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On the Statherian-Calymmian palaeogeography of northwestern Laurentia

Rainbird, R H; Davis, W J. Journal of the Geological Society vol. 179, issue 5, 2022 p. 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-062
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20220491.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20220491.jpg" title="Journal of the Geological Society vol. 179, issue 5, 2022 p. 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-062" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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Global Hg cycle over Ediacaran-Cambrian transition and its implications for environmental and biological evolution

Wu, Y; Yin, R; Li, C; Chen, D; Grasby, S E; Li, T; Ji, S; Tian, H; Peng, P. Earth and Planetary Science Letters vol. 587, 117551, 2022 p. 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117551
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20220035.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20220035.jpg" title="Earth and Planetary Science Letters vol. 587, 117551, 2022 p. 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117551" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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Whitehorse Trough record of Late Triassic-Cretaceous accretionary orogenic cycle from detrital mineral thermochronometry, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, and Yukon

Kellett, D A; Coutand, I; Zagorevski, A; Grujic, D; Dewing, K. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8879, 2022, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/329781
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/gid_329781.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/gid_329781.jpg" title="Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8879, 2022, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/329781" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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Geochemical variation in the Jurassic-Cretaceous strata of the Baccalieu I-78 well, Flemish Pass Basin, Canada: chemostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental implications

Bingham-Koslowski, N; Azmy, K. Geoscience Canada; Geoscience Canada vol. 49, no. 2, 2022 p. 75, https://doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2022.49.188
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210643.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210643.jpg" title="Geoscience Canada; Geoscience Canada vol. 49, no. 2, 2022 p. 75, https://doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2022.49.188" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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Intensive ocean anoxia and large d13Ccarb perturbations during the Carnian Humid Episode (Late Triassic) in Southwest China

Zhang, Z T; Joachimski, M M; Grasby, S E; Sun, Y. Global and Planetary Change vol. 217, 103942, 2022 p. 1-11, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103942
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210592.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210592.jpg" title="Global and Planetary Change vol. 217, 103942, 2022 p. 1-11, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103942" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic stratigraphy along the northeastern margin of the Sverdrup Basin, Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere islands, Nunavut: new data from measured sections

Midwinter, D; Hadlari, T; Dewing, K. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8855, 2022, 17 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/329398
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/gid_329398.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/gid_329398.jpg" title="Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8855, 2022, 17 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/329398" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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Simulating sedimentary burial cycles: II. Elemental-based multikinetic apatite fission-track interpretation and modelling techniques illustrated using examples from northern Yukon

Issler, D R; McDannell, K T; O'Sullivan, P B; Lane, L S. Geochronology vol. 4, 2022 p. 373-397, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-373-2022
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210455.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210455.jpg" title="Geochronology vol. 4, 2022 p. 373-397, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-373-2022" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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Environmental crises at the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

Dal Corso, J; Song, H; Callegaro, S; Chu, D; Sun, Y; Hilton, J; Grasby, S E; Joachimski, M M; Wignall, P B. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 3, 2022 p. 197-214, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00259-4
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210351.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210351.jpg" title="Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 3, 2022 p. 197-214, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00259-4" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the trilobite faunas from the Mount Clark and Mount Cap formations (early and middle Cambrian), eastern Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada

Handkamer, N M; Pratt, B R; MacNaughton, R B. Journal of Paleontology vol. 96, S89, 2022, 47 pages, https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2022.13
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210288.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210288.jpg" title="Journal of Paleontology vol. 96, S89, 2022, 47 pages, https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2022.13" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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Biostratigraphic evidence for incremental tectonic development of Early Cambrian deep-water environments in the Misty Creek Embayment (Selwyn Basin, Northwest Territories, Canada)

Scott, W R; Turner, E C; MacNaughton, R B; Fallas, K M. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 2022 p. 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2021-0049
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210256.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210256.jpg" title="Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 2022 p. 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2021-0049" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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Climax in Wrangellia LIP activity coincident with major Middle Carnian (Late Triassic) climate and biotic changes: mercury isotope evidence from the Panthalassa pelagic domain

