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 HOW TO BREAK THE TRAGIC CYCLE OF VIOLENCE ?
New Delhi:
As the death toll in the accident involving the Mumbai -
bound Jnaneshwari Express near Jhargram in West
Midnapore on Friday touched 141 on Sunday (May 30) the
question uppermost in the minds of people is how to end
the cycle of violence
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 SWITCH OFF THAT MOBILE!
It’s
easy to blame the captain of the ill-fated Air India
Express for the tragic accident that occurred in
Mangalore, since he is not there to defend his case.
Also, one can blame the airline management for not
maintaining the aircrafts.
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 DALIT CHRISTIAN ACTIVISTS MEET RAHUL GANDHI
New Delhi, May 21,
2010 (Christian Today): As part of political
activism for the cause of justice to Dalit Christians
and Dalit Muslims, an intense lobbying at the New Delhi
circles has been unstintingly continuing, with several
delegations impressing upon the political leaders in
granting Scheduled caste status to Christians and
Muslims of Scheduled Caste origin.
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 CHRISTIAN COUNCIL CONDEMNS TRAIN ATTACK
May 28, 2010 (Dibin
Samuel CT): The Bengal Christian Council (BCC)
today condemned the Maoist attack on Mumbai-bound Gyaneswari Express that killed at least 65 people in
West Bengal's Midnapore district.
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INDIAN PRIEST SENT HOME OVER NUN HARASSMENT CLAIMS
May 28, 2010:
An Indian priest on sabbatical in California has been
sent home while his bishop investigates allegations that
he sexually harassed a Catholic sister in England. The
situation came to light last month, when the nun, who
allegedly received inappropriate e-mails from the
accused priest, called Monsignor David Sork, pastor at
St John Fisher parish in Rancho Palos Verdes, asking if
the accused presently was at the church, the Palos
Verdes News reports.
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CHURCH CONDOLES MANGALORE CRASH DEATHS
May 24, 2010: The Catholic Church condoled the
death of 158 people who had boarded an Air India flight
that crashed in Mangalore on Saturday. President of the
Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), Cardinal
Oswald Gracias, in a message of condolence, said the
Church in India grieved over the "great loss of life in
the air tragedy".
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INCLUDE 'RELIGIOUS MINORITIES' IN ONGOING CENSUS:
AICC
May 17, 2010:
The ongoing 2011 census must include 'religious
minorities' just like the insertion of 'caste' in the
format, said a Christian council. In a letter to Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, Abraham Mathai, general
secretary of the All India Christian Council (aicc),
underlined the need for including religious minorities
in the census.
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EFICOR RECONSTRUCTING HOUSES OF RIOT-VICTIMS IN
BALIGUDA REGION
May 28, 2010: Two years after the anti-Christian
violence rendered them homeless, Christians in
Kandhamal's Baliguda region will now have a roof over
their heads. The Evangelical Fellowship of India
Commission on Relief (EFICOR) is currently building
about 337 houses in that region. Baliguda like other
adjacent blocks witnessed severe violence in the
aftermath of VHP leader Swami Laxmananda Saraswati's
murder.
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GFA MISSIONARIES SAY IT IS 'PRIVILEGE' TO SUFFER
May 19, 2010 (Charlie Boyd, Christian Today):
Missionaries in training with Gospel for Asia have
spoken of the “privilege” they felt in suffering for
Christ after being attacked on their Bible college
campus in Mumbai, India, earlier in the month. Seven
students were seriously injured in the attack by
suspected anti-Christian extremists on May 9.
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CHRISTIAN AID HELPS CYCLONE-HIT VICTIMS IN ANDHRA
May 21, 2010: Christian Aid partners in India
are preparing to respond after cyclone Laila hit the
coast of southern India's Andhra Pradesh state on
Thursday 20 May. The category one cyclone unleashed
heavy rains and 55-75mph winds across 777 villages. More
than one million people have been affected.
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CHRISTIAN LEADERS UNITE AT PRAYER FOR MANIPUR
May 24, 2010 (Christian Today): Over 100 key
Christian leaders from different communities of Meitei,
Chin, Kuki, Mizo, Zomi and Naga joined hands in prayer
for peace in Manipur at the Apostles' Methodist Church
in New Delhi on May 22.
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 CHURCH TEAM MEETS MANIPUR CM
Imphal, May 27: A day after leaders of Manipur
and Nagaland PCC leaders agreed to hold talks with civil
society groups to find an amicable solution to the
economic blockade, Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi
Singh today met a delegation of the All Manipur Church
Organisation.
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GATES FOUNDATION GIVES $5M FOR INDIA ANTI-SMOKING
EFFORT
Public Health Foundation
of India (PHFI) has been awarded five million dollars by
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to strengthen the
National Tobacco Control Program in two states of India,
namely Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, over a three year
period (2009-2012). Project STEPS will provide the much
needed district specific strategic response to the
rapidly escalating global tobacco epidemic in India.
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GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER CELEBRATES TENTH ANNIVERSARY
May 24, 2010 by
Christian Post: The Global Day of Prayer
celebrates the tenth anniversary of its founding by a
South African businessman today. South African believers
will gather at Newlands Rugby Stadium in Cape Town –
site of the first GDOP event – to pray and to celebrate
how one of their own started one of the world’s largest
prayer events.
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WORLD WEEK FOR PEACE IN PALESTINE ISRAEL
The World Council of
Churches is inviting member churches and related
organizations to join a week of advocacy and action for
a just peace in Palestine and Israel. Those who share
the hope of justice are invited to take peaceful
actions, together, to create a common international
public witness.
