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 VIOLENCE
DOESN'T BRING JUSTICE : DANTEWADA INCIDENT OF APRIL 6
The shocking death of 76 jawans of the CRPF in Dantewada
in their encounter with Maoists on April 6 has naturally
shaken the nation. The home minister even offered to
resign. The violence has brought into focus the urgency
of dealing with issues that had driven tribals, adivasis
and the poor to the side of the Maoists who believe in
violent means to achieve their ends.
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 CHRISTIANS
DEMAND APOLOGY FROM RAMESH OVER ‘BARBARIC' REMARK
A Christian group on Sunday demanded an unconditional
apology from Union Minister of State for Environment and
Forest Jairam Ramesh for terming the wearing of the
traditional convocation robe as a "barbaric colonial
practice".
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HURT CHRISTIANS WANT GOWN RULE FROM GOVT
New Delhi, April 8: Christian organisations hurt by Jairam Ramesh’s
comments on vicar-like convocation gowns have asked the
government to decide whether graduates should wear the
robes or formals.
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GOOD
NEWS FESTIVAL
New Delhi: A "Good News Festival" will be held at the
Centenary Methodist Church, 24 Lodhi Road, New Delhi-3
from 30 April to 2 May 2010.
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EASTER MILAN CELEBRATED
New Delhi : The North West Council of Churches organized
Easter Milan and Masih Mela on April 5 at St. Michael
church ground, Bhogal. It was a time of get together of
churches in Delhi and NCR to celebrate the resurrection
of Jesus Christ.
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MARY ROY 'SUCCESSION RIGHTS' CASE: SYRIAN CHRISTIAN
SEEKS REVIEW OF SC RULING
New Delhi, April 10: A petition has been filed in the
Supreme Court seeking a review of a 24-year-old judgment
that gave Mary Roy and other Syrian Catholic women as
much share as their male siblings in their patriarchal
property.
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MOBILE TELEPHONES MORE COMMON THAN TOILETS IN INDIA:
UN REPORT
UNITED NATIONS, April 14 -- More people in India, the
world's second most populous country, have access to a
mobile telephone than to a toilet, according to a set of
recommendations released on Wednesday by United Nations
University (UNU) on how to cut the number of people with
inadequate sanitation.
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PRIEST ACCUSED OF US ABUSE WON'T FIGHT EXTRADITION
NEW DELHI, (AP, By RAVI NESSMAN ) — A Roman Catholic
priest charged with sexually assaulting a teenage
parishioner in Minnesota said Tuesday he would willingly
leave his native India and try to clear his name in the
courts if the United States tried to extradite him.
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‘INFERTILITY IS ON THE RISE AMONG COUPLES IN KERALA'
KOCHI, 11 April (The Hindu): Increasing number of
couples in the State are reporting infertility in the
early years of their married life and this could result
in a negative growth of population in the State, says
Fessy Louis T., the organising secretary of the 15th
national conference of the Indian Society of Assisted
Reproduction 2010, now on here.
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AICC PETITIONS SC AGAINST POLICE NEGLIGENCE AND BIAS
IN MURDER CASE
Ahmedabad, April 9, 2010: Gujarat High Court had ordered
police to take stringent steps to capture man convicted
of burning a young Christian employee to death in 2005
and sentenced to life imprisonment. The accused was
caught and jailed in 2005, but fled custody in 2007. He
was recaptured on 19.03.2010.
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HARYANA LINES UP RS 15 BILLION FOR HEALTH INFRA
UPGRADE
Chandigarh, Apr 06, 2010 (FE): The Haryana government
has embarked upon an ambitious Rs-1,500 crore plan to
improve the infrastructure of the health industry in the
state. In a message on the eve of World Health Day,
chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday said
nine hospitals are being upgraded at Bhiwani, Rohtak,
Faridabad, Gurgaon, Sonepat, Panipat, Karnal, Panchkula
and Hisar to the Indian Public Health Standard.
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"PREACHER'S KID" - A MALAYALAM MOVIE BY A PASTOR'S
SON
Trivandrum (Hallelujah): A "pentecostal" Malayalam movie
called "Upadeshiyude Makan" (Preacher's Kid) is set to
hit movie theatres in Kerala! The story was written by
Mr. George Mathew, son of Pastor Kallada Mathai. Mr
Mathew is settled in the US and is a Certified Public
Accountant. Mr Mathew scored the music for the movie.
The screenplay was written by Jose Thomas. Joshi Mathew
directed the film.
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IPC JAIPUR: NEW OFFICE BEARERS SELECTED
Jaipur: IPC Jaipur Gilead Church selected a new council
for the year 2010-11. The election took place during the
32nd annual general body meeting that was held on 4
April, 2010.
