International Day of Prayer for the persecuted church 2009
Every November, Christians around the world join together in prayer to remember our Christian brothers and sisters suffering persecution simply because they confess Jesus Christ as Lord. .
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Mission group calls for crackdown on piracy
The Rev Tom Heffer said the international community had done well to reduce the number of attacks in known piracy hotspots but still needed to do more.
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Generational change means a new approach to ministry, says researcher
Mark McCrindle, a graduate of the Arrow Leadership program was the keynote speaker at the Annual Arrow Lecture, held in Sydney and Melbourne last week.
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Voice of the Martyrs sends one millionth New Testament
In the last few years, BU has sent copies of the New Testament to several restricted countries, including Colombia, North Korea and Egypt. The one millionth Bible was sent on August 5 to a persecuted believer in China.
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Veteran Soldier Promoted
In the late hours of August 9th, Rev Frank McInnes passed from sleep into Glory. As The Salvation Army would say, he was promoted to Glory.
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1000 churches unite statewide for media campaign
More than 1000 churches (250,000 people) from all Christian denominations across NSW have come together for a massive multi-media communication campaign to be run later this year.
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Officials Announce Ban on Christianity in Lao Village
Following the confiscation of livestock from Christian families earlier this month, officials in a village in Laos on Saturday (July 11) called a special meeting for all residents and announced that they had "banned the Christian faith in our village."
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Belarus Continues To Suppress Minority Christians
Minority Christians in Belarus continue to suffer at the hands of the government authorities, the latest development involving a ban on a pastor to preach and also one Church was fined for activity "not according to its statute."
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Speakers named for Cape Town 2010
At its biennial leadership meeting in Korea in June, The Lausanne Movement named the expositors for Cape Town 2010. This Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, held in collaboration with the World Evangelical Alliance, will take place 16-25 October 2010.
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CCC Media Ministry Records Over 1M Decisions for Christ in 1 Month
For the first time in its five-year history, the media arm of Campus Crusade for Christ recorded over one million decisions for Jesus Christ in a single month.
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Two Chinese American Missionaries Missing in Uyghur Region
A raid on a Chinese house church two days before a riot broke out in Uyghur Autonomous Region in Western China has led to the arrest of eight Christians, meanwhile two Chinese American missionaries are reportedly missing.
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Cuban court hands pastor six year prison sentence
Christian Solidarity Worldwide has called into question a six year prison sentence handed on Thursday to the leader of a growing Christian organisation in Cuba.