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Religion Today Summaries For Thursday, November 14, 2002

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AD |NEED Health Insurance You Can Afford http://sda.goshen.net/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?AD=jgroup0902m ____________________________ Religion Today Summaries a glimpse at news articles from around the world http://www.crosswalk.com/news/ Thursday, November 14, 2002 In Today’s Edition: Muslim Mob Forces Closure of Indonesian Church Over 350 Vietnamese Churches Closed, Dozens of Church Leaders Arrested or Missing New Partnership Advances Bible Translation by a […]

News From Indonesia

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MOB FORCES CLOSURE OF CHURCH INDONESIA 13 November 2002 A mob of over 100 Muslims stormed into a church in Bandung, Java on 6 November terrorising Christians inside, forcing them to leave the premises and ordering them to close the church permanently. The mob, led by the chairman of the Mosque Security Council (FSDKM), pelted […]

Mission Network News – Nov 14, 2002

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News headlines for November 14th 2002 (Haiti)–Topping the news, the economic situation in Haiti continues to worsen, increasing the people’s desperate struggle to survive. The Haitian government, as they look for more ways to generate income, is now implementing a large fee for all visitors entering Haiti. STEM International’s[1] Jim Levin (leVEEN) thinks the tax […]

Belarus: Europe’s Most Repressive Religion Law Enters Force

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SOURCE: KESTON INSTITUTE KESTON INSTITUTE, OXFORD, UK ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE, 11.00, 14 November 2002. Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ BELARUS: REPRESSIVE RELIGION LAW ENTERS FORCE ON SATURDAY. Belarus’ repressive new religion law enters into legal force on Saturday 16 November. From then, all unregistered […]

World Aids Day News

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In an urgent response to the global HIV/AIDS crisis, World Vision Australia is calling upon Australian churches to spend significant time this December in fervent prayer for the AIDS crisis around the world. The call to prayer comes in the lead-up to World Aids Day which will be observed internationally on December 1st. According to […]

Muslims And Christians In The Middle East

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Inquiry and Analysis – Egypt/Reform in the Arab and Muslim World November 12, 2002 No. 110 To view this Special Dispatch in HTML format, please visit: http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=IA11002 Egyptian Christian Copts on Prejudice in Egypt & Saudi Arabia The leadership of the Egyptian Christian Coptic community has recently begun to express in public positions and complaints […]

Pope Shenouda And The Situation In Egypt

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From an informed Coptic Christian: aus.religion,aus.religion.christian,alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox Pope Shenouda (I’ve never seen the spelling “Shinoda” before) has recently become more public because of a terrible humiliation to our church last year. In the first ever sexually explicity pictures published in a general public magazine, an excommunicated monk was pictured having “relations” with a woman. The article […]

Anti-Semitism

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Someone else wrote: What are the areas of Greater Israel called? Judea and Samaria is it not? What were these lands named after? Judea = Jews, Samaria = Samaritan Jews. Are we Jews not fighting for lands once given to us by G-d. Is the Jewish Bible, sacred to the Moslem and the Christian, not […]

15 November 2002 Update From H C J B World Radio

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A ministry of HCJB World Radio Today’s News Headlines: FIGHTING FORCES MISSIONARIES TO LEAVE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC MUSLIM MOB FORCES CHURCH TO CLOSE IN JAVA, INDONESIA VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN INDONESIA DESPITE END OF LASKAR JIHAD RAPE CASE REFLECTS GROWING PERSECUTION IN NORTHERN NIGERIA RADIO BROADCASTS HELP OPEN ONCE-CLOSED ALBANIA TO GOSPEL 1,400 TURN TO CHRIST […]

Vietnamese Execute 3 Montagnard Christians

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PRESS RELEASE FROM JUBILEE CAMPAIGN U.K November 15th 2002 VIETNAMESE EXECUTE 3 MONTAGNARD CHRISTIANS BY LETHAL INJECTION 3 Christians have been executed by lethal injection amidst a massive crackdown by the Vietnamese authorities against the Montagnard Christians of the Central Highlands, according to the human rights group, the Montagnard Foundation. The Montagnards are the indigenous […]

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