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tobyMac and Mark Hall win at BMI awards
Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) celebrated the songwriters and music publishers behind the past year's most-performed songs in Christian music during its annual Christian Music Awards in Nashville on Tuesday.
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Letters support people of Sudan's Nuba Mountains
999 is the emergency telephone number for access to emergency services such as police, fire and ambulance.
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Steve Saint seriously injured testing missionary technology
Steve Saint, the 61-year-old son of martyred MAF missionary, Nate Saint, has been seriously injured in Gainesville, Florida, while testing new missionary technology.
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Sorted magazine dreams big for Olympic giveaway
The UK's Christian men's magazine Sorted has an Olympic dream to distribute 250,000 copies of a special London Games edition of the Christian men's magazine throughout the capital city as an ultimate evangelistic opportunity.
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Ethiopian Christians languishing in Saudi jail
Saudi Arabian officials have made conflicting statements about why a group of 35 Ethiopian Christians were arrested at a prayer service
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Pop group launches campaign to free Asia Bibi
An all-out media blitz has been started to raise awareness for Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian mother of five children who has been sentenced to death by hanging for defending her Christian beliefs.
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Increase in religious rights violations in Indonesia
Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that the number of violations of Christians' religious rights in Indonesia reached 40 in the first five months of the year, nearly two-thirds the amount of anti-Christian actions in all of last year, according to the Jakarta Christian Communication Forum.
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Deadly suicide bomb attack on church in Nigeria
A suicide bomber crashed the gate of a church compound in Bauchi, a northern Nigerian city on Sunday, killing himself and at least 10 others
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Anger towards Egyptian Christians after presidential elections
Some Muslims are angry that Ahmad Shafik is in second place - and are reportedly blaming Christians
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Cuban church leaders appeal to US over religious freedom
A delegation of Cuban church leaders has called on the US government to add Cuba to its Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) list as one of the world's worst violators of religious freedom.
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Sewing helps lift women out of poverty in India
She's only 17, but Anshi already feels a crushing economic burden. "My father's monthly income is not sufficient to run the family," she recently shared.
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Record numbers visit Holy Land
Tourism to Israel continues its upward trend as record numbers of tourists flocked to the Holy Land in April.
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Suspect in Shahbaz Bhatti case walks free
A man booked for being allegedly involved in the murder of former Pakistan minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti more than a year ago, was acquitted by an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) last week.
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Iranian Christians temporarily released from prison
The pastor of a church in Esfahan, and nine imprisoned Christians from the city were freed on 30 April and 1 May, pending their recall at a future date.
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New app to help dads
Modern-day fathers get a bad rap, and it has often been said in the manner of a joke, that 'Dads need all the help they can get.' Now there's an app for that!