Jin, X; Tomimatsu, Y; Yin, R; Onoue, T; Franceschi, M; Grasby, S E; Du, Y; Rigo, M. Earth and Planetary Science Letters vol. 607, 118075, 2023 p. 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118075
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20220607.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20220607.jpg" title="Earth and Planetary Science Letters vol. 607, 118075, 2023 p. 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118075" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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Precambrian bedrock geology, Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, NTS 57-F and parts of 57-C, D, E, G and 67-D, E, H

Geological Survey of Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map 430, 2023, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/331417
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Recovery from persistent nutrient-N limitation following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

Du, Y; Grasby, S E; Xing, T; Song, H; Tien, L; Chu, D; Wu, Y; Dal Corso, J; Algeo, T; Tong, J. Earth and Planetary Science Letters vol. 602, 117944, 2023 p. 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117944
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20220395.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20220395.jpg" title="Earth and Planetary Science Letters vol. 602, 117944, 2023 p. 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117944" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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Whitehorse Trough records Late Triassic-Cretaceous accretionary orogenic cycle in the Northern Canadian Cordillera via detrital mineral thermochronology

Kellett, D A; Coutand, I; Zagorevski, A; Grujic, D; Dewing, K; Beranek, L. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 2023 p. 1-25, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2023-0082
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20220220.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20220220.jpg" title="Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 2023 p. 1-25, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2023-0082" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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U-Pb detrital zircon geochronological constraints on Siderian and Orosirian rocks of Boothia Peninsula and Somerset Island (Nunavut, Canada)

Regis, D; Sanborn-Barrie, M. Precambrian Research vol. 387, 106991, 2023 p. 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2023.106991
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Predictive surficial geology, Denmark Bay-Qikiqtagafaaluk area, Victoria Island Nunavut, NTS 67-C and F

Sharpe, D R; Lesemann, J -E; Parkinson, W; Armstrong, L; Dods, E. Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map 174, surficial data model v.2.3.14 conversion, 2023, 2 sheets, https://doi.org/10.4095/295703
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Summary of the Statherian-Calymmian paleogeography of northwestern Laurentia

Rainbird, R H; Davis, W J. Canada's northern Shield: new perspectives from the Geoscience for Energy and Minerals Program; Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 612, 2024 p. 417-419, https://doi.org/10.4095/332508
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/gid_332508.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/gid_332508.jpg" title="Canada's northern Shield: new perspectives from the Geoscience for Energy and Minerals Program; Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 612, 2024 p. 417-419, https://doi.org/10.4095/332508" height="150" border="1" /></a>




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Record of Precambrian orogenic unroofing preserved in fluvial strata of western Nunavut

Ielpi, A; Rainbird, R H; Davis, W J. Canada's northern Shield: new perspectives from the Geoscience for Energy and Minerals Program; Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 612, 2024 p. 99-114, https://doi.org/10.4095/332496
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Retail Economics: Serial returners are quietly eroding retail profitability

A silent crisis of ‘serial returns’ is eroding retail profit margins as uncovered in the Annual Returns Benchmark Report 2024 conducted by returns specialists ZigZag, in partnership with Retail Economics.




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Austrian Post: This partnership is an important step towards improving security

Österreichische Post AG and the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) have launched the strategic security partnership under the title "TOGETHER. SICHER mit der Post".




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Austrian Post Q1-3: Double-digit revenue growth – despite the economic headwind

Austrian Post has published its Q1-3 results revealing revenue of the Group rose by 13.6%.




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Textifi: How to OCR Hard Copy Printed Material Even in Airplane Mode

Textifi by Virtual Eye is a simple OCR app that doesn't require a data or wi-fi connection. The Play Store link is
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=textifi.virtualeye.iohl=en_US

the interface is straight-forward. In the top right corner is a button for turning on the flashlight/torch, and across the bottom are buttons for detecting text, copying text to the clipboard, and reading the text out loud again. There is no menu icon, and there don’t seem to be any app settings.

To use Textifi, do the following:

• Turn on the flashlight (if necessary).
• Center your phone's viewfinder over the printed page.
• Tap the Detect Text button. Recognition is fairly quick. If nothing happens after a second or two, tap the screen again.

