FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 1 September 2011 KAZAKHSTAN: EXPELLED FOR PREACHING IN OWN CHURCH http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1607 After legal residence in Kazakhstan for 15 years, marriage to a […]
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 123 | Wed 31 Aug 2011 AUGUST 2011 UPDATE By Elizabeth Kendal ‘Then I said, “I will appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of the Most High.” I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will remember your wonders of old. I will […]
“Contemplation,” or ¢â‚¬Å“meditation ¢â‚¬ in some groups, was rediscovered in contemporary times beginning with the writings of Thomas Merton in the 1950s and 1960s. The word most Christians are more familiar with is simply “prayer.” Unfortunately, in the West, prayer had become something functional; something you did to achieve a desired effect ¢â‚¬”which too often puts the […]
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 122 | Wed 24 Aug 2011 —————————————————– PAKISTAN: LEGAL PREJUDICE & IMPUNITY FUEL PERSECUTION —————————————————– By Elizabeth Kendal Sharia Law prohibits Christians testifying against Muslims in court. Consequently, in an Islamic state Muslims are essentially guaranteed impunity for crimes committed against Christians. As would be expected, impunity and legal […]
My wife Jan was asked to pray for seniors, and for our local community, at a regional prayer breakfast this morning. Here’s her prayer: Lord, our God, as we come to pray for the seniors in our community my mind goes to a televised church service where a 92 yr old ‘saint’ walked slowly to […]
I copied and pasted from an email a bunch of beautiful photos of dogs, with their prayers. I still haven’t figured out how to show the pictures here, but here are the prayers: . Dear God.. Dear God: Is it on purpose our names are the same, only reversed? […]
While watching a little TV one Sunday instead of going to church, I watched a church in Atlanta honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years. He was 92 at that time and I wondered why the church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to preach at that age. After […]
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 […]
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 […]
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 120 | Wed 10 Aug 2011 By Elizabeth Kendal [For background see RLPB 113 (22 June 2011) & RLPB 117 (20 July 2011) http://rlprayerbulletin.blogspot.com ] Daily bombing raids targeting the Nuba populations of South Kordofan have resulted in significant loss of life and destruction of properties, including homes, crops […]