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New West Bank Settlers – Peruvian Indians!

Orthodox Israeli Jewish Rabbis have found a new source for their ideologically driven settlers in order to try and fill the empty apartments in their many settlements on Palestinian land in the West Bank. YOU WILL FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE WHO THEY ARE WHERE THEY COME FROM. In his article in a recent issue […]

Pakistan Sentences Christiah To Death

FLASH NEWS from COMPASS DIRECT Global News from the Frontlines ********** PAKISTAN SENTENCES CHRISTIAN TO DEATH Mentally Unstable Man Ruled Guilty of Blasphemy by Barbara G. Baker ISTANBUL, July 19 (Compass) — A Pakistani Christian with a history of mental problems was given the death sentence yesterday for alleged blasphemy that “hurt the feelings of […]

Baptist World Alliance News

BWA accepts six new members … BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE INFORMATION SERVICE Wendy Ryan, Communications Division Denton Lotz, General Secretary July 24, 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BWA Accepts Six New Members Defers Action on CBF Seville, Spain (BWA) — Five new member bodies were accepted into the Baptist World Alliance during its annual General Council meetings […]

Kosovo: Arson Attack Follows Monastery Liturgy

KESTON INSTITUTE, OXFORD, UK ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE: 11.00, 19 July 2002 Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ KOSOVO: ARSON ATTACK FOLLOWS MONASTERY LITURGY. Soon after Serbian Orthodox priests and monks left a ruined monastery in south western Kosovo where they had conducted the liturgy, two […]

Kill The Boer, Kill The Farmer (South Africa)

DISPATCH FROM SOUTH AFRICA ‘Kill the Boer, kill the farmer’ Death chant at ANC funeral leads to more murder of whites ——————————————————————————– Posted: July 28, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Anthony C. LoBaido  © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com WELKOM, South Africa – The chanting of “Kill the Boer, kill the farmer” at the funeral of the ANC […]

Kazakhstan: Pentecostal Church Illegally Barred From Visiting Prison

SOURCE: KESTON INSTITUTE http://www.keston.org visiting prison KESTON INSTITUTE, OXFORD, UK ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE: 11.00, 15 July 2002 Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ KAZAKHSTAN: PENTECOSTAL CHURCH “ILLEGALLY” BARRED FROM VISITING PRISON. Officials of Kazakhstan’s prison system have refused members of a Pentecostal church in the […]

Russia: Evangelicals Resent Enforced Centralisation

SOURCE: KESTON INSTITUTE http://www.keston.org KESTON INSTITUTE, OXFORD, UK ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE: 11.00, 22 July 2002 Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL REPORT RUSSIA: EVANGELICALS RESENT ENFORCED CENTRALISATION. Russia’s 1997 law on religion strengthened the “vertical of power” in religious life, favouring […]

What’s Our Call

(~) What’s Our Call One night at a small church in Atlanta, Georgia, a man shared how he had become a Christian while in Sydney, Australia. “I was at the street corner in Kings Cross,” the man began, “when I felt a tug on my sleeve. Turning, I found myself face to face with a […]

Pakistan Hate Crimes And Injustice

Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 178 – Tues 23 July 2002 ———————————————— PAKISTAN: HATE CRIMES AND INJUSTICE ———————————————— It is not uncommon to hear of Christian girls in Pakistan being violently raped. These girls are either victims of a vicious hate crime or a reprisal attack after they have shared or professed their faith […]

Christians In Tertiary Institutions

From: “Ken Smith” Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,nz.soc.religion,alt.religion.clergy Subject: Re: John Stott [1] > “Rowland Croucher” writes: > > >”Bill Ramsay” wrote in message > . > >> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:58:34 +1000, “Rowland Croucher” > >> wrote: > > > >> >When I was working full-time on the campuses on Australia – back in the […]