Naomi Osinnowo
Naomi was the Evangelical Alliance's editorial content manager from 2018 to 2021. Positions with publishers and within the marketing and communications faculty of a higher education institution, plus stints as a reporter, enabled the media and cultural studies graduate, who has an NCTJ diploma in newspaper journalism, to hone the necessary skills and qualities to serve members well.
Mental health: Black, Christian and struggling with mental health
8 May 2019The qualified and accredited psychotherapist explains that while mainstream services repeatedly fail to understand the unique needs and outlook of Christians from African and African-Caribbean backgrounds particularly, black-majority churches can often be superstitious about conditions of the mind and seldom have the expertise in place to help. In this interview with the Evangelical Alliance, Dr Burrell – who has a track record of developing counselling services within education, the voluntary…
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Wales, you have my heart
29 April 2019With a longing to see all people around the country enter into the most loving relationship of all, one with the Father in His Son, Siân seeks to establish new partnerships with churches, organisations and individuals around Wales, and deepen those that already exist, in order to spread the life-changing gospel far and wide. Drawing on a solid foundation of vocational experiences that have taken her into the heart of communities within her nation, Christian and otherwise, Siân says that while…
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Will you back Open Doors to see change?
1 April 2019In an interview with the Evangelical Alliance, Erin James, content writer at Open Doors UK, answers some key questions about the campaign and the horrific persecution endured by Christian women, and makes an appeal to the UK church to put its weight behind the drive. Why are Christian women subject to even greater persecution than their male counterparts? Sadly, women in conservative societies are treated as inferior simply because of their gender; they often lack the economic, social or…
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Compassion UK launches appeal for mums and babies in Togo
26 March 2019As part of its mission to protect children worldwide from the devastating effects of poverty, Compassion UK has launched its Different Path Appeal to provide vital support to vulnerable mothers and babies in Togo. According to Unicef, one in every 20 babies in the West-African country do not make it to one year old, as extreme levels of poverty make it difficult, and often impossible, to avert the common causes of death, including complications in pregnancy and at birth, infections, disease,…
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A force for good
27 February 2019The police force is one section of society that is, perhaps, feeling the heat more than most, as it endeavours to respond to the increasing demands of the people it serves with fewer officers and support staff to share the workload. In a bid to meet the needs of communities in spite of the obstacles, Evangelical Alliance member the Christian Police Association (CPA) helped to set up the Faith and Police Together project in autumn last year. The aim of the initiative, as its project manager…
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Are you up for the 40acts challenge?
25 February 2019In an interview with Naomi Osinnowo, the Evangelical Alliance’s editorial content manager, Kezia Owusu-Yianoma, social media and digital content executive at Stewardship, shares why the drive continues to attract thousands of participants each year, and urges others to get on board. For those who haven’t heard of 40acts, if you could sum it up in a few sentences, what would they be? 40acts is a 40-day generosity challenge that’s designed to provide an alternative to giving up things for Lent…
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Ekklesia 2019: church leaders' conference
17 February 2019As the body of Christ in a country that is presently trying to break through a whole host of challenges, including those around uncertainty and division, Evangelical Alliance member Share Jesus International (SJI) has sensed that it’s the right time to hold the Ekklesia conference. It is SJI’s first event of this kind, and it will bring together interdenominational leaders and speakers from the Baptist Church, Church of England, the Methodist Church, New Frontiers, Pioneer, Elim and elsewhere…
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Protest to be held in support of stalwart Nigerian Christian girl
5 February 2019Teenager Leah Sharibu was abducted along with 109 other female classmates by fighters from the Islamic State West African Province (also known as the al-Barnawi faction of Boko Haram) in February last year. While the Nigerian government managed to successfully negotiate the release of the then 14 year old’s 104 surviving classmates the following month, Leah was denied her freedom because she refused to reject Jesus Christ as Lord of her life. In two weeks, on Tuesday, 19 February, human rights…
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Asia Bibi: free, free indeed
29 January 2019The court has today rebuffed a challenge to the ruling it made in October last year to lift the death sentence handed down to the Christian farm worker on the back of alleged claims she spoke against the founder of Islam, Muhammad. Bibi, who has been held at a secret location since her sentence was overturned, is now able to leave the country after almost a decade on death row, and is expected to do so. While this isn’t good news for the extreme Islamist party that petitioned the court to…
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Rights of persecuted Christians championed in Westminster
17 January 2019Yesterday, at the Houses of Parliament, the anti-persecution charity presented to parliamentarians and delegates its latest annual research report, which lists the 50 countries where Christians face the most extreme persecution. The report shows that Asia, following a sharp rise in persecution over the last five years, is now the place where followers of Jesus are most at risk, with the first five countries in the ranking being North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya and Pakistan. Speaking at…
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A broken education system
27 December 2018What does TLG do? Our team of trained church-based volunteers carry Jesus into the lives of children who struggle with school owing to the tough circumstances they face. The common scenario we come across is the breakdown of family life: mum and dad no longer living in the same house. The impact on a child is vast, and their sense of safety and wellbeing is jeopardised. So, in collaboration with schools and local churches, we run three programmes: education centres for teenagers who are…
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