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CHRISTIAN GIRL RAPED AND MURDERED IN PAKISTAN
Islamabad: A nine year old Christian girl in
Pakistan was reportedly gang-raped before being killed
and dumped in a canal. And outrage is growing amid
reports that almost a month later no arrest has been
made.
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OBAMA TO
RESCIND ABORTION CONSCIENCE CLAUSE
David Brody, CBN: Grab the heart medication!
Prolife groups are not gonna like this one. The dreaded
abortion conscience clause controversy is back. Read
below from the Associated Press and then get my take
afterwards:
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KIDNAPPED FIVE YEAR OLD IRAQI CHRISTIAN KILLED
WASHINGTON, D.C.
(May 13, 2009) International Christian Concern (ICC) has
learned that the body of a kidnapped 5-year-old
Christian boy was discovered riddled with gunshots in
Iraq on May 11. Tony Adwar Shaweel was kidnapped on
March 5, 2009 by an unknown group who demanded a ransom
of $50,000.
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 RUSSIAN
POLICE CRACK DOWN ON DEFIANT 'GAYS'
Moscow, 27 May 2009: "Gays" in Moscow got a
taste of government authority when they turned pink
after being beaten up Russian police for defying a ban
on gay rallies. The "Slavic Pride" rally was to coincide
with the Eurovision Song contest in Moscow. More than 70
people have been arrested in Moscow after activists
tried to hold the city's first gay rights rally, despite
a ban on the event. The rally's organiser, Nikolay
Alexeyev, was among those arrested.
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MOTHER'S FAITH BRINGS A SON'S HEALING
NASHVILLE, May 7: As mothers was honored
recently, for Mother's Day all over the world, one
special testimony is a reminder of the faithfulness of
God even to a Muslim mother. Bill Kristijanto,
co-founder with his brother Ben of Christian band, Bread
of Stone recently shared his testimony with major media
outlets as One Cubed/CBN International, New Release
Tuesday and Beautiful Faith during Gospel Music Week in
Nashville, Tennessee.
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MYANMAR
DREADS NEXT MONSOON
One
year after Cyclone Nargis swept through Burma’s
Irrawaddy delta region and claimed an estimated 140,000
lives, there are still half a million people who have
not been able to build adequate shelter.
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FIRST
EVER CHRISTIAN MUSLIM DIALOGUE
BUENA PARK, Calif., May 6 - First Southern
Baptist Church in Buena Park, CA will host the first
Christian/Muslim Dialogue event. The event is scheduled
for 6 PM Pacific time, Sunday May 24th and is open to
the public. Reverend Wiley Drake of FSBC, will share the
podium with prominent Christian and Muslim leaders.
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HOME-SCHOOL FAMILIES RELEASE FIRST INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN
EPIC FILM
ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 12: Burns Family
Studios has launched its first motion picture in DVD, an
epic action feature set in ancient England, called "Pendragon:
Sword of His Father.”
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TIANANMEN SQUARE LEADER ISSUE DECLARATION OF REPENTANCE
AND RECONCILIATION
May 6:
An unprecedented statement regarding the June 4, 1989
massacre at Tiananmen Square was released today by more
than 80 Chinese Christian leaders calling for
forgiveness, repentance, truth, justice and
reconciliation. The majority of the signatories were
directly involved with the students' movement, and
suffered severe repercussions at the hands of
authorities for their participation. In the aftermath
of the massacre, the failure of the movement and in
their search for truth, these leaders found reality and
hope in Jesus Christ."
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URGENT
APPEAL FOR AID IN SRI LANKA
An
interdenominational Christian aid agency has appealed
for urgent humanitarian relief for Sri Lankans amid
reports of indiscriminate shelling and use of heavy
weapons resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties
last week.
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TALIBAN
ATTACKS RELIGIOUS MINORITIES
Islamabad: The Asia Evangelical Alliance (AEA)
expressed concern at the demolition of Sikh homes in
Pakistan on April 29, 2009. According to Press Trust of
India, Taliban militants demolished 11 homes of members
of the minority Sikh community in Pakistan's troubled
Aurakzai tribal region after they failed to pay jiziya
or a tax levied on non Muslims. The houses were
destroyed on the orders of Taliban commander Hakeemullah Mehsud,
the head of the militants in Aurakzai
Agency and a deputy of Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan chief,
Baitullah Mehsud.
