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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dlvrit="http://feeds.dlvr.it/atom"><title>The Global Christian - RSS Stream</title><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-05-22:c4639ee5b979441989f8c8154c5d685d</id><updated>2011-06-20T19:31:03-07:00</updated><author><name><![CDATA[The Global Christian - RSS Stream]]></name></author><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheGlobalChristian" /><feedburner:info xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" uri="theglobalchristian" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0">TheGlobalChristian</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0">http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry><title><![CDATA[Latvian churches reiterate condemnation of homosexuality]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/X82yF" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Latvian churches reiterate condemnation of homosexuality]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-20:a728fe551bca87a32911c97825f5575a</id><updated>2011-06-20T19:31:03-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[Christian churches in Latvia have criticized a new social science school textbook that describes gay and lesbian life as a “normal aspect of sexuality.” “The church isn’t alone in its traditional view of the family in Latvia,” said Ivars Kubcis, spokesman for the country’s Evangelical Lutheran church. “Our church’s attitude to homosexuality is strongly linked [...]]]></content><category term="Asia" /><category term="Latvia" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Conference to address issues faced by Christians in the Middle East]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/X82Sg" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Conference to address issues faced by Christians in the Middle East]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-20:d4c0970382713802adaac28260b9b60b</id><updated>2011-06-20T19:29:22-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[The volatile situation facing Christians in the Middle East is a key topic of concern for members of the central committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), and will be highlighted at an upcoming conference on Christians in the Middle East to be held in Volos, Greece from 20 to 22 June, according to [...]]]></content><category term="Middle East" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Vietnam: CSW calls for release of Christian activists convicted of subversion]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/Wz96Y" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Vietnam: CSW calls for release of Christian activists convicted of subversion]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-19:d7cb4eeed6982868053487509fd2d3f0</id><updated>2011-06-19T11:43:02-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[Seven Vietnamese activists, including three Christians, have been convicted of subversion and given prison sentences of between two and eight years. Mennonites, Pastor Duong Kim Khai, Tran Thi Thuy and Nguyen Thanh Tam were active in peaceful campaigning for land rights and were convicted along with four others. Tran Thi Thuy received eight years, Pastor [...]]]></content><category term="Asia" /><category term="Vietnam" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Salafi Muslims’ Agenda behind Christian Persecution in Egypt]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/Wz6dQ" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Salafi Muslims’ Agenda behind Christian Persecution in Egypt]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-19:7577ecba50cf020a5e3438d69779b67b</id><updated>2011-06-19T11:29:20-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[A recent spate of violence in Egypt, mostly incited by conservative Salafi Muslims after President Hosni Mubarak’s downfall, has left over 24 killed, more than 200 wounded and three churches destroyed. According to a report by the World Evangelical Alliance’s Religious Liberty Commission (WEA-RLC), the perception of threat to Christians is so severe that many [...]]]></content><category term="Africa" /><category term="Egypt" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[India Expels Three American Christian Women for “Proselytizing”]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/Wz5xm" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[India Expels Three American Christian Women for “Proselytizing”]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-19:b600e8459c8b3b549e21aa90798ccb45</id><updated>2011-06-19T11:27:02-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Indian authorities asked three American Christian women, including a 15-year-old, to leave India after Hindu organizations accused them of attempting to convert non-Christians by offering them incentives in Alappuzha district, Kerala State. According to the report by the Times of India, although Indian police admitted that they do [...]]]