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A bishop in Pakistan has renounced his nationality in protest against discrimination and hatred he says is suffered by the minuscule Christian minority in the world's second largest Muslim nation.
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Sexual harassment remains a problem within the Church, and laity need more education about the issue. Those are among the preliminary findings from a sexual harassment survey distributed early this year by the denomination’s Commission on the Status and Role of Women.
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The Reverend Billy Graham tells of a time early in his ministry when he arrived in a small town to preach a sermon. Wanting to mail a letter, he asked a young boy where the post office was...
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A pastor was giving the children's message during church. For this part of the service, he would gather all the children around him and give a brief lesson before dismissing them for children's church..
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A 29-foot (8.8 metre) cross in San Diego, California has become the latest focus for continuing struggles about the place of religious symbols in US public life. On 14 August, the cross at the top of Mount Soledad in San Diego's La Jolla district...
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Iraq Program Coordinator Nabil Omeish has become accustomed to encountering unusual experiences in the course of his work. “One day in Baghdad I was stopped at a security post by an official who asked to see what was in the suitcase I was carrying...
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The parents of Prakash, a third-year Gospel for Asia Bible college student, were washed away in the heavy flooding in their village in Maharashtra, India. The body of Prakash's father, Marotrao, was recovered, and his mother, Vimla, is presumed dead.
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The failure of Israel, the Arab states and the international community to reach a comprehensive peace agreement in the Middle East is at the root of the violence that is tearing Lebanon apart, says former Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) missionary and hostage there Benjamin Weir.
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As a teenager, they trained him to kill Christians and Jews as Beirut dissolved into the chaos of civil war. Before his 17th birthday, his fellow street warriors credited him with 223 kills—mostly against rival militias.
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A large anti-Christian hate campaign has been launched by the Hindu nationalist/anti-Christian BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) in Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh state). The BJP alleges that Christian missionaries are proselytizing in the town and are agitating...
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International Christian Concern has just become informed that the execution date has been set for three Christians involved in the Poso conflict. The men are to be executed on Saturday, August 12, at 12:15 am.
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The head of the World Council of Churches has accused the leaders of Israel, the United States and Britain of seeming immune to the continuing destruction of Lebanon and he has reiterated an appeal for an immediate cease-fire in the Middle East.
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Christian groups have decried changes to laws said to enshrine "freedom of religion" by legislators in India's central state of Madhya Pradesh, ruled by the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), a party opponents describe as having a Hindu nationalist agenda.
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Ever since being elected President of Iran in June 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has used every means he can not only to drive Iran backwards to the days of the Islamic Revolution, but also to drive it forward to become a world leader in belligerence. Ahmadinejad is driven by ideology.
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On 24 July, an Iranian Christian named Issa Motamadi was imprisoned on account of his faith. French Internet news site VoxDei reports that Issa Motamadi, a resident of the north-western town of Resht, the capital of Gilan Province, will soon stand trial before a Revolutionary Tribunal. (Link 1)
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On the afternoon of July 29, a large house church building was destroyed and many Christians were arrested and wounded during the confrontation. The house church building is located at Che Lu Wan Village, Dangshan Town, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province.
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