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A second ship carrying donated food to Rwanda was attacked last week by pirates off the coast of Somalia. |
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Maryam Rostampour (27) and Marzieh Esmaeilabad (30) are active members of Iran's Christian community. |
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"Every citizen of South Africa is given an opportunity to vote for the party of their choice to become the government. If good people do not vote, only bad people will vote, and the results will be disastrous," |
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The Message Trust is appealing for one million hours of prayer for Manchester between May 1 and August 9. |
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A Bridge of Hope center in Manipur, India, was forced to close after the area around the center was caught in the crossfire between the Indian Army and a rebel group last week. |
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SOUTH ASIA (ANS) -- When a group of Gospel for Asia-supported Bible college students and a staff member arrived at the home where they had been invited to hold a prayer meeting, |
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Amnesty International appealed for urgent action last week for two Iranian Christian women held with no legal counsel for over a month suffering high fever and infections with no medical care in a crowded cell of 27 other women. |
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A UN conference in Geneva from 20th to 24th April hopes to support the fight against discrimination, |
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Association of Protestant Churches: ‘Greetings from Turkey - |
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A Christian charity worker in Southampton has been suspended under ‘diversity’ rules after answering a colleague’s questions about his beliefs on sexual ethics. |
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SOUTH ASIA (ANS) -- Witchcraft is probably not something that would attract people to a new neighborhood. But for Pankaj, a Gospel for Asia-supported pastor, |
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WHITTIER, CA (ANS) -- As the Senior Pastor of a mid-size church a few miles east of Los Angeles, I am daily reminded of the affects our current economy is having upon our community and church body. |
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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- The Pakistan Minister for Minorities, Mr. Shahbaz Bhatti, has said that Christians will be to able to enjoy a holiday on Good Fridays from next year. |
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Fathers have a crucial role to play in protecting their children from abuse, says Lord Laming in a report prompted by the tragic death of Baby P. |
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The results of an official investigation into the effects of gay adoption in Scotland will not be made public, the Scottish Government has said. |
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Bill Clinton has been accused of ignorance or wilful distortion of basic biology by claiming human embryos are not ‘fertilised’. |
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Kidneys and livers should be harvested from aborted babies to help deal with the organ donor shortage, a stem cell professor has said. |
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Muslims have attacked an internet group of more than 300,000 Christians on the popular social networking website, Facebook, prompting thousands to leave the group. |
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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) says it will not investigate an advertisement by the Christian Party which says “There definitely is a God”. |
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Christians make a vital contribution to British society but they are being marginalised by public bodies, MPs said yesterday in a parliamentary debate. |
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Nearly 200 people from over 20 local churches in England kicked off a Bible reading marathon last Friday during which the Scripture will be read in public for 10 days. |
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US Defence Secretary said America wants to increase military assistance to Mexico in their fight against drugs trafficking, and praised the Mexican president's courageous effort tackling the cartels that predecessors refused to acknowledge. |
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Dhimmitude' is the term for 'the legal and social conditions of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule'. |
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Riot police clashed with lawyers and opposition activists across Pakistan Thursday as thousands of people defied the government to launch a mass protest that threatens to plunge the country once again into chaos. |
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Michael McLendon rained down terror on three small Alabama towns before finally killing himself in a deadly shooting rampage on Tuesday. |
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The latest shooting at a high school in Germany has left 16 people dead; including the teenage gunman, in Germany's worst such incident since 2002 when 2 pupils, 12 teachers, a secretary and a policeman were killed. |
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A few years ago, the Guardian newspaper called Sweden the most successful society the world has ever known. |
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Germany's Chancellor has been speaking of her shock at the gun rampage in Winnenden. |
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A new policy divide appears to be opening up between the EU and the US over the extent stimulus spending programmes should be used to combat the current global recession. |
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For medical staff, as with most Service Personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq, the working day is about 14 hours with no days off – so it is exhausting and dangerous. |
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Parents face possible court action for withdrawing their children from lessons on gay and lesbian history. |
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Tests found those who admit they believe in God were less likely to suffer anxiety and stress when asked to perform various mental tasks and, as a result, performed better. |
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A Gallup poll asked people in 143 countries ‘Is religion an important part of your daily life?’ |
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More than 10,000 serious criminals who would have been jailed six years ago have been spared jail by UK courts because of more lenient sentencing rules, according to a report by the Civitas think tank. |
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There were prayer gatherings across the UK on Saturday, February 28 to cry out to God about the state of the nation. |
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An elderly couple have become the first British pair to die together in a Swiss suicide clinic, it was revealed last night. |
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The Government’s tax and benefits system encourages divorce among poorer families, according to a weighty new study. |
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A former Government minister has spoken out about Britain’s “national catastrophe” - its “army” of teenage mothers living on benefits. |
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Parents who smack their children are like ‘child abusers’, Northern Ireland’s Children’s Commissioner has claimed. |
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Fathers are to be airbrushed out of birth certificates for children born to single women by IVF. |
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Tony Blair has warned UK Christians they live in an age of “aggressive secularism” and criticised recent “ludicrous decisions” which have seen them punished for expressing their beliefs. |
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An NBC news affiliate has reported that when First Baptist Church Pastor Tim Childers organized a community-wide prayer and comfort service recently to show up and pray for employment seekers at a job fair in Alabama, hundreds responded. |
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blank_pageFor more than 75 years, Christians in the UK have united in prayer as part of the Women's World Day of Prayer, and this year, more than 5,000 services are being planned across England, Wales and Northern Ireland for the occasion on 6 March. |
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The Hindu nationalist government in Karnataka state is planning to introduce the ‘anti-conversion' law that led to anti-Christian violence in other states. |
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Urgent prayer is needed for church mediation and a resolution to conflict between the President of Madagascar and the ex-Mayor of Antananirivo which has resulted in 100 deaths. |
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Diplomats in Kabul warned that Pakistan posed a bigger security challenge than Afghanistan, as Islamabad grappled with the latest terrorist attack on its soil and the escalatiTaliban insurgency on its north-western border. Senior officials in the Foreign Office and the Obama administration express concern because of its nuclear weapons and its highly politicised and Islamicised secret service, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI).ng |
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A Palestinian man driving a large construction vehicle was shot dead after intentionally attacking a police car on Thursday afternoon. |
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Prayer warriors worldwide are encouraged to cry out to God for divine intervention as the volatile situation in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Islamic militant Hamas is heating up again. t Hamas is heating up again. |
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At a refugee camp of 20,000 Sudanese from Darfur the reaction to Omar al-Basher's indictment is quiet contentment. |
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Poorer countries have been left hanging by EU environment ministers, who at a meeting in Brussels failed to produce any clear funding commitments to help the developing world tackle climate change. |
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‘Your Kingdom come, Your will be done' was the prayer of hundreds of Christians who gathered at a central London church to cry out to God over the moral and spiritual crisis in the UK. |
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A London primary school played host to a meeting of Muslims at which an extremist preacher called for Britain to become an Islamic state. |
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Christianity is at risk of being sidelined in Britain's ‘aggressively secularist' society, former prime minister Tony Blair has warned. |
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has warned that the recession could make Britain more vulnerable to a 'tempest of extremism' and contribute to a rise of the British National Party. Rising unemployment and falling house prices were among factors that could contribute to xenophobia and prejudice, he said. |
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Brandon Muir was only 23 months old when he was killed by the boyfriend of his drug-addicted mother. |
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The Roman Catholic Church has spoken out against a proposed new code of conduct for school teachers, saying that it could force teachers who refuse to promote Islam and gay rights out of the profession. |
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It had to be ‘the speech of his life', so said the pundits, hence Gordon Brown would have been feeling rightly apprehensive about his appearance before Congress in Washington on Wednesday. |
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A wave of violence that has swept Bauchi city in the central Nigeria has resulted to the death of no fewer than 11 people and the destruction of about eight vicarages, while several Christian homes were also destroyed. |
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A 60-year-old Christian man has been stabbed to death in an Egyptian village following a week of sectarian tension surrounding an illicit love affair. |
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International Christian Concern (ICC), a Christian human rights group, says it has learned that Libyan intelligence officials have detained and tortured four Christians for converting from Islam adding that the Christians have been imprisoned for the past seven weeks in Tripoli, Libya's capital. |
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Following the church shooting at First Baptist Church of Maryville, Illinois, in which a 27-year-old man has been charged with first degree murder, the publishers of a group of Christian magazines are expressing their condolences and making available materials to help prevent churches from experiencing crime and violence. |
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A missions leader ministering to overseas students in the United States is proposing plans for a global 'Decade of the International Student' emphasis from 2010 to 2020. |
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It's expected that over 600 top Christian leaders from 70 nations will assemble in Hong Kong this June 1 to 6 for the International Call2All Gathering '09. |
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"Blind fanaticism is reaching unprecedented heights in this capital city, and for the Christians who live here, and throughout Iraq, it is turning into a nightmare," wrote journalist Fady Noun, based in Beirut, Lebanon, in a story carried by www.catholic.net |
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Because of my extensive time on the ground in both Darfur and Southern Sudan, I have been interviewed by several news sources, including the BBC and Birmingham News since yesterday's indictment against Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. |
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Around 150 delegates from Russia, Ukraine the UK and US will be gathering in Donetsk, Ukraine March 17-19 for the Eastern European Summit on Orphans and the Church. But organiser Karmen Friesen director of the CoMission for Children at Risk says time is running out for those wishing to still register as the deadline is Monday March 9. |
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Josh Kimball, a Christian Post (http://christianpost.com) reporter says that No Line On The Horizon, the latest album from Irish rock band U2, has finally hit music stores in North America after its worldwide debut Friday in Ireland. |
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While the United States continues to dwell on the stock market plunge and the current credit crisis, there are severe worldwide consequences to the nation's economic woes that have gone virtually unnoticed by most Americans. |
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I was recently invited to the ordination of an extremely talented young man. Friends, family, state leaders and his congregation were present. Call him Scott Hodge and his wife, Susan. Give his son the biblical name, Isaac. His beautiful little girl we call Zoe. A model family. |
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As violence continues to spiral out of country in Pakistan, ANS has received news that indiscriminate firing by a group of Muslim men on congregants of a Presbyterian church in Gujranwala district on Monday, March 2 that left a woman dead and 11 others injured. |
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"The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, have launched a Lent appeal for Zimbabwe on Ash Wednesday as Anglicans worldwide join in a day of prayer and fasting for the troubled country," wrote Jenna Lyle on the UK website, www.christiantoday.com. |
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Dhoni Paswan won't leave, even though he has been threatened. He refuses to let the anti-Christian extremists win. |
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During the Mercy Ship's first week of surgeries in their nation, the President of Benin, Dr. Thomas Yayi Boni, and several cabinet ministers visited the Africa Mercy, the world's largest non-governmental hospital ship, to express hope for increasing access to health care for the poor in his nation. |
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Reinstating Caroline Petrie, a Christian nurse who was suspended after offering to pray for a patient, was ‘common sense' says Communities Secretary Hazel Blears. |
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An American missionary group, Seoul USA, has opened an 'underground university' in South Korea to train North Korean Christians to spread the gospel among their compatriots. |
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One might expect to find such a vital Christian congregation as the King's Revival flourishing in the US or Australia, however, this 7,000-member church, which has 24 pastors is situated in Dubai. |
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Iran is fighting off accusations of persecuting the small (non-Christian) sect of the Baha'i. |
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President Obama is preparing a major speech to be delivered in the next few days regarding a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq. |
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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai travels to South Africa today, (Friday) for the first time in his official capacity to seek an immediate rescue package to stabilise Zimbabwe's comatose economy and explore the use of the rand to improve foreign currency liquidity. |
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A Somali Islamist group known as al-Shabab, with links to al-Qaeda, has overpowered pro government forces and captured the town of Hudur. |
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Eleven people were killed, 100 hospitalized and 4,500 homeless were evacuated to two army barracks after religious clashes in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi. |
