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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
ICM’s Church Builders India project.READ MORE |
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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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