Rebecca Lafferty was 16 when she was plucked out of a country that felt like home. Born to missionary parents, she had spent her early years growing up in South Asia, the US, and later, Southeast Asia ...

There can be no sugar-coating of the numbers. The religious statistics surfaced by the 2025 General Household Survey, published today (June 30), paint a sobering picture for the church in Singapore.

She began her career in banking, a world where performance is measured carefully and success is often defined by numbers. Yet over time, she began to sense that the most important things in life ...

It was a night of music, movement and narrative that beautifully captured the theme “Love God by loving our neighbour”. The focus was a reflection of the spirit of service that epitomised the work of ...

Violinist-conductor-teacher Vivien Goh was six when her father Goh Soon Tioe first gave her a violin. Vivien’s father, who was born in Indonesia, was a pioneering violinist, teacher, conductor and ...

As far as meet-cutes go, Rev Dr Christopher Chia and his wife Mona have a rather adorable one. First meeting as six-year-olds, the Malaysian-born couple recount how they would run away from geese that ...

She was 19, an undergraduate who was a “very committed Christian”. She went to church regularly, attended a cell group and served in Sunday School. “But she came into my clinic in tears,” said Dr P ...

Lebanon. Land of cedars so strong they were used to build the temple of Solomon. Mountains so majestic, the prophet Jeremiah pointed out their snow-capped glory. (1 Kings 5:6, Jeremiah 18:14) But ...

“My mummy told us not to play with you,” said a boy to me when we were both 12 years old. Those words hit harder than any physical pain I had ever felt. It wasn’t just rejection – it was humiliation.

When Singapore war hero Lim Bo Seng fled from Singapore during World War Two, his wife Gan Choo Neo held the fort at home and prayed every night with her six children for his safety. In the harrowing ...

That’s how Planet Earth is described in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series of novels, authored by comedic sci-fi writer Douglas Adams. The phrase is not meant to be complimentary; the series’ ...

Three-year-old Daniela was not having it. She and her parents, Joseph Loh, 40, and Brenda Tan, 32 were out for lunch in a public place. Daniela refused to do something that her parents asked and began ...