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The Lord Resistance Army (LRA) a brutal, blasphemous Ugandan terrorist militia, which has been led for over 20 years by spirit medium Joseph Kony, has been targeting civilians and churches in Southern Sudan and north-eastern Congo. |
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Five EU members figure among the world's top 10 least religious countries, with Estonia leading the list, a new poll has shown. |
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Beginning next week, from March 1st through March 21st, the international prayer coalition, Pray for France, is inviting Christians from around the world to intercede for France. |
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Christians in the UK will unite this week with fellow believers around the world in praying for an end to global poverty. |
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Ministers have ordered Whitehall to ‘dad-proof' its family policies, amid concerns that schools, hospitals and other services are preventing fathers from taking a more active role in their children's lives |
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A BBC poll suggests that most people want religion and the values derived from it to play an important role in British public life |
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Employers have been warned by a leading management body to ensure staff are not discriminated against because of their religious beliefs. |
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The whole country's thoughts and prayers are with the opposition leader David Cameron and his family after the death of six-year-old Ivan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said |
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The Government is attacking civil liberty by attempting to remove a free speech protection from a law on ‘inciting homophobic hatred’, says a new report. |
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Most British people want religion and its core values to play a central role in British public life and influence the nation’s laws, a BBC poll reveals. |
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The Northern Ireland Children’s Commissioner may persist in her effort to ban smacking in the Province by taking her legal challenge to the House of Lords at the taxpayer’s expense. |
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Christians are facing growing hostility from secularism and should do more to stand up for themselves, says the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales. |
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Britain’s mosques are run by Islamic clerics who are “physically in Britain but psychologically in Pakistan”, a new survey suggests. |
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Caroline Petrie, the nurse who was suspended from her job after she offered to pray for a patient, has returned to work. |
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The advice comes in a new booklet, called Talking to your Teenager about Sex and Relationships, which is to be made available at pharmacies nationwide. |
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Nicole Coia, writing for the Catholic News Service (www.catholicnews.com), has affirmed that a Vatican official said the global financial crisis is likely to dramatically impact the world's poor in coming months, depriving children of essential services in education and health care. |
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As you are a friend and ally of CCFON and The Christian Legal Centre I felt it my duty to bring you up to date about the threat to our existence due to lack of finances. |
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Tony Blair has this thing about God and faith. |
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As part of its Go4It initiative, Operation Mobilisation UK is urging Christians from all backgrounds and abilities to take part in one of their life-changing short-term missions trips this year with more than one hundred various outreaches on offer. |
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After years of harassment and persecution, a preacher's house was seized illegally in Jan. 2009 by Chinese officials. |
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In a recent crackdown on Christians in Myanmar (Burma), at least 100 churches were ordered to stop holding services. About 50 pastors were forced to sign at least five documents each to cease church services-and warned repeatedly they could face time in jail if they disobeyed. |
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We are taking the unusual step of asking for prayer for our own staff, here at Barnabas Fund, especially for our international director, Patrick Sookhdeo. |
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Waleswide is asking for prayer for Wales next Sunday – St David’s Day. |
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Chinese Christian human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who was nominated for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize, was arrested. |
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Forty-four per cent of UK youngsters aged 15 and 16 have used cannabis, the highest of any European country, according to a United Nations report. |
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Almost 60 per cent of members of the Church of England Synod surveyed by the Sunday Telegraph believed there had been a decline in religious liberty over the past decade. |
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The last of seven nights of prayer was held in London to pray for the city and the nation. |
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‘As a nation we have turned our backs on God. We have abandoned honour and respect for His righteousness and have superseded it with self-centred greed, avarice and a total disregard for His laws,’ says one United Kingdom Christian leader. |
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Government-backed guidance has told librarians to store Bibles and other religious texts on the top shelf in order to avoid offending Muslims. |
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The Church of England has been joined by more than 60 MPs in calling on internet giant Google to stop carrying ads for gambling companies. |
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Following last year’s decision to tighten up the law on cannabis, the Government has launched a campaign to warn teenagers of the dangers of using the drug. |
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Almost half of 15 and 16-year-olds admit to using cannabis, according to a United Nations (UN) report. |
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The Court of Appeal has rejected a bid to challenge the law on assisted suicide, but euthanasia groups are claiming a partial victory. |
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Hundreds of Christians packed Westminster Chapel on Friday night to pray for God's glory to return to London and the nation. |
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A teacher in Italy has been suspended after some students complained that he removed a crucifix from his classroom. |
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Urgent prayer is needed as pastor kidnappings are on the rise in some countries in the 10/40 Window, Window International Network reports. |
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More than 30 police raided a private evangelical seminar in Nanyang city central Henan province, on February 11th, detaining more than 60 worshippers with four of them still in custody a week after the roundup. |
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Most religious liberty monitors believe persecution of the Church will escalate in China during 2009 as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tackles growing dissent and anger over repression, injustice and increasing economic hardship. |
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Children should be taught the Bible throughout their education because it is an ‘essential piece of cultural luggage' without which they will struggle to fully understand literature, according to the poet laureate, Andrew Motion. |
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The Archbishop of York said today that there should be no separation between the life of faith and the workplace. |
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In December eighty Christian Leaders from both Houses of Parliament, business, education and most branches of the Church met in the House of Lords to consider the moral and spiritual implications of the financial crisis. |
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Eleven Gospel for Asia missionaries were arrested and several Christians were beaten February 17 in Chhattisgarh, India. The incident took place while the missionaries were leading a three-day meeting for believers in Chhattisgarh's Korba district. |
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Logos Hope, the latest and largest vessel overseen by Operation Mobilisation, is heading to the UK this spring. The challenges of launching the ship into ministry during the ongoing credit crunch cannot be underestimated though. |
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Increasing threats and pressure from fundamentalist Muslims have forced some 16 family members of a Christian teenager, who was accused of blasphemy last month, to flee their home even though the police had cleared the 15 year old of the blasphemy charges. |
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Eleven Gospel for Asia missionaries who were arrested February 17 after being beaten by anti-Christian radicals have been released on bail. The missionaries were arrested as they were wrapping up the second day of a three-day believers convention in the Korba district of Chhattisgarh, India. |
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Persecution of the Christian minorities in Pakistan has taken a new dimension, this time the Police in Sargodha opened fire on defenseless Christian protesters who were protesting the wrong done to them by the Police. |
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As part of its first anniversary celebration, the Church Times, a Nigerian Christian newspaper, has just recently launched its website -- www.churchtimesng.com -- in Lagos, Nigeria. |
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Parents and local residents have overwhelmingly backed the head teacher of a school in Britain where a young child upset a classmate by telling her that she would "go to hell" if she did not believe in God. |
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It is bigger than life..from ancient writings to fairy tales, the story of Jonah and the big fish is known in many lands. The classical Old Testament story of a Jewish prophet called by God to go and preach to the city of Nineveh, the center of the Assyrian empire.today's northern Iraq. Nineveh was full of idolatry and violent people.feared and hated by the Jewish people. Yet, God wanted to have compassion and mercy on Nineveh.He chose Jonah as His messenger. |
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With huge tracts of land still smoldering and fires still raging, Youth With a Mission (YWAM) workers in southern Australia are on the frontlines caring for survivors of fires that have taken nearly 200 lives and left thousands homeless in what is being described as Australia's "tsunami." |
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Veteran filmmaker Ken Wales, Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed and award-winning CBS Television series Christy, began his drama career playing a juvenile role on a local radio show in Kokomo, Indiana. At age 14 he operated the projector at the legendary Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, where he became a serious film buff. Wales received the first Walt Disney four-year scholarship and graduated with honors form the School of Cinema at The University of Southern California. He has acted in over 35 films and television shows. |
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A resident of Pakistan has told ANS that the Taliban already controls 2/3rds of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of the country, and the provincial capital, Peshawar, continues to get “squeezed” from all sides. |
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Following a fact-finding visit to the Thai-Burmese border, a British-based human rights organization is urging the UN Secretary-General to ramp up efforts to facilitate meaningful dialogue between Burma's military regime, the democracy movement and ethnic nationalities. |
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After almost a year's break, the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB) Moscow offices is back on the road again with a missionary expedition. |
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Joy Junction is typically thought of as being a homeless shelter, a place where needy people can find a place to stay and enjoy a warm, nourishing meal. |
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In the years immediately prior to the British Invasion, only one performer rivaled the chart dominance of Elvis Presley, and that was Pat Boone. With his trademark white buckskin shoes, perfectly combed hair and gleaming smile, Boone was the very essence of American values at a time when rock & roll was viewed as a sign of the apocalypse. He wasn't put off by the dire warnings of preachers and he embraced rock & roll and added his own twist. |
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One of the most beloved stories of all time, The Velveteen Rabbit, is to be made available on DVD next month, following its theatrical debut. |
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Crisis-trained chaplains have been deployed to Melbourne, Australia at the invitation of local churches in response to the wildfires that have brought extreme devastation to the continent. |
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Haiti, the poorest and least safe county in the Western Hemisphere is also the latest to form a national Youth for Christ organization, according to Larry Williams, YFCI Americas Area Director. |
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Draft guidelines for teachers have borrowed the same ‘equality and diversity’ wording used to suspend a Christian nurse who offered to pray for a patient. |
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A UK Christian nursing care home that had been threatened with loss of funding for having the wrong opinions about homosexuality has had its grant restored. |
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A family has won the right to adopt a girl after they were banned when the father smacked a child for swearing. |
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Following the popularity of a bus advertising campaign in Britain saying God ‘probably' does not exist a Canadian secular/atheist group The Freethought Association of Canada, is planning a similar campaign on Canadian busses in Toronto, Alberta and Halifax. |
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Dozens of British legislators expressed concern on February 10 over reports of massive church closures in Burma seen as ‘the most significant crackdown' on Christian activity in the military-ruled Asian nation in years, and affecting as many as 80 per cent of churches. |
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The internal and external challenges Iran faces on its 30th birthday are daunting. |
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The Zimbabwe Christian Alliance hopes the country's proposed government of national unity will see the rule of law established in the country immediately and that it will release all political prisoners. |
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The Catholic bishops of Portugal have resolved to fight plans to legalize homosexual marriage in their country. |
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Two Danish visitors to Belarus were detained by police and are being deported as they expressed ‘ideas of a religious nature', in the words of the deportation order, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. |
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Marriage Week UK celebrates the diversity and vibrancy of marriage as the basis for family life and draws to a close on Valentine's Day. |
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On Wednesday the Church of England reopened the debate on female bishops when after two hours of argument and division its national assembly, the General Synod, agreed to send a draft law allowing women to be ordained as bishops for amendments. |
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The Church of England on Wednesday reaffirmed its commitment to sharing with people of all faiths and none. |
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With the increasing uncertainty in the global economy, and the threat of unemployment and redundancy looming for some. |
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Two Danish citizens, Erling Laursen and Rolf Bergen, face deportation for taking part in worship services in Gomel's charismatic Living Faith Church. |
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In a rare development, a Christian hostel warden of a Nursing School located at the premises of the Children's Hospital in the Pakistan city of Lahore, locked the door of a room that was formerly used as a mosque by Muslim nursing students and staff after the administration of the hospital ordered closure of a prayer room for Christian nursing students and nursing staff. |
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Robert Mugabe's secret police directly interfered in church affairs in 2001 to secure a staunch Mugabe and ZANU-PF supporter, Rev. Nolbert Kunonga, as the Anglican Bishop of Harare. Kunonga purged the church's ranks of white clergy and anyone deemed disloyal to the Mugabe regime. Half the clergy fled abroad. To fill the empty pulpits Kunonga ordained puppets, including ZANU-PF cabinet ministers and secret police. This effectively turned the Anglican Diocese in Harare into a state-controlled church in which dissidents feared for their lives. An ecclesiastical trial in 2005 collapsed because witnesses were too afraid to testify against Kunonga, who was charged with heresy and with crimes ranging from fraud to complicity in the murder of ten priests. |
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Susan Stafford, the original hostess of Wheel of Fortune, has revealed how she was present when a Catholic priest led Rock Hudson in the "sinner's prayer" to receive Jesus Christ into his life just hours before his death aged 59 on Oct. 2, 1985 of complications from AIDS. |
