The 2010 US Census reported that 12.9 percent of the USA population is "foreign-born." A quick look around your local supermarket is likely to confirm that your community is alive with peoples and languages from around the world. The volunteers of Ethnic Harvest pray that Christian people will reach out in friendship to their foreign-born neighbors. Get to know them. If they ask about your faith, this site can help you find resources to share with them about the One who is your hope. Be a friend, with no other agenda, and God's love will shine through. In many cases, your foreign-born neighbors may already be Christians. If they are, ask a…

What is religion? This question has puzzled theologians throughout human history. But how did religion start in the first place? Why did it start? In order to understand some of these issues, let us have a look at the etymology of the word “religion” itself, and see that when and where this word was used for the very first time in the human history.

The word religion was used for the very first time in the Latin language. The actual word used in Latin was “religio”, which changed into religion when came into English. The roots of the Arabic word “Mazhab” or “Deen” can also be traced back to “religio”. In the Latin language, the word “religio” had three basic meanings; which are Faith, Trust & Belief.

If you further analyse these three words, faith, trust and belief; then you realize that there are actually three different characteristics