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A Lutheran pastor in Warsaw has rejected claims that his church could be used for spying against the nearby headquarters of the interior ministry if a planned extension to the church building goes ahead.
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The award of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to Bangladesh economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank for pioneering small loans to poor people to set up in business has been hailed as a major boost for what is now called microfinance.
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Eritrean security police tortured two Christians to death yesterday, two days after arresting them for holding a religious service in a private home south of Asmara. The deaths came just after officials detained a U.S. citizen and re-imprisoned a popular Christian singer who was hospitalized as a result of spending 29 months in a metal shipping container.
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Based on the best-selling novel Hadassah: One Night With The King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen, this dramatic big-screen adaptation chronicles a young woman’s rise from peasant to princess, her courageous role in the redemption of her people from destruction and death...
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Plans for a mosque in east London large enough to accommodate more than 40 000 worshippers are generating opposition from two Christian groups, the Barnabas Fund and the Christian Peoples Alliance.
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The 2006 EEA (European Evangelical Alliance) and EEMA (European Evangelical Missionary Alliance) General Assemblies opened in Warsaw, Poland on Oct. 17 with an opening address by the Polish Commissioner at the European Union, Dr. Danuta Hübner.
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The California Court of Appeal upheld Proposition 22 , which limits marriage to a man and a woman. The Appeals Court overruled a controversial decision by a San Francisco judge that struck down the law as unconstitutional.
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In 1979, Luc Dessieux fled his home in Haiti after a terrorist group threatened to kill his family if he didn't leave the island. Arriving in the United States as an illegal immigrant, he was imprisoned for three weeks.
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Aleloo received news in early August 2006 that Chinese authorities had demolished a large house church in the province of Zhejiang. This church was under construction and was almost done when a mob of government-hired agitators came to watch as bulldozers and wrecking balls tore it to the ground.
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A 60-bed Christian hospital has been inaugurated in the northern Kashmir region of Pakistan a year after the territory was devastated by a powerful earthquake. More than 75 000 people were killed and over three million people were made homeless...
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| Well-being and health
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Christians in Hong Kong have joined a public rally calling for justice for workers in one of the world’s wealthiest financial centres, arguing that the gap between riches and poverty is morally unacceptable and damaging to the health of society.
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This year’s hole in the Antarctic ozone layer was the most serious on record exceeding that of 2000. Not only was it the largest in surface area (matching 2000) but also suffered the most mass deficit, meaning that there was less ozone over the Antarctic than ever previously measured.
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The World Bank approved a $1.25 million grant to support community projects and strengthen community-based organizations in Cité Soleil and Bel Air, two of the poorest and most violence-stricken slums in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.
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Two senior United States church leaders have sent out a clear message to the White House and the religious right that God cannot be co-opted as a ‘warrior divinity’ serving national or sectional interests.
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A new book by the general secretary of the US National Council of Churches (NCC) is a call to reclaim US religious life from the "far religious right", says its author, the Rev. Robert Edgar. "The politics of faith have been co-opted in the service of a political agenda defined by fascination with war
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