Posts Tagged ‘pastor’
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Church walls go up, then torn down by local government
Cheers went up as a backhoe tore down the barely finished walls of the Batak Protestant Church near Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday. The pile of rubble that remained was only the latest setback to Christians trying to retain a t...
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Christians in India wounded, jailed, expelled
Christians suffered serious head injuries, expulsion from home and incarceration based on false witness as Hindu extremists continued their reign of terror in India this month, sources said.
Arts & Culture
The ‘Untouchables’ come to NRB 2013 in Nashville
The Dalits, also known as the “untouchables” and “outcastes,” make up nearly one quarter of India’s 1.2 billion people. There are an estimated 250 million Dalits and they make up history’s longest-standing oppressed people group.
Features
A faith rekindled: Pastor,columnist Ronnie McBrayer returning to Florida
When Ronnie McBrayer wrote his first column, “Keeping the Faith,” for the Walton Sun in the summer of 2006, little did he know his words would be read by millions in the years to come.
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Iranian-American Pastor Abedini writes of torture, pressure to renounce faith
Saeed Abedini and wife Nagmeh. (ACLJ photo) ISTANBUL (Morning Star News) – An Iranian-American pastor imprisoned for planting house churches in Iran years ago writes that he is undergoing torture, death threats, and pressure to...
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Burned church is latest in string of Tanzanian attacks
Clashes with Islam in an otherwise ‘peaceful country’, February 25 (World Watch Monitor) —
Arsonists burned a Tanzania church Feb. 19 in the semi-autonomous region of Zanzibar, two days after gunmen killed a Catholic pr...
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Pentecostal pastor beheaded in Tanzania
Mathayo Kachili, pastor of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God church in Buseresere, Tanzania, which is affiliated with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada was beheaded when a group of religious extremists attacked Christians at...
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Laos: police arrest three pastors on charges of spreading the Christian religion
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has learned that three Christian pastors in Laos have been arrested and detained for “spreading the Christian religion” by reproducing a DVD of a Christian film.
News
Christian radio personality Frank Pastore dies after collision
Former Cincinnati Red baseball pitcher, Frank Pastore, 55, who had been the host of “The Frank Pastore Show” on KKLA (www.kkla.com) since 2004 died on Dec. 17.
Featured Columns
Religious leaders respond to the rise of the ‘Nones’
As we noted recently, the number of Americans who have no religious affiliation has hit an all-time high, according to a new study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.