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KHANDAMAL
FAR FROM 'NORMALCY': NCM
The vice chairman of NCM, M P Pinto, after his two day
visit to the communally sensitive Kandhamal, said,
"complete normalcy is yet to be restored in the violence
hit district, despite considerable improvement in the
situation.” Pinto opined that since there are at least
2000 Christians in relief camps, one couldn’t fully
claim peace in the volatile district that was up in
flames since the murder of a Hindu religious leader.
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CHRISTIANS DIVIDED OVER "DRESS CODE”
NEW DELHI: Some colleges in a northern
Indian state have imposed a dress code on women students
purportedly to reduce violence against women, but Church
people are divided on the issue. Some, particularly
younger people, dismiss the move as futile, while others
say it will improve modesty.
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PTA
CONGRATULATES CHRISTAIN MPS
New Delhi: Praise the Almighty wishes to
congratulate twenty two Members of Parliament who are
Christians. Out of these, 13 are in the Lower House and
9 are in the Upper House. Christian communities in India
are glad to find a fair representation in the Indian
Parliament.
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DELHI
PREPARES FOR ‘PURPOSE DRIVEN CHURCH’ CONFERENCE
Pastor Rick Warren’s team is bringing to India, in
association with the Evangelical Fellowship of India, a
conference for pastors based on the best-selling book,
“Purpose Driven Church.” The conference will be held in
New Delhi from 9th – 11th July, 2009 from 9.00 am to
5.00 pm daily at the Delhi Bible Fellowship centre, 22
Bhai Veer Singh Marg, Gole Market, New Delhi.
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MANIPURIS
UNITE TO PRAY FOR PEACE
Over thousand Christians in Manipur joined a whole-night
prayer service for peace and harmony in the state. On
Friday, Christians from different denominations and
districts gathered for prayer at Iboyaima Sumang Leela
Sanglen in Imphal as "general public are grieved with
daily killing, constant public strikes and extortion by
various militant groups.”
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EQUIP
LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE HELD IN MUMBAI
The ‘Equip Leadership Conference’ which is book IV of
phase II was held on 12th and 13th (Friday & Saturday)
of June from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s
Auditorium, St. Dominic Road, Bandra (W), Mumbai. Around
800 plus church leaders and pastors attended this
conference which was conducted under the leadership of
Dr.A.F.Pinto.
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SEER-CARDINAL PACT: NO FORCED CONVERSIONS
MUMBAI: “No violence against minorities.
No forced conversions. A pooling of resources for social
work and charity.’’ These were three main points agreed
on at a path-breaking Hindu-Catholic dialogue between
religious leaders from both creeds held in Mumbai on
Friday. Those involved in the landmark two-hour inter
faith conversation that took place behind closed doors
at the Shanmukhananda premises near Sion included the
Sankaracharya of Kanchi, Sri Jayendra Saraswati and
Catholic leaders led by the Vatican’s head for
interreligious dialogue, Cardinal Jean Louis Tauran, and
Cardinal Oswald Gracias from Mumbai.
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YOUNGSTERS VOW TO BE “AROMA OF CHRIST” AT NTC SUMMER
BIBLE SCHOOL, YOUTH CAMP
New Delhi: The sprawling campus of New
Theological College, Dehradun, a premier theological
establishment of North India, was bustling with activity
even during the vacation time. About thirty youngsters
from six states of North India kept the campus abuzz
during the Summer Bible School held from 18th May to 2nd
June.
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NEW
CHURCH HISTORY M.TH IN AIZAWL
Aizawl Theological College (ATC) will now offer Master
of Theology (M.Th) in History of Christianity as its
latest post graduate course.A special function to
inaugurate the opening of the new course was held at ATC
Sandy's Hall on Friday 12 June.
