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On Oct. 4, 2008, The Gideons International will commemorate the 100th anniversary of its first placement of Bibles in hotel rooms. Gideons are in more than 180 countries, printed in over 80 languages, they have given away 1.3 billion Bibles (enough to reach about one in five people on earth), and are currently placing one million copies every five days. They also place Scripture in hospitals, prisons, military bases, schools and colleges. According to a Christian Post report, at the 1908 Gideon Convention in Louisville, Ky., Gideons members were discussing how they could more effectively witness in the hotels, where they spent so much of their time, when one trustee proposed that they furnish a Bible for each bedroom of the hotels in the United States. The plan was adopted by the convention and dubbed, "The Bible Project." |
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Updated News
Jabalpur Christian Church burnt (Sept.
19, 12.35, IST) Communal violence between Hindus and Christians has been on rise in various parts of the country. The latest in the row of the attacks on churches is in Madhya Pradesh, again a Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled state. Two men broke into a A 150-year-old church in Jabalpur late on Thursday night. There were no casualties as the church was closed. However, fire fighters were alerted and the blaze was soon doused. Immediately after the incident, there were protests by Christians but the situation is now under control This is the third case of assault on Christian missionaries in the state in the past few weeks. On Aug 31, an 86-year-old church in Ratlam was set on fire. In another incident, Unidentfied gunmen opened fire at a guard at the Carmel Convent in Ujjain, the temple town of Madhya Pradesh, police said Tuesday. He recieved three gun shots were Monday night and sustained minor injuries in the legs, the police said, adding he was out of danger. The five unidentified attackers according to the police, had asked him to call the Sisters of the convent. 'When Singh refused, he was beaten up badly and asked to cry loudly so that the Sisters would come out,' said the police. In Jabalpur Christian Church burnt (Sept. 18, 23.40, IST) B2B got the news that in Jabalpur, in Madhya Pradesh state of India, fresh violence had started and some anonymous group burnt a Christian Church. We are waiting for more news to come. |
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'Somebody's Daughter: A Journey to Freedom from
Pornography' (September
16, 23.00, IST) According to recent surveys, nearly 60 percent of Christian men and 37 percent of pastors admit to struggling with pornography. No longer just a problem for men, 35 percent of women also admit to the addiction. Read Full News
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Please do not spread 'lies' to stir
Christian sentiment (Sept. 16, 10.30 IST) B2B is getting enquires about the present situations in riot affected areas of India as some sources with wrong intentions are spreading false News. We got one like this-which is circulating all over the world- "Please pray for Paul Thangaia in Bangalore. RSS has planned to kill hem. They burnt 20 Churches yesterday night and plan to destroy 200 Churches. In Orissa BJP has planned to kill 200 pastors in the next 24 hours. Please pray for atleast 2 minutes and forward this message to all Christians." As B2B, a responsible news agency want to inform all of you that most of the mails and SMS' are pure lies than fact. We agree, still there is tension in some areas of Karnadaka and Orissa. However, Christians do not needed any exaggerated or false news. We suspect some may have personal gains through all these 'publicity stunts' |
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The All India Christian Council condemned the Delhi bomb blasts (Sept. 15, 22.30, IST)) The All India Christian Council condemned the bomb blasts in the national capital . Dr Abraham Mathai, vice-chairman of the Maharashtra Minorities Commission said, "This leaves all of us vulnerable to communal attacks, irrespective of whether they are carried out by terrorists, identified with the minority community or as in the case of Karnataka or Orissa where fundamentalists from the majority community attacked Christians.'' At least two persons were killed in Orissa in renewed anti-Christian violence and nine churches were targeted in Karnataka, leaving a large number grievously injured. There was no justification for the Orissa government not calling for a CBI probe into the communal violence and demanding President's rule in the state, said sources. |
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Saudi Governmental Official Kills Own