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A Pakistani Christian female who was accused of blasphemy last year has alleged that she received harsh treatment from jail staff during her imprisonment at the Faisalabad district jail, ANS has learnt. |
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Relief and development charity Tearfund is calling on thousands of Christians to join them in prayer this month (February 23 to 1 March 1), to see real change around the world. |
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HCJB Global, an international media and healthcare ministry, announced at the National Religious Broadcasters convention today (Tuesday, February 10, 2009), a new initiative that challenges Americans to pray for their households, reach out in their communities through service and pray for the unreached households of the world. |
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ConnaitreDieu.com, an internet website for non-Christians available in 13 languages (LookingforGod.com is the English version), sees one million visitors and 1,200 decisions for Christ each day. |
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Chinese Christian Shuang Shuying (79) was released from prison yesterday and went immediately to see her dying 91-year-old husband in hospital. |
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The Chin people, Christians living in Burma, are subject to forced labour, torture, killings without trial and religious persecution by the country’s military regime, according to Human Rights Watch. |
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Open Doors has issued its annual World Watch List of countries persecuting the Christian church. |
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Selfish attempts by adults to make the most of their own lives are the greatest threat to children’s welfare, according to a report by the Children’s Society following 35,000 interviews in a two-year investigation. |
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According to a poll of 2,060 adults to mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth this week, 32 per cent of people in Britain believe God created the world in the past 10,000 years. |
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Britain is suffering its most intense period of antisemitic incidents in decades following fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. |
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Hamas has continued to fire rockets into southern Israel despite its stated ceasefire. |
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The death toll in bush fires near Melbourne, Australia, reached 135 today. It may rise to 230. |
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Seven nights of prayer are being held across London and Essex as part of an effort to ‘engulf London in revival prayer and mission.’ |
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Eighty UK Christian leaders from Christian denominations, Parliament, business and education met in the House of Lords to consider the moral and spiritual implications of the financial crisis. |
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A Pakistani Christian female who was accused of blasphemy last year has alleged that she received harsh treatment from jail staff during her imprisonment at the Faisalabad district jail, ANS has learnt. |
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Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, who was enthroned in Moscow as Kirill I, the 16th patriarch in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church has stressed it is his task to ensure unity within the church to preserve the faith, but he is also seen as being a more ‘political leader' than his predecessor by some analysts. |
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The oppressive, isolated country of North Korea under the leadership of dictator Kim Jong Il retains its position as the worst persecutor of Christians in the world. |
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After facing months of violent persecution last autumn, believers are now being turned out of government refugee camps in Orissa. |
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A prominent foreign pastor in Saudi Arabia has fled Riyadh after a member of the mutawwa'in, or religious police, and others threatened him three times in one week. |
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As Christian democracy activist Wang Bingzhang endures his seventh year in prison in solitary confinement, his family reports he is deteriorating physically and mentally. |
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Calls for a return to basic banking and an economy propelled by values rather than greed have been made in London, one of the world's financial capitals, at a conference of Christian thinkers examining the current economic crisis. |
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Rev Mahboob Masih, a Church minister from East Kilbride, is taking legal action after being dismissed from hosting his radio programme for the manner in which Christianity was defended on air which allegedly offended Muslims. |
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Computers and television have pushed a generation of children towards violent behaviour, early sex and mental illness, a large-scale study said yesterday. |
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Marriage is no longer regarded as the best form of relationship by younger generations, the largest survey of public attitudes in Britain shows. |
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Marriage Week UK (7th – 14th Feb) celebrates the diversity and vibrancy of marriage as the basis for family life in the UK. |
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More than 60 per cent of GPs want assisted suicide to remain illegal, but there are fears that support for a change in the law is growing. |
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Three Christian groups will run ads on London buses proclaiming the existence of God in response to the recent atheist campaign. |
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A wealthy tycoon has pledged to help a couple who were told by a council to ‘open their minds’ on gay adoption or never see their grandchildren again. |
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Hector Aleem, a Pakistani Christian activist who last month was accused of committing blasphemy, has been sent to the district jail in Rawalpindi, a city near Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. |
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In what was widely regarded as a 'political correctness gone wrong' decision, Caroline Petrie, the nurse from Weston-super-Mare who was suspended without pay for asking a patient whether she would like to be prayed for, has tonight been reinstated by North Somerset Primary Care Trust. |
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Three separate pro-God advert campaigns on the sides of London buses are set to hit city streets in the British capital. |
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More than 100 Christians from all denominations and traditions are gathering for seven nights in Croydon, South London, to bring revival to the British capital city. |
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A Christian nurse from western England has been suspended from her work for offering to pray for an elderly patient. |
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"I recently discovered that over 500,000 of the population of my home town use the networking website Facebook," writes a surprised computer user. |
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Authorities are holding without charge Jamal Ghalishorani, 49, and his wife Nadereh Jamali who were taken from their home in Tehran between 7 and 8 a.m. on January 21st, about a half hour after arresting Hamik Khachikian, an Armenian Christian also living in Tehran. |
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As global news reports the 300 dead civilians in the climax, and please God the end of the Sri Lankan war, the Sri Lankan Parliament is on the verge of passing a law to ban religious conversions. |
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‘Zimbabwe's water, sanitation and health systems have collapsed, and the death toll from the cholera outbreak has now passed the 3,000 mark.' reports the UN's World Health Organization. |
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Five months after the daughter of a member of Saudi Arabia's religious police was killed for writing online about her faith in Christ, Saudi authorities have reportedly arrested a 28-year-old Christian man for describing his conversion and criticizing the kingdom's judiciary on his Web site. |
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At least 100 bodies linked to a massacre by Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army fighters have been found by local self defence forces in a remote corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo's north-eastern Orientale province. |
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The Provincial Elections in Iraq take place on 31 Jan 09 and they are very significant in a number of ways, both for the Iraqi people themselves, and also for the men and women of the British, Coalition and Iraqi Armed Forces, and the Iraqi police. |
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Political leaders, central bankers, and business elite from around the world are gathering in the Swiss resort town of Davos for the annual World Economic Forum - a five-day event that started January 28. |
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Believers in the UK are invited to take part in a concentrated prayer effort that will be held from Wednesday, Jan. 28th through Friday, Feb. 13th,with seven prayer evenings at locations in London and Essex. |
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While church numbers have been falling for years, these days the trend is for spirituality with no links to organised religion. |
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Christians across the UK may be praying to be one this week, but church unity remains an unlikely prospect, say the leaders of the UK's main denominations. |
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Councils are being urged to make sure youth clubs in their area open at weekends. |
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Tips on how to best smoke cannabis and the benefits of the drug are being handed out to school children, it has emerged. |
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A Christian couple who say they felt forced into giving up their grandchildren for adoption said they would never have done so if they had known they would be placed with a homosexual couple. |
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Tomorrow is the beginning of Poverty & Homelessness Week (31st Jan – 8th Feb) incorporating Homelessness Sunday on 1st February. |
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The Children’s Secretary, Ed Balls, is suggesting that binge drinking – not bad policy – may be responsible for the rise in teenage pregnancies. |
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Channel 4’s Christianity, A History series has been labelled “facile, inaccurate and badly researched” by a London vicar. |
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In one of his first acts as President, Barack Obama has lifted a ban on federal funding for international abortion groups. |
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Turning our backs on marriage will deprive children of stability and teach them to be selfish, says shadow families secretary Michael Gove. |
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A new booklet from the Scottish Government telling schools to promote ‘gay rights’ has prompted concern that parents will be denied a say in what their children learn. |
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A majority of church-going Christians in the UK believe that religious liberty is at risk, a new poll shows. They also think more Christians should engage with politics. |
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n our last Prayer Focus Update we asked for prayer for the Bangladesh elections on 29 December, specifically that the Islamic parties that had pledged to enact a blasphemy law would not gain the power to do so. |
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The Eritrean government has renewed its campaign for the eradication of a network of churches that operates many schools and orphanages and has been active in development work. This is part of a much larger attack on Christians in and around the capital, Asmara. |
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On 16 January more than a dozen officers from the Chinese government's Public Security Bureau (PSB) escorted Pastor "Bike" Zhang Mingxuan from the home of another pastor in Beijing and put him on a bus to Henan province. |
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An upsurge in violence by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is blighting a wide area of central Africa, comprising parts of South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). |
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Despite vigorous protests by human rights campaigners and many faith groups, in January President Kurmanbek Bakiev signed a restrictive new Religion Law. |
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On 14 January a group of 70 Muslims broke into Christian homes in the village of Kot Lakha Singh, Punjab, beating eight Christians. |
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It's heartwarming to note how God is using a Seattle-based shoe-shine entrepreneur, Leon McLaughlin, to bring succor to lots of world's poor in Bolivia in partnership with World Vision. |
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An anti-conversion bill that is making its way through Sri Lanka's parliament could be used to justify discrimination against the country's small Christian minority. |
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The crew onboard the Africa Mercy, the world's largest non-governmental hospital ship is busy preparing to set sail this weekend on a marathon 9 day voyage to Benin in West Africa, which will include taking a wide detour to avoid pirates. |
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The Christian thinker, Francis Schaeffer, once said, concerning Christianity and the arts, "The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars." |
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A 91-year-old persecuted and dying Chinese Christian, Hua Zaichen, whom authorities have repeatedly denied a final meeting with his imprisoned wife, Shuang Shuying 79, was hospitalized on Jan. 28. |
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Sri Lanka's Parliament is expected to pass the country's first anti-conversion law next month. The proposed legislation, titled "Bill for Prohibition of Forcible Conversions," was presented a second time to members of Parliament in January. It is expected to easily pass when it is presented for a vote in February. |
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In an apparent attempt to influence court proceedings, a huge Muslim mob gathered outside a court in Rawalpindi on Friday, January 30, as it heard the case of Hector Aleem, a Christian activist, who was arrested on January 22 under Pakistan’s most abused blasphemy laws. |
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Authorities in Saudi Arabia have detained a 28-year-old blogger, Hamoud Bin Saleh, for publicly writing about his conversion from Islam to Christianity on his website. |
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A delegation of Baptists met with the head of a government committee on religion in Azerbaijan in January to discuss recent human rights abuses and restrictions on religious liberty. |
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The audience of 120 doctors from 50 countries sat in stunned silence as a renowned heart doctor produced evidence of how, after he had prayed for a patient who had died and was being prepared for the morgue, was brought back to life after prayer. |
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While currently docked in Santa Cruz, Tenerife, the clock is ticking for the crew of the world's largest non-governmental hospital ship, the Africa Mercy, to prepare the vessel for its next field service to Benin in West Africa. |
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After her arrest at Cairo's airport on Dec. 13 while attempting to flee anti-Christian hostilities in Egypt, convert Martha Samuel Makkar was granted bail on Jan. 24, but not before a judge took her aside and said he would like to kill her, according to her lawyer. |
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Events will be held throughout the UK tomorrow, January 27, in connection with Holocaust Memorial Day. |
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A rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army set fire to a church full of worshippers at a prayer vigil in the Congo. |
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People are dying of hunger in Zimbabwe. |
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UK crime figures were said to be on the increase as the financial crisis deepened. |
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Israel and Hamas both announced ceasefires, but the ceasefires appeared fragile and the Israeli army was still standing by at the Gaza border. |
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Britain is said to be facing national bankruptcy as confidence failed to return to the banking sector despite two massive Government rescue plans, and the financial crisis deepened. Around 2,500 people are being made redundant every day. |
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The Evangelical Alliance UK is sending President Barack Obama a new Bible after reports that one was mysteriously absent from his second swearing in. |
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The headline found at (www.timesonline.co.uk), in The Times of London grabs your attention:
"As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God."
The tagline is even more pointed: "Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa's biggest problem - the crushing passivity of the people's mindset."
What kind of atheist is this? Matthew Parris, Times writer, award-winning author, and former Member of Parliament, is not your typical atheist.
