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National Church Life Survey
Media Release Tuesday May 21st, 2002 Churches co-operate to undertake major review Six out of ten church attenders agree that their local church is always willing to try something new. This is one finding from the 2001 National Church Life Survey (NCLS), the largest survey of its kind in the world. Taking the initiative, Australian […]
The Killing Fields Of Post-Apartheid South Africa
JOHANNESBURG WORLD’S TOP MURDER CAPITOL AUGUST 30, 2001 — The city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands — with 5,6 murders per 100,000 population — has been declared the “murder capitol of Europe”, it was reported here today. Johannesburg, with 61.2 murders per 100,00 population in the year 2000, remains the world’s murder city for the […]
Turkey
CAMPAIGN AGAINST CHURCHES CONTINUES IN TURKEY As a campaign by police to shut down 18 churches in Turkey continues, Christians are being forced to endure aggressive anti-Christian demonstrations held by Muslim conservatives outside of their churches every Sunday. The Barnabas Fund News Service reports that demonstrators carry placards with slogans such as “Every missionary is […]
3,000 People Become Christians Every Hour
“Every hour, 3,000 people decide to follow Christ,” says Detlef Bl ¶cher, director of the German Mission Society. “This is a record in all of church history.” The number of evangelical Christians in Africa, Asia and Latin America has multiplied 1,000-fold in the last 40 years “as the fruit of 200 years of Western mission.” Today […]
Israel And Palestine
Both Sides Now By Robert Wright Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 1:52 PM PT Nearly 300 million people live in America, and about 6 million people live in Israel proper. So when 15 Israelis were killed in a pool-hall bombing last week, that felt to Israelis roughly the way it would feel for 50 […]
The Day Arafat Was Offered Power
Posted: May 20, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Does Yasser Arafat really want a “Palestinian homeland”? Or, as many have suggested, is this 35-year-old demand merely a ploy to conduct asymmetrical warfare against the Jewish state of Israel? While there is no doubt in my own mind that Arafat has no interest in […]
Saudi Arabia
POLICE IN SAUDI ARABIA ARREST 10 CHRISTIANS Police in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, arrested 10 Ethiopian and Eritrean Christians last weekend, eight of them as they arrived at a weekly worship service. A Christian who witnessed the raid on Friday, May 10, said authorities let some of the believers enter the church unquestioned but jailed eight […]
Sudan, Uganda
Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 168 – Wed 15 May 2002 ———————————————– SOUTHERN SUDAN, UGANDA AND THE CURSE OF THE LRA ———————————————– This RLP differs slightly in not addressing a religious liberty issue in a particular nation, but examines instead how the Church in Southern Sudan and Uganda is suffering at the hands of […]
Southern Africa
May 2002 From the South African website Censor Bugbear Famine for 24-million people in southern Africa The World Food Programme is warning of a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented proportions facing all of Southern Africa’s 120-million strong population, already suffering from a huge Aids epidemic. This season’s May 2002 crop map, published here, shows how little […]
Buddhism And Christianity
I watched a TV program on Sunday night – which featured the Dali Lama and several Christians who advocate a sympathetic stance toward Buddhism – and was struck by the language used by the Dali Lama in much of his discussion – words such as “love,” “compassion,” “kindness,” were very prominent. The one word which […]
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