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Georgia Bible Burnings

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE INFORMATION SERVICE Wendy Ryan, Director Communications Division Denton Lotz General Secretary September 24, 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GEORGIA BIBLE BURNINGS SPURS UNIFIED RELIGIOUS ACTIONS (by Wendy Ryan) WASHINGTON, D.C. (BWA) – Bishop Malkhaz Songulashvili, Pastor of the Central Baptist Church, Tbilisi, Georgia, and President of the Evangelical Baptist Church there, told an […]

Belarus: Europe’s Most Repressive Religion Law

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SOURCE: KESTON INSTITUTE Morning. KESTON INSTITUTE, OXFORD, UK ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE, 11.00, 2 October 2002. Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ Belarus’s parliament has this morning adopted the most repressive religion law in Europe, so this exceptionally grave news is being sent to our entire […]

Uzbekistan: Baptist Meeting Raided; New Tactic Against Believers?

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believers? SOURCE: KESTON INSTITUTE believers? KESTON INSTITUTE, OXFORD, UK ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE, 20.00, 24 September 2002. Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ I. UZBEKISTAN: BAPTIST MEETING RAIDED. Local Baptists in the Uzbek town of Chirchik have filed a formal complaint after four police officers raided […]

Belarus: Religion Law Goes For Final Signature

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SOURCE: KESTON INSTITUTE http://www.keston.org communities to be driven underground? KESTON INSTITUTE, OXFORD, UK ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE, 20.00, 2 October 2002. Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ I. BELARUS: EUROPE’S MOST REPRESSIVE RELIGION LAW GOES FOR FINAL SIGNATURE Following the adoption this morning (2 October) by […]

Zimbabwe-A Question?

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A Net friend wrote: A question: some months ago, I am certain I watched a TV program in which a previous secretary of the Commonwealth indicated that the Zimbabwean situation arose because promises made by UK and some other countries to ‘buy back’ the farm in Zimbabwe for the former rebel forces, as part of […]

Pray For Laos

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———————————————————————– Missions Insider Report by Christian Aid October 2, 2002 Vol. 3 No. 39 Visit our website at http://www.christianaid.org ———————————————————————– John Lindner, Editor Lao Christians Face Cruel Torments Christians in Laos are facing cruel forms of physical and psychological torments as authorities try to wipe out Christianity. A confidential source told Christian Aid this week […]

Sudan – Translating A Document Into A Reality

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The Peace Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Sudan and the Southern People’s Liberation Movement/Army, signed at the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) talks in Nairobi on 20 July is, in itself, nothing short of a miracle. Reactions to the peace deal have ranged from jubilant optimism to bitter skepticism and angry rejection. […]

The Message Of The Israeli Bulldozers

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In the article below, which I received courtesy of Jewish Voice for Peace, Israeli Professor Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), exposes the illegality and immorality of the recent Israeli Supreme Court decision permitting the army to bulldoze the houses of family members of those implicated in (or even suspected […]

Post-War Angola

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Churches help make peace a reality in post-war Angola July 29, 2002 News media contact: Linda Bloom ·(212)870-3803 ·New York 10-31-71BP{329} NOTE: Photographs are available with this report at http://umns.umc.org/currentphotos.html. By Paul Jeffrey* LUANDA, Angola (UMNS) — After decades of war, Angola is struggling to make peace with itself. Yet in the wake of a war in […]

Indonesia: Terror In Sulawesi

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Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 181 – Tue 13 Aug 2002 —————————– INDONESIA: TERROR IN SULAWESI —————————– In the past few weeks, there has been serious religious violence in both Pakistan and Sulawesi, Indonesia. In Pakistan on Tuesday 6 August, two Christians were amongst those shot and killed in the militant assault on the […]

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