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Sudan: And Now Some Good News!

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

This info causes me to wonder about why some missioners are martyred, or just expelled, and others not. ~~~ Catholic Missionary Gets Award from Sudan’s Islamic Government Sister Callista Has Spent Over 50 Years in Maternity Care KHARTOUM, Sudan, NOV. 8, 2002 (Zenit.org).- A Comboni missionary nun has received an awarded from one of the […]

Killing Christians

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The Weekly Standard (November 11, 2002) p. 20. by Amitai Etzioni http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/B407.html On October 17, bombs killed 6 people and wounded 143 in Zamboanga, the Philippines. While press accounts mentioned in passing that the victims were Christians, few conveyed to the reader that these were people assaulted by Muslim extremists because of their religion. On […]

Terror In Indonesia

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Who are the real terrorists in Indonesia? from John Barr Indonesia is a dangerous place these days. While the tragic bomb blast in Bali on 12th October provides the focus for much discussion, there are lower profile but equally sinister forms of terror taking place throughout the archipelago. The western half of New Guinea is […]

1 November 2002 Update

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A ministry of HCJB World Radio Today’s News Headlines: REPRESSIVE RELIGION LAW IN BELARUS GETS PRESIDENT’S SIGNATURE 40 BELIEVERS IN BHUTAN ARRESTED, TORTURED FOR THEIR FAITH ‘DAY OF THE DEAD’ CELEBRATION COULD CULMINATE WITH COURT CASE OUTREACH CONTINUES IN DEM. REP. OF CONGO DESPITE RENEWED FIGHTING GOSPEL SPREADS IN PHILIPPINES AMIDST BOMB BLASTS AUTHOR DEFENDS […]

Mission Network News – Nov 7, 2002

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News headlines for November 7th 2002 (India)–In the headlines, acts of violence against Christians have increased in light of recent legislation forbidding religious conversions. The law was in response to a mass renunciation of the Hindu faith by the Dalits, or untouchables. Gospel For Asia’s[1] K-P Yohannon says because of the Hindu oppression, violence is […]

4 November 2002 Update

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A ministry of HCJB World Radio Today’s News Headlines: ANOTHER VOLCANO ERUPTS IN ECUADOR, COATING QUITO WITH ASH POTENTIAL ATTACK ON IRAQ INCREASES ANXIETY AMONG CHRISTIANS U.S. CONDEMNS NEW RELIGION LAW SIGNED BY BELARUS PRESIDENT INTENSIFYING PERSECUTION WORLDWIDE FAILS TO SLOW CHURCH GROWTH CHRISTIAN CHILDREN’S HOME BECOMES MODEL FOR UKRAINIAN ORPHANAGES COALITION URGES CHRISTIANS TO […]

New Anti-Discrimination Legislation In Australia

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From a Netfriend: Dear Friends, Many will have been informed of new laws regarding the above. A resume can be found on the front page of today’s Courier-Mail. I have attached the full article, apart from the resume, which is below. Among the mooted changes are the following: – Non-Government schools will no longer be […]

5 November 2002 Update

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A ministry of HCJB World Radio Today’s News Headlines: ANTI-CONVERSION LAWS LEAD TO INCREASED PERSECUTION IN INDIA CHURCHES’ HELP NEEDED TO DEFEAT CORRUPTION IN LATIN AMERICA ISLAMIC CLERIC QUESTIONED ABOUT POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT IN BALI BOMBING RELIEF EFFORTS IN CZECH REPUBLIC HELP OPEN PEOPLE’S HEARTS TO GOSPEL CONTEMPORARY TAMIL BIBLE TRANSLATION TO BE DEDICATED IN SRI […]

Israel-Palestine: The Four Wars

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There isn’t one war going on in the Middle East, and there isn’t a single opposition of right and wrong, just and unjust. Four Israeli-Palestinian wars are now in progress. The first is a Palestinian war to destroy the state of Israel. The second is a Palestinian war to create an independent state alongside Israel, […]

Saddam Hussein

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The nature of the beast (Filed: 27/10/2002) William Shawcross reviews Saddam: The Secret Life by Con Coughlin Con Coughlin has written an extraordinary investigation into the life and rule of Saddam Hussein, one of the world’s most disgusting and dangerous dictators. It is a grand guignol portrait of a man obsessed with gaining and keeping […]

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