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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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PRAISE THE ALMIGHTY
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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.
