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KIDNAPPED CHRISTIAN DOCTOR RELEASED IN NORTHERN IRAQ:
POLICE
MOSUL, Iraq — A Christian doctor abducted
by an armed gang overnight from her home near the
northern Iraqi city of Mosul was released on Sunday
evening, police said. Mahasin Bashir was freed at around
6 pm (1500 GMT) in the town of Baashiqa, 15 kilometres
from her home in the predominantly Christian locality of
Bartala.
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WILL THIS CHRISTIAN BE BRITAIN’S NEXT PM?
MANCHESTER, England, Oct 8 (Reuters) -
Opposition leader David Cameron, tipped in polls to be
Britain’s next prime minister, promised voters a
brighter future with more control over their lives on
Thursday but said they must first endure the pain of
sharp cuts in public spending. Cameron said that unless
quick action was taken to stem a record government
deficit, Britain risked prolonging the recession and
that British authorities needed to stop printing money
to avoid igniting inflation.
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TEACHING CHILDREN THE BIBLE JUST GOT EASIER
TEANECK, New Jersey, Oct. 3 /Christian Newswire —
Combining the latest in 3D digital computer graphic art
along with short snippets of easy-to-understand Biblical
narratives, Creation By Design released a series of
Bible trading cards that will change the Biblical
“edu-tertainment” world. “My Bible Cards” is designed to
help parents and educators teach children the Bible
without compromising on the Word of God and the latest
art trends in the trading card industry.
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SAMOANS FLOCK TO CHURCHES TO MOURN TSUNAMI VICTIMS
LALOMANU, Samoa — Hundreds of survivors of
the Samoas tsunami gathered at a church on high ground
to mourn lost relatives, while pledging to rebuild their
obliterated communities after a disaster that killed 177
people. The Congregational Christian Church of Lalomanu
was packed with about 1,000 people, including relatives
from Australia and New Zealand and rescue workers, for a
belated funeral service Sunday for 52 friends and loved
ones. A national prayer service also was held in
neighboring American Samoa.
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INDONESIAN QUAKE TOLL RISES
PADANG, Indonesia — The death toll from
Indones ia’s
massive earthquake will likely double as officials on
Saturday reached rural communities wiped out by
landslides that buried more than 600 people under
mountains of mud, most of them guests at a wedding
celebration. Virtually nothing remained of four villages
that had dotted the hillside of the Padang Pariman
district in Indonesia’s West Sumatra just three days
ago, said officials and an Associated Press photographer
who flew over the devastated area.
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NZ VOTES AGAINST CHILD SMACK BAN
New Zealanders in August 2009 voted by a wide margin in
favour of allowing parents to smack their children, two
years after a law banned discipline by force. The
legislation was brought in two years ago to try to lower
the country’s high rate of child abuse. The referendum
asked: “Should a smack as part of good parental
correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?”
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PAKISTAN WILL OVERCOME RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION,
ZARDARI TELLS POPE
Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari has promised Pope
Benedict XVI Thursday that discrimination based on
religion will be overcome in his country; amid a call by
Christian organisations to start movement against
blasphemy law this month. President Zardari and the Pope
were meeting at the pontiff’s summer residence in Castel
Gandolfo, Italy, where they discussed topics including
security and freedom of religion.
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CHURCHES CHALLENGED TO BREAK SILENCE ON DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE
Congregations and clergy need to stop hiding their heads
in the sand and pretending domestic violence isn’t
happening in their communities. This month (October)
cities, schools and faith-based groups across the USA
are drawing attention to domestic violence, which some
are calling a pandemic.
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RUSSIA: “YOU HAVE THE LAW, WE HAVE ORDERS”
Two Baptist preachers in Russia’s Baltic Sea exclave of
Kaliningrad have been fined after their community “sang
psalms and spoke about Christ” in the street, they have
told Forum 18 News Service. Speaking on condition of
anonymity, a source in the Kaliningrad police told Forum
18 that all public gatherings – whether political or
religious – must be sanctioned by the municipal
authorities in advance. “But they didn’t have permission
and they had no intention of getting it!” he remarked,
clearly irritated by the Baptists’ actions.
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THE GOSPEL IN ORAL TRADITION
Most of the world’s people live in oral cultures. They
learn about their history and transmit their values
through song, chant, story, and drama. But when they
listen to the Bible, oral people don’t separate
themselves from the stories. As they listen, they are
drawn in and find themselves walking alongside Jesus.
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BIBLE VERSES BANNED FROM GEORGIA SCHOOL FOOTBALL
FIELD
ORT OGLETHORPE, Ga. — The Warriors of
Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High took the field on Friday
night without any Bible verses written on the
cheer-leaders’ banner. Instead, the football team ran
through a banner that read “This is Big Red Country”
before each bent on a knee to pray on the field of Tommy
Cash Stadium.
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