Once text is recognized, it is read automatically. If you want it to be repeated, tap the Speak Again button, and if you want to save it, tap the Copy button, then use TalkBack's editing menu to paste the text into a notepad app.

This app’s OCR results are great, but the key is to position your camera right. I was sitting in my office at school going through junk mail. If I positioned the camera by putting my elbow on the table next to the printed page and holding my hand up in the air, results were very good, almost as good as the Eye-D app by GingerMind Technologies. With Eye-D, recognition was pretty good even if I didn’t keep the camera level; with Textifi, recognition was great if I held the camera right, but results were bad if I wasn’t careful.

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Austrian Post to offer in-house delivery from July

Together with technology partner Nuki, Austrian Post is launching in-house delivery as a regular service.




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“With the introduction of the e-truck, Austrian Post is definitely going in the right direction”

Österreichische Post AG put its first two e-trucks into operation at the beginning of May. The two vehicles commute CO2-free between the logistics center in Vienna-Inzersdorf and Vienna Airport to pick up or deliver international shipments.




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Austrian Post: The new handhelds are an important building block for [our] digital transformation

Österreichische Post AG has rolled out over 11,000 handhelds from February to July 2024.




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Royal Mail: Trialling drones allows us to test out new ways of working

Royal Mail has launched its latest trial to deliver mail by drone, in collaboration with drone specialists Skyports and Argyll and Bute Council.




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Skyports trials with Royal Mail “demonstrate the viability of long-term drone operations”

Skyports Drone Services (Skyports) and Royal Mail have celebrated the one-year anniversary of their pioneering drone delivery service in Orkney by announcing it has been extended until at least February 2026.




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Department of Posts in India trials drone delivery to reduce delivery time in mountainous areas

Department of Posts in India has started a proof of concept for transmission of mail through drone.




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Results: 2024 BBA Individual Time Trial

Jackson Langley, Geoff Smith, Liana De Medeiros, and Skye Ferguson were the BBA individual time trial division winners. Langley won the A division clocking a time of 26:12.35, Smith picked up the win in the B division finishing 3rd overall clocking 28:03.59, De Medeiros claimed the C division title with a time of 28:55.44 finishing […]




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Nicholas Narraway Shines In UK Time-Trial

Bermuda cyclist Nicholas Narraway claimed victory in the 2-Up Droitwich Cycling Club time-trial in Flyford Flavell, Worcestershire, England, on Tuesday [August 27]. Narraway, competing in a field of 31 riders, posted a time of 19min 22sec and was only a few seconds off the course record. In a social media post, the Droitwich Cycling Club […]




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Nicholas Narraway Wins Banbury Time-Trial

Bermudian cyclist Nicholas Narraway continued his fine form after setting a course record on the new Banbury Star K4/10B ten-mile time-trial in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, on Wednesday [August 28]. Narraway, who rides for Team California, completed the course in a time of 19min 49sec. The previous day, Narraway claimed victory in the 2-Up Droitwich Cycling […]




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Nicholas Narraway Finishes 37th In Time-Trial

Bermuda cyclist Nicholas Narraway came 37th in the men’s under-23 time-trial in the UCI World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, today [September 23]. He finished 3.38sec behind race winner Ivan Romeo, of Spain, who completed the course in 36:42. Narraway competes in the under-23 road race on Friday. Related Stories Cyclists Head To Guyana For Championships […]




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Conor White Proud Of Time-Trial Display

Bermuda cyclist Conor White said he is proud of his performance in the elite men’s time-trial at the UCI World Cycling Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, last weekend. White, the island’s Male Athlete of the Year, who finished 39th in a field of 59 riders, wrote on social media yesterday [September 24]: “I spent these past […]




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Traffic Notice For BBA Time Trial Road Race

The Government issued a traffic notice for the Bermuda Bicycle Association Jen and Friends Time Trial Road Race scheduled on Sunday [Oct 13]. A Government spokesperson said, “The Ministry of Public Works wishes to inform motorists that the Bermuda Bicycle Association Jen and Friends Time Trial Road Race will occur on Sunday, October 13th, 2024, […]




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Developing Advanced Recycling Technology to Restore Spent Battery Cathode Materials

The Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has developed a cost-effective and eco-friendly recycling process that addresses the limitations of traditional direct recycling methods for spent batteries.




