 LOOTING
AND THEFTS DISPLAY ABSENCE OF FAITH IN GOD, REMARKS
CHILEAN BISHOP
Santiago, Chile, Mar 3, 2010 (CNA).- In
comments to Catholic News Agency, Bishop Philip
Bacarreza Rodriguez of Santa Maria de Los Angeles in
Chile explained that the looting and thefts that have
occurred following the earthquake on February 27, are "a
further demonstration of the people's lack of Christian
values,” and absence of faith.
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VIETNAM NUNS OPEN HOME FOR WOMEN TO PREVENT ABORTIONS
 A
Church-run home in Hue, central Vietnam, is helping to
stop women aborting their babies by providing a safe
haven for them to have their children. Six months ago,
Tran Thi Thu Hien (not her real name) decided to
terminate her three-month-old pregnancy after her
boyfriend abandoned her. She was also too scared to
return to her family.
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WORLD VISION SUSPENDS OPERATIONS IN PAKISTAN AFTER
STAFF KILLED
March 11, 2010 (Christian Today):
Christian aid agency World Vision has suspended its
operations in Pakistan after suspected militants
Wednesday attacked its office, killing six of its
employees and wounding several others. Officials in
Pakistan said the militants armed with grenades and
riffles stormed the World Vision building in Mansehra
district and set off a bomb before opening fire at the
staff.
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CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM VIOLENCE RAGES IN NIGERIA
Jos, Nigeriam 7 March 2010 (VOA):
Witnesses say at least 120 people have been killed in
fighting near the volatile Nigerian city of Jos.
Nigeria's acting president has ordered security forces
to hunt down those behind the violence. Residents in the
village of Dogo Nahawa say unidentified gunmen raided
their village before dawn Sunday, shooting in the air to
draw people out of their homes before attacking them
with machetes and knives.
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SCIENTISTS FIND MATHEMATICAL FORMULA FOR THE PERFECT
WIFE
London, 3 March 2010 (Telegraph) -
Sticking to the formula would increase a couple's
chances of a long and happy marriage by a fifth, the
team from the Geneva School of Business found.
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WORLD VISION MAKES CASE FOR NUTRITIONAL AID TO US
CONGRESS
Mar. 11, 2010: Aid that promotes nutrition
and food security has wide-ranging benefits compared to
its costs in the fight against poverty-related problems,
a top humanitarian policy analyst at international aid
agency World Vision said Thursday during a Congressional
hearing on global hunger.
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 IRAQI
CHRISTIANS FLEE MOSUL AFTER SERIES OF MURDERS
Bagdhad, Fri, Feb. 26, 2010 - Christian
families in Iraq are fleeing the northern town of Mosul
in droves after a string of unprovoked murders left at
least 10 believers dead, a ministry working with
persecuted churches reported.
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HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP SEEKS FREEDOM FOR CONVERTS TO
WORSHIP IN MUSLIM WORLD
LONDON Mar. 03, 2010 – A new human rights
group is mobilizing people around the world to stand up
for the freedom of religious converts to freely live out
their faith. Set My People Free to Worship Me is
planning to stage simultaneous marches on April 3 in
London, Frankfurt, Melbourne, Cairo, South Africa,
Stockholm and Sydney.
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CARDINAL ANNOUNCES PRAYER CAMPAIGN FOR CHILE
Santiago, Chile, Mar 4, 2010 (CNA)-
Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz of Santiago is
urging the faithful of Chile to unite in prayer each day
at 7 p.m. local time to remember the victims of the
country's recent earthquake, and to thank God for the
gift of life.
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RADICAL FEMINIST DEMAND UN ‘SUPER AGENCY’
New York City, Mar 4, 2010 (can) - The
Obama administration has endorsed a proposal to create a
new U.N. “super agency” to advance extremist feminist
ideology, the Population Research Institute (PRI) says.
The organization warns the agency could engage in
“cultural imperialism” in service to radical causes.
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CATHOLIC CHARITY HELPS PROVIDE NEW FACILITY FOR
MENTALLY DISABLED IN EGYPT
Cairo, Mar 4, 2010(CNA) - The Catholic
Charity Aid to the Church in need (ACN) reported on
Wednesday that they are helping fund a new center for
the mentally disabled in Egypt. The new facility will
allow for those who minister to the disabled population
to leave their current center in the desert.