></content><category term="Asia" /><category term="India" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cybermissions: Using computer and internet technologies to impact lives for Christ]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/WsZX8" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Cybermissions: Using computer and internet technologies to impact lives for Christ]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-18:701973df5c7bb3c20e8b0df8eeffb983</id><updated>2011-06-18T10:51:02-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[Imagine packing 500 hours of Bible college training on a $13 chip that plays from a cell phone. Add speakers to the cell phone for only $20 and a group of pastors can be trained in places far-removed or unreachable by conventional means. “I don’t need a visa to get into these countries,” says John [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=global-christian.net&blog=21595797&post=948&subd=gcdashboard&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content><category term="Africa" /><category term="Asia" /><category term="Europe" /><category term="Latin America" /><category term="North America" /><category term="Oceania" /><category term="South America" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[China’s Official Church Members “Admonish” Shouwang Group]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/WsT2y" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[China’s Official Church Members “Admonish” Shouwang Group]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-18:844d67e942ee696260f7eac079f5a491</id><updated>2011-06-18T10:22:17-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[Police recently detained a further 16 members of Beijing’s Shouwang house church and placed several more under house arrest. That while members of China’s government-approved churches have gone to police stations to “admonish” detained house church members, according to a statement issued by church leaders. According to a story by Compass Direct News, of those [...]]]></content><category term="Asia" /><category term="China" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Japanese churches must become more active, warns theologian]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/WsSjD" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Japanese churches must become more active, warns theologian]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-18:387497c04c17a2f741e85fdd17e4ce44</id><updated>2011-06-18T10:19:30-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[Japanese Christianity has “spinelessly gone along with the government,” mostly shunning social activism and becoming “excessively theoretical,” according to a leading theologian. “What Christianity needs here is orthopraxy [right practice],” said Yasuo Furuya, professor of modern Christian systematic theology at Seigakuin University, north of Tokyo. The 85-year-old theologian made his comments in a new book, [...]]]></content><category term="Asia" /><category term="Japan" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Refugees: Christians take flight]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/WWLhx" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Refugees: Christians take flight]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-15:b3ac6725b7feedc052d6bbe7212e56ba</id><updated>2011-06-15T21:38:17-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[According to the angel, the birth of Jesus — ‘a Saviour who is Christ the Lord’ — was an event of ‘good news of great joy that will be for all the people’ (Luke 2:8-14). Despite this, it would not be long before ‘an angel of the Lord’ would appear to Joseph to warn him [...]]]></content><category term="Asia" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Christian council will return torture documents to Brazil]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/WMWnz" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Christian council will return torture documents to Brazil]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-14:f6ad5d0589ee1aa1881c62f11366c132</id><updated>2011-06-14T19:33:17-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[On 14 June, three boxes containing records of brutal torture and repression suffered under two decades of Brazilian military rule will be returned to the South American country from peaceful Switzerland, where the material has resided at the World Council of Churches (WCC) archives. Religious and political leaders, including WCC general secretary the Rev. Olav [...]]]></content><category term="Brazil" /><category term="South America" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pastor, Church Official Shot Dead in Nigeria]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/W447P" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Pastor, Church Official Shot Dead in Nigeria]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-12:41e77dc895fef378ae0f7bd8bcdb8f45</id><updated>2011-06-12T15:11:03-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[Muslim extremists from the Boko Haram sect shot and killed a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) pastor and his church secretary in Maiduguri, in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state. The killing occurred on June 7. According to a story by Compass Direct News, Rev. David Usman, 45, and church secretary Hamman Andrew were the latest [...]]]></content><category term="Africa" /><category term="Nigeria" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Archbishop of Canterbury’s comments provoke response from British government]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/VxPXq" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Archbishop of Canterbury’s comments provoke response from British government]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-11:20eca7b3aafd2e9f0a67b89586d4bdc8</id><updated>2011-06-11T08:29:17-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[In a strongly-worded opinion piece in the June 9 issue of The New Statesman, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, took a stand against recent economic, criminal justice, and healthcare reforms proposed by British Prime Minister David Cameron. Williams, launching his broadside as guest editor of the weekly journal, said Britain’s coalition government is forcing [...]]]