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THE VATICAN TAKES A TOUGHER STANCE ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.

THE VATICAN TAKES A TOUGHER STANCE ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.





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A Furry Convention Became a Welcoming Party When Syrian Refugees Ended up at the Same Hotel

Some Syrian refugees were placed in the same hotel as a Furry convention for temporary housing after arriving in Canada. Syrian kids and furries alike made the best of what is undoubtedly a weird situation. The organizers of VancouFur made sure to alert the attendees to be extra kind to the newcomers and it looks like they did just that.




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It Was QUITE The Carriage Ride...

Roco entertained the young newlyweds, by discussing his myriad venereal diseases.




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Scarlett McNally: GPs and geriatricians can help to improve shared decision making for surgical patients

At one of my first meetings as an elected council member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, we approved a report called Access All Ages. It encouraged less ageist thinking and bias among healthcare staff that might lead to them denying older people surgery.1 But sometimes an operation isn’t the best option. Among patients who have surgery, 14% express regret and 15% experience complications, which are at least four times as likely if they’re frail or physically inactive.2 The Centre for Perioperative Care has published information on the importance of exercise before surgery,3 but that alone may not be enough.We need shared decision making,4 including asking patients what matters to them. The public should be primed to ask about BRAN—the benefits, risks, and alternatives to surgery and the likely result from doing nothing.4 A slew of data supports this approach, especially from the POPS initiative (Perioperative Care of...




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A Prefrontal->Periaqueductal Gray Pathway Differentially Engages Autonomic, Hormonal, and Behavioral Features of the Stress-Coping Response

The activation of autonomic and hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) systems occurs interdependently with behavioral adjustments under varying environmental demands. Nevertheless, laboratory rodent studies examining the neural bases of stress responses have generally attributed increments in these systems to be monolithic, regardless of whether an active or passive coping strategy is employed. Using the shock probe defensive burying test (SPDB) to measure stress-coping features naturalistically in male and female rats, we identify a neural pathway whereby activity changes may promote distinctive response patterns of hemodynamic and HPA indices typifying active and passive coping phenotypes. Optogenetic excitation of the rostral medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) input to the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray (vlPAG) decreased passive behavior (immobility), attenuated the glucocorticoid hormone response, but did not prevent arterial pressure and heart rate increases associated with rats’ active behavioral (defensive burying) engagement during the SPDB. In contrast, inhibition of the same pathway increased behavioral immobility and attenuated hemodynamic output but did not affect glucocorticoid increases. Further analyses confirmed that hemodynamic increments occurred preferentially during active behaviors and decrements during immobility epochs, whereas pathway manipulations, regardless of the directionality of effect, weakened these correlational relationships. Finally, neuroanatomical evidence indicated that the influence of the rostral mPFC->vlPAG pathway on coping response patterns is mediated predominantly through GABAergic neurons within vlPAG. These data highlight the importance of this prefrontal->midbrain connection in organizing stress-coping responses and in coordinating bodily systems with behavioral output for adaptation to aversive experiences.




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Trans-Siberian adventure!

OM Russia's short-term outreach team travels across Russia sharing about Christ with as many travellers as possible.




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To Russia with love - a Trans-Siberian adventure

A team member from the USA who participated in a short-term trip on the Trans-Siberian railroad across Russia shares her experience.




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Sowing among Syrians in Turkey

OM worker joins a new Arabic-speaking ministry among Syrians in Turkey.




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Marriage, fish and taboos

In Tongwa village husbands and wives don't know how to love each other. A young couple is working to change that.




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Inside Syria

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




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Marriage changes the way Lydia does ministry

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.




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Syrians, Somalis and Sudanese

Global crises provide unprecedented opportunities for OM workers to share truth with least-reached people from Syria, Somalia and Sudan.




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Syrian family comes to faith

Driven apart by the Syrian civil war, an extended family experiences miraculous healing and dreams and believes in Jesus.




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Hope amidst desperation: How the Syrian War changed OM’s ministry in the Near East

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