Vietnam Police Raid Prayer Meeting at House of Imprisoned Church Leader
Police disbanded a women's prayer meeting in Ho Chi Minh City at the home of a jailed Vietnamese Church leader and briefly detained 10 men who came to their aid, a media agency reported Thursday....
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Evangelical Mission Network Urges a Step up in Action against AIDS
A major conference held last week by Global Connections - the UK evangelical network for world mission - has pointed out the urgency of stepping up the fight against HIV/AIDS. At Partnership House in Waterloo, London, the forum...
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Global Day of Prayer for Burma Observed in London
On Saturday 12th March, the global day of prayer for Burma will be observed in London, with the event hosted by the UK-based human rights organisation, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW)...
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Spring Harvest 2005 Equips Churches for Action in Post-Christendom World
Spring Harvest is a successful Christian initiative that has swept throughout the UK and has inspired many to transform the expression of church. Its annual Easter main event will begin on 21st March, and some 55,000 Christians...
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One More 'Mennonite Six' Member Released in Vietnam
A Christian persecution watchdog group announced yesterday the release of one of the "Mennonite Six" arrested in March 2004. On Mar. 3, 2005, Nguyen Van Phuong reportedly became the third among the six to be released...
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Church Army StreetReach Project Backed by Irish Churches
Churches across the UK are finding a new expression of the church after inspiration from the Mission-Shaped Church Report published by the Church of England General Synod in January 2004. Church Army has been spearheading...
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Food Program Growth and Development in Aceh Province
The Tsunami Response Team of one of the largest Christian relief and development organisations in the world is targeting new camps and communities of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Indonesia’s tsunami-ravaged Aceh Province...
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Open Doors World Watchlist Released
For the third straight year, the isolated communist nation of North Korea remains atop an annual list of countries where Christians are persecuted most. Over the past few years, the Open Doors International "World Watch List" has...
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Catholic Media Campaigns Chinese Parliament to Free Bishops & Priests
A Catholic-based news agency AsiaNews has initiated a campaign to protest the Chinese government for the liberation of 19 bishops and 18 priests arrested and kept from carrying out their ministry...
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Baptists Experience Remarkable Growth in Albania
It has been reported that the number of Baptists in the small country of Albania has increased remarkably over the last ten year. Believers, particularly among young people, have grown from 0 to 250 in the Baptist Union...
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Ecumenical Leaders to Lobby Government Support for Humanitarian Issues
The Church World Service (CWS) has announced the Third Annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days Symposium to be held in Washington in March. Ecumenical leaders will take the opportunity to lobby for greater US support of global humanitarian issues...
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Evangelicals Called to Pray for Persecuted Pakistani Christians
Pakistani Christians are facing serious levels of persecution due to widespread Islamic intolerance of Christians, according to the World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC)...