Described as a shadow pandemic, domestic violence (DV) is a silent killer. News services have been reporting an incre...
It was after 11:30 am on Saturday, July 25, and the city of Lages, in Santa Catarina state in Brazil, was in a moment of turmoil. At that hour, a city doctor was dying from COVID-19...
No catastrophe, no tsunami, no earthquake, flood, hurricane, or famine has had such a global effect. No punishment has ever made us behave this way. While someone is w...
Receiving a handwritten letter at Signs of the Times is a lucky dip of sorts. It’s fairly safe to assume that the writer is an older person—younger people have largely abandone...
Imagine living with your family in a house where the structure is worn and fragile. A house that can collapse at any time. This is the reality of Erica, a resident of the city of Palmeira,...
For a good part of his life, Seventh-day Adventist Welton da Silva, 73, did the work of literature evangelism in Rio de Janeiro. On one of his canvassing visits, he met Luciana do...
Eyes for India is the long-running It Is Written project restoring sight to the blind through cataract surgeries in India. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Jacob Prab...
Social isolation—a sad necessity during the global COVID-19 pandemic—has taken its toll on individuals and families. For young children, the disruption in daily routines ...
Cynthia Gorney, a National Geographic contributing writer, followed her article’s title “We are not made for this new normal” with this heading: “I...
Measures introduced to fight the coronavirus pandemic have inadvertently helped the fight against another global epidemic: human trafficking. Captivating Internation...