ISTANBUL, January 22 (Compass) — After eight days in jail, two Pakistani evangelists arrested in Jacobabad for distributing Christian literature and tapes of the documentary “Jesus” film were released on bail January 19.
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.
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.
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.”
PASADENA, CA (October 28, 2000) – Latin American Indian Ministries (L.A.I.M.), a group which is committed to encourage, strengthen and support the indigenous communities of Latin American in their efforts to evangelize and disciple their own people, has launched a life-giving project to provide wells for the Tikuna Indians of South America and also to help rebuild a Bible Institute to train Amazon Indian leaders.
GARDEN GROVE, CA (December 23, 2000) – Two ministry leaders from Orange County, California, have thrown their support behind President Elect George W. Bush, who met with religious leaders Wednesday (December 20) to discuss ways faith-based groups can provide social services.
Nazareth, Israel (November 24, 2000) – Even amidst the turmoil in Israel, construction has started on the grounds of what will be the largest monument to peace on earth. The STAR OF PEACE, an international peace project located in Nazareth, Israel is designed to commemorate the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ. To celebrate this occasion a universal monument to peace is being created. People from around the world will have the opportunity to have their name and message engraved in the memorial for the next millennium.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA (November 9, 2000) — The “Moscow School of Broadcasting” is housed in an unassuming building about an hour south of Moscow. From the outside, it could be anything — an office building, a college dorm, or even an apartment complex. But inside, it’s a combination lecture hall and television studio, and the class is filled with 25 young Christians being trained to produce Christian programming for Russian television.
Coral Ridge Ministries Partners with Christian Solidarity International to Redeem 2,000 Enslaved Women and Children in Sudan
The “Free the Slaves” Drive to be Announced on The Coral Ridge Hour
HAMPTON, VA (November 7, 2000) — Dr. Paul Tran-Dinh-Ai, also known as Paul Ai, a leader of the Underground Church in Vietnam, has won some 30 Vietnamese to Christ is his new hometown of Hampton, Virginia. The much-persecuted leader has now urged American Christians to “wake up and see the mission field in their own back yard” and has shared lessons he has learned under persecution.
NICOSIA, CYPRUS (NOVEMBER 6, 2000) — Despite political tensions in the Middle East, broadcasters from the Mediterranean island of Cyprus gathered in Lebanon, October 26 – 28, to discuss the future of Christian broadcasting in the region. Some 80 or so partners and associates of SAT-7, a dynamic television service for the Christians of the Middle East and North Africa, met last week at the beautiful Al Bustan Hotel in Beit Meri, Lebanon.
WASHINGTON D.C., 6 November 2000 (Newsroom) — Religious freedom around the world is deteriorating, according to a report by Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C.
AMMAN, JORDAN (November 2, 2000) – Responding to a critical situation for the Christians of Iraq, Manara Ministries of Amman, Jordan, has begun reaching out to their brothers and sisters there with much-needed aid.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (November 1, 2000) — Dutch Sheets, senior pastor at Springs Harvest Fellowship in Colorado Springs, Colorado, author of several books on prayer including “Intercessory Prayer,” has issued an impassioned “NEW NATIONAL PRAYER ALERT” following on the heels of his nationwide “PRAYER ALERT FOR THIS NATION” concerning the U.S. Presidential Election, November 7, 2000.
(AgapePress) – The author of a book entitled The Gospel According to the New York Times says the well-known newspaper is targeting the conservative worldview.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA (October 30, 2000) — Sheryl Ramstad Hvass, the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Corrections, recently praised “faith-based” organizations, such as Chuck Colson’s Prison Fellowship, in helping to reduce recidivism rates among the inmate population in the nation’s prisons.
You are invited to march with The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement to the Temple Mount and to participate in the ceremony of the anointing of the cornerstone for the Third Temple.
JERUSALEM – 12 October 2000. The intense media war had already been raging for two weeks. Now, tank fire and helicopter rockets have been unleashed – against Yasser Arafat’s governmental and broadcasting positions. Today’s missile attacks on Palestinian government targets in Ramallah and Gaza City sent the clearest message possible that the Barak government, reflecting the anguished feelings of most of its Jewish citizens, has abandoned all hopes of ever signing a workable peace accord with the current Palestinian leader.
HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. (October 10, 2000) — A Hollywood audience who saw a sneak preview of the movie adaptation of the best-selling LEFT BEHIND book (Cloud Ten Pictures and Namesake Entertainment) gave it a rapturous thumbs up.
26 September 2000 (Newsroom) — Deep and profound differences separate the world’s great religions, as a controversial faith document published early this month by the Vatican illustrates.