Archive for September, 2010
Chilean bishop: Soccer has ‘enormous potential for evangelization’
September 6th, 2010In a letter released by the Bishops’ Conference of Chile, Auxiliary Bishop Cristian Contreras Villarroel said the vast majority of soccer players are men of faith and that they have an enormous potential to evangelize, reports...View Property
Pope discusses anti-life legislation with Spanish President
September 6th, 2010Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero concluded a meeting yesterday with Pope Benedict XVI, during which they reportedly discussed Spain's new abortion law, which permits women to have their unborn children killed by a doctor for...View Property
Iran’s election anniversary nears; believers call for prayer
September 6th, 2010Iran is taking steps to quell protests as the anniversary of the disputed presidential election nears, reports FCNN. Multiple sources report they're aggressively deploying paramilitary members, re-arresting activists, and enforcing certain bans on mingling of...View Property
Kyrgyzstan is on the threshold of war, urgent prayers needed (exclusive)
September 6th, 2010Kyrgyzstan is on the threshold of civil war, reports Christian Telegraph. As The Beam of Hope mission reports, Christians in the country need urgent prayers. “There are horrible things going on here. Whole south of the...View Property
Russia: Ghostlike existence for Dagestan’s Christians
September 6th, 2010The Hosanna Church - the largest Pentecostal Church in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan - had a five-year agreement allowing prison visits abruptly cancelled in early 2010, Pastor Artur Suleimanov told Forum 18 News Service. ...View Property
Polish bishops bar IVF supporters from communion
September 6th, 2010Poland's bishops have warned Roman Catholic Church members that they cannot receive Holy Communion if they support in vitro fertilisation, because it is a violation of church law comparable to abortion, reports Ecumenical News International. ...View Property
Cardinal Napier wishes S. Africa’s World Cup team good luck
September 6th, 2010Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, the Archbishop of Durban, has asked South Africa to welcome and learn from the world during the World Cup. Speaking on behalf of the country’s Catholic bishops, he extended his prayers and best...View Property
Devastating reports could provoke persecution against Christians
September 6th, 2010Open Doors says various news agencies report that a member of the Afghan government has called for the public execution of Christian converts from Islam, reports MNN. This is in response to a video broadcast...View Property
Pope concludes ‘Year for Priests’ with sexual abuse apology
September 6th, 2010Pope Benedict XVI has marked the end of the Roman Catholic Church's Year for Priests by apologising for the scandal of sexual abuse of children by clergy, reports Ecumenical News International. "It happened that in...View Property
Abby Sunderland, the ‘born-again’ solo sailor is safe
September 6th, 2010Following the prayers of tens of thousands of Christians around the world for the safety of Abby Sunderland, the teenage “born-again” solo sailor who had been reported as missing at sea Thursday, June 10, 2010, comes...View Property
Top Botswana bishop: Church does not reject homosexuals
September 6th, 2010In an interview with Botswana's Sunday Standard, the leader of the nation's Catholics spoke about homosexuality, explaining that homosexuals "are our brothers and sisters. We have to love them, sympathise with them, and help where we...View Property
Schools sidelining teaching on Christian fundamentals
September 6th, 2010Other religions are being treated more seriously than Christianity in Religious Education classes according to a new Ofsted report. According to the report, there “were a number of specific weaknesses in the teaching about Christianity. Many...View Property
Cornerstone University students train Christian youth in Delhi
September 6th, 2010At the Urbana09 Missions conference last December, the overflowing passion students had for the spread of the Gospel was astounding. Although most of the students at Urbana were American, this enthusiasm is clearly not culturally bound,...View Property
Pro-life leader arrested for praying on D.C. public sidewalk
September 6th, 2010Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, a Protestant minister who heads the Christian Defense Coalition, was arrested on Tuesday while praying in front of a Washington, D.C. Planned Parenthood facility. He and others said he was legally present...View Property
Prince Charles speaks on population control and Islam
September 6th, 2010Prince Charles stressed the problems of religious restrictions on birth control found in many religions but stressed that religion is needed to solve world problems and restore an understanding of the “soul.” Speaking on Monday...View Property
Minister credits 24-7 prayer with 840,000 salvations
September 6th, 2010A South African church leader is confident that God answers prayer, and he has a statistic to prove it: 840,000, reports Charisma News Online. That's the number of people Peter Sekhonyane says have come to...View Property
A bishop’s gesture of kindness to gay man who sued him
