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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

55,000 Christians Are Killed for their Faith Every Year

By and others ⋅ July 6, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Persecution of Christians on the Rise At Least 55,000 Christians Are Killed for their Faith Every Year By Wolfgang Polzer Special to ASSIST News Service DRESDEN (ANS) — The number of persecuted Christians is on the rise worldwide, according to Professor Thomas Schirrmacher, director of the Religious Liberty Commission of the […]

28 June 2006 Update from HCJB World Radio

By and others ⋅ July 3, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s Headlines: REPORT LISTS 1,958 PERSECUTION EVENTS ACROSS CHINA IN LAST YEAR PAKISTANI PRISONER RECEIVES ‘PERSECUTION AWARD’ WHILE STILL IN JAIL MALAYSIAN COURTS DEBATE LAWS FOR MUSLIM APOSTATES OVER HALF OF WORLD’S CHILD LABORERS ARE INDIA’S ‘UNTOUCHABLES’ FORMER IRAQI GENERAL REPORTS VIBRANT CHRISTIAN GROWTH IN IRAQ Today’s Top Stories: REPORT LISTS 1,958 PERSECUTION EVENTS ACROSS […]

29 June 2006 Update from HCJB World Radio

By and others ⋅ July 3, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s Headlines: EXPEDITION FINDS NEW EVIDENCE OF LONG-LOST NOAH’S ARK IN IRAN 15 CHRISTIAN PRISONERS ESCAPE MILITARY TRAINING CAMP IN ERITREA STUDIES SHOW THAT BELIEVERS USE SECULAR MEDIA MORE THAN CHRISTIAN LUIS PALAU’S SON RELEASES SEQUEL TO POPULAR SKATEBOARDING FILM Today’s Top Stories: EXPEDITION FINDS NEW EVIDENCE OF LONG-LOST NOAH’S ARK IN IRAN In mid-June […]

Mandaeans face genocide

By and others ⋅ July 3, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Subj: Iraq: Mandaeans face genocide. —————————————- IRAQI’S MANDAEANS FACE GENOCIDE – ALL OTHER RELIGIOUS MINORITIES AT RISK —————————————- Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial […]

Eastern Europe; Uzbekistan

By and others ⋅ July 3, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

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 29 June 2006 EASTERN EUROPE: CENTRAL ASIA: IMPLEMENTATION THE ISSUE FOR OSCE – A SURVEY http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=806 All Organisation for Security and Co-operation in […]

30 June 2006 Update from HCJB World Radio

By and others ⋅ July 3, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s Headlines: FILIPINO PASTOR, DAUGHTER BRUTALLY SHOT AFTER TEXT-MESSAGE THREAT CUBAN PASTOR UNEXPECTEDLY RELEASED AFTER 4 MONTHS IN PRISON NEWBORN BABY BULLDOZED AFTER MUSLIM EVICTS CHRISTIAN FAMILY POLICE SHUT DOWN RELIGIOUS RIGHTS FORUM IN MALAYSIA PASTOR, WIFE WALK 2,800 MILES IN TREK TO ‘RECLAIM AMERICA’ Today’s Top Stories: FILIPINO PASTOR, DAUGHTER BRUTALLY SHOT AFTER TEXT-MESSAGE […]

Egyptian women flock to hear female preachers

By and others ⋅ June 29, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

By Yara Bayoumy Reuters CAIRO — Women of all ages pour into a fluorescent-lit mosque hall hours before Sherine Gouda Al Sahhar is due to deliver her weekly sermon, seeking a seat near the front so they can catch a glimpse of the preacher. The 200 women can barely squeeze into the hall, so Sahhar’s […]

Pray for the World June 27, 2006

By and others ⋅ June 28, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s Headlines: VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS ARREST 4 CHURCH MEMBERS AT PRAYER MEETING AFRICAN BISHOPS CRITICAL OF U.S. EPISCOPAL DECISIONS WORLDWIDE BIBLE DISTRIBUTION DECREASES IN CONTINUING TREND U.S. TROOPS TURNING TO CHRIST, SHOW HIGH DEMAND FOR SCRIPTURES Today’s Top Stories: VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS ARREST 4 CHURCH MEMBERS AT PRAYER MEETING Local government officials arrested four members of the […]

27 June 2006 Update from HCJB World Radio

By and others ⋅ June 28, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s Headlines: 10,000 EXPECTED AT WOMEN’S PRAYER CONFERENCE IN SOUTH KOREA YOUNG PAKISTANI WOMAN RAPED AFTER CONVERTING TO CHRISTIANITY STUDY REVEALS GROWING ‘EPIDEMIC OF LONELINESS’ ACROSS U.S. MODERN ARAB BIBLE TRANSLATION BOOSTS READERS’ UNDERSTANDING VIDEO GAME SERIES REINFORCES LESSONS TAUGHT IN SUNDAY SCHOOL Today’s Top Stories: 10,000 EXPECTED AT WOMEN’S PRAYER CONFERENCE IN SOUTH KOREA […]

China Update

By and others ⋅ June 26, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

CHINESE COMMUNIST MEMBERSHIP COLLAPSING AS CHURCH ATTENDANCE GROWS A secret document from China’s Department of Propaganda seeking to stop the growth of religion and spirituality among the Chinese has been exposed through the Voice of the Martyrs. The document states: ‘Westernizing’ and ‘disintegrating’ trends in the name of religion threaten China and the government must […]

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