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STATE POLICY BANS RELIGIOUS STRUCTURES AT PUBLIC
PLACES
Imphal, April 11, Hueiyen News: The Government of
Manipur has framed the Manipur Policy for Review of
Unauthorized Construction of Religious Nature and set up
a committee to review unauthorized construction of
religious nature on public streets, public parks and
public places, etc.
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KARUNANIDHI SEEKS DALIT CHRISTIAN QUOTA
Chennai, April 4, 2010 – Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.
Karunanidhi on Friday urged Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh to enact a law to help Christians of dalit origin
to get quota benefits just as their counter parts in
Hinduism.
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TEACHERS TOLD TO HOLD THEIR TONGUE CHURCH ADVISORY TO
SCHOOLS
Calcutta, 12 April (Telegraph): The Church is telling
Calcutta schoolteachers: mind your language. The Church
of North India (CNI) has recommended training teachers
how to behave in the classroom after two students of
reputable missionary-run institutions committed suicide
in February because they were allegedly “humiliated” in
school.
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ORISSA RIOT PROBE NEEDS TWO MORE YEARS
April 6, 2010: The commission probing the 2008
anti-Christian riots in Orissa says it needs two more
years to complete the task as political parties,
religious groups and the media have almost ignored it.
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RAJARATNAM PASSES AWAY; NCCI PAYS TRIBUTE
K. Rajaratnam, economics teacher and a leader of the
United Evangelical Lutheran Church in India, passed away
here on Wednesday. He was 89 and is survived by a son
and three daughters.
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CONTROVERSIAL BOOK: PASTORS IN JAIL
Tiruvalla: A few pastors and other Christians were
arrested by Kerala police following Muslim protests over
a book that was distributed during the funeral of Sam
Jacob, the man who wrote the controversial book.
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PENTECOSTALS ARE ON THE RISE
According to the Barna Group, 29% of Christian adults
aged 26-44 claim to be filled with the Holy Spirit and
possess one of the charismatic gifts such as tongues,
prophecy or healing. The number of Pentecostal/Charismatics
is three times the number of Evangelicals in the United
States and is roughly equal to the number of those
attending Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran,
Episcopal or non-denominational churches.
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INCREASING NUMBER OF PARENTS OPT TO HAVE KIDS
SCHOOL-HOMED
WASHINGTON DC, The Onion, March 29, 2010: According to a
report released Monday by the U.S. Department of
Education, an increasing number of American parents are
choosing to have their children raised at school rather
than at home.
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MOST PARENTS’ CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE EDUCATION EFFORTS
INADEQUATE
Researchers led by Esther Deblinger, co-director of the
CARES (Child Abuse Research Education and Services)
Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey(UMDNJ)-School of Osteopathic Medicine, claim
parents who talk to their children about sexual abuse
incorrectly identify strangers as the most likely source
of abuse.
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CHRISTIAN MINISTRY REFUTES ONLINE CONNECTION TO
MILITIA GROUP
30 March 2010Adrienne S. Gaines News - An Oklahoma-based
ministry that advocates for persecuted Christians
worldwide refutes an online connection with a militia
group accused of plotting an attack against law
enforcement officers.
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RESEARCHERS RECEIVE MILLIONS TO STUDY
PENTECOSTAL-CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT
01 April 2010: Notre Dame University, the University of
Chicago and Union College are among a string of
educational institutions selected to receive grant money
to conduct research on the growing
Pentecostal-charismatic movement.
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POLICE SHUT DOWN VIOLENT CRUCIFIXION ENACTMENT
Geelong, April 5, 2010--Police in Australia’Geelong have
shut down the graphic re-enactment of crucifixion of
Jesus Christ saying it was too violent for public
viewing.
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 MINISTER
FROM MISS. MEETS WITH OBAMA
Few
Americans have had the opportunity to share fellowship
with an American president, but Charleston resident
Stanley Wachtstetter has prayed with four since meeting
President Ronald Reagan in 1980.
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 CHARISMATIC
RENEWAL MARKS 50 YEARS
On April 3, 1960, the late Father Dennis Bennett told
his 2,600-member Episcopal congregation at St. Mark’s
church in Van Nuys, Calif., that he had experienced a
“personal Pentecost.” While attending a prayer meeting,
the Britain-born minister had been baptized in the Holy
Spirit and began to speak in an unknown language.
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 NEEDS
OF AFGHAN PEOPLE MUST NOT BE FORGOTTEN, SAYS CHRISTIAN
AID
April 14, 2010 /Christian Today/: Christian Aid has
called on the international community to keep its focus
on the needs of the Afghan people after weeks of rancour
between the US and Afghanistan.
