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PENTECOSTALS PROTEST AGAINST HOMOSEXUAL LEGALISATION
New Delhi: Pentecostals, a growing
Christian influence in Delhi, expressed their concern
over the legalization of consensual unnatural sexual
relationship by the Delhi High Court. Pentecostal
Mission Fellowship of India (PMFI), under the leadership
of Pastor N.P.Philip, organized a special seminar on the
issue on 22nd July, 2009 at Rhema Worship Center, Lado
Sarai and discussed the social and moral consequences of
the verdict.
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CHRISTIAN WRITERS’ CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN DELHI
New Delhi: Preparations are on for holding
the “All India Christian Literature and Writers’
Conference” in New Delhi on August 21 and 22, 2009.The
conference will be held at MOD Church Planting and
Training Centre, H-3/125, Bengali Colony, Mahavir
Enclave, New Delhi - 110045
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SC RULES IN FAVOUR OF ENGLISH MEDIUM SCHOOLS
New Delhi, July 21: There is good news for
parents and children who wish to pursue an education in
English medium schools in Karnataka. Those who worried
that their children would be put through compulsory
Kannada-medium schooling from std 1 to 4 can breath a
sigh of relief. The Supreme Court refused to stay the
Karnataka High Court's judgment quashing a state
government order making Kannada the compulsory medium of
instruction in all schools of the state from class I to
IV.
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CHRISTIANS PRAY FOR SUCCESS OF COMMONWEALTH GAMES
2010
Church leaders on Tuesday prayed for the grand success
of 2010 Commonwealth Games to be held in October in New
Delhi. Even as preparations are in full swing for the
multinational sport event, bishops, pastors and
laypeople converged at the ‘United Prayer Meeting’ were
in joined hands beseeching God’s favor for the success
of the October 3 - 14 event.
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“POPULATION CONTROL” BACK ON GOVT AGENDA
NEW DELHI: Health minister Ghulam Nabi
Azad on Wednesday urged political parties to rise above
vote bank politics and propagate the message of
population control, saying “aggressive campaign” was the
only way to convince the masses of the virtue of small
family. Ruling out any “coercive method” or
“legislation” to control population, Azad said in the
last 32 years, no political party did any aggressive
campaigning in this vital area.
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NAGA YOUTH ATTACKED IN PUNE
On 21 June, about 15 local men assaulted four Naga
students from the northeast state of India in Salisbury
Park, Pune. Speaking to EFI, Naga community, ex-officio,
adviser for students union, Pune, Rev.Achu Chang said,
"the incident made the northeast students in Pune
insecure and we are taking the matter to higher
authorities.”
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PRIEST MURDERED IN KARNATAKA
A Catholic priest was found murdered today, July 30, at
Belthangady of Dakshina Kannada district. According to
UCA News, a Catholic news agency, the disrobed body of
Father James Mukalel, 39, was found on a roadside in the
morning of July 30. The priest met with the tragic death
when he was returning to his parish, after attending a
funeral of one of his former parishioners.
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“WE KILLED SWAMI LAXMANANDA SARASWATI”: MAOIST COUPLE
23 July 2009: Claiming that they murdered VHP leader
Swami Laxmananda Saraswati, a young Maoist couple on
Wednesday surrendered before the police in Orissa.
Superintendent of Police AK Singh told media that a
rebel couple identified as Surendra Vekwara (19) and his
wife Ruby (18) from Rayagada district surrendered before
the police after divulging that they murdered Saraswati
last year.
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A VILLAGE AUTHORITY IN MANIPUR SERVED
UN-CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER ON CHRISTIAN MINORITY
Imphal : Christian minorities in Huikap
village under Yairipok Police station in North East
India’s Manipur were served an un-constitutional order
by villagers. "Breaking the order will result in
consequences," warns the villagers. According to the
sources, “The incident happened, when two years old
Christian boy drowned in a village pond and died. The
body was buried on July 19 in a plot formally donated
for Christian cemetery by a family from neighbouring
Christian village.”
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GOAN LAW ON CHURCH-STATE RELATIONSHIP NEEDS CHANGE
PANAJI: Goa Commissioner for NRI Affairs
Eduardo Falerio has said that the existing law in Goa
regulating the relations between the Church and the
State should be modified as had been done in the
Portugal. Mr. Faleiro, former External Affairs Minister,
was speaking at a conference on “Should there be a law
to protect the properties of the Church?” organised by
the All India Catholic Union (Goa) and Goa Cultural and
Social Centre at the Goa International Centre near here
on Tuesday.
