ICMDA Recordings

Recorded on 16 November 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Howard Lyons chairs a webinar with Dr Ben Chang.

Recorded on 9 November 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dirk Jongkind.

The books of the New Testament were all written in the first century and have since been copied by countless scribes. The original physical manuscripts written by the apostles have all long perished, so we have to do with copies.

However, as happens when a text is copied, errors can creep in and this has happened with the New Testament, as the footnotes in any modern translation will tell us.

But of course, the reliability of the New Testament is not just questioned because of the reliability of the texts itself, but also because of the events they describe.

In this webinar we will go through some of the debates and the major issues, and we will formulate some take-home arguments that can help us in our own testimony.

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Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Rajni Herman & Moanaro Ao.

New Delhi, the capital of India, is the hub where people from all walks of life migrate in search of a better future and a better tomorrow. For many, this step proves to be a giant leap for reaching their desired ambitions, but unfortunately for a few, their struggle would never reach an end. When this is compounded with a life limiting disease like HIV, the impact on their physical, mental, social, and economic status is profound.

This talk addresses the issues faced by such communities and how help can be extended.

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Recorded on 26 October 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Gordon Macdonald.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are increasingly being legalised in Western nations. This talk will look at the impact of this prioritisation of autonomy and choice within healthcare, at vulnerable people being placed at risk as a result and how the number of deaths quickly escalates once the law has been changed.

Dr Gordon Macdonald is the Chief Executive of Care Not Killing, a post he has held since April 2019. Prior to that Gordon worked in political advocacy work focusing on the Scottish Parliament. In that role, he chaired the Care Not Killing Scotland committee which led the campaign against two previous Bills which sought to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide at Holyrood. He has a PhD in political economy and has been active in politics in a personal capacity for a number of years.

Care Not Killing was set up in 2006 as a political campaign by a number of organisations which were concerned by Lord Joffe's attempt to change the law to legalise assisted suicide through his Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill and to campaign for improvements in palliative care.

Gordon has overseen the development of the organisation, including the establishment of the Our Duty of Care campaign, a campaign for health professionals who wish to oppose the legalisation of assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Recorded on 19 October 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Philippa Taylor chairs a webinar with Dr Chris Cirucci.

Chemical (or medication) abortion is typically accomplished with mifepristone and misoprostol. It is now the most common method of induced abortion. Although often perceived as safe, it has higher complication rates than surgical abortion, and particular complications are inherent in chemical abortion. Chemical abortion is often touted as a do-it-yourself method, and the pills are easily accessible online.

This talk will review the data on the complications of chemical abortion with mifepristone and misoprostol and discuss the issues inherent with women self-managing their abortions without medical supervision.

Christina A. Cirucci M.D. is a board-certified OB/GYN and long-time member of AAPLOG. She earned a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and worked in the engineering field for seven years before pursuing a medical career. She received her medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and completed her OB/GYN residency at the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Cirucci then joined a private OB/GYN practice in Pittsburgh, where she worked for twenty years. Dr. Cirucci has volunteered her medical skills in various third-world countries in Africa and Asia and has made multiple trips to volunteer at Memorial Christian Hospital in Bangladesh. Dr. Cirucci has a heart for the life of the unborn and joined the board of AAPLOG in 2021.

Recorded on 12 October 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Anil Cherian.

What are the strategic challenges of mobilizing Christian Healthcare Professionals for mission - especially with the shift of the center of global Christianity to the majority world – the Global South? What about the North-South missionary divide that is shaping global missions and the Lausanne Movement?
This webinar will discuss how we can adapt and reframe mission strategies. Dr Anil will present a new vision: a paradigm shift in our thinking on global Mission, that incorporates the changing realities of today’s world, and its implications on mobilizing Christian health workers for global missional healthcare.

Dr Anil Cherian graduated from CMC Vellore, India in 1989. He began his medical career working in a Leprosy hospital and then various Christian mission hospitals. In 1994 he qualified as a Pediatrician, then obtained a Masters of Public Health in Manila, and a Diploma in Health Economics from York. He shifted from Clinical work to Community Health & development then worked as the Mission Coordinator for EMFI training medical, dental and nursing students.

In 2014 Anil and his wife Shalini (Ob-Gyn) moved to Africa to start the ICMDA National Institute of Health Sciences (Jonglei) to train healthcare professionals for South Sudan and worked closely with CMDA South Sudan and CMF Uganda. Anil has been actively involved in other global health initiative including health systems research and has received a number of awards for his work. Shalini and Anil have two sons, Ajay who works as an Architect in the US and Rohan who is undergraduate at the California Baptist University.

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Recorded on 8 July 2021 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Wei-Leong Goh.

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A breakout session from the 17th ICMDA World Congress in Arusha Tanzania. Recorded in June 2023.

Please note the recording may be incomplete or of poor quality in places.

A breakout session from the 17th ICMDA World Congress in Arusha Tanzania.

Please note the recording may be incomplete or of poor quality in places.

A breakout session from the 17th ICMDA World Congress in Arusha Tanzania.

Please note the recording may be incomplete or of poor quality in places.