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FAMILY OF
FIVE SURVIVE SUICIDE ATTEMPT
Mangalore: Five Members of a D'Souza
family attempted suicide and are currently in the ICU of
a private hospital, thanks to the timely action of
neighbours. The five members lived near Peddeyangadi,
Padupadav, Katipalla in Surtkal. Those admitted to the
hospital in serious condition have been identified as
Henry D'Souza (70) and his wife Leticia D¹Souza (65),
their son Jossy D'Souza (32), daughters Anitha D'Souza
(35) and Savitha D'Souza (26). They were found in a
precarious condition when their neighhours opened the
doors of their house.
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NESC
APPEALS FOR KRISHNA DAS' RELEASE
Kakching, June 12, 2009: North East
support centre & helpline joins public Meeting today at
Kakching demanded for immediate release of noted social
Worker Y. Krishna Das from his resident at Imphal,
kidnapped by unknown Persons with ransom of one core
rupees. He was kidnapped on June 10 at around 10pm at
gun point. It is a reported that he endured gun shot on
his leg while.
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KERALA
BISHOPS CONDEMN MARXIST ATTACKS
Kerala Bishops' Council this week denounced the attacks
on its educational institutions that took place during a
Marxist protest rally on June 8. The Communist Party of
India (Marxist) while observing the 'black day' - in
protest against Governor R S Gavai's decision to permit
CBI to prosecute party's state secretary Pinarayi
Vijayan - attacked a church and few Christian
educational institutions in Alappuzha diocese.
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HINDU
PONTIF IRKED BY USCIRF PLAN TO VISIT INDIA
Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, one of the leading
figures of Hinduism, on Friday, slammed the upcoming
visit of U.S. Commission on International Religious
Freedom (USCIRF) to India. The Hindu pontiff, addressing
an inter-religious meet between the Catholic and Hindus
in Mumbai, warned against foreign nations interfering in
the internal matters of the country. He was opposed to
the tentative investigation by the Commission on the
Kandhamal violence and Gujarat riots.
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KAKCHING
CHRISTIANS CONDEMN KILLING OF Y. KRISHNADAS
Kakching, June 13, 2009: The Christian
communities of Kakching condemn the barbaric killing of
Social Worker Shri. Y. Krishnadas. The Christian
community of Kakching supports all Manipur Bandh called
by Joint Action Committee on the Killing of Shri. Y.
Krishnadas. He was kidnapped by four unknown persons at
gun point from his wife’s resident in Thangmeiband,
Imphal on June 10 at around 9.30 PM and demanded one
core rupees ransom for his release.
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HOMES
BURNED AS PARAMILITARY FORCES WITHDRAWN IN ORISSA
Bhubaneshwar: On May 30, 2009 Hindu
militants set fire to six Christian homes in Kisapanga
village in Kandhamal district, according to a report
from All India Christian Council.
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 PENTECOSTAL CHURCH LEADER ROLF K. MCPHERSON GOES HOME AT
96
Rolf K. McPherson, a major figure in the Pentecostal
movement who for 44 years guided the International
Church of the Foursquare Gospel founded by his mother,
charismatic evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, went to
his heavenly home on May 21, 2009 at his Los Feliz home,
according to a church spokesman. He was 96.After his
mother's death in 1944, McPherson became the leader of
the church and the pastor of Angelus Temple, the domed
landmark in Echo Park where his mother delivered
fire-and-brimstone sermons with Hollywood pageantry
during the 1920s and '30s.
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DISEASE
OUTBREAK IMMINENT IN LANKAN CAMPS, SAYS CHRISTIAN AID
There is an urgent need to ward off outbreaks of disease
among the hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil
victims in relief camps, an international Christian
development agency forewarned. One of the UK's leading
humanitarian and development charities, Christian Aid,
has cautioned that with hundreds of new arrivals
flooding into the camps everyday, the camps are ‘an
epidemic waiting to happen’.
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CHRISTIAN
MURDERED FOR DRINKING TEA FROM A MUSLIM CUP
WASHINGTON, June 12: International
Christian Concern has learned that radical Muslims
running a tea stall beat a Christian man to death for
using a cup designated for Muslims on May 9. The young
man, Ishtiaq Masih, had ordered tea at a roadside stall
in Machharkay village, Punjab, Pakistan, after his bus
made a rest stop.
