Mission News,

Brazil
Hundreds of Thousands of Brazilian Christians reached out to friends and neighbors during “My Hope World Evangelism Through Television” project, November 6-8, according to a late report from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA). View article…
 
India
Dalit People Find Worth in Christ as Operation Mobilization Raises National Leaders
It is amazing what the Lord is doing among [...]

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Persecuted Church News

Iraq
Two Christian Sisters Killed in Mosul

Two Christian sisters were killed this morning in the Al Qahira section in Mosul, Iraq, by Islamic terrorists for just being Christians. View article…

India
Orissa Bishops Warn State Leader of  “Master Plan” to Wipe Out Christianity

Denouncing what they called a “master plan” to wipe out Christianity, the bishops of India’s troubled [...]

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Prayer

Lord, may my desires change to your desires.
Lord, if a desire is good and profitable,
give me grace to fulfill it to your glory.
But if it be hurtful and injurious to my soul’s health,
then remove it from my mind.
- Thomas a Kempis

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Around the Blogosphere

1,200-year-old church uncovered in Syria – AP
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (AP) – Archaeologists in central Syria have unearthed the remnants of a 1,200-year-old church believed to be the largest ever discovered in this Mideast country, an antiquities official said Thursday
 
Do Not Be Afraid
There are a lot of temptations to fear right now: political change, economic calamity, natural [...]

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Church Life: Marks of a True Church

The Marks of the True Church
We believe that we ought to discern diligently and very carefully, by the Word of God, what is the true church– for all sects in the world today claim for themselves the name of “the church.” We are not speaking here of the company of hypocrites who are mixed among [...]

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Closer to Home

 The five-word antidote to grumbling Tony Payne
This story has been passed onto me second- or third- or possibly fifth-hand. Who knows how accurate the details are, or whether the words were spoken exactly in this way? But from my knowledge of the man in question, it is entirely believable. In fact, if it isn’t true, [...]

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Creation

How Should We Look at Creation?
How should Christians approach the question of Creation and evolution? It’s a controversy that’s been going strong for many years, and the recent flurry of books by prominent atheist thinkers has once again put the spotlight on Christianity’s relationship to science. Is it possible for Christian to embrace evolution and [...]

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Culture Wars: Poverty

What is poverty? What does it mean to live in poverty—who does it affect? Is poverty “just” a lack of money, or is it something bigger (and harder to solve)? Is American poverty different than poverty in other parts of the world? And what are Christians called to do in response?
Several prominent urban ministry leaders [...]

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Operation World Country of the Day: U.K. 2

United Kingdom Part 2
 
6 There are signs of hope — water these tender plants with prayer:
a) Traumatic social change and the devastating consequences of violence, family breakdown and fear for the future have brought a new openness to consider spiritual solutions.
b) Renewal movements. Many pastors and congregations experienced charismatic renewal between the 1960s-‘80s. This also [...]

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Unreached Peoples for the Day

Alevi Muslims in Turkey
Musicians sang praise songs with electric guitars at the Islamic gathering consisting of dozens of people in Turkey. They sang a type of music most Turkish Sunni Muslims considered scandalous because it sounded like Western-style rock and roll. But the worshippers weren’t Westerners, they were Turkish Alevi Muslims. The Alevis are a [...]

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