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PENTECOSTAL CHURCH LEADER ROLF K. MCPHERSON GOES HOME AT
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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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NEW
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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'ABORTION
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
graduating 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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GAY
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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