and Sunday Herald columnist Ian Bell has died at the age of 59.

Ian Bell, the award-winning Herald and Sunday Herald writer and columnist, died last week aged 59. Here are excerpts from 10 of his finest pieces of writing.