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MEDIA TRAINING ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR FORMING
PRIESTS: CBCI MEDIA MEET
A two-day hectic meeting of communication experts and
seminary formators from across India concluded in
Bangalore September 8th, at Nava Spoorti Kendra.
Organised by the Catholic Bishops Conference of India’s
(CBCI)Commission for Social Communications, the
participants refined and fine-tuned a resource-book
‘Communications in formation’ intended to be introduced
in seminaries across India.
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GURGAON MOLESTATION CASE: POLICE DELAY FIR
New Delhi, November 9, 2009: Police in
Gurgaon are failing to show empathy and sensitivity
towards the victims of sexual and other physical
violence, especially those from the North-Eastern states
of India. Policemen at the DLF Phase 2 police station
refused to register the complaints of a Naga girl who
claims to have been molested by a show room manager in
the Gurgaon Metropolitan Mall. The 50 hour delay in
registering the complaint has given long enough time for
the culprit to come up with ideas to confront the
victim.
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DENGUE ALARM IN DELHI
Delhi: The total number of those suffering
from the vector-borne disease Dengue in the national
capital this season has climbed to 438. Delhi has seen a
spurt in the number of dengue cases with the last 10
days registering over 20 cases per day on an average.
Two persons have died due to the disease so far.
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DEVASIA MULLAKARA TO PREACH IN DELHI
Delhi: The Church of Eternity is
organizing deliverance ministries led by Rev. Devasia
Mullakara and his team. Special prayers and counseling
will be made available to those in need.
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CHURCH DEMANDS EARLY ENACTMENT OF COMMUNAL VIOLENCE
BILL
New Delhi (Christian Today): The Christian
community Saturday held a national consultation to
deliberate on a communal violence bill which it observed
must be earliest promulgated into a legislation with
certain amends and additions. Attended by religious
heads, lawyers and human rights activists, the
consultation in New Delhi endorsed the immediate
implementing of the Communal Violence (Prevention,
Control & Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill, 2005 in the
backdrop of growing religious violence in the society.
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BJP CHIEF WANTS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO PREVENT
CONVERSIONS
Delhi, Nov 7 2009: To further its campaign
against Christianity, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) has demanded an amendment in the
Indian constitution to check religious conversions. The
party’s president Rajnath Singh while addressing a
function in Bhopal on Oct. 31 said foreign forces were
involved in large-scale conversions through inducements
and hence an amendment in the constitution was
essential.
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 PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS REMEMBERED ON NOV 8
Delhi: In one of the largest prayer events
on Sunday, Nov. 8, thousands of churches from over 150
countries prayed for the persecuted Christians across
the globe. An initiative of the World Evangelical
Alliance, the International Day of Prayer for the
Persecuted Church (IDOP) prepared an occasion to offer
prayers for “thousands of our Christian brothers and
sisters around the world who suffer persecution, simply
because they confess Jesus Christ as Lord.”
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ANNUAL CONVENTION OF HOSPITAL MINISTRIES INDIA
 A unique display of unity was presented when more than
thirty Pentecostal churches of Faridabad came together
under one banner to organise the 10th HMI Haryana Region
Annual Convention from 23rd to 25th October at Lion’s
Community Hall, NIT, Faridabad.
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AGRA CRUSADE AND PASTORS SEMINAR
Agra: The Light of Life Pentecostal Church
in Agra has organised a three days gospel crusade and
pastors’ seminar from 19 to 21 November, 2009. These
meetings will be held in the Baptist School grounds, M G
Road, Agra. Pastor Suresh Babu is scheduled to preach
God’s Word during these meetings.
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BCS SCHOLARSHIPS ON OFFER
Mumbai: The Bombay Catholic Sabha has
invited applications from Catholic students belonging to
the Archdiocese of Bombay for award of scholarships or
merit prizes for the year 2008-2009. Students who have
attained excellence in any examination (aggregate or
specified subjects) or have secured a rank at any of the
examinations conducted by a recognized Board or
University are eligible to apply.
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BERNARD BLESSING BARRED FROM PREACHING IN KERALA
 Trivandrum: World-renowned evangelist and
prophet Pastor Bernard Blessing was restrained from
preaching at a convention organised by Pentecostal
groups in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The meetings,
which were to be the largest ever public gathering the
city has ever seen, were scheduled from 2 to 4 November
2009. The Ghana-based preacher who was to address a
three-day gathering at Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium was
prohibited from speaking after Hindu groups pressured
the police citing visa norms.
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SANGLIANA: POLICE ACTING HASTILY ON FALSE COMPLAINTS
AGAINST CHRISTIANS
Former police commissioner of Bangalore Dr. HT Sangliana
lashed out at Hindutva outfits falsely implicating
Christians on cooked up conversion charges in Karnataka.
Talking to press persons after two incidents of alleged
conversion surfaced on the media, Sangliana said the
accusations were part of a ploy to create fear
“psychosis” in the minds of Christians and pit the
public against the minority community.