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Havering Council has blacklisted a Christian care home after accusations that a homosexual man was turned away because of his sexuality. |
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An MP well-known for his secularist views has launched a bid to change the 308-year-old Act of Settlement which may have implications for the established church. |
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A Roman Catholic fireman from Glasgow has won his legal battle against his bosses after he was punished for refusing to take part in a ‘gay pride’ march. |
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Reports that Coronation Street directors wanted to hide a cross during filming for a church wedding scene are the result of a misunderstanding, the soap’s bosses claim. |
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A parents’ group says it is “infuriated” by new Government plans to make sure families who educate their children at home are being monitored by local authorities. |
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Barack Obama has become the 44th President of the United States, but some Christians have expressed concerns about his policies on ‘gay rights’, abortion and embryo experiments. |
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A Dutch MP who compares the Koran with Mein Kampf and says there is a direct link between Islam and violence will be tried for hate crimes, a Dutch court has ruled. |
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A BBC drama lauded for its ‘realism’ has depicted a group of pro-life campaigners as violent extremists. |
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Three Christians incarcerated in military prisons for their faith have died in the past four months in Eritrea, the most recent on Friday Jan.16th of a 42-year-old man in solitary confinement. |
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The abandoned body of 36 year old Christian, Chourik Bagrad, was found in the east of the City of Mosul yesterday by the army. |
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It is not clear how many died in a report that Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army torched a church crowded with worshippers holding a prayer vigil in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
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Part of a prayer request from a missionary/scripture partnership movement asking for prayer for believers and churches who reach out cross-culturally in a growing fellowship. |
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As conflict in the Holy Land persists, believers in Israel and Palestinian areas can be found on both sides of the conflict. |
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A Christian bus driver refused to drive buses carrying the advertisement that declares ‘There's probably no God'. |
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Barack Obama and his family have been on the lookout for a church ever since the president-elect left Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in May, in the wake of the controversy sparked by his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. Obama said at the time his presence at the church had created a hardship for other members of the congregation. |
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BBC presenter Jeremy Vine has spoken about the difficulties he faces in openly discussing his Christian faith on air. |
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A senior black Anglican has said that the Church of England and the Anglican Communion should grasp the climate of change signalled by Barack Obama's ascendancy, using it to transform their own culture. |
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Church leaders in Doncaster prayed together for the town's children, after seven died from abuse or neglect. |
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The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Dr Rowan Williams and Dr John Sentamu, are encouraging families to share in simple acts of kindness together during this Lent. |
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Hope for my community - Leviticus 19:13-18 |
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Yesterday the king of Saudi Arabia announced that his country would give $1 billion in aid to Gaza. |
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Some of the stories from members of a ministry working in Central Africa could have come straight from the biblical book of Acts. |
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It is the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity" and, this evening, at St Mary's Church in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire we held a Healing Service. The Rector asked me to present a meditation which would bring together the theme of "healing" and the theme of the week: "Christian Unity". |
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It has been quite a journey for Hong Kong-born Johnny Li, who has gone from being a gangster with the infamous Triads to showing people around during a unique guided tour of Open Doors USA's Heritage Room emphasizing Open Doors' work in China. |
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Compass Direct News has reported that their sources have confirmed that Burmese authorities have increased restrictions on Christian activity in the capital city of Rangoon and surrounding areas, including the closure of several churches. |
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Three Christians incarcerated in military prisons for their faith have died in the past four months in Eritrea, including the Jan. 16 death of a 42-year-old man in solitary confinement, according to a Christian support organization. |
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A human rights group has learned that a missionary couple from the United Kingdom have been sentenced to one year of imprisonment with hard labor in the West African country of The Gambia. |
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All day, thousands of Gazans have been rushing back to their neighborhoods to see what is left after Israel's campaign of bombing and shelling. |
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A new survey shows that seven out of ten regular churchgoers would be at least somewhat open to switching denominations, with dramatic differences between Protestants and Roman Catholics. |
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Two Christian girls were forced to "convert" to Islam after they were allegedly raped by some four Muslim men. |
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A human rights group has learned that a young pastor who was kidnapped on Friday evening by unidentified men was found badly injured near the gate of Saint John's Cathedral Church on Sunday night in Peshawar, Pakistan. |
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More than 300 children have been killed and more than 1,500 wounded, since the beginning of the Gaza crisis on December 27, 2008[1]. |
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Muslims in a village in western Bangladesh have forced two brothers to expel their parents from their home for converting to Christianity. |
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A few weeks ago Times Online published a quite surprising article that relates to Africa's ongoing crises. |
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Dozens of churches around the world are planning to participate in a special mission's trip that involves bringing Christ and His message to a huge community where the Gospel is not the most popular subject. |
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The comfort zone for Christian believers in Germany is likely to come to an end, according to Hartmut Steeb, general secretary of the German Evangelical Alliance. |
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Hundreds of demonstrators have clashed with riot police in Latvia's capital, Riga, after an anti-government protest. |
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Nine Israeli human rights and aid organisations have released their findings on the situation in Gaza and called on the Israeli government to take urgent action to alleviate the dire humanitarian situation there. |
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Egypt and Hamas were negotiating a proposal for a 10-day cease-fire in Gaza, officials said Wednesday, as the Palestinian death toll in the war passed 1,000 and smoke from Israeli air strikes rose over Gaza City's devastated streets. |
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The church has been told it may have to speak out against racism if the recession triggers a wave of racist-based policies and even new race riots across Europe as governments attempt to steer their economies through the economic downturn. |
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‘Inmates at Long Lartin prison said some were 'becoming Muslim' because it is a 'bigger gang'. |
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The Archbishop of York called for Britain to use the credit crunch as a time to reassess its priorities as a country and to rediscover its vision as a nation. |
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A Labour MP has implied that faith groups should not be given public money to carry out work for the Government if they only employ staff who share their beliefs. |
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Government plans to legalise oral sex for children as young as 13 should be scrapped, an influential committee of MSPs says in a report published today. |
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A group of MPs has signalled their opposition to atheist bus ads which claim, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” |
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The European Parliament has passed a resolution which calls for abortion rights and ‘gay marriage’ to be promoted throughout the EU. |
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A Christian radio show host has been dumped following a debate between a Muslim and a Christian on whether Jesus is “the way, the truth and the life”. |
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Oh, oh, Mexico, Sounds so simple, I just wanna go . . . " |
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Israel and Hamas are both claiming victory in the 22-day conflict in the Gaza Strip that left more than 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead. |
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A Christian bus driver has refused to drive a bus with an atheist slogan proclaiming "There's probably no God." |
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Israel has begun a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza, three weeks after launching a full-scale assault against Hamas. |
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The Federal Minister for Minorities, Mr. Shahbaz Bhatti, has said that Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws 'will be abolished.' |
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A serious crackdown on churches in Rangoon, the former capital of Burma, is taking place with local authorities in the city ordering at least 100 churches to stop holding worship services, according to the Mizzima new agency. |
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Open Doors estimates that 200 million Christians worldwide face interrogation, arrest or death for their faith in Christ, with another 200 to 400 million facing discrimination and alienation. |
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The death toll from cholera in Zimbabwe continues to rise, reaching 1,822 last week, the World Health Association reported. |
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Death toll rising in Gaza |
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With concerns that the current financial crisis could trigger a wave of racist-based policies and even new race riots across Europe the church has been challenged to speak out against racism. |
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Dozens of churches around the world are planning to participate in a special missions trip that involves bringing Christ and His message to a huge community where the Gospel is not the most popular subject. |
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An appeal for peace in war-torn Gaza has been issued by the leadership of the World Evangelical Alliance. |
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The Scottish Government is moving ahead with plans to water down Scotland's age of consent law. |
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The German business tycoon Adolf Merckle, who tragically took his life after seeing his business empire crumble, was an evangelical Christian. |
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Gospel for Asia missionary Yashpal Bhuta Masih was arrested Monday, January 5, in Madhya Pradesh, India. The police charged him with attempting to force three people to convert to Chrisianity. |
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For more than a week, as bombs have fallen in Gaza and Israel tragically taking innocent lives, Christian Television service SAT-7 has encouraged its viewers to pray for peace. |
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With the first week of the New Year already dealing some heavy blows to the UK business world, the Church of England has published prayers to comfort people affected by redundancy. |
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Christian Solidarity Worldwide says the recent rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl demonstrates the ‘culture of impunity’ reigning throughout Burma’s military regime. |
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On January 14th, the 102nd anniversary of the Great Pyongyang Revival, the most important Christian revival in Korean history, Christians around the globe are being encouraged to intercede and fast for a spiritual breakthrough in North Korea. |
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With the International Red Cross warning of a ‘full-blown’ humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Bible Societies in the Holy Land have appealed to Christians to pray and support those caught up in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. |
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 660 Palestinians have been killed since 27 December, including 176 children and 86 women; 2,950 have been injured, of whom 40 percent are children and 18 percent women. |
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The mother of a baby girl who survived after being born at 23 weeks – one week below the legal time limit for abortion – says her daughter is “living proof” that the law needs updating. |
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New legislation introduced in Norway will make it illegal to pay for sex in a bid to stamp out human trafficking and exploitation. |
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As the UK faces desperate times in the midst of the financial crisis, the new General Director of the Evangelical Alliance has spoken of the "wonderful opportunities" for spreading the hope of the Gospel. |
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"The Supreme Court of India's 'Quit if you can't protect the minorities' admonition to the Government of Orissa seems not to be taken too seriously by the Biju Janata Dal- Bharatiya Janata Party Coalition ministry in Bhubaneswar and the police headquarters in Cuttack." |
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Baptist leaders have issued a formal response to "A Common Word Between Us and You," a letter written by 138 Muslim leaders and scholars that appealed for Christians and Muslims to cooperate in engendering peace and religious freedom. |
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Gospel for Asia missionary Nebu Sein was arrested on Christmas Eve as he celebrated the holiday with several people from his congregation. Nebu was taken to the police station and later released. He has since been forced to leave Himachal Pradesh, where he had been ministering to the brickworkers who live in his area. |
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Additional information has just been received regarding the 50 House Church Christians arrested on December 3, 2008 in Zhoukou township of Taikang county, Henan Province. |
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Describing the chaotic situation in Gaza, one church leader told Open Doors Ministry that while everyone suffers he feels especially bad for the children, who are especially affected. |
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"As atheist adverts hit the British nation's buses on Tuesday, one faith-based think tank says they will only get people thinking more about God." |
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In a white paper Families in Britain, the Government has finally admitted that married parents provide a better environment for children than live-in partnerships, and stay together on average more than twice as long. |
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Five Anglican bishops called into question the morality of Labour policy. |
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The Government has admitted that children brought up within a marriage setting are better off than children brought up in cohabiting or single parent families. |
Pope Benedict has hit out against destructive experiments on human embryos and called for more work to be done in the ethical field of adult stem cells.
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Teenage pregnancy rates in England and Wales have gone up, suggesting that a decade of Government initiatives like free condoms and more sex education have not helped. |
Leaders of the Church of England will debate whether enough is being done to preach the Gospel to Muslims.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has used his Christmas address to speak out against abortion and emphasise the human value of the unborn child.
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If children ruled the world the first thing they would do is ban divorce, a new survey of under-10s shows. |
Threatening to fire a Christian registrar who asked to be exempt from registering homosexual civil partnerships was not an act of discrimination by Islington Council, a court has decided.
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The Dutch are rethinking their famously liberal polices on legalised brothels, prostitution and soft drugs, such as magic mushrooms and cannabis, amid fears of growing crime and social decline. |
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A poll conducted among the Israeli public revealed nearly two-thirds reject the plan put forward by the Arab League in 2002. |
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Eight years ago over 500 Hmong Christians joined thousands of others fleeing persecution in Vietnam’s northwest provinces. |
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Urgent prayer is needed for Bangladesh as they face potentially divisive national elections on December 29. |
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A missionary couple due to appear in a Gambian court on sedition charges had their case adjourned until 24th December. |
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God can mend all of the social problems afflicting Britain, but it might not necessarily happen in the way some people expect, says the Archbishop of Canterbury. |
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The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland has called on people to value all children and do their part to nurture a wholesome family life. |
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The dropping value of the pound against the Euro must not be used as an excuse for governments to neglect their promises to the poor, said Micah Challenge’s new International Director. |
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he is “totally against” assisted suicide and euthanasia despite plans by his Government to “simplify and modernise” current laws. |
The multi-million pound Government strategy to curb teenage pregnancy is failing according to figures which reveal 21 girls under 16 fall pregnant every day.
