Amid fears that Hindu extremists are persecuting Christians in greater numbers, Nepali church leaders launched the Forum for Human Concern in Nepal in January to safeguard religious freedom and garner international support for the release of four Christians jailed since October 29 on charges of proselytizing.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is proposing another round of peace talks in an attempt to reach an agreement before Israeli elections on February 6th.
WHEATON, ILLINOIS (January 19, 2001) — Persecution continues in many countries around the world even though there are signs of progress in Vietnam, according to the World Evangelical Fellowship’s Religious Freedom Report.
WHEATON, ILLINOIS (January 19, 2001) — Persecution continues in many countries around the world even though there are signs of progress in Vietnam, according to the World Evangelical Fellowship’s Religious Freedom Report.
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (January 18, 2001) – Hundreds of Thousands of Jews from the former Soviet Union, who have “returned” to Israel, are being helped by a Christians in America with food, clothes, medicine and even rent money, to give them a new start in their new homeland.
Opposition leader Ariel Sharon has set out his peace plan, in which Israel would not cede any more land to the Palestinians. Sharon confirmed the details of the plan which were published today in the Hebrew daily “Ha’aretz.”
PLACENTIA, CALIFORNIA (January 18, 2001) — Global Operations and Development ”Giving Children Hope,” a Christian relief ministry, is planning an immediate shipment of food, blankets, medicine, and hygiene kits to El Salvador for victims of the Jan. 13 earthquake.
sraeli and Palestinian negotiators say they see no chance of a breakthrough before President Clinton leaves office this weekend. In a sign of the low expectations,
SANTA ANA (January 17, 2001) — A Colombian pastor and his family have fled for their lives after ultra-rightist forces killed three members of the pastor’s church, reports a church leader in Medellin.
A Colombian pastor and his family have fled for their lives after ultra-rightist forces killed three members of the pastor’s church, reports a church leader in Medellin.
A 32-year-old Jewish resident of the Gaza community of Kfar Yam was found dead today in an onion field on his farm, after he was abducted and killed by Palestinian terrorists while working at his greenhouses. Roni Tsalah went missing lasting night prompting a major search by the Israeli army.
Amid Colombia’s rising tide of violence between rebels, paramilitaries and the nation’s army, its people need help and encouragement more than ever. But the danger has forced many international ministries working in the country to re-think plans or even consider pulling out.
A sizeable Christian community is among the Karen people group in Myanmar (formerly Burma) facing abuse at the hands of the country’s military regime, according to Newsroom-Online, an Internet news service based in London.
A growing body of evidence confirms reports that Christians in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands have been forced to convert to Islam under threat of death, although Muslim clerics deny the claims.
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (January 11, 2001) – IRR-TV (INTERNATIONAL RUSSIAN RADIO/TV) has just made history by airing the first-ever Christmas marathon on secular television in St. Petersburg, Russia.
A prominent Indian church leader is warning of a possible bloodbath against Christians by Hindu fundamentalists.
Members of the radical Hindu group the Bajrang Dal beat two Christian workers, David Massey and Simon Sakria, for more than two hours on January 4 for showing a “Jesus” film in Jehra, a remote village on the Rajasthan-Gujarat border in western India. Church leaders said the two Christians had gone to visit the house of a local pastor when they were attacked.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY (January 9, 2001) — In 10 months of the year 2000, over 18,000 people have phoned, written, or e-mailed in for a free 2000 Turkish New Testament, according to a Bible distributor in Turkey, “the largest unreached nation in the world.”
Indonesia’s Christian and political leaders are convinced that the widespread Christmas Eve church bombings were meant to provoke all-out war between the Muslim and Christian communities in the country.