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GFA Nepali Missionary Abducted
A week ago, a Nepali missionary, Besh, of Gospel For Asia (GFA) was forcibly abducted by the radical insurgence group Maoists. GFA received news of the urgent situation of Besh on 19 August 2004, but still are unaware of his whereabouts. ..
The Future of Church Buildings Revealed
A leading Christian magazine - CHRISTIANITY - has recently called for the design of “the church of the 21st Century”. The key feature of Chapman’s design is a contemporary exterior, adopting a “shop window” approach to attract passers-by...
Aid Agencies Re-Evaluate Strategies in Uphill Battle to Support the World
A new report out has urged the top humanitarian groups to have a more local presence in disaster areas, and to change their “fire fighting mentalities’...
Largest Trade Justice Campaign to be Held in September
The Trade Justice Movement (TJM) announced a massive Trade Justice campaign to be held in late September in Britain yesterday. Thousands of campaigners from over 50 TJM member organisations are expected to join...
Thousands in Nigeria Still Displaced Three Months After Religious Clashes
Three months after a spate of attacks on Christians in Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria, thousands of people are still displaced from their homes and in dire need of shelter...
WARC Pledges to bring hope of "Fullness of Life"
The 24th General Council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) in Ghana, Africa, ended last week. The alliance issued a letter to worldwide reformed churches yesterday as a final report of the General Council...
God's Word Spreads in Florida After Hurricaine
The president of IBS, Peter Bradley has said, "People who, after a crisis like this one, are really in despair. They're seeing their whole world change. They're fearful. They're looking for hope and that's exactly what the Scriptures do...
AMI Olympic Outreach Update
Evangelists from all over the world with a heavenly sportsmanship have been engaging in the unseen spiritual battle of evangelism in Athens...
Russian Women cry out for Lutheran Church to practice Equality
Attendants at the 2nd Women’s Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia and Other States (ELCROS) expressed their desire to see a defence of women’s rights in the pastoral service...
Iraq Delegates urge Al-Sadr to end Fighting
Tens of thousands of Christians have fled Iraq where fierce battles have raged on over this week, between American forces and the Mahdi Army militia of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The violence in Najaf, which started on 5th August, has threatened to destabilise the new interim government...
Dozens more Montagnard Christians Emerge from Cambodian Jungle
Dozens more Montagnard Christians, many of them sick and exhausted, have emerged from the Cambodian jungle in recent days after fleeing neighbouring Vietnam, refugee groups said on Monday...
True Love Waits Makes Its Way to the 2004 Olympic Games
True Love Waits, a ministry of LifeWay Christian Resources, will host “An Evening with the Olympians: True Love Waits” in Athens. The event will take place at Dora Stratou Theatre which is located at the base of the Acropolis on Aug 22...
Tens of Thousands of Iraqi Christians Flee En Masse
Forty thousand Iraqi Christians have fled Iraq since a wave of church bombings killed up to 15 people two weeks ago, the Iraq's displacement and migration minister, Pascale Isho Warda confirmed...
Intense Grieving Follows Burundi Massacre
Thousands of grieving people attended a grim funeral service on Monday after Hutu extremists slaughtered more than 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees at a U.N. camp in Burundi...
Christians Celebrate Judgment on Anti-Conversion Law
The Sri Lankan Supreme Court has given judgment on a proposed Anti-Conversion Bill that has been seen as a great victory not only for CSW and Christians, but also for many other Sri Lankan minority religions...
Extraordinary Cave Findings open the door to History of John the Baptist
Dr Shimon Gibson, a British Archaelogist, has discovered a cave west of Jerusalem with a ritual baptism pool, rock carvings and pottery, after five years of excavation in Israel and the Occupied Territories...