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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Uzbekistan: Trial To Follow Raid On Protestant Church

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SOURCE: KESTON INSTITUTE http://www.keston.org KESTON INSTITUTE, OXFORD, UK ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE: 11.00, 30 May 2002 Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ UZBEKISTAN: TRIAL TO FOLLOW RAID ON PROTESTANT CHURCH. A court hearing against members of a Protestant church in the western Uzbek town of Nukus, […]

Moldova

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SOURCE: KESTON INSTITUTE KESTON INSTITUTE, OXFORD, UK ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE: 11.00, 31 May 2002 Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ MOLDOVA: WILL SUPREME COURT VICTORY HELP TRUE ORTHODOX? Moldova’s True Orthodox community has welcomed its 29 May victory in the country’s Supreme Court over the […]

What Are The Palestinians Supposed To Do?

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continue to receive these messages, please let me know.) Home again, jet-lagged and weary, but exhilarated by a visit to China, a country truly remarkable both for its dramatic economic transformation and its lack of democratic freedoms. The article below from the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, expresses the “catch 22” in which the Palestinians find themselves. […]

How Israelis Cope

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[From a friend of a friend in Jerusalem. 31st May 2002] I am not the least afraid to go any place, by bus or to a mall. I didn’t change or stop doing ANY thing I used to do before this mess began! People tend to forget that twice the casualties from terror get killed […]

Who Is Yasser Arafat?

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[Again: please note that this website is even-handed re Israel. Odd stance, eh? This is published here FYI]. The article that the editors of Melbourne University student magazine Farrago didn’t want you to see. by Nadav Shlezinger TNA News with Commentary No. 338, June 2002 As a Jewish student on campus, the amount of anti-Israel […]

Attack In Sudan: Eyewitness Report

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International Christian Concern . http://www.persecution.org . . (301) 989-1708 Aid Worker Provides Eyewitness Account of Attack in Sudan (Washington, DC – May 31, 2002) After making six trips to Southern Sudan, this past week will never leave my mind. I’ve seen the conditions that the Sudanese must live in, some of the most extreme conditions […]

World Poverty: It’s All About Power

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World Council of Churches 29 May 2002 “It’s all about power”: Ecumenical team at WSSD PrepCom underscores the need to regulate corporate power As the negotiations at the 4th Preparatory Committee to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (PrepCom4 WSSD) proceed, one issue takes centre stage: the consolidation and expansion of political and corporate power. […]

Appeal To Halt Execution Of North Korean Christian

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CHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY WORLDWIDE VERY URGENT: APPEAL TO HALT EXECUTION OF NORTH KOREAN CHRISTIAN Dear Friends, We are writing to ask if you could help in raising urgent concern for a group of North Koreans who are in the process of being sent back to North Korea, where they are in danger of execution. The six […]

Afrikaner’s Confession

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[Note: this one-sided ‘confession’ is here for your information. Its sentiments are not necessarily endorsed by John Mark Ministries]. Along with the NG Church we Afrikaners who are not members of it, also wish to confess. We want to confess to all coloureds and blacks in the RSA for every injustice we and our ancestors […]

Georgia

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BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE INFORMATION SERVICE Wendy Ryan, Director, Communications Division Denton Lotz, General Secretary May 28, 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN JEOPARDY IN GEORGIAN REPUBLIC (by Wendy Ryan) WASHINGTON, D.C. (BWA) – Malkhaz Songulashvili, President of the Union of Evangelical Baptists of Georgia, is the focus of continuing attacks from a defrocked Orthodox […]

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