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JAILED
COPTIC PRIEST AWAITS TRIAL IN EGYPT
Cairo: Father Mattaos Wahba was imprisoned by
Egyptian authorities for allegedly helping a Muslim
woman acquire a false identity card. Father Mattaos
Wahba, is the priest of Archangel Michael Church at
Kerdasa, Geza, Egypt. Recently he was arrested, charged
and tried for aiding a young Muslim woman in getting an
ID card that had falsified data indicating her religion
as Christian rather than Muslim. The ID card was said to
enable her to marry a Christian man and to flee the
country. On October, 2008, the court found him guilty
and sentenced him to 5 years at hard labor.
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READY
FOR A NEW LOOK AT MUSLIMS?
MINNEAPOLIS, May 11:
The international ministry "Frontiers" plans to give
away 20,000 copies of the book "Muslims, Christians and
Jesus: Gaining Understanding and Building Relationships"
to their donors and other constituents in the USA.
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WRIGHT:
GOD WILL END ALL EVIL
London: Man may not fully understand the mystery
of evil but can rejoice nonetheless in anticipation of
its ultimate destruction through the cross and
resurrection of Jesus Christ, said the international
director of Langham Partnership at the Christian
Resources Exhibition on Wednesday. In an address on the
existence of suffering and evil in the world, Dr Chris
Wright said that humans had to accept some of the
responsibility where they were caused by man’s sin.
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GOVERNMENT MUST DO MORE TO HELP CHARITIES
London:
Christian Aid Director Dr. Daleep Mukarji says the
government must do more to help charities that work in
developing countries during the present financial
crisis. Speaking in the run-up to Christian Aid Week
(May 10-16), one of the UK’s largest community
fundraising events, he revealed that the plunging value
of the pound had cost the charity around £15m.
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CHURCH
LEADERS DETAINED IN HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA
Beijing (China): On April 30, 2009 a house
church communion service in Xinye city, Henan province
was raided by officials, according to a reports from
ChinaAid.
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MUSLIMS
ATTACK CHRISTIANS FOLLOWING BLASPHEMY ACCUSATIONS IN
PAKISTAN
Islamabad: On May 1, 2009 a mob of
approximately 500 armed Muslims launched attacks on
Christians in the village of Chak, Punjab province,
after five local believers were arrested for blasphemy.
The Christian men were accused of breaking into a
government-run primary school for girls a week earlier
and smearing a page of the Quran with ink and gum. They
were also accused of leaving a message on the
black-board that linked one of the men, a well known
social activist, to the scene.
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CHRISTIAN RELEASED FROM JAIL IN LIBYA
Mumbai: The Catholic Secular Forum (CSF) and the
All India Christian Council led a protest in Mumbai
against the atrocities meted out to religious minorites
including Christians in Pakistan.
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KIDNAPPED MAN RELEASED IN THE PHILIPPINES
Manila: Ernan Chavez, who was taken hostage by
Muslim rebels in the village of Sitio Arco, Basilan
province, Philippines, was released on April 20 after
nearly two weeks in captivity.
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THE
CRIES OF PALESTINIAN PASTORS
Persecution, poverty and conflict are driving many
Christians out of the West Bank and Gaza, reports
Release International. “Because of the economic
pressures, many Christian families when they get the
chance, are leaving for a better life abroad,” Pastor
Jack Sara, senior pastor of the Jerusalem Alliance
Church in Old City Jerusalem, told Release
International.
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NEPAL
CRISIS THREATENS NEW FREEDOMS
Texas, May 4 Christian Newswire: "Nepal needs an
absolute miracle," said Gospel for Asia President K.P.
Yohannan after reviewing reports from Christian leaders
in the strife-torn Himalayan country. "Right now we have
a high emergency, but what is worse is that things could
go back to the guerrilla warfare that we had for the
past 10 years.”
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MOB
VIOLENCE AGAINST CHRISTIANS NIGERIA
On
April 13, a mob of suspected Islamic militants attacked
a group of Christians who were peacefully marching
through the town of Gwada in an Easter Monday
celebration in Niger State, Nigeria.
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BOMB
EXPLODES NEAR CHURCH IN EGYPT
Cairo:
A small bomb exploded near a revered church on May 10,
2009 in the Egyptian capital but caused no casualties or
damage, police officials said. The officials said late
Sunday night's explosion was caused by primitive bomb
planted under a parked car near Saint Mary Church in
Cairo's Zeitoun district. The church is one of the
holiest sites for Egypt's Coptic Christian minority
because an apparition of the Virgin Mary is believed to
have appeared there in 1968.
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