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A Brighton care home for elderly Christians has lost thousands of pounds of funding from the local council because of its religious beliefs on homosexuality. |
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A stay of execution against faith-based adoption agencies ran out on New Year’s Day, with opponents claiming they must bow to ‘gay rights’ laws or face crippling legal action. |
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As an estimated 10,000 Israeli ground troops invaded Gaza today (Jan.3), the small community of Christians in the area are drawing strength from their faith in God. Last week's attacks left more than 400 dead and 2,000 injured and the numbers are expected to dramatically increase. |
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Uganda's army is accusing rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army of hacking to death 45 civilians in a Catholic church in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
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ChinaAid has reported to ANS that the Chinese government has targeted Christians in Henan province, Anhui province, and Xinjiang Autonomous Region between December 21 and December 24. |
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The Walt Disney Company and Walden Media confirmed Tuesday that Disney will not finance any more NARNIA movies, because of budgetary reasons. |
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A Roman Catholic priest has been criticized by parents in a city in northern Italy for telling their children that Father Christmas does not really exist. |
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An African Baptist leader is asking Christians to pray for their brothers and sisters in Christ following the deaths of at least 12 Nigerian Baptists who were killed and five Baptist churches burned during riots sparked by local election results in November. |
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Police, real estate developers, and government officials from Yancheng city, Jiangsu province, together with nearly a thousand unidentified people, forcibly demolished the Chengnan Christian Church of Tinghu District, on the morning of December 17, 2008. |
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Ingrid Betancourt, the French Colombian Presidential political candidate who was held captive by FARC guerillas for more than six years, recently reflected on her captivity and the role that her faith played in helping her to cope. |
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A new survey in the United Kingdom suggest the majority of Britons do not believe in the Biblical story of the birth of Jesus. |
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Martha Samuel, an Egyptian Muslim who converted to Christianity five years ago, was arrested at Cairo airport on Wednesday as she, her husband and two sons (four and two years old) were leaving for Russia. Her name was on a list of people prohibited from leaving the country. |
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A human rights group is reporting that a powerful Muslim village elder and his nephews evicted about 30 impoverished Christian families from their homes in order to make way for a stable for their livestock. |
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A historic missions conference in Irpen, Ukraine had such an overwhelming response that people had to be turned away from participating in the two-day Forum, with more than 220 people from 20 different countries in attendance, including Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Germany, USA, UK and Australia. |
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Right wing Hindu organizations in Orissa confirmed they will hold a bandh (strike) on Christmas Day triggering fears of further anti-Christian violence. Separately, politicians held hearings in Washington, D.C. and London about extremism and violence in India. And a European Union delegation conducted a fact finding trip to Orissa from Dec. 9-12, 2008 |
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Fears are continuing to escalate in Orissa state, India, over the possibility of further anti-Christian violence taking place on Christmas Day. |
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Buddhist clerics and local council officials are holding 13 newly converted Christians captive in a pagoda in a southeastern mountainous district of Bangladesh in an attempt to forcibly return them to Buddhism. |
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More than 40 Christians were detained at a Christian leaders' gathering in Taoling village, Pushan town, Nanyang city, Henan Province on December 16, 2008. |
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A new survey recently showed that 70% of people in Great Britain doubted the biblical account of the birth of Jesus Christ but they are "gravely mistaken," says Dr. Ted Baehr, a professional scholar and theologian who founded The Christian Film & Television Commission® ministry in 1985. |
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People with leprosy in West Bengal, India, are isolated in a community of tiny mud huts without water or electricity. |
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More than a third of Britons believe in the virgin birth and 72 per cent of Britons still see the birth of Jesus as a significant part of our culture, according to a poll by theology think tank Theos. |
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Mediawatch-uk has organised an online petition to the Prime Minister requesting action about bad language on television. |
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Floods in Santa Catarina, Brazil, have left 80,000 homeless and more than 100 dead. |
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Increased persecution of Christians continues in China. |
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An estimated 50,000 people are now living in forests, jungles and refugee camps as a result of anti-Christian violence by Hindu extremists in the Indian state of Orissa. |
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The financial crisis and rising food prices have pushed 40 million more people into chronic hunger this year. |
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Three children a week, some of them already on the child protection register, are dying of abuse or neglect at the hands of parents or guardians, Ofsted officials told MPs. |
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TheCall, a growing movement that seeks God’s mercy and spiritual revival through prayer and fasting, held an eight-hour long mass prayer event attended by thousands of African prayer warriors on Saturday in Nairobi. |
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Eastbourne-based organisation Revival has been publishing its International Daily Prayer Bulletin for 35 years. |
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With a little more than two weeks until Christmas Christians in India are bracing for more violence, particularly in the state of Orissa where homes and churches have been destroyed and thousands made homeless. |
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In a statement to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Wednesday, the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe has called on churches to work to defend religious freedom as a fundamental human right. |
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Christian groups that work in war torn Iraq are crying out for targeted prayer against a genocidal attack on Iraqi Christians. Open Doors, USA’s Iraq country coordinator said 10,000 Christians have left Mosul because of the escalating terrorism specifically targeting Christians. |
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Efforts by the UK government to tackle corruption at home and abroad must take on a new urgency if its championing of legitimate business practices is to remain credible, says Christian Aid. Corruption takes money out of the pockets of the poor, and reduces their access to essential public services such as health and education by undermining economic development. |
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Hundreds of children have disappeared from council care homes without a trace during the past 10 years, a damning report into the plight of child 'runaways' has found. A survey of 172 local authorities in England and Wales who care for 28,000 children found between 376 and 389 young people were missing and councils did not know where they were. |
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The UK Government tried to defend Austria’s decision not to give legal recognition to homosexual partnerships, it has emerged. |
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The Head of State in Luxembourg is set to lose his power to veto legislation after he said he would not sign a law allowing euthanasia. |
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Most Britons say the birth of Jesus Christ is important to them personally and will celebrate Christmas as a religious festival this year, according to a new poll. |
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The case of Lillian Ladele, the Christian registrar who faced the sack because of her religious beliefs on marriage, has been heard by the Employment Appeal Tribunal. |
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A leading children’s dictionary has ditched words relating to Christianity to make space for new terms like “MP3 player” and “Euro”. |
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Two Gospel for Asia missionaries, one in Bhutan and one in India, need prayer today. One is in the hospital after an accident, and the other is facing opposition from police. |
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Compass Direct News has reported that the murderous rioting sparked by Muslim attacks on Christians and their property on Nov. 28-29 left six pastors dead, at least 500 other people killed and 40 churches destroyed, according to church leaders. |
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Four Christians are missing and many more have been persecuted in Hubei province during the month of November 2008 according to the South China Church house church network. |
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Thousands of Muslims, who were angered by Copts celebrating mass in the Zagazig Diocese's Hospitality Hall on Wednesday, December 10, gathered in the village of Kafr Farag Guirgis, in an attempt to attack the building. |
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Africa's largest Christian grouping, the All Africa Conference of Churches, has pledged to "pray for an end to illegitimate rule in Zimbabwe" after debating and toning down a statement about the country on the doorstep of Mozambique, where they have been meeting - writes Frank Jomo for Ecumenical News International (ENI). |
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Four GFA Bible college students have been released from jail in Karnataka, India. The four men, all students at GFA's Karnataka Bible college, had been attacked and brutally beaten before being charged with forcing people to convert to Christianity. They were arrested in late November. |
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The world's eyes have been focused on Mumbai, India, during the last few weeks. The news was filled with frightening images of the carnage from a well-planned terrorist attack in which nearly 200 people died. But the attacks in Mumbai aren't the only terroristic activities occurring in India-they are just the most reported. |
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In recent months Chinese officials have attempted to build bridges with the Protestant house church movement even as police raided more unregistered congregations, arrested Christian leaders and forced at least 400 college students to swear they would stop attending such worship services. |
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Gospel for Asia President K.P. Yohannan lamented the terrorist attacks on India's financial capital of Mumbai that have left some 80 people dead and more than 200 wounded, saying he has serious questions about who was behind the bloodshed. |
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Around 33.2 million people across the world are currently living with HIV. Of these, 22.5 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Ministry staff at Hopegivers International www.hopegivers.org are requesting urgent prayer for Dr. M.A. Thomas, founder of Hopegivers International. |
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said he will use ‘every legal means’ to block plans by the opposition to topple his minority government. In a televised address, Mr Harper said that a coalition government backed by ‘separatists’ would not help Canada in the face of a global economic crisis. |
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Mosul is al-Qaida's last major urban stronghold and a flashpoint along the Kurdish-Arab divide. |
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A Muslim programme against Christians erupted in Jos central Nigeria last weekend after reports of Christian-dominated People's Democratic Party winning the council elections, defeating the Muslim, pro-Sharia All Nigeria Peoples Party. |
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Russian Ministries is urgently appealing for Christians around the world to support an ambitious Christmas project that aims to impact 30,000 children across the former Soviet Union. |
The head of a leading abortion provider has admitted that the embryo is a human life but says its value is “relative” to the wishes of its mother.
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Officials working with families and children are missing the positive effect of religion on family life and parenting, a new report says.
