Hindu nationalists, who had exercised their clout against India’s Christians and Muslims until the centrist Congress Party’s revival in elections five years ago, find themselves further marginalized after this year’s national and state elections, reports Baptist Press.
In voting from April 13 through May 13, the Congress Party emerged with more than 200 of the 543 [...]

Posted on Feb 24 2009

Release International has launched a petition and is calling a day of prayer on behalf of persecuted Christians in Eritrea. The Day of Prayer is May 24 2009 – Eritrea’s National Day.
‘Imagine living as a Christian in Eritrea,’ says Release CEO Andy Dipper. ‘Your church has been closed and its assets [...]

The latest incident saw Muslims attacking Christian places of worship after two mosques were set on fire. The Muslims blamed this on the local Christian population.
However, Government officials were blaming the violence on local politicians. “This is a crisis fomented by troublemakers intent on causing disaffection in the state,” state governor Yuguda said in a [...]

A Christian woman has been struck off a list of foster carers by her local council because she did not stop a teenage Muslim girl from being baptised.
The foster carer, a regular churchgoer in her 50s, has fostered over 80 children and has now been forced out of her home and the farm house she [...]

Reverend Iddrisu Tweneboah-Kodua, Minister in-charge of Assemblies of God Church Ghana Missionary in the US, has urged Christians to intensify evangelism to help transform the Ghanaian society.
He said evangelism had the potential to salvage society from social vices.
Reverend Tweneboah-Koduah made the call at a crusade organised by the leadership of Old Tafo Gospel Centre Assemblies [...]

Vice President John Dramani Mahama has asked Christians to examine whether Christianity have influenced society in any way.
He was speaking at an induction service in Accra on Sunday for the newly elected executives of the Ghana Pentecostal Council (GPC). Apostle John Annan Adotey, President of the Apostolic Church of Ghana, has been elected President of [...]

POPE-IRAN Jan-16-2009 (520 words) xxxi
Pope encourages Iran’s Catholics to persevere patiently
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI encouraged Iran’s tiny Catholic communities to be patient and persistent as they try to improve relations with the government and ensure a continued Christian presence in the Islamic republic.
He also called on the “vast [...]

WISDOM WORDS FOR ALL CHRISTIANS
BY: CHRIS GLIMETI
WORDS OF WISDOM.  PART 1
1. FAITH:1.A little faith will bring your soul to heaven,but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.DL MOODY.
2. None lives so easily,so pleasantly,as those that live by faith.WILLIAM HAZLITT.
3. If God brings you to it,he will bring you through it. ANON.
4. When [...]

SHOULD THE CHRISTIAN PAY TITHES?
I have been compelled to write this piece because many preachers and ‘custodians’ of the Word of God have failed to convince me that tithing is mandated to be paid by anyone who professes to be a Christian. Many christians’ inability to pay tithe because they earn a little has emasculate [...]

A Palestinian reads leaflets dropped by an Israeli aircraft over their houses in Rafah refugee camp southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Residents on the Gaza-Egypt border say Israel dropped…
(AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
With the International Red Cross warning of a “full-blown” humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Bible Societies in the Holy Land have appealed to Christians [...]