(RNS) — ‘Everyone’s still kind of rattled and trying to figure things out,’ said the Rev. Joshua Messick, who has Bibles ‘in every conceivable language’ to distribute upon request.

Messick is the executive director of the Baltimore International Seafarers' Center, which is a religious, nonprofit organization that serves seafarers however they can. "Seafarers are a very ...

Seafarers help move global trade, but their needs often go unheeded. According to the United Nations, more than 80% of the volume of international trade in goods is transported on the seas, making ...

Basing his reflection on the insight of Vatican II that whatever is genuinely human resonates in the hearts of Christians, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, ...

The New England Seafarers Mission didn’t start out as a convenience store. It was founded in 1881 as the Scandinavian Seamen’s Mission by a Swedish immigrant and ex-sailor named Olaus Olsson.

Of the seafarers working out of New York–area harbors, about 60 percent are Filipino. Recruitment and retention of good workers and officers is hampered not only by the piracy peril, Stevenson said, ...

About 20 percent of the 1.6 million seafarers around the world have been vaccinated, ... a Christian association, started making efforts to vaccinate foreign seafarers when they arrive at US ports.

Ships in the Red Sea are signaling their nationality and religion to avoid Houthi attacks. Recent aggressions have heightened ...

Ships in the Red Sea are broadcasting nationality and religious information to avoid Houthi attacks, following increased aggression. Despite these measures and companies increasing diligence ...

the mission was to support the seafarers by giving them living accommodations, meals, support their religious need and social needs. SO TO THIS DAY, THAT’S WHAT WE STILL DO HERE.

Ancient seafarers built the ... An ability to incorporate other people’s deities into their own religion “was probably one of the keys to Phoenicians’ success throughout the ...