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For more than 200 years, London has been a repository for some of the globe's most remarkable cultural treasures. Friends embrace during Refugee Week, an annual event celebrating refugees' cultural contributions to the U.K. Events highlighted refugees' influences in the arts, music and food, and allowed networking among ethnicities. In an hour's stroll through the…
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As you're reading this, I'm in Italy leading a Southern Seminary study tour through Rome. In the past two days, I've spent time praying in Saint John Lateran Cathedral here, and in the ruins of the ancient Christian catacombs. It struck me that we Christians sometimes forget the paradoxical grace of God in giving us…
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President Barack Obama might have known better than to have picked a fight with Catholics. History would tell him that they rarely lose. During the 1920s, Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles found that out the hard way. As this year's historical epic For Greater Glory shows, Catholics don't give up without a long and bloody…
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Why do you want to fight in the war? The blunt question sprang suddenly into Jasmin's mind, surprising the spiritually seeking Croatian soldier with its clarity. It happened in 1991, at the start of the war in the former Yugoslavia. He responded, "I want to fight for good, to defend my country. I want to…
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"Be the last of a dying breed, it's time that we man up." That's the last line of the new "Man Up Anthem" from Christian rap group 116 Clique. The song is just one sliver of a growing campaign launched last year by rapper Lecrae, 32, and his Reach Records in Atlanta, to get young…
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In the March issue of Credo Magazine, “Make Disciples of All Nations,” we interviewed Kenneth Stewart, Professor of Theological Studies at Covenant College and the author of Ten Myths About Calvinism (IVP). Here is what Ken had to say about Calvinism and Missions… Calvinism is largely anti-missionary. True or False? It is historically false. Surprisingly,…
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Brazil is sending the second highest number of missionaries to the rest of the world, according to the director of a Global Christianity study organisation. Of 400,000 global missionaries that were sent to foreign countries in 2010, Brazil sent 34,000, second behind the United States, which sent 127,000. The statistics were presented by Todd Johnson,…
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A missionary from Manmin, a Korean Megachurch, spoke about challenges that face Christians in China (name is not published for her safety). She said that in communist China, there are two churches: one is underground and consists of believers who are persecuted, and the other is the official church which is recognized and controlled by…
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A new historical feature film is being prepared to mark next year's 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Christian missionaries SS Cyril and Methodius in Great Moravia and the beginnings of Christianity in Bohemia and Moravia, the film authors and church dignitaries told journalists yesterday. The film will be made by Petr Nikolaev. It is…
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