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 FRANKLIN GRAHAM CLOSES 3RD BRAZILIAN FESTIVAL WITH
OVER 25,000
May. 30, 2010: American evangelist Franklin
Graham concluded his third evangelistic festival in
Brazil Saturday night, preaching to over 25,000
Brazilians in the city of Belo Horizonte. Graham, who
heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, has
preached twice before in South America’s largest country
(and the world’s fifth largest) – the first about 18
years ago and the second about nine years ago.
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DEVELOPMENT AND JUSTICE NEEDED TO ADDRESS COMMUNAL
CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA
Although
it is often portrayed as a religious conflict, the
crisis in Nigeria's Central Plateau State is of social
and economic nature, the country's foreign minister told
church representatives. The church delegation advocated
for government action to develop the area and to bring
to trial those responsible for an outburst of communal
violence last March.
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JEWS FOR JESUS FOUNDER DIES AT AGE 78
May. 20, 2010: The founder of Jews for Jesus
died Wednesday, leaving behind a pre-written message to
members of the ministry. In the letter posted on the
Jews for Jesus website after his death, Moishe Rosen
encouraged members of Jews for Jesus to stay with the
ministry, especially as they “stand on the edge of a
breakthrough in Jewish evangelism.”
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SEMINAR AGAINST EUTHANASIA FOLLOWS DEFEATING ASSISTED
SUICIDE IN CANADA
Seattle, WA (LifeNews.com) -- On the heels of
defeating a bill that would have legalized assisted
suicide in Canada, an anti-euthanasia group is
organizing a national conference to coordinate strategy
to respond to additional attempts to promote the
practice. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition will host
the event next month in Seattle.
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CHRISTIANS PRAY FOR BRITAIN'S HEALING
London, May 27, 2010, Charlie Boyd (CT):
Christians gathered in every borough of London on
Pentecost Sunday to pray for God to heal Britain. The
prayer gatherings were held as part of the Global Day of
Prayer, which united an estimated 250 million Christians
worldwide as the movement marked its tenth anniversary.
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 13 EVANGELICALS ARRESTED IN ALEXANDRIA
State
Security Investigations Service arrested yesterday in Agami, Alexandria 13 evangelical Christians for
proselitizing. The arrests were made at a meeting with
Father Antonios of the Orthodox Church.
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JEWISH GROUP CONDEMNS WCC PEACE WEEK
May 28, 2010: A Jewish human rights organization
denounced an upcoming World Council of Churches’ peace
event as “blatantly anti-Israel.” The Simon Wiesenthal
Center was referring to the World Week for Peace in
Palestine Israel, which begins Saturday and will run
until June 4. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of
the center, accused the WCC of never standing up for
Israel in the 62 years of its existence but being
“fixated” on the plight of Palestinians.
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PASTOR WITH NO TONGUE STILL HAS A LOT TO SAY
Tim Townsend, St.
Louis Post-Dispatch - The Rev. Scott Schmieding
sat in an examination room at the MD Anderson Cancer
Center in Houston 13 years ago as a surgeon examined a
malignant tumor in the center of his tongue.
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WHY SO FEW CHRISTIANS IN JAPAN?
May 18, 2010: The quality of missionaries or the
methodologies used is not the problem when it comes
evangelizing. But it is the Japanese mentality itself
that is hindering more people from coming to Christ,
said a mission leader last week at a global conference
in Tokyo.
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WHO SEEKS CLAMPDOWN ON TOBACCO ADS TARGETING WOMEN
(Reuters) - The World Health Organisation called
on Friday for more action against tobacco advertising
that targets women and girls, especially in developing
countries. Females represent the biggest potential
growth market for tobacco products and are being
subjected to aggressive campaigns linked to fashion,
sports events and entertainment, the United Nations
agency said.
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 HELL FOR ABUSERS, SCICLUNA WARNS
May 31, 2010: The Vatican prosecutor Monsignor
Charles Scicluna has warned abusers that they risk a
damnation in hell that would be worse than the death
penalty. Monsignor Scicluna, a Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith official, led a special “make
amends” prayer service in St. Peter’s Basilica, AP
reports.
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US DEMANDS RELEASE OF SAMARITAN'S PURSE WORKERS
The U.S.
State Department is demanding the release of three
Samaritan's Purse workers who were abducted Tuesday by a
group of armed men in the Darfur region of Sudan. The
workers – an American woman from California and two
Sudanese men - were kidnapped in an area southwest of
Nyala, according to a statement on the Boone-based
relief agency's website.
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NYC BUS ADS ASKING 'LEAVING ISLAM?' CAUSE A STIR
By DEEPTI HAJELA (AP) NEW YORK -- The questions on
the ads aren't subtle: Leaving Islam? Fatwa on your
head? Is your family threatening you? A conservative
activist and the organizations she leads have paid
several thousand dollars for the ads to run on at least
30 city buses for a month. The ads point to a website
called RefugefromIslam.com, which offers information to
those wishing to leave Islam, but some Muslims are
calling the ads a smoke screen for an anti-Muslim
agenda.
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UK PRIEST MISSES MASSES OVER DRINK DRIVE ARREST
May 31, 2010:
British priest Fr Bede Rowe failed to show up for
Mass Sunday when police arrested him on a drink-driving
charge after he smashed his car into a railing. Fr Rowe,
who was nearly three times the limit, later wrote a
letter of apology to parishioners, The Mirror reports.
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New information
obtained by a member of Congress makes it appear the
Obama administration has spent $10 million potentially
illegally promoting a pro-abortion constitution in
Kenya. Obama officials were thought to have spent $2
million but Rep. Chris Smith says that figure could
exceed $10 million.
