Monthly Archives: March 2011
Prayer points: What you need to pray for in April, 2011
WE encourage you to use these points in your daily prayer as a family, prayer group or an individual. We would be glad if you take copies of these prayer points and share them with other believers in your church, prayer group or workplace.
8 must-read verses on prayer!
“THIS is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we...
What Jesus taught about prayer!
“‘Have faith in God,’ Jesus answered. ‘I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, “Go, throw yourself into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.
Is ‘Judge Judy’ a Christian?
JUDITH Sheindlin who is famously known as Judge Judy, is an American lawyer, judge, television personality and author. After clearing the New York Bar examination in 1965, she became a prosecutor in the family court.
PETA wants ‘animal-friendly’ Bible translation
PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has asked the translators of the New International Version to update the Bible with more animal-friendly terminology.
Two Indian Christians continue to languish in Saudi prison
ACCORDING to Compass Direct News, friends and family of two Indian Christians arrested after a prayer meeting in Saudi Arabia in January have tried in vain to secure their release.
Fr. Jim Borst asked to leave India in 7 days
A Dutch Catholic missionary who has been working in the Kashmir valley for almost five decades has been asked to leave the country within seven days.
UN Council drops ‘defamation’ in resolution
ADVOCACY Director for Open Doors USA Lindsay Vessey says: “The US government was very active in working with them in drafting a new text, so it’s no longer a ‘Defamation of Religions Resolution,' but it’s actually a new resolution on promoting religious tolerance.”
Jewish-Armenian couple executed secretly in Iranian prison
ADIVA Mirza Soleiman Kalimi, a Jewish Iranian, and her husband, Varoujan Petrosian, an Armenian Iranian along with another woman and two men, whose identities remain unknown, were secretly executed in Evin Prison.
Bangladeshi Christian behind bars for evangelism
A Bangladeshi Christian has been sentenced to one year in prison for allegedly ‘creating chaos’ by distributing Christian books and other literature near a major Muslim gathering in the country.
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What really drives pro-Palestinian groups?
The protesters’ compassion is not just selective; it is hypocritical and skin-deep.
