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Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things

For her 40th birthday, Lucy McCann wanted nothing more than to take a vacation to her native homeland of Cartagena, Colombia with her husband Oliver. Amidst the historical charm that lures many tourists to the balmy South American port, the couple took notice of a young girl in the distance. Dark skinned, dirty and clad only in torn underwear, her demeanor was downtrodden and her haunting image one of despair. She was one of the “disposables,” as labeled by the natives there, isolated and imprisoned in a world of heinous atrocity. Not only due to her poverty but because at […]

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A Christian Response to Osama bin Laden

(WNS)–On Sunday night, I ended up watching the speech announcing Osama bin Laden’s death and wrote an article about it for WORLD Magazine’s web-site. The story summarized reactions that almost immediately started coming in from around the world. But the next day I said to myself: “Yes, these are the reactions of our politicians and pundits, but what should be the appropriate Christian reaction?” As it turns out, this is not so easy a question. The Bible has much to say on the subject, some of it difficult to reconcile. Consider this: “The authorities are God’s servants, sent for your […]

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Reaching Every Nation and Tongue

How do you reach the most isolated people in the most remote places on the planet with the Good News of Jesus Christ? Sanford, Florida based New Tribes Mission (NTM) identifies new tribes around the world and makes it their mission to reach them with the gospel. NTM is one of the largest missionary organizations in the world with 3,300 missionaries deployed around the globe. The name New Tribes Mission was chosen in 1942 by Paul Flemming, the organization’s founder. Flemming had been a missionary and noticed that tremendous effort was put into getting the gospel to people living in […]

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Gendercide

After recently watching the How to End Gendercide video on the All Girls Allowed website, a flurry of emotions came over me; it began with a mixture of confusion, distress and worry and ended with a feeling of hope. I couldn’t help but imagine if I had been born in China, I could have possibly faced being abused, tortured, kidnapped, trafficked or even murdered…just for being a girl. Hearing the term “It’s a Girl” in China does not have the same joyous ring to it that it has here in the United States. In fact, it often comes along with […]

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Breakfast Demonstrates Christian Community’s Support of Israel

Evangelicals Honor Israel With Celebrate Israel Breakfast At National Religious Broadcasters Convention Breakfast Demonstrates Christian Community’s Support of Israel New York, NY – Feb. 2, 2011:  The Israel Life of Tourism (IMOT) announced the hallmark event, Celebrate Israel Breakfast, that will take place on Sunday, February 27, at 7 – 9 a.m., at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, TN, in the Presidential Ballroom during the annual National Religious Broadcasters Convention. The event will include Israeli dignitaries, as well as nationally known speakers and recording artists. The breakfast is a celebration of the Christian community’s solidarity with the state of […]

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Haiti One Year Later

By Bryon Mondok The Good News   Since the first days after the quake, Food For The Poor has worked to alleviate suffering and rebuild the lives of the Haitian people, said Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor in an interview with the Good News. “It’s a long-term solution. There are no short cuts to it.” Food For The Poor launched a campaign two days after the earthquake and have continued the work ever since. “It’s continuous. We’ve been there for 24 years. And we have accelerated our work tremendously. But it’s not a special campaign. It’s […]

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Amish leadership travels to Israel to issue apology

New York – November 30, 2010: Amish leadership from Idaho, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Switzerland were in Israel November 21-27 to issue a declaration of repentance to Israel and the Israeli people. The apology was issued by Amish Bishop Ben Girod, along with many other leaders of the Amish community, including Pastor Micah Smith. Bishop Girod and Pastor Micah Smith are pictured above. The 45-person delegation toured Israel, however their primary motivation was to ask for forgiveness and hold reconciliation meetings with rabbis, city officials, and Israeli families to simply say, “We are sorry for rejecting Israel, please forgive us.” Among […]

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New book argues for spontaneous creation

Stephen Hawking’s new book, The Grand Design, co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow, contends that God is not necessary to create the universe because the laws of physics can do it alone. The “new atheist” crowd will cheer this message, but their credulity is a matter more of fiery sentiment than of cool-headed logic. Hawking asserts that “as recent advances in cosmology suggest, the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to appear spontaneously from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason why there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke […]

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Samaritan’s Purse worker “physically strong” despite 90-day ordeal

Militants released Samaritan’s Purse aid worker Flavia Wagner Aug. 30, but conditions in the Darfur region of Sudan where she was abducted continue to be “highly insecure,” according to one aid specialist. Even as Wagner, who was kidnapped in South Darfur more than three months ago, arrived on the morning of Aug. 30 at the airport in Nyala, the regional capital, three members of a Russian helicopter crew were abducted from the same area while traveling in a minibus. Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against […]

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1,000 Reasons to Smile

All eyes were on Haiti during the beginning of 2010 when a violent earthquake shook the nation and tested the resolve of the Haitian people. With over 400,000 people killed or injured and over 2 million left homeless, the country is still very much in the early stages of recovery. And yet, amid the turmoil that occurred, the spirit of the Haitian people is stronger and more determined than ever before. One organization that is deeply involved and committed to the Haitian people is The Knights of Columbus. Teaming up with two other major organizations, Project Medishare and the American […]

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