Hong Kong Sentences Democratic Publisher Jimmy Lai to Prison
Retired Chinese cardinal Joseph Zen and Jimmy Lai's wife, Teresa Lai, leave court after the Hong Kong activist publisher Jimmy Lai's national security trial on Monday. Associated Press...
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Missions ‘just got personal’ for pastor Tony Mathews | Baptist Press
After his first missions trip a couple of years ago, Texas pastor Tony Mathews started to take missions more personally. He also began to take a personal approach in enlisting other area African-American pastors to partner in Ecuador with IMB missionaries Johnny and Donna Maust.
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Five Months of Attacks on Mennonite Church in Vietnam Prompt SOS – Morningstar News
(Morning Star News) – Police in Vietnam on Wednesday (Nov. 12) employed thugs wielding hammers and metal cutters to ransack a church center and drag away nine Christians, who were then charged with not having proper papers – documents officials had confiscated from them in previous raids. The toughs – accompanied this time, inexplicably, […]
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Bathrooms of St. Peter’s soon to include showers for homeless
After hearing from a homeless man that a bath is more urgently need than food in Rome, the Vatican’s papal almoner commissioned that showers be added to the public restrooms in St. Peter's Square.
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No church too small for global missions, pastor says | Baptist Press
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering: Pastor encourages churches of all sizes to keep banding together to extend missions reach.
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Platt: ‘God saved you to send you’ | Baptist Press
IMB president David Platt calls it "totally intolerable" that more than 2 billion people are unreached by the Gospel. "God has not saved you to sideline you," Platt says in a missionary appointment service Nov. 9. "He has saved you to send you."
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TRUSTEES: IMB’s Platt unfolds five-point strategy | Baptist Press
IMB President David Platt unfolded his five-point strategy during meetings held with IMB trustees Nov. 6-7 in Olive Branch, Miss.
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Bible translation highlighted at NOBTS | Baptist Press
New Orleans Seminary hosts "Bible Translation as Missions" colloquium; speakers focus on efforts to extend Scripture in written and oral form to billions.
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Prominent Evangelical Pastor Myles Munroe and Wife Ruth Among 9 Killed in Fiery Bahamas Jet Crash
Nine people including prominent evangelical pastor and motivational speaker Myles Munroe, 60, and his wife, Ruth, were killed in a fiery jet crash near the Grand Bahama International Airport Sunday
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Incessant Attacks on Jerusalem Church in Israel Meet with Police Indifference – Morningstar News
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Police have refused to respond to a series of attacks on a church in East Jerusalem, including theft of a member’s car on Sunday (Nov. 2) and an assault in October that bloodied and bruised three Christians. The attacks, driven by both intent to seize property and opposition to Christianity, […]
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Baptist Pastor in Argentina Narrowly Escapes Assassination – Morningstar News
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Morning Star News) – A local church reaches out to victims of substance abuse, opens a shelter for battered women and works to rescue minors from prostitution and sex trafficking. In most places in the Americas, such compassionate community service wins admiration and respect, sometimes even an award from the mayor’s office. In Rio […]