></content><category term="England" /><category term="Europe" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[CSW brings art exhbition on Egyptian Christians to Pentecost Festival]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/VZPRN" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[CSW brings art exhbition on Egyptian Christians to Pentecost Festival]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-08:660b7bfa9b662c413ffa2d3351f6f320</id><updated>2011-06-08T12:32:17-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is pleased to bring the display of a remarkable art installation on the experiences of Egyptian Christians to Methodist Central Hall on 11 June as part of the Pentecost festival in central London. The unique images have been created for CSW by artist Lorna Buchanan as part of CSW’s No Way [...]]]></content><category term="Asia" /><category term="Europe" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Kazakhstan: Ahmadi Muslim Mosque Closed, Protestants Fined 100 Times Minimum Monthly Wage]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/VZBF9" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Kazakhstan: Ahmadi Muslim Mosque Closed, Protestants Fined 100 Times Minimum Monthly Wage]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-08:cff7a76894f5023b8a5810634657221c</id><updated>2011-06-08T11:46:03-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[Kazakhstan has fined an Ahmadi Muslim community – also denying it the use of its mosque and land – as well as imposed fines of 100 times the minimum monthly wage on two Protestants for religious activity without state permission, Forum 18 News Service has found. One official claimed to Forum 18 in relation to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=global-christian.net&blog=21595797&post=921&subd=gcdashboard&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content><category term="Asia" /><category term="Kazakhstan" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New York exhibit examines ‘the Man of Sorrows’]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/VYsfd" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[New York exhibit examines ‘the Man of Sorrows’]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-08:1f4ab1dfeed0795b769b009c1fbc4e67</id><updated>2011-06-08T10:42:02-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[An acclaimed exhibit ending a four-month run in New York City has given art lovers the chance to explore a single theme, Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and the Venetian artistic tradition that gave it full flowering. “Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese” at the Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan has [...]]]></content><category term="North America" /><category term="United States" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[German church gathering ends on note of reconciliation]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/VYTmy" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[German church gathering ends on note of reconciliation]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-08:92f6db87942a0f83f482677de56f50b9</id><updated>2011-06-08T09:34:02-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[The biennial faith gathering called the Kirchentag ended on 5 June after five days of theological and political discussions, concerts and a sense of reconciliation in a city devastated during World War II. “It was a Kirchentag where a new culture of participation and shaping democracy was discovered. A Kirchentag of active politics. A Kirchentag [...]]]></content><category term="Europe" /><category term="Germany" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Genetics Analysis of Jews Confirms Genesis]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/VY3jn" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Genetics Analysis of Jews Confirms Genesis]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-08:33c46239c5ea438a08e67556b948994c</id><updated>2011-06-08T08:27:02-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[A team of geneticists recently analyzed 6,529 individual genomes, representing 107 different human populations.1 They found genetic traces of African ancestry in various people groups and estimated the timing of the ancient African/non-African intermarriages. The results of their analysis of Jewish populations will come as no surprise to those who believe in the literal history [...]]]></content><category term="Africa" /><category term="Middle East" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Arrest of Shouwang Christians and other believers relentless]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/VXnYK" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Arrest of Shouwang Christians and other believers relentless]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-08:f699094e517aed601cba6c7365b27c24</id><updated>2011-06-08T07:47:18-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[Police yesterday arrested 20 more members of the Christian Shouwang church, when they tried to pray together in an outdoor square in Beijing. There is an ongoing harsh repression against members of the ‘house’ churches in the country, with arrests of leaders and persecution against the followers. Shouwang’s faithful have gathered in the public square [...]]]