International Fashion Icon Tia Lee Visits Jakarta

International Fashion Icon Tia Lee Visits Jakarta

Meets with Cita Tenun Indonesia (CTI), one of Indonesia’s most renowned fashion organizations Engages in a discussion on design aesthetics and the progress of EmpowerHer initiatives. TAIPEI, TAIWAN- Media OutReach Newswire – 21 October 2024 – International fashion icon Tia Lee (李毓芬) recently visited Jakarta. The primary purpose of her visit was for a cover … Read more

In Indonesia, Light Skin is Prized. Some Christians Are Pushing Back.

Growing up on the Indonesian island of Java, Happy Natalisa remembers being mocked for her dark complexion. Her classmates called her si hitam (black) and orang Papua because her father was Papuan, an ethnic group hailing from Indonesia’s easternmost province in Western New Guinea. Her appearance affected how she served in the church. She preferred … Read more

‘For I Was Hungry’: The Verse Brazil’s Evangelicals Can Never Forget

You’re reading the English translation of the winner of Christianity Today’s second annual essay contest for Christians who write in Portuguese. Learn more about the competition and CT’s multilingual work and check out the winning essays written originally in Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Spanish. Brazil’s 2010 Census revealed that evangelicals in Brazil had reached nearly … Read more

Should Christians Support Indonesia Criminalizing…

Last week, Indonesia’s parliament approved a new penal code that received backlash from the United Nations and human rights groups inside and outside the Southeast Asian nation. The new code, which replaces a colonial-era code enacted while the archipelago was under Dutch rule, includes the criminalization of cohabitation and sex outside marriage, bans insulting the … Read more