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VHP RAID ON BHOPAL CHURCH
Bhopal, July 26: Bajrang Dal and VHP
activists today stormed a church during Sunday service,
saying people were being forcibly converted, before being
persuaded to leave by police who didn’t book them.
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GUJARAT 2002: MODI’S ROLE MAY TO BE PROBED
NEW DELHI: The Gujarat High Court has
refused to stay the probe by the special investigation
team (SIT) — appointed by the Supreme Court to look at
post-Godhra riot cases — into a complaint alleging the
role of chief minister Narendra Modi, his Cabinet
colleagues and senior administration and police
officials in the 2002 communal carnage at Gulburg
society in Ahmedabad.
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INDIA TRANSFORMATION EMERGING LEADERS MEETING
The first of its kind, the India Transformation Emerging
Leaders meeting was held in St.Andrews College
Auditorium, Bandra, Mumbai on 21st and 22nd July. The
hall was packed to its capacity of 800 seats with
pastors and leaders from all over India. It was an
unbelievable and unforgettable event happened after a
very long time. pastors from almost every denominations,
language and states represented in this meeting.
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ATTACK ON CHILDREN’S LEARNING CENTRE AND PASTOR IN
AMBALA, HARYANA
Hindu extremists allegedly from the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) attacked children’s learning centre and
urged the Christians to vacate their place on July 19 in
Ambala, Haryana. According to an EFI correspondent, Rev.
Isaac Dutta, Hindu extremists attacked Pastor Daniel
Kamaraj and his staffs that are running a free tuition
program-me for children under Children Compassion
Ministry and accused them of forceful conversion.
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AUGUST 23 TO BE OBSERVED AS ‘PEACE DAY’
New Delhi: August 23 must be remembered as
“Peace Day” to mark the murder of a Hindu fundamentalist
leader and the ensuing violence that targeted the
Christian community, says Archbishop of Orissa Raphael
Cheenath. Addressing reporters, the archbishop along
with other like-minded people, called for a peace day in
which the Indian people would “forget the past and build
a harmonious society.” “The gruesome murder of [Swami
Laxmananda Saraswati] destroyed peace and harmony. Let
us unite and build a cohesive society,” Archbishop
Cheenath said.
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BAPTIZE A BABY SOON AFTER PARENTS' WEDDING?
Conservatives have lambasted the Church of England’s
proposal of offering couples a two-for-one service –
marriage for them and baptisms for their children born
outside marriage – saying it “confuses Church’s
message.” The Church of England on Thursday announced a
new church guideline which allows couples to baptize
their children after the wedding ceremony. Parents can
even get baptized themselves.
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RWANDA GENOCIDE 100-DAY COMMEMORATION CULMINATES WITH
‘KIGALI FESTIVAL’
Fifteen years after the 1994 genocide that killed an
estimated 1 million people in 100 days, the people of
Rwanda continue the hard work of healing and
restoration, laying the groundwork for a strong future.
Through Kigali Festival with Andrew Palau on July 17-18,
and the festival’s preceding Season of Service, hope and
Good News were offered in abundance.
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CHURCH RECOGNIZES ABORIGINALS AS “FIRST PEOPLES”
In a historic move, the third largest Church in
Australia has voted for a new preamble to its
constitution, acknowledging the Aboriginals as the
‘First Peoples of Australia’ and the troubled history of
their relationship with the Christian Church.
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FALLING BIRTHRATES TO RULE TALKS AT WORLD CONGRESS OF
FAMILIES V
Barry McLerran, producer of "Demographic Winter" and the
just-released documentary, "The Demographic Bomb," said
declining birthrates would be the most widely discussed
topic at World Congress of Families V in Amsterdam,
which will begin in exactly 3 weeks (August 10-12).
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CHRISTIAN WRESTLING COACH FIRED AS STUDENT CONVERT
BAPTISED
A high school hall-of-fame and Christian wrestling coach
in Dearborn, Mich., claims he was muscled out of his
long-tenured coaching job by the school’s principal, a
devout Muslim, because the administrator was furious
over a student wrestler who had converted to
Christianity from Islam.