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Parents have expressed outrage after a school cancelled a Christmas nativity play in favour of Muslim Eid celebrations. |
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God wants to answer prayer. But we need to pray. |
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You do not have because you do not ask. Jas 4:2. |
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Talks on power sharing in Zimbabwe between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have failed. |
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Christianity continues to be under attack in the West. Canon Alan Nugent, subdean of Lincoln Cathedral, said attempts are being made in Britain to relegate Christianity to ‘the border of irrelevance.’ |
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Violence against Christians in India orchestrated by Hindu militants is said to have spread to 14 states. |
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Gospel for Asia missionary N. Chauhan has escaped from his abductors after spending a day in captivity and torture. GFA President K.P. Yohannan thanks Christians everywhere for their prayers for Chauhan's safe release. |
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An anti-Christian extremist group has physically forced a church building and a Bridge of Hope center to close down in Uttar Pradesh, India. The leader of the radical organization plans to replace the church building-where a Gospel for Asia missionary serves as pastor-with a Hindu temple. |
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Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in central Nigeria after Christians and Muslims clashed over the result of a local election. |
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In what they believe is targeted state action against them, two Baptist congregations in the regional center of Lipetsk (approximately 400km south-east of Moscow) have lost their legal status and a third has lost its rented prayer house. |
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Merced, California, is a city with problems. With a population of more than 80,000, the majority Hispanic, the city's longtime reputation as "the gateway to Yosemite" has been replaced with the unofficial moniker "Foreclosure Capital of America." |
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Despite the current credit crunch, Russian Ministries has set an ambitious target to provide 30,000 Gifts of Hope for street children in the former Soviet Union this Christmas. |
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A 40-year-old Christian, Gulshare Masih, and his 19-year-old daughter Sandal from the village of Gojra near Faisalabad, were taken into police custody on 12 October after an enraged Muslim mob falsely accused them of desecrating the Qur'an. |
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After a wave of violence hit the Christian community of Mosul in October, during which at least 14 Christians were killed (see PFU November 08), families started to return to the city when the police presence was increased massively and the government repeatedly assured Christians that it was safe to come back. However on Wednesday 12 November, two Christian sisters, Lamyaa and Walaa Sabih (both in their forties), were stabbed to death in their house in the Alqahira residential area. |
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Both Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are looking to introduce new and harsher laws on religion, restricting freedom of conscience, worship and religion. |
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From 14 November to 24 December, state assembly elections are being held in six Indian states, including Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Mizoram. |
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Eritrea's government has launched a fresh crackdown on Christians... |
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Urgent prayer is needed for Kyrgyzstan after the country's parliament unanimously passed legislation on November 6 to strengthen government control over religious groups. |
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On 25 October the Palestinian Muslim columnist, Abd Al-Nasser Al-Najjar, wrote a column for the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam, focussing on persecution of Christians in Arab countries. |
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Three Christian parties in the Netherlands have launched a campaign to secure millions of Euros to pay for religious education in public schools. |
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A crowd of Muslims estimated at 20,000 strong stormed the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in West Ain Shams, Cairo because of an extension that was added. |
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A cry from Zimbabwe via email to our office: 'Terrible things are taking place here caused by the communist thugs ruling this place... |
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Laws to prevent forced marriages and protect those who have already fallen victim have been introduced in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. |
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Harriet Harman, the minister for women, urged the group to act in a bid to cut out trafficking in women for the sex trade. A spokeswoman for the WI, which has more than 200,000 members across the country, told Radio 5 Live, members would be encouraged to look out for adverts and write letters of complaint to editors if they found them. |
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In October, the yearly meeting with Christian Leaders from many mainline denominations, was held by the First Minister and Government Minister, Fergus Ewing, in the Scottish Parliament. |
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As the foundations of our society continue to be shaken and world events bring challenges, we need to stand firm in the sure knowledge that Jesus is Lord. |
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All Dalit Freedom Network (DFN) partners with Operation Mobilization (OM) India and their colleagues are safe after a night of terrorist attacks in the city of Mumbai on India's west coast left at least 110 dead and about 300 injured. |
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Tension has continued to rise among Christians in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq over the recent murder of two Christian sisters. |
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Gunmen have carried out a series of co-ordinated attacks across the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay), killing at least 80 people and injuring 250 more. |
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During November we have been praying concerning - |
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Many children across America may not realize that not every child around the world gets brightly-wrapped gifts at Christmas. |
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With open ears and open minds, crowds of thousands attended 'The STAND' on November 8th at the NEC Arena in Birmingham, England. |
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Does this time of the year become significantly meaningful for you and your family? In the Old Testament we read: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord; . . .'." (Isaiah 40:3 NKJV). Ready or not, Christmas will soon be here. |
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A Chinese House Church leader is in trouble with Chinese authorities for giving out free silicon prayer bands that remind people to 'Bless China.' |
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MEMO, a ministry dedicated to spreading the Good News on public transport networks in the UK for 125 years, has launched a new advertising campaign on London buses reassuring commuters of God's comfort in the midst of the global credit crunch. |
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In the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh a small but dedicated team of Youth With A Mission workers is tackling extreme poverty head on through their vital work. |
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Authorities in Lao Cai Province in Vietnam's far north are pressuring new Christians among the Hmong minority to recant their faith and to re-establish ancestral altars, according to area church leaders, in violation of Vietnam's new religion policy. |
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A month after thousands of Christians fled the northern Iraqi city in terror, many of the refugees have returned home, but church leaders say that some fear a new wave of sectarian violence. |
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Christians in the Middle East have been facing much discrimination, harassment and persecution in recent years, and very often the perpetrators are members of the Muslim majority. |
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In an effort to rid the streets of the Philippines of destitute children, the Church of Foursquare Gospel in the Philippines is helping to feed over three hundred street children weekly. |
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Tension is rising in the northern Nigerian town of Yelwa, Bauchi State after two churches were attacked and destroyed within a three-day period. |
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This Christmas season, as you are roasting chestnuts by an open fire and Jack Frost is nipping at your nose, how would you like to have some Yuletide carols ringing on your cell phone and help an orphanage in Mexico at time same time? |
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Wycliffe Bible Translators, the world's largest Bible translation organization, is to launch a major 17-year project to translate the Bible into the last remaining languages. |
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As many Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Advent and Christmas, they are being invited to pray for justice, peace and security for Palestine and Israel - and to send a prayer or a peace message to Bethlehem. |
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An enormous donation to the world's largest Bible translation organisation has enabled Wycliffe Bible Translators to launch a major 17-year project to translate the Bible into the last remaining languages. |
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In prison at the age of 14 for having fatally stabbed her uncle in northern Iraq, Maria's early release on Nov. 10 thanks to a juvenile court decision, was overshadowed by fear of retaliation from her extended Muslim family. |
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Hundreds of General Laurent Nkunda's Tutsi rebel fighters pulled back on Wednesday from frontline positions in a move U.N. peacekeepers hoped would open the way for talks to end weeks of conflict in east Congo. |
Hundreds of homosexual activists attacked a group of Christians who were singing songs and praying with people in San Francisco's 'gay' Castro District.
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India's Prime Minister has hit out at Hindu groups that claim Christianity is a foreign religion by hailing it as part of the country's heritage. |
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People are being offered rewards to kill, and destroy churches and Christian properties,' a spokesman for the All India Christian Council (AICC) said. |
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Protestant churches from across Europe have identified social exclusion as their greatest challenge in a new survey. |
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Attempts are now being made in Britain to relegate Christianity to the 'border of irrelevance', according to a cathedral chief. |
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One in four children with a religious belief is bullied at school as a result of their faith, research shows. |
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There is no prodigal beyond the Father's reach. |
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Fighting between Congolese government troops and rebels under the renegade General Laurent Nkunda in the province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo is continuing (see the previous article). In Goma and its surrounding areas alone, around 610,000 people have been recently displaced, and an unknown number, estimated to be in the thousands, are still without access to emergency aid as they continue to wander from one place to another, trying to escape the ongoing violence. Several cases of cholera have now been confirmed, and living conditions in the refugee camps are dire. |
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According to the Associated Press (www.ap.org), a high-ranking Vatican official says Pope Benedict XVI is considering introducing a change to the Mass liturgy. |
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complaint about song lyrics urging listeners to “kill the Christian” was ignored by the same Canadian human rights chief that fined and gagged a pastor for his views on homosexuality. |
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The laws on prostitution and lap-dancing clubs are to be tightened up but the Government has stopped short of a universal ban on buying sex. |
One in four children faces bullying over their religious beliefs, according to an anti-bullying charity.
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A man shot and killed his estranged wife in a Clifton, New Jersey church just before noon Sunday, and opened fire on two other people before fleeing in a Jeep, police said. |
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An Islamic extremist who grew hating everything about Christianity has now written a book about his conversion. |
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Churches across Britain are being encouraged to mark this year's World Aids Day, and an Asian worship service is being distributed for use in local congregations. The liturgy is endorsed by the Christian Conference of Asia. |
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The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) was observed in Pakistani city of Lahore on Nov. 9. |
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What if you didn't have the money to pay your utility bill, and the city said "Get out!" |
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Two of the anti Christian extremist groups responsible for the violence against Christians in Orissa India are demanding that the state government ban Christian witnessing and officially honor their murdered leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati. |
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The Lote pronounced LO tay New Testament will soon be available for the first time in the mother tongue of the 6000 Lote speakers who live in scattered remote villages on the south coast of East New Britain Papua New Guinea. |
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The Lote pronounced LO tay New Testament will soon be available for the first time in the mother tongue of the 6000 Lote speakers who live in scattered remote villages on the south coast of East New Britain Papua New Guinea. |
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150,000 hear World Evangelists at Festivals while Thousands are Served through Major Service Effort |
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Al Qaeda Taliban jihadists already control most of Pakistans northern Federally Administered Tribal Areas FATA that border Afghanistan. |
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Pratul Tanka was surrounded with people who loved Jesus his wife Seema and his parents. |
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Two prayer projects are being launched by Protestant churches in Germany. |
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A Christian bishop has received a threatening letter written by Ansar al-Islam, a Kurdish Muslim group affiliated with al-Qaeda in Iraq. |
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A juvenile court's decision to release a teenage Iraqi girl for fatally stabbing her uncle is being overshadowed by fear of retaliation from Muslim family members. |
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Pastor Paul Bulenzi, founder of Beam of Hope for the Disadvantaged (BEHOD) based in Jinja, Uganda, relies on donations and volunteers to keep his mission operating. A patient man by nature, he waited five months for a shipment of computers donated by a college in Netherlands, to arrive safely. |
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Ekram and Surekha worried constantly about their five-year-old son, Santhosh. |
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Advent - the joyful time of the year when Christians around the world prepare their hearts and minds for the Savior's birth. |
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If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chron 7:14. |
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Sixty-five members of house churches in Eritrea are reported to have been arrested in recent weeks. |
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Christians may now outnumber Communists in China. |
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Julian Bellamy, head of Channel 4, refused to stop widespread use of obscene language on Channel 4 TV programmes. |
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Lao officials have released three prisoners from Boukham village, Savannakhet province, after several weeks of detention, but restrictions on Christian worship in the village are still in force, says a news report from Compass News Direct. |
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International journalist and author Dan Wooding was in Jordan recently to report on the many Biblical sites in that country and took time out to interview two of the leaders of World Vision Jordan and also see two of their projects. |
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What do you get when you put a Mohawk singer, Tlingit drummer, and an Italian musiciantogether and bring along a sound tech, a farmer, a school teacher, a nurse, amailman, a corporate gal, a social worker, and a writer? You get a great band and a ministry team thatjust completed the most successful ministry journey to South Dakota prisons and reservations. |
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Online care package provider Treats for Troops has teamed up with chaplains and officers from deployed units serving our country to get packages and messages of support into the hands of soldiers who seldom receive mail from home. |
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Over the last year, I've been attending graduate school and looking at research on the effect a child with a disability has on marital and family stability. |
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Missionaries News Service (MNS) chief videographer, Clayton Metcalfe, was baptized on Thursday, November 13, 2008, in the River Jordan, close to where the Savior was baptized by John the Baptist more than 2,000 years ago. |
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Gospel for Asia missionary Kushal was on his way to visit someone who had just been released from the hospital. The recovering man was a distant relative-and an alcoholic witch doctor who had always refused to listen to his missionary relative's message. |
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A council has maintained its decision to ban a couple from adopting a baby girl after a high court ruling urged it to reconsider. |
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Prince Charles will embrace ‘multiculturalism’ when he becomes King by dropping “the” from the historic title “Defender of the Faith”, press reports say. |
Plans are afoot to turn a controversial ‘gay play’ aimed at children as young as eleven into a DVD to be distributed to every school in the country.
