Posts Tagged ‘country’
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Chinese labor camp letter reveals suffering imprisoned Christians face
One of the frustrations of my work at VOM is the seeming indifference of the secular media to the suffering of our Christian brothers and sisters around the world.
Yes, there are times when a story of persecution breaks thro...
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American missionary mysteriously disappears in Africa
By Jeremy Reynalds Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (ANS) – American missionary Jerry Krause has been missing for nearly two months. According to a story by Efrem Graham for CBN News, the 5...
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Sudan intensifies arrests, deportations of Christians
A Sudan Pentecostal Church building the government bulldozed earlier this year. (Morning Star News photo) JUBA, South Sudan, April 30, 2013 (Morning Star News) – Sudan has stepped up its targeting of Christians for deportation,...
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Kenyan religious groups ready to work with President-elect, despite his war crime indictment
‘Let them have a chance to speak at the Hague, and let the ICC decide’, says Catholic leader , March 13 (World Watch Monitor) —
Amongst their first formal meetings as President and Deputy President-elect of Kenya, Uhuru ...
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Egypt’s Christians, fearing instability, seek security elsewhere
They say cathedral attack, kidnappings indicate government neglectCairo, April 9 (World Watch Monitor) —
By James Martone
In downtown Cairo mid-March, the multicolored pharaoh-motif tablecloths and dishtowels were mis...
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Churches under fire for using gun classes as outreach
Pryor Creek, Okla., is gun country. Located midway between Tulsa and Siloam Springs, Ark., the town of approximately 8,500 sits in the heart of Oklahoma’s greenbelt. Hunting and fishing are simply part of everyday life in Pryor...
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Uganda moves forward on anti-gay bill
Uganda’s speaker of parliament has promised a controversial anti-homosexuality bill will pass by the end of the year. A new coalition led by the former state minister for ethics says the country is prepared to deal with any int...
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Some Zimbabwe restrictions lifted, but money remains tight
The International Monetary Fund says it has relaxed restrictions on technical assistance to Zimbabwe. Analysts say the Tuesday announcement, though, does not mean the southern African nation can access loans.
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Nigeria tackles maternal mortality
For many women in Nigeria, a country with one of the highest maternal death rates in the world, the prospect of giving birth can be scary.
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Kazakhstan jails pastor, considers extradition to Uzbekistan
A former Uzbek house church pastor is in a Kazakhstan jail, awaiting a ruling whether he will be returned to his native country, even as Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court considers whether to declare him a refugee from almost-certain...