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GOD TV TOPS 2 0 MILLION HOMES IN USA
More and more American families are switching on to GOD
TV as they discover this unique mix of Christian
programming in their channel line-up. In fact 20.7
million homes throughout the USA now have access to GOD
TV via satellite and cable television with many more
watching via the Internet.
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 BIBLE DEFACED IN BRITISH GALLERY
Christians voiced anger and dismay Tuesday after a
Bible, which was part of an exhibition inviting viewers
to add their reflections, was defaced with offensive and
foul-mouthed scrawl. Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art has
decided to put the Bible in a glass case after the
exhibit, called Untitled 2009 and part of a show
entitled Made In God’s Image, was vandalised.
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CALL2ALL WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT LAUNCHED
Call2All is a worldwide movement calling the church to a
renewed, focused collaborative effort to fulfill the
Great Commission. Jesus’ heart that “all be saved” still
reverberates through every syllable of the Great
Commission, just as it did over 2000 years ago when he
spoke them on that dusty Jerusalem day to his disciples:
“...All authority in heaven and on earth has been given
to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with
you always, to the very end of the age.”
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WOMAN SPREADS BIBLE LESSONS WORLDWIDE
Spread the Word. That’s simply what she does — and has
done for 40 years. Dorothy Hilton, who will soon be 92,
spread Bible-related materials wherever she could after
making her first audio recording on a seven-inch reel of
tape in 1969.
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CHURCH IN MYANMAR CONTINUES TO GROW DESPITE OBSTACLES
Devastating cyclones, bitter ethnic wars and human
rights abuses have all had a part in contributing to the
poverty and spiritual darkness that characterizes
Myanmar (Burma) today.
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THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL!
King Zahir Shah’s government in Afghanistan demolished
the first and only church building in Kabul. Read on to
discover what happened to his government and country. J.
Christy Wilson Jr. was born to missionary parents in
Tabriz, Iran. In 1951 he went with his wife, Betty, to
Afghanistan as “tent-makers”, where they worked for 22
years. Here Dr. Wilson relates his first hand experience
regarding the first evangelical Christian Church
building in Afghanistan.
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300+ PAK PASTORS ORGANIZE PRAYER EFFORT FOR THEIR
COUNTRY
More than 50 Taliban militants are reportedly dead as
Pakistan’s major anti-insurgency operation con-tinues.
In the face of these events, Pakistani Christians are
asking the world to pray for their nation.
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YOUTUBE AND TEXT MESSAGES TO REACH MUSLIMS
Recently, a Pioneers team aired Mel Gibson’s Passion of
the Christ on national television in a Muslim-majority
country in Southeast Asia. After the showing, 65,000
people responded with text messages requesting more
information. Respondents were directed to a YouTube
video called The Secret Life, which stimulates viewers
to explore their religious beliefs.
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PRO-FAMILY LEADERS TO GATHER AT WORLD CONGRESS OF
FAMILIES V
Although World Congress of Families V (August 10-12) is
almost three weeks away, pro-family leaders, activists,
scholars and officials from over 50 countries on five
continents, thus far have registered for Amsterdam 2009.
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ICM HELPS GET ORPHANS IN INDIA OFF THE DANGEROUS
STREETS
On Tuesday, July 28, International Cooperating
Ministries (ICM), a not-for-profit trans-denominational
ministry that partners with indigenous ministries in 52
countries, and contemporary Christian radio network, Air
1 Radio, will raise funds to build church orphanages for
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ABORTION REACHES 13 MILLION EACH YEAR IN CHINA
Beijing: Some 13 million abortions are
carried out in China each year, in part because there is
little education about contraception or disease for the
rising numbers of young people who are having sex. Fewer
than one in three callers to a Shanghai hotline knew how
to avoid pregnancy, and only one in five were informed
about venereal disease, the official China Daily quoted
a survey by the city’s 411 Army Hospital saying.
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WORSHIP LEADER TONY LE BROWN CROWNED WINNER OF GOSPEL
DREAM TALENT COMPETITION
A Virgin Islands-born worship and youth leader was
crowned winner of the Gospel Dream talent competition
Wednesday, besting the other two remaining contenders in
the television series’ finale. Tony LeBron, 33, of Boca,
Fla., emerged victorious after following the advice of
last year’s winner, Melinda Watts.
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