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True Love Waits co-founder Hester retiring

By   /  October 4, 2011  /  Education, International  /  1 Comment

NASHVILLE (WordNews.org) Sept. 20, 2011 — Jimmy Hester will retire after 26 years with the ministry, LifeWay Christian Resources, which spawned True Love Waits. His last day at the ministry will be Sept. 30 Hester spearheaded the transition of True Love Waits from an idea for a sex education campaign to an international movement challenging […]

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Flooded Pakistani Christians in need of aid

By   /  October 4, 2011  /  International, Missions  /  1 Comment

SINDH, Pakistan (WordNews.org) Sept. 16. 2011 — As many is 6 million people in the province of Sindh are being hit with disastrous floods a year after many Pakistanis were devastated by floods. Barnabas Fund says hundreds of thousands of homes and millions of acres of crops have been swept away. Thousands of people are […]

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EvanTell ministry names new president

By   /  October 4, 2011  /  International  /  1 Comment

DALLAS (WordNews.org) Sept. 6, 2011 — EvanTell, an evangelistic ministry, announced its board has named a new president. Andy Coticchio (pictured below), EvanTell’s chief operating officer, will also assume the role of president. Larry Moyer, EvanTell’s founder, had served as president and CEO. He will retain the CEO title. The nonprofit said the move positions […]

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Chinese church house leader released from prison early

By   /  October 4, 2011  /  Church, International, Persecution  /  No Comments

ZHENGZHOU, Henan, CHINA (WordNews.org) Sept. 18. 2011 — A prominent Chinese house church leader has been released from prison nine months before the end of his prison sentence and allowed to return home, ChinaAid has learned. Zhang Rongliang’s family members report that he is in good spirits and that, apart from serious diabetes, he is […]

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Believers in Guangyan ask government to permit house church to meet

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GUANGYUAN, Sichuan, China (WordNews.org) Sept. 21, 2011 — Christians who saw their house church banned by the government are now petitioning the government to reverse the decision, ChinaAid said. The Religious Affairs Bureau of Guangyuan’s Lizhou District issued the ban on June 24, saying that the church leader was “not a clergyman and was engaged […]

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Barnabas Fund aiding 75,000 in East Africa

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UGANDA, Africa (WordNews.org) Sept. 4, 2011 — Barnabas Fund is providing food for those in drought-stricken East Africa. The fund has provided help to those living in Uganda as well as Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and Tanzania. The fund said it is helping Christians in Kenyan refugee camps who are receiving insufficient rations.

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Ministry critical of Biden’s comments on China’s forced abortions

By   /  October 4, 2011  /  International, Politics, Pro-life  /  1 Comment

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) Aug. 25, 2011 — Vice President Joseph Biden’s comments that he “fully understands” China’s one-child policy is being criticized by a minister who says Biden understands the policy because the minister told Biden about it. Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute, said he’s been an eyewitness to forced abortions in China. […]

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Prayer vigil Saturday to support Iranian pastor

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) Sept. 30, 2011– A prayer vigil is scheduled for noon in Washington, D.C. tomorrow to support an Iranian pastor who has been sentenced to die because h won’t recant his Christain faith. The prayer vigil will be in front of the Iranian Interests Section, 2209 Wisconsin Ave. NW Washington, D.C. Rev. Patrick […]

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