Christian Outcry Over Blair Ban on Religious Groups
Posted on: Monday, April 30, 2001
STOKE-ON-TRENT, UK (ANS) Tens of thousands of Christians are this week calling on the British Government to lift a ban on national religious broadcasting, in response to news that a Government forum on the future of religious broadcasting is set…
ACLJ Applauds House Approval of Unborn Victims of Violence Act
Posted on: Thursday, April 26, 2001
(Washington, DC) -- The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, today applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for approving the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which makes it a federal crime to harm an…
Australian Salvationists Combine for Prayer Summit
Posted on: Thursday, April 26, 2001
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- More than 200 Salvationist from throughout Australia gathered for a National Prayer Summit in Canberra recently. The aim of the summit was to gather representatives of the Army together to submit to God, seek his heart,…
Businessmen From South Dakota Broadcast Programs to Mongolia
Posted on: Thursday, April 26, 2001
SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA (ANS) -- A unique group of South Dakotans has been reaching out by broadcast television to the people of Mongolia. The AMONG Foundation (American MONGolian) started in 1991 as a random group of Christian business people…
PrayWORLD!2001 Proclaimed a Success, Plans Underway for PrayWORLD!2002
Posted on: Friday, April 20, 2001
ORLANDO, FLORIDA (ANS) -- Ben Jennings, PrayWORLD! International Coordinator with Campus Crusade for Christ has issued a statement thanking Christians worldwide for participating in PrayWORLD!2001 and outlining further prayer initiatives for 2001.
…and a child shall lead them
Posted on: Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Antonio Peck didn't know his New York school wanted to change his values. So when his teacher told him to make an environmental poster for parent's day, the kindergartner simply combined what he had learned in class with the message…
C.S. Lewis Home to Host First Summer Seminar: Branches to Heaven
Posted on: Monday, April 16, 2001
April 16, 2001 - REDLANDS, California - The C.S. Lewis Foundation announces the first in a series of summer academic programs to be held at The Kilns, the former home of the late author and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis, near…
Christians Take Part in Prayer-Walk Across Morocco
Posted on: Monday, April 16, 2001
NICOSIA, CYPRUS (ANS) -- Terry Ascott, Chief Executive Officer of the SAT-7 broadcasting organization has just returned from Morocco, where some of the SAT-7 team took part in "a wonderful week of prayer" for the country, seeking God's blessing on…
International Concert of Prayer For Turkey
Posted on: Monday, April 16, 2001
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO (ANS) -- The US office of Turkish World Outreach has received an invitation from the International Turkey Network for churches to participate in an "International Concert of Prayer for Turkey."
Police Arrest Turkish Christian in Gaziantep
Posted on: Friday, April 13, 2001
ISTANBUL, (Compass) -- Four security police from Gaziantep's anti-terrorism division raided a Turkish Christian's home on the night of April 11, placing him under arrest for five days pending investigation of accusations against him.
Himalayan-hidden Drukpa people to be focus of prayer & fasting
Posted on: Tuesday, April 10, 2001
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Southern Baptists will unite their prayers for the Drukpa, an unreached people group in the remote South Asian country of Bhutan, from 6 p.m. Friday, June 1, through 6 p.m. Saturday, June 2, 2001.
Providing Hope to Ukrainian Street Children
Posted on: Tuesday, April 10, 2001
With the Soviet Union's breakup in 1989, Dmytro Voznyuk was one of Ukraine's gospel preachers who burst forth in a flurry of evangelistic activity. As he conducted gospel meetings, souls were converted, new believers were discipled, and churches planted through…
Unusual Courage in 2001
Posted on: Monday, April 9, 2001
Every now and then, a little bit of justice sneaks up on the culture at a time when you least expect it. Case in point; A short time ago, 16 year-old Elliot Chambers borrowed and then wore to school, his…
Turkey releases jailed Christian after 30 days
Posted on: Saturday, April 7, 2001
ISTANBUL, April 7 (Compass) -- Two Turkish Christians imprisoned near Izmir for a month on concocted charges of insulting Islam were ordered released March 30, after prosecution witnesses admitted that local gendarmarie officials pressured them to sign prepared complaints.
Southern Protestants Officially Recognized in Vietnam
Posted on: Friday, April 6, 2001
HO CHI MINH CITY, April 5 (Compass) -- For the first time since the communist takeover in 1975, authorities in Vietnam have granted legal recognition to a Protestant organization in the south. Most observers see the move as a positive…
