Apostasy laws in Sudan are coming to an end thanks to cooperation between Christians, Muslims and women’s groups.

At the end of Reinhold Niebuhr’s travels across Western Europe in 1947, he spent a week at the Ecumenical Institute, a facility near Geneva. He was hopeful of how this project would bless the church life of the world, and he offered observations about discussions there about communism, church-state relations, Christian political parties, and more.

“The frightening danger of our disunion is that we face a world—at least the Western world —that is so largely united.”