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CSI BAGS AWARD FOR ECOLOGICAL INTERVENTION
The Church of South India on Tuesday was honored with
the International Environment Conservation Award for its
ecological intervention as a faith based community. The
award by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
in partnership with the Alliance of Religions and
Conservation (ARC) was recognition of the Church’s “Long
term Commitment to protect the Living Planet”.
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GIFT SOMEONE A BUFFALO THIS CHRISTMAS!
It might seem an eccentric Christmas campaign, but it
has favorably helped many Dalits in India for their
day-to-day survival. British families have helped send
buffaloes to impoverished families in India by meeting
Operation Mobilisation’s challenge to spend less at
Christmas.
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NE WOMEN LOOK FORWARD TO 'DECADE OF CHANGE'
A Christian women’s gathering in North East India
declared 2010 - 2020 as ‘A Decade of Women for Change’.
The declaration was made after over 500 women leaders
from Assam, Arunachal, Manipur, Meghalaya and Nagaland
gathered for a 3-day program organised by the Baptist
Women Fellowship (BWF) in Imphal, the capital city of
Manipur.
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CSW FEARS LACK OF JUSTICE FOR ORISSA VICTIMS
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has sent a letter
to EU leaders, urging them to use Friday’s summit to
raise fresh concern about the aftermath of last year’s
anti-Christian violence in Orissa, including “legitimate
fears of impunity on a large scale”.
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PRIEST’S FILM SELECTED FOR INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
A Christian priest’s documentary film was selected for
the 7th Queens International Film Festival to be held
this week in New York. The event from Nov. 12 - 15 will
feature Fr Joseph J. Palackal’s 34 min film: “Kerala the
Cradle of Christianity in South Asia: The Cultural
Interface of Music and Religion.”
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 BILLY GRAHAM CELEBRATES 91ST BIRTHDAY
Evangelist Billy Graham spent the first November weekend
receiving several family members at his western North
Carolina home to celebrate his 91st birthday today.
“I’ve experienced God’s gracious love in a personal way
all these years,” Graham said. “Today my heart is filled
with gratitude to the Lord for all He has done for me,
and for all the prayers from so many people over the
years.”
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REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA SINKING SHIP IMPLODING,
SAYS PROFESSOR
The
Reformed Church in America is a sinking ship, says one
Reformed believer. “Listen. Do you hear them? Those are
the gentle, mournful sounds of a denomination
imploding,” wrote Donald A Luidens, professor of
sociology at Hope College, Michigan, in November’s
Perspectives. “The denominational craft has carried us
far, but it’s time is up. It has sprung debilitating
leaks which can no longer be plugged.”
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CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO FREE IRANIAN WOMEN CONVERTS
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Nov: A ministry that supports persecuted
Christians launched a campaign to press Iran to release
two young female converts who have been detained for
eight months in one of the most notorious prisons in the
country. Open Doors USA is calling on people to send a
“respectful” message to Iranian Ambassador to the United
Nations Mohammad Khazaee to request that Maryam
Rostampour, 27, and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad, 30,
be released immediately.
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UK CATHOLICS 'DISAPPOINTED' WITH SEX EDUCATION PLANS
The Catholic Education Service for England and Wales
says it is “disappointed” with the announcement from
Schools Secretary Ed Balls that sex education is to be
made compulsory for all pupils. Mr Balls announced on
Thursday that it is now compulsory for all 15-year-olds
to take part in at least one year of sex and
relationships lessons.
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BISHOP CALLS BRITAIN TO RETURN TO CHRISTIAN ETHIC
Britain’s freedoms are being eroded as Afghanistan’s are
being built up, says the Bishop of Lichfield. In a
sermon for Remembrance Sunday in Stoke Minster, the Rt
Rev Jonathan Gledhill said British troops were being
sent to Afghanistan to build a free and democratic
society while Britain’s own freedoms and values were in
danger of being dismantled.
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ASSEMBLIES OF GOD GETS GOVERNMENT PERMIT IN VIETNAM
In October 2009, the Assemblies of God of Vietnam
received a permit from the Vietnam government to
operate, which is the first step in becoming an
officially recognized church. Although the AG was
established in Vietnam in 1989, Vietnam’s Religion Law
requires an organization to be a stable organization for
20 years before the process of official recognition can
begin. Now that this step has been passed, the church
has an official operating license.
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NIGERIA: CHRISTIAN MOVIE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
Lagos: While Fireproof, Facing the Giants, and
The Passion of the Christ have generated talk of a
Christian filmmaking renaissance in the United States,
Nigerian Christians are actively contributing to the
booming Nigerian film industry known as Nollywood.
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EVANGELICAL MARCH IN BRAZIL DRAWS 15 LAKH PEOPLE
 Sao Paulo: More than 15 Lakh evangelical
Christians joined Brazil’s annual “March for Jesus” on
November 2, an event sponsored by a church whose leaders
recently returned after being imprisoned in the U.S. for
money smuggling. Now in its 17th year, the march unites
faithful from hundreds of evangelical churches and
attracts dozens of Christian bands, preachers and local
celebrities. It is organized by the powerful Reborn in
Christ Church, whose leaders said they expected 50 Lakh
people to gather around a central Sao Paulo plaza where
the main stage was located.
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