September 6th, 2010A man who caused great turmoil in the Catholic Church in Canada has been shown kindness and forgiveness by the very bishop against whom he launched a human rights complaint. In June 2009, Jim Corcoran,...View Property
Evangelical leaders: immigration reform bill needed this year
September 6th, 2010Both political parties should come together soon to enact a strategy of comprehensive immigration reform that increasingly is being supported by evangelical Christians, leaders from that religious identity said at a June 9 forum on Capitol...View Property
Concern over the condition of new Christian at Evin Prison
September 6th, 2010The security agents, while arresting a newly converted Christian in the city of Varamin, threatened his family against saying anything to either domestic or foreign media groups otherwise the condition of their detained loved one would...View Property
Bishop: Adoption for homosexuals deprives kids of family
September 6th, 2010Bishop Juan Ruben Martinez of Posadas in Argentina reaffirmed his opposition this week to the adoption of children by homosexual couples because it means denying children their right to have a mother and a father, reports...View Property
U.S. pastor launched website that calls prodigals back home
September 6th, 2010A Dallas-area pastor is calling prodigals home through a website that has received tens of thousands of hits since it launched last year, reports Charisma News Online. Steve Hill, pastor of Heartland Church, said...View Property
Muslim employer reportedly holds Pakistani Christians captive
September 6th, 2010Pakistani police have freed a family of Christian brick kiln workers, reports Jeremy Reynalds, correspondent for ASSIST News Service. According to a news release from International Christian Concern (ICC), the release occurred on June 2...View Property
Chavez declares ‘economic war’ against private companies
September 6th, 2010Consumer prices in Venezuela may rise 40 percent this year and President Hugo Chavez has declared "economic war" against private companies in an effort to rein in inflation, which is running at the highest rate among...View Property
Poll: 9 out of 10 Canadian women accept pre-marital sex
September 6th, 2010Less than 1 out of 10 engaged women in Canada disagrees that it is bad to have sex before marriage, a new poll shows, according to Canwest News Service, reports Patrick B. Craine, LifeSiteNews.com. The...View Property
‘Son of Hamas’ Mossad Hassan Yousef threatened with deportation
September 6th, 2010The son of a founder of Hamas who converted to Christianity and sought political asylum in the U.S. is facing deportation, reports Charisma News Online. Mossad Hassan Yousef is scheduled to appear in a San...View Property
Archdiocese deplores killing of teen on US-Mexico border
September 6th, 2010The Archdiocese of Mexico City released a statement this week deploring the killing of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca by U.S. border patrol agents under the international bridge between El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico, reports Catholic...View Property
Church of England will allow divorcees to become Bishops
September 6th, 2010A new provision allowing divorcees to become Bishops is expected to be proposed at the Church of England’s General Synod in July, reports Christian Concern for our Nation. According to a Sunday Telegraph report the change...View Property
Christian resources met with enthusiastic response
September 6th, 2010As John Lowrey of Christian Resources International prepared for his trip to Tyumen, Russia, he had several misgivings about how successful the trip would be. Lowrey has now returned and gives reports of God's blessing and...View Property
African countries take part in Soccer Peace Tournament
September 6th, 2010Before FIFA's soccer World Cup 2010 tournament kicks off in South Africa, 14 countries have begun to take part in a Soccer Peace Tournament organized by the Roman Catholic Church in Southern Africa, reports Ecumenical News...View Property
Pakistan militants threaten to destabilize nation
September 6th, 2010Pakistan risks destabilization if the insurgency continues in Punjab. However, because the government uses militants for electoral support, they would risk losing that support if they try to prevent these attacks on other, less-powerful minority groups,...View Property
Feared lost at sea: Prayer request for 16 year old solo sailor
September 6th, 2010A California family is seeking urgent prayers for their sixteen year old daughter, feared lost at sea, reports Tony Ashlin, special to ASSIST News Service. The Sunderland family is asking for prayers to be lifted...View Property
Services remember victims of the recent UK shootings
September 6th, 2010A series of memorial services took place across Cumbria in the north of England Wednesday to remember the victims of the horrific series of shootings in the area on June 2, reports Michael Ireland, chief correspondent,...View Property
Church activists pessimistic about commission on Sri Lanka war
September 6th, 2010Christian activists in Sri Lanka have given a lukewarm reception to the setting up of an inquiry by Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa into the latter years of a three-decade civil war between government forces and...View Property
Support in Ireland for law protecting human embryos