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Iraqi Christians who returned to Mosul after fleeing a wave of violence and intimidation are in fear and panic after two sisters were killed when attackers broke into their home in the Alqahira residential area of the northern city of Mosul. |
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On Tuesday the BBC highlighted the journey to school of two brothers Mohammed aged 8, and Amjad 12, living in Hebron. |
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Church leaders from Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have set out to meet the presidents of the latter two countries in order to deliver a strong message in favour of peace. |
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The Group of 20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, which brings together major industrialised and developing economies, meets in Melbourne on November 18 and 19. |
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Every month, over a thousand young men are sent to prison. |
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Since July 2008, Albuquerque-based Faith Comes By Hearing, an audio Bible ministry, has sent more than 7,600 audio New Testament listening devices to military chaplains around the world. |
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The UN has no more food to distribute in the Gaza Strip, the head of relief efforts in the area has warned. |
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Denouncing what they called a "master plan" to wipe out Christianity, the bishops of India's troubled Orissa region have written a letter to the state's Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik concerning the persecution of Christians at the hands of Hindu extremists. |
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Despite living in the Orissa district hit hardest by the recent persecution against Christians, five new believers recently chose to publicly testify of their faith in Christ. |
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Mercy Ships Founder/ President, Don Stephens said in Texas on Monday that he was confident that Mercy Ships operation would not be adversely affected in the short term by the Global Financial Crisis. He is however concerned about what affect the Crisis could have on developing nations where Mercy Ships operate. |
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Look around...everywhere you go, people are on their cell phones, chatting with others, playing video games and texting their friends. |
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-- It is amazing what the Lord is doing among the Dalit people group in India, who after centuries of being in bondage, are now finding acceptance with God and realizing their worth and feeling hope for their future for the very first time. |
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There is something unobtrusive about New Mexico: even the most treasured people are approachable. |
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A Pakistani court has acquitted a homeopathic doctor who was accused of passing derogatory remarks against the beard of Prophet Muhammad in May this year. |
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Hundreds of Thousands of Brazilian Christians reached out to friends and neighbors during "My Hope World Evangelism Through Television" project, November 6-8, according to a late report from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA). |
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Tuberculosis had shattered Samata Hemang's life. Her husband, Redit, had spent as much as he could to get her treatment. But she wasn't getting better. |
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MADHYA PRADESH (ANS) -- Gospel for Asia missionary Rosha Mina was so excited! His congregation would soon have a new church building in which to worship Jesus. Their hopes for a new church home were dashed on November 4 when a local government official issued a stay order, halting all construction work on the new church building in Madhya Pradesh, India. |
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ON LOCATION IN AMMAN, JORDAN (ANS) -- The Presentation of the Lord Greek Orthodox Church in Amman, Jordan takes seriously the Biblical command to help the poor -- regardless of who they are. |
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JORDAN (ANS) -- Jordan is a small country, slightly smaller than Indiana in the United States, with a population of around 6 million, but for the Christians of the world, it is has a goldmine of Biblical sites. |
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BREMEN (ANS) -- The synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) has called for a change in lifestyle to counter climate change and preserve creation. |
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PETIONVILLE, HAITI (ANS) -- As the search for survivor's in Haiti's worst building collapse in recent memory, hope grows dim for finding any more alive. This horrific event is a reminder that Haiti's political and economic stability is very fragile. |
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Baptists have been among the victims of a recent wave of bombings in north-east India, according to the Baptist Times. |
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Pope Benedict XVI will pray for Barack Obama, say a number of news sources. |
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BEIJING, CHINA (ANS) -- Pastor "Bike" Zhang Mingxuan, his wife and his wife's sister were declared "free" by government officials on October 27, 2008 at 1 p.m. in Nanyang, Henan province as a direct result of international outcry on their behalf. |
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EAGAN, MN (ANS) -- According to the Casey Journalism Center on Children, 13 million American children live in families with incomes below federal poverty levels. |
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MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA (ANS) -- Gospel for Asia missionary Rosha Mina was so excited! His congregation would soon have a new church building in which to worship Jesus. |
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Drug abuse in Britain continues to be the highest in Europe for the fifth consecutive year. |
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A Christian couple who told social workers they had the right to smack their adopted son have won the right to a re-hearing in a bid to adopt his sister, aged two. |
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The case against three Christian leaders accused of blasphemy was dismissed on 29 October by a court in Ain Turk, Algeria. |
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Christians in Colombia are anxious to learn the fate of pastor William Reyes, missing since September 25th. |
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‘This has been a religious genocide according to the UN definition of genocide where persistently and systematically it is planned and not stopped, maintains Ramesh Landge, founder and director of Cooperative Outreach of India (COI). |
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Lebanon's rival political leaders met on Wednesday for a second round of talks on lingering disputes but no breakthrough was made given deep-seated differences over Hizbullah's weapons and the diverse dialogues of participants. |
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The 15-week conflict last year between the army and Fatah Islam insurgents levelled the old camp Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon. |
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More than 200 Karen villagers have been forcibly displaced and three others have been killed along with a Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) soldier, following attacks by the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) and the Burma Army in Dooplaya District, Southern Karen State, reports Christian Solidarity Worldwide. |
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America s a nation fragmented by abortion, gay marriage, global warming, failed economy and unpopular war, but Jesus Christ is still on the throne. |
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The president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) Dr Goodwill Shana is inviting Christians to collectively seek God's face on behalf of the land, at Harare Agricultural show ground on 12th November. |
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A quarter of a million people are believed to have been displaced in Congo during fighting between government soldiers and rebel forces. |
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Thousands of people will gather at Birmingham’s NEC arena next Saturday, November 8, in a rally designed to increase concern for the issue of slavery. |
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Farmers in Zimbabwe's Midlands province are being given a desperately needed helping hand by the UK's Christian Aid organisation, which has released emergency funds to provide seeds and conservation farming tuition to farmers for a year. |
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Thank you very much for your prayers for two Iranian Christian converts, Mahmood Matin-Azad and Arash Basirat, who were arrested on 15 May and charged with apostasy from Islam. |
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The case against three Christian leaders accused of “blasphemy” was dismissed on 29 October by a court in Ain Turk, Algeria. |
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Seven believers from a church in Tashkent were imprisoned for 15 days on 10 October for allegedly violating two articles of Uzbekistan’s Administrative Code, including the Law on Religion. Five others were fined. |
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A 22-year-old Somali Christian convert from Islam, Ahmadey Osman Nur, was murdered in September while attending a Muslim wedding. |
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Hindu extremist violence against the Christian community in Orissa State, India, which started on 24 August (see PFU September & October 2008), has been continuing unabated for two months now. |
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Zhang Jian, the elder son of Pastor “Bike” Zhang Mingxuan, President of the Chinese House Church Alliance, was brutally beaten by Public Security Bureau (PSB) officials while at home with his mother Xie Fenglan in Beijing. |
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Thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled the city of Mosul in northern Iraq after a deadly campaign was launched to remove the Christian community from the city in early October. |
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LONDON, UK (ANS) -- The Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Methodist Church have announced that the Fresh Expressions (of church) initiative is to continue for a further period of five years, says the UK-based website: www.christiantoday.com |
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CONGO (ANS) -- Staff working with a Tearfund partner agency in the Democratic Republic of Congo's unstable eastern region are reporting a growing humanitarian crisis and evidence of torture. |
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BUNIA, D. R. CONGO (ANS) -- MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) is assisting several relief agencies in delivering food and medical supplies to refugee camps in the northern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in response to the Lord's Resistance Army's (LRA) raids on villages there. |
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BEIJING, CHINA (ANS) -- Now that the fireworks have ended and the 2008 Olympic and Paralympics winners have left their winning places, the 1.3 billion people of China have now returned to "normal" operations, according to documentary producers who have recently visited the country. |
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BEIJING, CHINA (ANS) -- Since the end of the Olympic Games, ChinaAid Association (CAA) has received reports of intensified religious persecution from across China. |
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QUETTA, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- In the days following a deadly earthquake in a remote region of Pakistan, women and children are facing severe health hazards, according to assessments by Catholic Relief Services' emergency response teams on the ground. |
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NEW DELHI (ANS) -- Asserting that the Orissa and central governments had "failed miserably" to protect Christians from the violence unleashed by Hindu right wing groups, five top bishops in the state said they were "agonized" by the belated response for help. |
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GOMA, CONGO (ANS) -- The British and French foreign ministers have said urgent action is needed to ease the current crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
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AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- We are often reminded that we are living in 'the last days' -- the days between the resurrection of Christ and his return. |
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GONDAR, ETHIOPIA (ANS) -- Serving In Mission (SIM) in Ethiopia has adopted the use of the recently developed educational tool HIV/AIDS cube in educating the church on HIV/AIDS prevention and care. |
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HARARE, ZIMBABWE (ANS) -- The leader of Zimbabwe's largest functioning alliance of Christians says the country's main grouping of traditional Protestant churches and the African and global umbrella church organizations with which it is affiliated have been notable for their silence on what is happening in his country - writes Peter Kenny of Ecumenical News International. |
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ZAMBOANGA CITY, PHILIPPINES (ANS) -- Victory Christian Fellowship (VCF) in Zamboanga City marks another milestone as it celebrated its 10 year Anniversary that gathered more than 1,000 members and guests last October 18, 2008 at the Chancery Hall in Zamboanga City. |
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PATTAYA, THAILAND (ANS) -- More than 500 senior evangelical leaders gathering in Pattaya, Thailand from October 25-30, 2008, have wrapped up their General Assembly, after five days of intensive discussion to plan the way forward in world evangelization. |
BURMA (MYANMAR) (ANS) -- 250 Karen villagers have been forcibly displaced and three others have been killed along with a Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) soldier, following attacks by the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) and the Burma Army in Dooplaya District, Southern Karen State.
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The World Evangelical Alliance has excelled in the last six years in presenting the world with a credible and faithful witness of the Gospel, says its international director at the WEA’s General Assembly in Thailand. |
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South Africa consists of about 650 cities and towns. |
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Palestinian terrorists on Thursday morning violated the fragile truce with Israel once more, firing a Kassam rocket from the Gaza Strip at the western Negev town of Sderot. |
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Since the end of the Olympic Games, ChinaAid has received reports of intensified religious persecution from across China. |
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Aid agencies are reviewing the viability of their presence in Afghanistan following the murder of Christian aid worker Gayle Williams, who was killed in Kabul last week in a drive-by shooting. |
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‘Prisoners on death row are held in cells where they can witness executions. |
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It is chaos across much of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, since the rebels launched a new offensive at the weekend. |
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Thousands of migrants are ‘unjustly detained in Europe for not having the right documents’, say two European church bodies. |
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Two Jesuit priests were murdered brutally in Moscow after being attacked with blunt objects. |
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USA (ANS) -- The humanitarian agency World Vision, in an effort to reduce infant mortality, has taken a bold initiative for a worldwide elimination of malaria. |
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AZERBAIJAN (ANS) -- Hamid Shabanov, a Baptist pastor in Azerbaijan who was arrested on June 20, faces trial on Friday, October 31. He is charged for the illegal possession of a weapon. |
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WASHINGTON, DC (ANS) -- Joseph Francis, the National Director of Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) attended Fifth Advocates International Convocation that was held in Washington DC from October 6-12. |
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA / TEHRAN, IRAN (ANS) -- Officials in the United States are looking into the recent arrest of an Iranian-American student in Tehran who was working on a research project on women's rights in Iran. Officials said Esha Momeni was arrested October 15 in Tehran, Iran. |
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PATTAYA, THAILAND (ANS) -- The World Evangelical Alliance has commissioned two new leaders to take forward its work in the areas of poverty and religious liberty. |
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NAIROBI, KENYA (ANS) -- Among at least 24 aid workers killed in Somalia this year was one who was beheaded last month specifically for converting from Islam to Christianity, among other charges, according to an eyewitness. |
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WASHINGTON, DC (ANS) -- The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) --www.persecution.org - says that it has learned that Eritrean officials imprisoned about 20 Christians belonging to the underground Faith Missions Church on Sunday, October 12, 2008, in Deki-Zeru, a town 30km away from Asmara, the capital. |
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ORISSA STATE, INDIA (ANS) -- On the same day that a Roman Catholic nun was burned alive by a group of Hindu fundamentalists who stormed the orphanage she ran in the district of Bargarh (Orissa), a priest who was at the orphanage was also badly hurt, and another nun from Bubaneshwar's Social Center was gang-raped by groups of Hindu extremists before the building housing the facility was set on fire. |
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DUISBURG (ANS) -- The opening of the biggest mosque in Germany has prompted politicians and church representatives to demand more religious freedom for Christians in Turkey. |
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) will be holding its annual Day of Prayer for Nigeria on Saturday 1 November at the Redeemed Christian Church of God in London.
