Posts Tagged ‘service’
Causes
2 arrested 14 years after missionary Graham Staines’ murder
Fourteen years after Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons were burnt to death in sleep by a right wing mob, two suspects were arrested Friday from Odisha’s Keonjhar district.
Causes
Controversial viral video tells viewers to “#fitch the homeless”
Writer Greg Karber is giving Abercrombie & Fitch clothing to the homeless, and he’s hoping others will join in.
Accordingto Karber's YouTube viral video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=O95DBxnXiSo&feature=player_detailpage), it's h...
Causes
UK Christians urged to pray outside Houses of Parliament during marriage debate
Campaign group Christian Concern is calling on UK Christians to attend prayer gatherings outside Parliament during the Third Reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill next week.
Causes
Saeed Abedini in solitary confinement in Iran; health deteriorating
By Jeremy Reynalds Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service Already badly weakened by months of beatings and torture that have resulted in internal bleeding, American Pastor Saeed Abedini, a U.S. citizen, is facing perhaps ...
News
Ethnic America summit focus: Mission on our doorsteps
By Bill Bray Special Correspondent, ASSIST News Service (ANS) – As many as 700 ethnic American missionaries and pastors from 75 denominations are converging here next week for the 12th Annual Ethnic Ministries Summit star...
News
Rick Warren forgives illegal gun dealer for youngest son’s suicide
By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries LAKE FOREST, CA (ANS) – Pastor Rick Warren, the author of the best-selling book, “The Purpose Driven Life,” and senior pastor of Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Fores...
Causes
Iranian Pastor Nadarkhani believed to be dead
An Anglican vicar in Iraq has said that besieged Iranian Pastor Youssef Nadarkhani is dead.
Writing on his Facebook page today (Thursday, March 7), Canon Andrew White, who serves St. George’s Church in Baghdad, said he was m...
Causes
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...
Arts & Culture
Aikman opportunity award for young Christian writers
By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries VANCOUVER B.C. (ANS) – Patrick Henry College, Guildford Media Ltd., and veteran reporter / writer David Aikman, an award-winning print and broadcast journalist, a best-selling a...
Features
Retiree devoted to mission: repairing damaged rosaries
Betty Holden in on a crusade to take broken rosaries stashed away in dresser drawers and give them new life and put them back into service.