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CHURCHES CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR FREE WORLD
March 5, 2010, (Jenna Lyle, CT): An
alliance of nine British Churches has joined the World
Council of Churches in calling on governments to
drastically reduce their nuclear arsenals. The alliance
includes the Church of England, the Church of Scotland,
the Church in Wales, the Methodist Church, and the
Baptist Union of Great Britain.
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ANGLICAN HEAD DEFENDS UNIQUENESS OF CHRIST
LONDON, Mar. 04, 2010– The Archbishop of
Canterbury has urged Christians to approach interfaith
dialogue with confidence in their own beliefs about the
uniqueness of Christ while retaining a desire to learn
from others. In an address exploring the finality of
Christ in a pluralist world on Tuesday, Dr. Rowan
Williams said people who believed in absolute truth were
liable to be branded bigots or intolerant by those who
felt that what was right for some was not necessarily
right for others.
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 PERSECUTION
LIST: N. KOREA, IRAN TOP OPPRESSORS OF CHRISTIANS
(Michelle A. Vu, Christian Post Reporter) - North Korea
is for the eighth straight year the world’s top
persecutor of Christians, according to Open Doors' 2010
World Watch List. The notoriously restrictive regime
bans all religions other than a semi-personality cult
centered around the current leader, Kim Jong-Il, and his
father, Kim Il-Sung. It is illegal to be a Christian in
North Korea and authorities have executed people found
to possess a Bible.
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SCHOOL CENSORS KG POSTER WITH JESUS IMAGE
New York, Mar. 12, 2010: A legal group on
Thursday filed a petition requesting the U.S. Supreme
Court to review the case of a kindergarten student’s
poster that was censored by a school because it
contained the image of Jesus. Liberty Counsel, which
represents the student Antonio Peck, argues that the
latest decision by a district court judge to dismiss
Antonio’s claim conflicts with the Supreme Court’s
precedent regarding a student’s right to challenge the
actions of school officials.
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 DISTURBING
STORY OF FALLUJAH'S BIRTH DEFECTS
John Simpson, (BBC), Fallujah: Six years
after the intense fighting began in the Iraqi town of
Fallujah between US forces and Sunni insurgents, there
is a disturbingly large number of cases of birth defects
in the town. Fallujah is less than 40 miles (65km) from
Baghdad, but it can still be dangerous to get to.
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30 HURT IN MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN CLASHES IN EGYPT
Cairo, March 13, 2010: Thirty people were
injured when clashes broke out between Christians and
Muslims in a rural area in northern Egypt, media reports
said. Fighting erupted late Friday in the north-western
governorate of Mersa Matrouh over a fence Muslims said
had been built to take over a piece of land to build a
church, the BBC reported.
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LUNCHTIME COFFEE CUTS DIABETES RISK--STUDY
 In
a notable study, researchers have found that coffee
included in lunch is helpful in cutting back diabetes
risk. Researchers at the University of Sao Paulo in
Ribeirao Preto, Brazil established that drinking a cup
of coffee only at lunchtime is helpful in reducing type
2 diabetes risks, as opposed to having it at any other
point of time. “Over a dozen studies have linked coffee
drinking to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes--the type
closely linked to obesity,” stated the researchers.
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IN
BHUTAN, IT IS `GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS’
THIMPHU, Bhutan (RNS): The Buddhist
kingdom of Bhutan is the only nation that puts happiness
at the core of public policy. But its thrust on a “Gross
National Happiness"(GNH) index is not just a
warm-and-fuzzy inheritance from Buddhism, but also
integral to the nation’s cultural and political
security.
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NIGERIA CHARGES 49 WITH MURDER OVER CHRISTIAN
VILLAGES MASSACRES
About 200 people have been arrested and 49 charged with
murder after massacres at three Christian villages at
the weekend, police in Nigeria said yesterday. The
announcement came as more details emerged of the violent
outburst in the central Plateau state whose capital, Jos,
lies at the faultline between the country’s Muslim north
and Christian south.
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