September 6th, 2010An opinion poll published last Sunday shows overwhelming public support in Ireland for legal protections for embryonic human life, reports Hilary White, LifeSiteNews.com. In the poll, commissioned by Pro-Life Campaign, 950 people were asked whether...View Property
‘Families Together’ program helps AIDS-ravaged Zambia
September 6th, 2010With the highest rate of AIDS infection in the world, sub-Saharan Africa--Zambia, especially--has an astounding number of orphans. Coupled with improper hygiene and poor conditions, the death and illness rates have soared in the Misisi Compound...View Property
London Mayor to attend West Ham Stadium Prayer Event
September 6th, 2010West Ham's stadium Upton Park, which is normally used to the sound of football (soccer) fans cheering on their team, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson will join thousands of Christians from across the capital and...View Property
Following iPhone’s example Windows phone 7 to ban porn apps
September 6th, 2010Following Apple's lead in trying to keep pornography off its iPad and iPhone products, Microsoft has announced a new set of policies for the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace that will not allow porn or sexually suggestive...View Property
Iraqi Assyrian Christian killed in ‘targeted shooting’
September 6th, 2010The Assyrian International News Agency -- www.aina.org -- is reporting that Christians in Iraq are expressing fear of renewed violence after 34-year-old Hani Salim Wadi was killed Monday night in Kirkuk, reports Dan Wooding, founder of...View Property
Over 60 pro-life groups to protest abortion law in Spain
September 6th, 2010More than 60 pro-life associations will gather outside the Spanish Supreme Court on July 3 in Madrid to express their rejection of the country’s new law on abortion, reports Catholic News Agency. The groups will...View Property
Recent conflict in Israel shows ‘escalation moving toward war’
September 6th, 2010War seems almost unavoidable after Israel's recent attack on a flotilla making its way to Gaza, reports MNN. According to BBC News, Israel attacked ships which were attempting to break Israel's blockade of Gaza. The...View Property
British abortion ads generate over 1,000 complaints
September 6th, 2010Television spots airing in Britain advertising Marie Stopes International (MSI) abortion facilities have garnered over 1,000 complaints from viewers in their first two weeks, reports Hilary White, LifeSiteNews.com. The volume of complaints has prompted the Advertising...View Property
Benedict XVI asks Christians not to leave the Middle East
September 6th, 2010During today's general audience in St. Peter's Square in Rome, the Holy Father warmly recalled several aspects of his “historic” trip to Cyprus last week, saying that the “culmination” of his visit was signing the working...View Property
Frozen embryos not ‘human life,’ South Korean court says
September 6th, 2010A South Korean court has ruled frozen human embryos left over from in vitro fertilization are not "human life forms," reports Baptist Press. Under the ruling by South Korea's Constitutional Court, such embryos may be...View Property
Long-awaited ministry center to be constructed in India
September 6th, 2010In Bangalore, India, the director of World Cassette Outreach of India's residence sits six feet below street level, resulting in monsoons annually flooding his home and place of ministry, reports MNN. Since WCOI's inception over...View Property
Gates foundation pledges $1.5 billion for maternal health
September 6th, 2010The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has called on global leaders to make maternal and child health care in the developing world a top priority. The Foundation announced that it investing $1.5 billion to this cause...View Property
Peruvian cardinal: ‘No to abortion, Yes to marriage’
September 6th, 2010During the closing Mass of the First Eucharistic and Marian Congress in Lima, Peru on Sunday, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne called on the thousands of participants to defend life and say “yes to life-long marriage...View Property
Israel now facing ‘new anti-Semitism,’ Sibley says
September 6th, 2010As Israel weathers a tide of criticism over its actions against a Gaza-bound flotilla, an expert in Jewish studies identified a new form of prejudice against the Middle Eastern country, reports Baptist Press. "What we...View Property
‘Blank Bible Challenge’ to get millions reading the Word
September 6th, 2010According to Christian Resources International, the average American Christian household has nine Bibles. 34% of those Christians don't ever read any of their Bibles, says The Seed Company. All the while, 353 million people have no...View Property
Pakistan gov’t tightens security at minorities worship places
September 6th, 2010Police and other law enforcement agencies have been put on high alert for terrorism threats against worship places, institutes and residential areas of minorities in the Pakistani cities of Jhang, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Lahore and Sheikhupura, reports...View Property
Bishop Padovese canceled Cyprus trip to avoid assassination of Pope
September 6th, 2010An Italian Vatican expert is saying that Bishop Luigi Padovese, Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia and President of the Turkish Bishops’ Conference, canceled his trip to Cyprus because he feared that his driver –who later confessed to...View Property