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First Major Prayer Movement Unites Sydney Anglicans

A call for focused prayer from Easter Sunday, March 27 to Ascension Day, May 5 has been taken up by over 70 parishes that are rallying congregations in prayer for everyone to respond to God in repentance and faith...

Open Doors World Watchlist Released

For the third straight year, the isolated communist nation of North Korea remains atop an annual list of countries where Christians are persecuted most. Over the past few years, the Open Doors International "World Watch List" has...

World Evangelical Alliance Calls All Christian Leaders to Unite

The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has commenced its campaign to draw as many evangelicals as possible to its gathering in May 2005. The gathering will be titled, 'Move the Stones – The Power of Alliance'...

Annual Black Church Week of Prayer for Healing of AIDS Begins

The Annual Black Church 'Week of Prayer for Healing of AIDS', that began on Sunday 6th March, has mobilised thousands of churches in three countries - the United States, Africa and the Caribbean - to unite in prayer...

UN Emergency Session Agrees Immediate Action for Peace in Sudan

At a closed-door emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council ambassadors, Kofi Annan requested for immediate action to breakthrough the peace deadlock in war-torn Darfur, Sudan...

BBC: Christian Protestors to Springer Musical Threaten Freedom of Speech

The Director-General of the BBC, Mark Thompson has accused Christian groups that opposed the broadcast of Jerry Springer – The Opera of being extreme, and said that they were a threat to freedom of speech...

Bishop Corrects Catholic Ban on Red Nose Day

A Catholic bishop has corrected a statement from a colleague at the weekend stating that Catholic schools in a diocese in Wales would ban Red Nose Day after concerns that cash would be given for abortions...

Methodists Launch Huge Petition against New Gambling Bill

The UK's new gambling bill will reach its final legislative stage in the House of Lords on Thursday 10th March. By staging a nationwide signing petition, the Methodist Church, Salvation Army and National Children’s Home (NCH) will make their final attempt...

Disney’s The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe to Stay True to Christian Themes

Walt Disney is set to target worldwide Christians to support its latest movie release – C S Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Disney is to promote its new release as a "Passion of the Christ for Kids" to attract Christian families into cinemas...

I am the Way

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him." ~~ John 14:6-7

Jesus says that He is the way, the truth and the life. He was sent here to show us the original image of man; a man without sin...

Vietnamese Church Leader Released After One Year in Prison

A renowned Vietnamese church leader, Nguyen Van Phuong was released from prison on Thursday 3rd March, one day after the one-year anniversary of an incident which sparked the arrest of a number of church leaders...

Pro-Lifers Hail Success in Clarifying Abortion Policy as US Drops Campaign

The US has been urging for an amendment to a Beijing declaration during the recent UN Commission on the Status of Women meeting in a bid to ensure that it does not create the right for abortion. However, it now appears as if the US has dropped its lobby...