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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

VIETNAM: STATE REPRESSING CHRISTIANS VIOLENTLY

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 121 | Wed 17 Aug 2011 By Elizabeth Kendal The Montagnard / Degar people are the indigenous inhabitants of Vietnam’s Central Highlands. After the French left Indochina in 1955, the Vietnamese authorities — who demean the Montagnards as ‘Moi’ (savages) — sought to seize, colonise and exploit the Montagnard’s […]

Re-Examining the Arab Spring

August 15, 2011 By George Friedman On Dec. 17, 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set himself on fire in a show of public protest. The self-immolation triggered unrest in Tunisia and ultimately the  resignation of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. This was followed byunrest in a number of Arab countries that the global […]

Who Wins? Two Books about Heaven and Hell

Sightings 8/15/2011     Who Wins? Two Books about Heaven and Hell — Martin E. Marty      ¢â‚¬Å“Let ¢â‚¬â„¢s you and him fight! ¢â‚¬  The old comic-book trope is good advice for bystanders as Mark Galli ¢â‚¬â„¢s God Wins counters Rob Bell and his book  Love Wins. The two are respected evangelical leaders, an editor and a pastor, […]

World Refugee Day

Refugee Sunday 28 August The following won First Prize at the World Refugee Day 2011 in Toronto,Canada.Follow the links and note the mood and the music and the despair in the other poems. http://worldrefugeedayto.com/ ************I Am By Amrit Kaur Babbar I am a child working at the age of five. I am a human being […]

The SPARROW at STARBUCKS

The song that silenced the cappuccino machine It was chilly in Manhattan but warm inside the Starbucks shop on 51st Street and Broadway, just a skip up from Times Square . Early November weather in New York City holds only the slightest hint of the bitter chill of late December and January, but it’s enough […]

Broken Fingers

By Frank Fricke (A sermon preached at our home church, East Doncaster Baptist in Melbourne, a couple of Sundays ago). This morning I ¢â‚¬â„¢d like to try something a little different, right here at the start of the sermon I ¢â‚¬â„¢d like to ask Philip to play us a song that I have given him. So let ¢â‚¬â„¢s […]

The Year of Your Birth

The Year of your Birth!!! Click on the link and type in the year of your birth. Reflect, reminisce and enjoy.       Give this a try; you’ll be amazed.   Super interesting     The screen is going to fade to black, have your glasses on, and follow the instructions below. You’ll be […]

Pray for the World August 15, 2011

AUSTRALIAN   PRAYER   NETWORK   NEWSLETTER MALAGASY PUPILS PAY SCHOOL FEES WITH SEX WORK DISASTROUS FAMINE HITS SOMALIA ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY BEING TAUGHT IN RUSSIA’S FORMERLY ATHEIST SCHOOLS TOTTENHAM’S CHURCH LEADERS CALL COMMUNITY TO A VIGIL OF HOPE RIOTERS ARE BRITAIN’S LOST GENERATION 10,000 MARCH FOR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE IN NEW YORK MALAGASY PUPILS PAY SCHOOL FEES WITH SEX […]

Muhammad’s Marriage to Aisha

2UE Radio Host Michael Smith’s Comments on Muhammad’s Marriage to Aisha Posted:  14 Aug 2011 07:25 AM PDT Today the  Sydney Morning Herald reported that Michael Smith, 2UE Radio Host, is being investigated by the Australian Media and Communications authority “over his assertion that the prophet Muhammad ‘married a nine-year-old and consummated it when she was 11′”. […]

Riots in England: prayers…

Yesterday British churches gathered for their Sunday services to reflect and pray about the events of the past week. The following are some of the prayers and a couple of commentaries on these events. Finally, brothers and sisters, ¢â‚¬ ¦ Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the […]