></content><category term="Asia" /><category term="China" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Former Egyptian Interior Minister Accused of Collusion in Alexandria Church Bombing]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/VBGNs" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Former Egyptian Interior Minister Accused of Collusion in Alexandria Church Bombing]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-05:10a0ff96ce694bb0b77e0ae6315ccde5</id><updated>2011-06-05T13:26:03-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[The Egyptian attorney general has reopened the investigation into the bombing of the Two Saints Church in Alexandria on New Year’s Eve, which killed 24 Copts and injured more than 90. In a story for the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), Mary Abdelmassih wrote that on May 25 Coptic Church attorney Joseph Malak presented a [...]]]></content><category term="Africa" /><category term="Egypt" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Asia Bibi is in good health but her family requires more support.]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/V6jGp" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Asia Bibi is in good health but her family requires more support.]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-04:8f912f5c1f4425b905678fe193eee316</id><updated>2011-06-04T21:38:02-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[From a recent report, from the British Pakistani Christian Association “Many of our readers have requested an update on Asia Bibi the brave woman of strong faith who has become an emblem for the freedom, equality and justice movement of Pakistan. Asia is a mother of 5 children one is disabled (pictured above) who has [...]]]></content><category term="Asia" /><category term="Pakistan" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Oxfam calls for global food-system reforms as churches demand food and fuel price cuts]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/V5GgV" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Oxfam calls for global food-system reforms as churches demand food and fuel price cuts]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-04:2938bc3562bf6c6ef185511d0256cfcf</id><updated>2011-06-04T12:03:23-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[As Global South church leaders heighten demands on governments to lower food and fuel prices, a U.K. charity has called for urgent reforms of the global food system. “For too long governments have put the interests of big business and powerful elites above the interests of the 7 billion who produce and consume food,” said [...]]]></content><category term="Africa" /><category term="Kenya" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Christian doctors to prescribe ‘spiritual healing’ for sickness]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/V5CMJ" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Christian doctors to prescribe ‘spiritual healing’ for sickness]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-04:0fdfff9a410c175e707aa1b8bc5f1f5d</id><updated>2011-06-04T11:40:40-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[Christian doctors and medical professionals will be traveling from many different countries from around the world to prescribe “spiritual healing” as an answer to sickness in the 21st Century, during a unique conference in Brisbane, Australia from June 11-12, 2011 The doctors will examine actual case studies of miracles presented by various respected doctors as [...]]]></content><category term="Australia" /><category term="Oceania" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Muslim Men Illegally Detain Christian Teen]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/V5Brb" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Muslim Men Illegally Detain Christian Teen]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-04:d940ee83d64d348312570ab52e075697</id><updated>2011-06-04T11:36:28-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[Members of a powerful Muslim family held a teenage Christian girl hostage because one of her brothers allegedly eloped with a woman from that Muslim family. The Muslim parents have threatened further retaliation against the Christian family if they do not produce their daughter. They have also reportedly threatened to publicly shoot the family, calling [...]]]></content><category term="Asia" /><category term="Pakistan" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Nepal Plans New Criminal Code Forbidding Evangelism]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/TzMWz" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Nepal Plans New Criminal Code Forbidding Evangelism]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-03:65c2e6854f12869c78db9d9d6e179cdc</id><updated>2011-06-03T09:07:06-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that five years after it abolished Hinduism as the state religion, Nepal is working on a new criminal code forbidding a person from one faith to “convert a person or abet him to change his religion.” CDN says that Article 160 of the proposed code also says no one [...]]]></content><category term="Asia" /><category term="Nepal" /></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Woman Encounters Jesus on Her Way to Temple Priest]]></title><link href="http://dlvr.it/Tz2hB" rel="alternate" /><source><link href="http://gcdashboard.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="alternate" /><title><![CDATA[Woman Encounters Jesus on Her Way to Temple Priest]]></title></source><id>tag:dlvr.it,2011-06-03:6b4c7b0396052112ed30d269d746fc96</id><updated>2011-06-03T08:04:04-07:00</updated><content type="html"><![CDATA[Fulmala Ekaja’s life was changed on a day that seemed to be like any other. She was going through many difficulties even though her family had been worshiping their traditional gods and goddesses. However, instead of bringing peace, these gods only brought disorder within her family. Some of her relatives confessed they had cast an [...]]]></content><category term="Asia" /></entry></feed>