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GODTUBE
FOUNDER BUYS AMERICAN TV NETWORK
Dr. Robert Schuller, former pastor of Crystal Cathedral
Ministries, and Chris Wyatt, the founder of religious
video site GodTube, have acquired baby boomer targeted
cable network AmericanLife TV. ComStar Media Fund, for
which Wyatt currently serves as CEO, will purchase the
cabler, which reaches nearly 13 million subscribers, for
an undisclosed sum. The plan is to turn the network into
a “family values” channel, though they claim it will not
become a religious network per se. The on-air look will
change, as will the syndicated programs the network
seeks to acquire.
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JESUS
FILM TO TARGET MORE SOPHISTICATED AUDIENCE
Nearly 30 years after "The Jesus Film's" debut, the
ministry that created the
 most translated movie in
history is working to develop more sophisticated tools
to reach western and highly developed countries. “We are
going to make probably more effort because we don't have
the equipment, tools and resources that are really
speaking well to the first world and the media
sophisticated, the U.S. and Europe,” said Greg Gregoire,
senior associate at The Jesus Film Project, to The
Christian Post.
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MINISTER OF TOURISM CONCENTRATES ON CHRISTIAN TOURISTS
NEW YORK, June 15: Here is how you can say
"no" to Christ and still earn your bread-and-butter
through Him. Recently appointed Minister of Tourism,
Stas Misezhnikov, plans to shift the direction of the
marketing of Israel by concentrating on Israel's unique
tourism offering-the Holy Sites. In light of Pope
Benedict XVI's recent visit to Israel, Misezhnikov plans
to actively target the Catholic market, as well as the
Evangelical market around the world.
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CHRISTIANS LAUNCH PRAYER CAMPAIGN AS NORTH KOREA
CONDUCTS NUCLEAR TESTS
North Korea remained defiant in the face of
international community condemnation by firing two more
short-range missiles Tuesday after launching three on
Monday, according to Reuters. More test launches are
expected. Spokesman for Open Doors USA Jerry Dykstra
says this aggression emphasizes North Korea's importance
on the military. "Right now there are 1.2 million people
in the army of North Korea and a back-up force of 5
million of their population of 26-million." He says
they're on a war footing right now.
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CHURCH
BOMBING CLAIMS THIRD VICTIM IN NEPAL
Katmandu: Buddha Laxmi Joseph, one of the
many Christians who sustained serious injuries when a
bomb exploded inside the Assumption Catholic Church on
the morning of May 23, 2009 in Kathmandu, died in
hospital on June 1. Joseph, an Indian national, was the
mother of 15-year-old Celeste Joseph who was killed
instantly by the blast.
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CHRISTIANS FRUSTRATED BY OBAMA'S 'LGBT (LESBIAN,
BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER) PRIDE MONTH’
Washington: President Obama on June 1,
2009 named June
 as "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender Pride Month" issuing a proclamation that
goes even further than those of former President Clinton
in its pro-homosexuality slant. Clinton was the last
president to issue such a proclamation, first doing so
in 1999 and then in 2000 before he left office. Obama's
572-word proclamation calls for ending the military's
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy -- which was put in place
under Clinton -- and also includes the phrase
"transgender" for a first time. Clinton's proclamations
never referenced trans-genderism, a category that
includes cross-dressers and people undergoing sex change
operations.
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DOCTOR' GEORGE TILLER SHOT DEAD IN CHURCH
Washington: With one bullet, a gunman
ended the life and the controversial career of abortion
doctor George Tiller, killing him as he stood in the
foyer of his church on Sunday, May 30, 2009. The
shooter, 51-year-old Johnson County man could be charged
with murder and aggravated assault in the shooting of
Tiller, who had been shot before by an anti-abortion
foe.
