Top 10 stories of the week: Feb 5 – Feb 11, 2011

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Top 10 stories of the week: Feb 5 to 11, 2011
The week that was: Feb 5 to 11, 2011

Top 10 stories of the week: Feb 5 to 11, 2011
The week that was: Feb 5 to 11, 2011

Hello readers,

Welcome to the first edition of the weekend digest from The Christian Messenger. In this digest, we present you the ‘Top 10 stories of the week’.

Story No.1 : Look up John 3:16! Fox’s loss, Super Bowl’s gain!

The biggest story of the week was generated by a huge interest online to look up John 3:16. The story ‘Look up John 3:16! Fox’s loss, Super Bowl’s gain!’ generated great interest among our users particularly among those in the US.

2. New Kumbh Mela targets Christians in Madhya Pradesh

Christians in India had reasons to be alarmed by the Sangh Parivar’s muscle flexing. The story ‘New Kumbh Mela targets Christians in Madhya Pradesh’ was read with much interest by our readers.

3. Internet ministry announces top 10 Christian leaders of 2010

Though ranked at No.3, this story was one of the most shared this week by our users. Although 10 prominent Christians ranging from Rick Warren to Reinhard Bonnke were named in various categories by an Internet ministry, friends of Leonard Sweet, a historian of American culture, ensured this story got its due share of repeat readability. At last count, close to 120 people shared this story among their friends. This was also a story whose average time spent on the page was a whopping 10.31 minutes. You can read the story here.

4. World Assemblies of God Congress begins in Chennai on Feb 6

The World Conference of the AG Church being held in Chennai, India, generated quite a lot of interest. Though no subsequent stories came out of the event except the inaugural, our readers lapped up what was available.

5. Is South Sudan a Biblical prophecy come true?

While reports coming out of Africa this week had to mostly do with uprising of the people due to the Muslim Brotherhood’s activism in Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and Tunisia, the story on South Sudan’s overwhelming referendum in favor of a separate nationhood was heartwarming for Christians worldwide.

Ranked from 6 to 8 are The Christian Messenger exclusives. At the 6th slot is a heartwarming story of an autorickshaw driver in Tamil Nadu, India who accepted Jesus and became an itinerant evangelist. Our columnist Mathews George’s take on why Satan spreads a great lie about the approachability of our God stood at No.7. At the 8th slot was our founding editor’s column on Lindsay Lohan and the significance of white dress in the Bible.

6. Redeemed auto driver covers 1,200 Tamil Nadu villages for Jesus

7. Myth busted: God doesn’t listen to sinners!

8. Why Lindsay Lohan’s white dress may just not be enough for her!

9. Egyptian Christians concerned about life after Mubarak

10. Obama says he accepted Jesus as Lord 20 years ago

The stories are rated based on their likability. The likability of a story is gauged by the page views it garners besides the average time taken by the users to read it up on the website. Another important metric is the viral power of the story. Viral power is based on the number of people who share a particular story among their friends on leading social media networks. We have arrived at the Top 10 index based on data culled from Google Analytics, impressions generated on our Facebook page and the sharing activity of our readers on Twitter.

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