Daughter for Conversion to Christianity (Sept. 15, 20.15, IST) A government official in Saudi Arabia cut out his daughter's tongue and burned her to death after learning she had become a follower of Jesus Christ. The man, who was not named in the news report, works for the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a government agency that enforces religious purity. The girl came to know about Jesus Christ through the Internet and when her father learned about her decision, "a heated debate on religion" ensued, according to International Christian Concern (www.persecution.org), a Washington, D.C.-based human rights group. The man is in custody but news reports gave no indication as to his identity or when the crime occurred. "Saudi Arabia is intolerant of Christianity and non-Muslim faiths," a press statement from International Christian Concern said. "Its education curriculum openly inculcates hatred against Christians and other non-Muslims through their textbooks and teachers. Saudi Arabian officials are using their huge oil wealth to export Wahabbism (the most intolerant version of Islam) to other countries including in the United States." Source: Baptist Press |
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After Orissa Now it is the turn of Karnataka-more than 9 Churches attacked in South Indian State (Sept 14, 21.30, IST) Suspected Bajrang Dal activists on Sunday attacked ten churches in parts of coastal and Malnad districts of Karnataka, protesting alleged conversion of Hindus into Christianity by missionaries. The attacks, believed to have been planned and executed in the morning, left at least eight persons, including two pastors, injured, police said. The pastors were injured in Sirur and Jayapura. Churches in Singtagere, Magodu, Jayapura in Chikmagalur district of Malnad region, prayers halls in Udupi, Sirur and Mudur in Udupi district, Kodikkal, Falnir and Afla Centre in Mangalore were the target of the attacks, they said. Motorcycle-borne miscreants barged into prayer halls and ransacked them, they said, adding additional reinforcements have been sent in view of the violence. Central minister Oscar Fernandes, who hails from the region, visited some of the damaged prayers halls Sunday evening. In Mangalore, the authorities have clamped prohibitory orders for three days from Sunday, police said. Malayalam-August Issue Editorial Orissa riot - editorial august.pdf |
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Kenneth Haywood-the
controversial 'Pastor'- Back in Mumbai ( Sept. 12, 10.30 , IST) The American National who left India when a look-out notice by ATS (Anti terrorism Squad) was issued against him came back in city without any pressure from Indian authorities. Reportedly he appeared before ATS mumbai office for an interrogation on Thursday, he spend more than three hours in ATS office. Explaining his reason for fleeing, Haywood told the police that he was mentally disturbed after the incident and wanted to spend time with himself. |
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Orissa Please do not heed to roomers
(Sept. 6, 22.00, IST)
After two weeks passed, communal violence is still
going on in Orissa. However, b2b found some sources are spreading
roomers like 16 pastors w
Namrada - victim of Orissa riot. More News about Orissa riot |
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Dead Sea Scrolls are coming to Web (August 28, 10.30, IST) More than
2,000 years after they were written, the Dead Sea Scrolls are going digital
as part of an effort to better preserve the ancient texts and let more
people see them than ever before. Scientists in Israel are taking
digital photographs of the Scrolls with the aim of making the documents
available to th A few large pieces of Dead Sea Scroll are on permanent display at the Israel Museum. An exhibition opens at The Jewish Museum on September 21, 2008 and remains on view through January 4, 2009. This new exhibition features fragments of six scrolls, which have never been seen in New York City before. Another exhibition on the most remarkable archaeological discovery of the 20th century, the oldest surviving manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament-is going on at NC Museum of Natural Sciences, North Carolina. from June 28 to December 28, 2008. |
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Gideons
International will commemorate the 100th anniversary (Sept. 28, 01.10 IST)
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public and researchers on the internet. Israel Antiquities Authority,
the custodian of the scrolls that shed light on the life of Jews and early
Christians at the time of Jesus, said on Wednesday it would take more than
two years to complete the project. For many years after Bedouin
shepherds first came upon the scrolls in caves near the Dead Sea in 1947,
only a small number of scholars were allowed to view the fragments.
But access has since been widened and they were published in their entirety
seven years ago. Using powerful cameras and lights that emit no
damaging heat or ultraviolet beams, scientists in Israel have been able to
decipher sections and letters in the scrolls invisible to the naked eye.
The scrolls, most of them on parchment, are the oldest copies of the Hebrew
Bible and include secular text dating from the third century BC to the first
century AD. A team of specialists has taken 4000 pictures of some 9000
fragments that make up the scrolls, which number 900 in total.