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HUSBAND GIVES BIBLE TO WIFE'S KILLER IN COURT
13 Apr
2010, By Laura Italiano, - A husband shocked a
Manhattan, N.Y., court by giving his wife's murderer a
Bible and encouraging him to save his soul, the New York
Post reported Tuesday.
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ALARM AFTER STREET PREACHER FINED FOR CALLING
HOMOSEXUALITY A SIN
Friday, 2 April 2010: The Christian Institute has voiced
concern after a street preacher was handed a £1,000 fine
for saying homosexuality was a sin. US evangelist Shawn
Holes, 47, was preaching in Glasgow city centre on March
18 when he was arrested and detained overnight in a
police cell.
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CHRISTIANS FEAR RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION COULD RETURN TO
NEPAL
Tuesday, 30 March 2010 Sudeshna Sarkar/ Compass Direct/
- Four years after Nepal became officially secular, fear
is growing that the country could revert to the Hindu
state it was till 2006, when proclaiming Christ was a
punishable offence and many churches functioned
clandestinely to avoid being shut down.
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EVANGELICALS WANT U.S. NUCLEAR TALK S
TO INCLUDE IRAN, N. KOREA
Washington, Apr. 13, 2010: An array of evangelical
leaders, including megachurch pastors and college
presidents, are not only supporting the Obama
administration's push to reduce nuclear weapons, but are
calling for the U.S. government to exert even more
effort to negotiate with hard-to-deal-with rogue states.
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PASTOR CALLS CHRISTIAN ATHEISTS TO SHED HYPOCRISY
Apr. 07, 2010: Pastor Craig Groeschel is a recovering
Christian Atheist. He may have called himself a
Christian all his life, but he didn't always live as if
God existed. It's a struggle he's had both as a layman
and as a pastor (of one of the fastest growing and
largest churches in the country). And it's a struggle he
wants to help millions of so-called Christians to
overcome.
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DUTCH SC ORDERS CHRISTIAN PARTY TOACCEPT WOMEN
CANDIDATES
AMSTERDAM, Apr 9 — A fundamentalist Christian political
party led entirely by men was told by the Netherlands’
Supreme Court on Friday that it must accept women in
leadership roles.
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ACP TO US SCHOOLS: DON'T AFFIRM STUDENTS' PERCEIVED
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Gainesville, Fla., Apr 10, 2010 (CNA) - In a recent
letter sent to school superintendents throughout the
country, the American College of Pediatricians (ACP)
cautioned that it is “not a school’s role to 'affirm' a
student’perceived personal sexual orientation.” The ACP
also said that “rigorous studies” show that children and
adolescents who initially experience gender confusion or
same sex attraction no longer do so by the age of 25.
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NIGERIA: CHRISTIAN LEADERS WANT SOVEREIGN NATIONAL
CONFAB
Maiduguri /Vanguard/ — THE Pentecostal Fellowship of
Nigeria, PFN, yesterday, joined Nigerians advocating for
a sovereign national conference to resolve the country's
socio-political problems.
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POPE VISITS MALTA MID-MONTH, SEX ABUSE CASES AWAIT
VALLETTA, Malta, (By GEORGE CINI, AP) — Pope Benedict
XVI visits Malta in two weeks, and some victims of sex
abuse by priests on the predominantly Roman Catholic
island say they want him to use the trip to apologize
for their suffering.
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CHRISTIAN RADIO STATION GOES ON AIR IN IRAQI CITY
BASRA, April 06, 2010 -- People in the southern Iraqi
city of Basra are now able to listen to the province's
first Christian radio station, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq
(RFI) reports.
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WCC: NEW NUCLEAR WEAPONS TREATY CUTS BRING HOPE
Rome, Italy, Apr 10, 2010 (CNA/EWTN News).- The signing
of the nuclear reduction treaty between the U.S. and
Russia is "news that the World Council of Churches has
awaited for a long time," according to the secretary
general of the international ecumenical organization.
While he praised this "modest" step, he prayed that
governments will "have the courage and the will to
follow-up this important development.”
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WORLD HEALTH DAY 2010 FOCUSES ON URBAN PEOPLE
April 7 was celebrated as the World health dy Worldwide.
The one week long campaign until 11 April 2010 was
witnessed in the form of 1000 cities, 1000 lives. The
campaign has penetrated to more than 500 cities in over
100 countries across the world. The focus of the
Campaign is mostly urban targeted to improve the lives
of people residing in cities.
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DAWKINS, HITCHENS WANT POPE ARRESTED DURING U.K.
VISIT
LONDON, Apr. 12, 2010 - Atheist campaigner Richard
Dawkins wants Pope Benedict XVI to be arrested during
his state visit to Britain in September. Dawkins and
atheist author Christopher Hitchens have approached
human rights lawyers about whether the pontiff can be
arrested over his alleged cover-up of achild abuse by
Catholic priests
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