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IRPEN, UKRAINE (ANS) -- During extremely challenging times in Eastern Europe, both politically and with the financial crisis, more than 100 delegates from across Ukraine and the former Soviet Union gathered for the International Evangelical Missions Forum in Irpen, Ukraine on October 24-25 to discuss how they can work together to fulfil the "Great commission". |
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BELARUS (ANS) -- The Ukrainian founder of one of Minsk's largest charismatic churches said he believes his Oct. 16 deportation from Belarus was due to his continued active participation in the local Protestant community. |
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ETHIOPIA (ANS) -- An Ethiopian tells how when he landed on Indian soil as a missionary in 1998 it surprised him as much as anyone else, according to an article from Joel News International (JNI) by Sheryl Montgomery Wingerd, in JNI's Great Commission Update. |
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (ANS) -- There is no question that the economic crisis and the struggling world markets have caused Americans to experience a devastating blow. For those who have made the dominance of affluence the mainstay of their lifestyle, the blow is felt more deeply. |
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SLOUGH, UK (ANS) -- A Pakistani Christian man, who has been living in the UK for some years now, has been asked to apologize over hosting a program on Venus TV on October 3 in which an Australia based Pakistani Christian evangelist, Daniel Scott, attempted to address Muslim misconceptions about the biblical concepts of atonement, redemption and salvation. |
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SIKKIM, INDIA (ANS) -- In a village in Sikkim, India, there was not one Christian. |
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (ANS) -- Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the sixth most populous country in the world and the second largest Muslim country, has its own Christian cable television channel that continues to broadcast the Good News to this country. |
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DAKAR, SENEGAL (ANS) -- During the month of September, 2008 I was privileged to be part of a group of radio broadcasters from Salem Communications radio stations here in the United States, traveling to the West African nation of Senegal under the auspices of the Bible League USA. |
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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (ANS) -- According to the Assyrian International News Agency (www.aina.org), the Archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Scandinavia, His eminence Gallo Shabo, has condemned the recent killings of Assyrians in Mosul and renewed his call for the establishment of an administrative unit for the non-Muslim Iraqi minorities in the Nineveh Plain, east of Mosul. |
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MEGHALAYA, INDIA (ANS) -- According to a story carried by www.thehindu.com, in the backdrop of attacks on north Indians by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (Maharashtra Reconstruction Army) MNS activists in Mumbai and on Christians in Orissa and Karnataka, President Pratibha Patil on Thursday said differences must be resolved in a democratic manner through dialogue and discussions. |
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IRVINE, CA (ANS) -- I wasn't sure what to expect when I agreed to interview Brother Yun, the Chinese Christian whose book, The Heavenly Man, has been a worldwide bestseller. |
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JHARKHAND, INDIA (ANS) -- Mohan Girji, a Gospel for Asia missionary in Jharkhand, India, was badly beaten by anti-Christian extremists on Friday. The next day, a large group of fanatics gathered with the purpose of bringing Orissa's persecution rampage to their state as well |
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (ANS) -- A woman working for a UK-registered charity has been shot dead near Kabul University in the Afghan capital. |
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JERUSALEM , ISRAEL (ANS) -- More than 6,200 Christian pilgrims from over 100 countries showed up for a meal and dazzling musical program at the Ein Gedi oasis on Monday last week to launch the annual Feast of Tabernacles celebration, sponsored by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ)www.icej.org. |
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- On Thursday, October 16, a MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) pilot, Hadleigh Smith (23) of Sydney was reported overdue on a delivery flight in Australia's Northern Territory. He was flying a Cessna GA8 Airvan aircraft, for the Marthakal Yolngu Airline, a company owned by a local Aboriginal Council on Elcho Island. |
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MOUNT HERMON, CA (ANS) -- The economy got you down? Worried about making your mortgage payment, getting a car loan, affording gas, or paying college tuition? |
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SEOUL, KOREA (ANS) -- One of New York's most well-known pastors, Dr. Ricardo Reyes, has issued an appeal to Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez, to give his life back to Jesus Christ and take his country in a new "Jesus direction." |
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (ANS) -- Tens of thousands of Holy Land pilgrims made their way up to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles, a Jewish Holy Day established in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. |
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HAMBURG (ANS) -- Contrary to widespread belief religion is not making a comeback in Europe. |
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MOSUL, IRAQ (ANS) -- Officials in Mosul have told the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) that the number of Assyrians driven out of Mosul in the past two weeks has risen to 15,000, or about 2500 families. |
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ERBIL, NORTHERN IRAQ (ANS) -- From the four corners of the country they gathered in a remote location in eastern Iraq. By bus, car, airplanes, some came on foot. Believers from the cites in the north - Mosul, Dahuk, Kirkuk, Erbil, Sulimaynia.from the south - Basra, Najaf and Baghdad - many risked their very lives to attend this yearly prayer conference organized for all Iraqi believers - Arab and Kurd. |
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BHUTAN (ANS) -- Villagers in Bhutan believed that famous witch doctors Puru Ganpati and his wife, Yamya, could heal any sickness. But when it came to their own devastating infirmities, they were powerless. |
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BENSHEIM (ANS) -- Approximately 45 million people worldwide are blind. |
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NORTHERN IRAQ (ANS) -- A British Member of Parliament is calling on Great Britain and the United States to step in to protect the Assyrian Christians of Iraq, giving them their own province, and warning Kurdish rebels not to encroach on their freedoms. |
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ISLE OF MAN (ANS) -- Tamara Stoyanoff from the Washington state in the United States is set to launch a video diary series for the Missionaries News Service on Safe Worlds IPTV on what life is like as a crew member of the Next Wave, a 42-meter sailing ship. The vessel is used primarily for character and leadership development, sail training, evangelism, short term mission trips and outreaches. |
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NICOSIA, CYPRUS (ANS) -- A Christian satellite TV station that broadcasts into the Middle East and North Africa is receiving urgent text messages from Iraqi believers requesting immediate and sustained prayer as persecution in the northern city of Mosul continues. |
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MOSUL, IRAQ (ANS) -- The recent attacks on Assyrian Christians in Mosul, northern Iraq, has lead to a rapid exodus of Assyrians from the city to safer areas in the Nineveh plain. |
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MYANMAR/BURMA (ANS) -- In a nation known as the "Rice Bowl of the Far East," an estimated 200 villages in the Chin state of Myanmar (Burma) are suffering severe food shortages as a result of a massive infestation of rats. The plague of rats extends into neighboring Rakhine state as well, devastating villages' crops. |
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MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA (ANS) -- Recent statistics show that 88 percent of churched young adults leave the church after leaving home (Lifeway) and 61 percent of people in their 20s who were once churched are now disengaged (Barna). |
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SEOUL, KOREA (ANS) -- The church began in 1982 with 13 members and, even by Korean standards, it has experienced amazing growth. |
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LONDON (ANS) -- Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki has vowed to protect Christians in Mosul after 1,000 police were deployed in the wake of sectarian attacks in the northern city. |
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LONDON, ENGLAND (ANS) -- A former Hollywood Bowl bowling alley has seen its well-used lanes become the aisles of a new black-led church in east London. |
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ASHEVILLE, NC (ANS) -- Evangelist Billy Graham has returned to his mountain home in Montreat, N.C. upon his release this afternoon (Saturday, October 11) from Mission Hospital in nearby Asheville following a brief stay. He was admitted for observation after he tripped over one of his three dogs and fell late Friday. |
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GIESSEN (ANS) -- An evangelical theological institution in Germany has been granted university status. |
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UKRAINE (ANS) -- At a time when tensions continue throughout the former Soviet Union, Russian Ministries will host an International Evangelical Missions Forum to discuss the future of missions in the region. |
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MILAN, ITALY (ANS) -- One of the most prestigious Christian Film Festivals, the biannual Sabaoth International Film Festival held in Milan, Italy, has nominated the documentary film "Fire in Brazil" as a finalist in the Feature Documentary Category of the 2008 edition of the international festival. |
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PAKISTAN (ANS) -- A Catholic-run girls' school in Swat, North-West Frontier Province, was bombed yesterday (October 7) by Pakistani Taliban. |
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ (ANS) -- Three Christians have been killed in the space of 24 hours in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported Wednesday. |
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BERLIN (ANS) -- There is much to learn from the early church, according to Professor Christoph Markschies, President of Berlin's Humboldt University. |
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- The Murray Darling Prayer Pilgrimage commenced at 12 noon at the Hume Weir, Albury, New South Wales, on Tuesday September 30 and concluded in the Mildura/Wentworth area, Victoria, on the evening of October 1, 2008, 373 miles away. The Pilgrimage was described by local Christians, as "an answer to prayer!" |
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN (ANS) -- As the worsening economy continues to make life difficult for families across the country, churches are putting their faith into action by closing their doors to help serve their neighbors in need. |
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SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA (ANS) -- An advocacy group for the Degars, the indigenous people of Central Vietnam, says the group is tormented on an ongoing basis by the Vietnamese government and many other Vietnamese people. |
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In the midst of a week marked by economic turmoil, political rivalry, and the murder of a local police officer, Philadelphians turned out by the thousands this past weekend to hear some good news. |
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Orissa violence continues unabated and enters seventh week as police neglect duties |
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Baptist communities in different corners of Russia have experienced state harassment in recent months including interrogation by the state security service FSB defamatory state television coverage a warning for home worship, and a fine for preaching in public. |
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A Christian human rights group applauded the EU for issuing a declaration to Iran urging the repressive state to drop its draft apostasy bill and to release Christian converts from detention. |
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Parishioners at an Anglican church in Canada voted unanimously on Sunday to join a conservative network and essentially leave a denomination they feel is abandoning traditional Anglicanism. |
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A trial is under way in Abidjan of local officials accused of conniving in the dumping of toxic oil sludge in August 2006 and causing over a dozen deaths, and illnesses to tens of thousands. |
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Four Algerians who converted to Christianity have been condemned to prison and heavy fines while two others were set free after renouncing their conversion. |
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Growing violence against Christians in India has spread to 12 states, while 57 have been killed and 50,000 driven from their homes in Orissa state alone. |
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Somali pirates seize unescorted ships in the most dangerous waterway in the world. |
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A two day tour of rural Christian churches in the forested hill villages and plantations of Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka India makes it clear that Christians in areas outside the metropolitan areas of Bangalore and Mangalore have lived a life of fear since September 14. |
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In an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Iraqi President Jalal Talibani was upbeat on Iraq. |
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More than one in two Europeans (53 percent) trust members of the clergy highly. |
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Concerns are reviving among many of Kyrgyzstans religious communities as a proposed revised Religion Law is set to reach the full Zhogorku Kenesh the countrys single chamber Parliament this month. |
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Christian converts from Muslim backgrounds and followers of the Bahá'í faith may be spared the death penalty after the European Union EU issued a declaration to Iran unveiling their concerns over the deterioration of religious freedom there. |
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The humanitarian agency World Vision in an effort to reduce infant mortality has taken a bold initiative for a worldwide elimination of mosquitoes. |
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Public attitudes towards evangelicals in Germany have changed. |
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Authorities in Azerbaijan have opened a new investigation into the June 22 arrest of a Baptist pastor according to Rev Ilya Zenchenko president of the Azerbaijan Union of Evangelical Christians Baptists. |
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The foundation stone of Qatars second Anglican church was laid on Sunday September 28 in a ceremony presided over by the Bishop of Cyprus. |
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Continued violence against Christians in Orissa India has caused Indias federal government to issue official warnings to government officials in Orissa and Karnataka. |
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According to www.ekklesia.co.uk Anabaptists Brethren in Christ in India say they have been horrified that Christians have had to the jungle with nothing but the clothes on their backs fearing for their lives because of communal violence in a country once known for religious tolerance. |
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World Vision Philippines is really impacting the lives of thousands of Filipino children through its child sponsorship programme. |
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The TV studio hums just a few feet from his church office in northern California but pastor Hormoz Shariat is still a last minute arrival to his own show. |
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A leader of the AlQaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb has threatened France and Spain in an audio message broadcast on jihadist Internet forums on Monday. |
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Two girls both minors saying they had converted to Islam lawyers feared worse. |
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Further to Prayer Alerts report on 5 September we have been informed that Catholics and Protestants are still protesting about the return of properties seized by the Communist regime. |
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At least three people have been injured in an explosion in central Yangon just outside Yangons City Hall building. |
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Expectations for this years harvest in NSW now vary widely as drought grips a wider area of the State. |
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A confidential prayer letter has been received asking for our intercessions for multi lingual translations so that lives and communities in Bangladesh will be transformed by contact with believers and Christian Scriptures. |
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In Boukham village Savannakhet officials have kept pastor Sompong Supatto 32 Boot Chanthaleuxay 18 and Khamvan Chanthaleuxay 18 in handcuffs and foot stocks since their arrest on Aug 3 causing considerable pain. |
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Zimbabwes President Robert Mugabe has said the opposition MDC has until Thursday to agree a power-sharing deal or he will form a government. |
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Haiti faces a catastrophe after being hit by a series of storms in recent weeks President Rene Preval has said. |
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More than two million people have been marooned by late monsoon floods in 15 of the countrys 64 districts according to the Bangladesh Water Development Board BWDB. |
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The Philippine government has scrapped a panel that has been negotiating with southern Muslim rebels officials say Manila would instead shift towards direct dialogue with local communities in a bid to end the violence a presidential official said. |
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As Vietnam marks its National Day the holiday spirit in Hanois Dong Da district is being marred by an ongoing land dispute between a local Catholic church and the authorities. |
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The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has added his voice to calls for an immediate end to the violence being waged against Christians in Indias Orissa state. |
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As Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin launched her public campaign this week US media has been revealing her rise from campaigning Christian parent to Alaska State governor. |
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A follow up to Helping Bring Change To A Nation Via The Teachers Of Guatemala |
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A major crackdown against house church Christians is proceeding in Iran. |
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The sacrificial love of a small Baptist church in Brazil has been used to transform a desert community. |
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