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STUDENTS
DEFY ACLU (AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION), STAND TO
RECITE THE LORD'S PRAYER AT GRADUATION
Santa Rosa Country (USA): Nearly 400
g raduating seniors at Pace High School stood up in
protest against the ACLU and recited the Lord's Prayer
during their graduation ceremony on May 30, 2009. Many
of the students also painted crosses on their graduation
caps to make a statement of faith. The prayerful protest
by the students comes on the heels of a lawsuit the ACLU
filed against the Santa Rosa County School District,
claiming some of the teachers and administration
endorsed religion. The suit was filed on behalf of two
students, who said that the teachers were promoting
their views of religion.
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COUPLE
CONVICTED OF SEDITION IN SINGAPORE
In April 2008, charges were lodged against a Singaporean
couple, Ong Kian Cheong (50) and Dorothy Chan Hien Leng
(45), for distributing Christian publications that
allegedly cast Mohammed in a "negative light".
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STUDENTS
CAN'T SAY 'JESUS' IN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
An adviser on the campus of UCLA has edited a student's
personal graduation statement to remove her reference to
"my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ," citing policy in the
Department of Molecular, Cell & Development Biology.
Word of the situation came from an Internet posting by
Gordon Klingenschmitt, the former Navy chaplain who was
removed from the military in a dispute over the use of
Jesus' name in his prayers.
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CHRISTIAN
BROTHERS RE-ARRESTED IN EGYPT
Cairo: Refaat and Ibrahim Fawzy Abdo,
Christian brothers who were falsely accused of murdering
a Muslim in Mallawi, Upper Egypt in May 2008, were
re-arrested on May 20, 2009 for "security reasons" by
the Minya State Security Services, according to reports.
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PHOENIX
BISHOP SENTENCED FOR RINGING CHURCH BELLS
Phoenix: A bishop in Phoenix, Arizona,
received a suspended sentence of 10 days in jail and
three years’ probation for violating a Phoenix noise
ordinance because his church rang its bells hourly as a
way of praising God.
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 HOMOSEXUAL CURRICULUM ON CLASSES IN CALIFORNIA
A California school district has approved a mandatory
homosexual curriculum for children as young as 5 and
parents will not be allowed to remove their children
from the lessons. The mandatory program, officially
titled "LGBT Lesson #9," was approved May 26 by the
Alameda County Board of Education by a vote of 3-2.
Students from kindergarten through fifth grade will
learn about "tolerance" for the homosexual lifestyle
beginning next year.
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NEPAL:
EVANGELIST RELEASED AFTER 9 YEARS IN JAIL
Christians in Nepal are jubilant after a native
missionary jailed for 9 years of a 20-year sentence was
released earlier this month. Manja Tamang, a Gospel for
Asia (GFA) missionary, was imprisoned in 2000 after
being falsely accused of murder.
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NEPAL
‘CHURCH BOMBER’ ARRESTED
KATHMANDU, 2 Jun 2009: As relatives
grieved and the body of the third victim of the Nepal
church bombing was consigned to flames, police said they
had arrested the Nepali woman who had planted the bomb
that killed three people at prayer and injured more than
a dozen.
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CHRISTIAN
GIRL FORCED TO CONVERT TO ISLAM AND MARRY A MUSLIM MAN
Lanhore (Pakistan): The Christian mother
of a 12-year-old girl in Punjab Province who was
kidnapped, coerced into converting to Islam and forcibly
married to a 37-year-old Muslim hopes to recover her
daughter at the next court hearing.
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ACTIVIST APPOINTED TO OBAMA'S ADMINISTRATION
Washington, D.C.: Although President
Barack Obama has advocated speaking "fair minded words"
in debating differences on major ethical issues, his
recent nominee to the Department of Education's Office
of Safe & Drug Free Schools is a homosexual activist
with a history of using foul and abusive language
against those who have opposed his homosexualist agenda.
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OBAMA
WOOS MUSLIMS IN HIS CAIRO SPEECH, KEEPS MUM ABOUT
PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS
Washington: In a landmark speech reaching
out to the Islamic world, US President Barack Obama on
June 4, 2009 called for a new beginning between the
United States and Muslims, saying both sides should
overcome the cycle of suspicion and discord, and
religious beliefs across the world were not inimical or
exclusive to each other.
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