By Dan Wooding: Assist News/Baptist Press
He has been encouraged to have a time of prayer with President Bush and Laura Bush at their summit.
“Some say it is a new day in South Korea. After a landslide election in November, Myung-Bak Lee was sworn into office on February 19.”
So wrote Ann Lovell, a media worker based […]

By Nathan Black, Christian Post Reporter
Following a wave of comments by Christian viewers criticizing Wednesday night’s “American Idol” performance that replaced “Jesus” with “shepherd” in their finale song, Idol contestants stepped back on stage Thursday, this time singing “Jesus.”
American Idol contestants perform at the ‘Idol Gives Back’ fundraising special of ‘American Idol’ in Los Angeles […]

Source: Intercessors Network
Christians throughout China fear tough restrictions on their freedom to worship in the coming year following the launch of a government crackdown ahead of the August 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Christians across China are reporting a shortage of Bibles, even in cities where Bibles previously were readily available. There are reports of […]

By, Ken Connor, Christian Post        Sat. March 8th, 2008
Pundits love to put their subjects into tidy little boxes—it makes their talking points easier. After all, people in little boxes are not complicated or nuanced. No doubt that’s why the media has long tried to put evangelicals into a box. The problem, however, is that the […]

By Katherine T. Phan, Christian Post     Wed. March 12, 2008,
NASHVILLE – President Bush delivered a rousing speech before an audience of Christian broadcasters Tuesday, saying the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are part of the same ideological struggle to protect God’s universal gift of freedom to humanity.
Bush called freedom a “precious gift” that was not […]

By Michelle A. Vu, Christian Post Reporter,

WASHINGTON – President Bush was urged this week by a U.S. religious freedom body to meet with religious prisoners andto attend a house church service when he goes to China for the Olympic Games this summer.
A Chinese man waves a flag with the Beijing Olympic Games logo at the […]

Source: National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka
Ampara District (Eastern coast)
Pastor Neil Edirisinghe of Ampara was shot dead last night (17th February 2008). He was shot in the chest and his wife was shot in the stomach. She has been admitted to hospital in a serious condition. It is reported that their child too […]

By Peter Stokes, Salt Shakers
Dear Friends and Family in Christ,
Where are we truly heading as a nation? Toward a Righteous God or away from Him?
As Bible-believing God-fearing Christians, we must get on our knees and repent, both individually and corporately as the Body of Christ in Australia! Certainly, we’re reaping what we have sowed!
It would […]

Mrs Jenny Stokes,  Research Director,  SALT SHAKERS  
Can a person be sent to prison under Victoria’s Racial and Religious Tolerance Act?
No, I hear you say. . .
Those who are brought before the Equal Opportunity Commission and then the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal might be asked to apologise, to say ’sorry’ or be told not […]

Barney Zwartz – The Age
February 21, 2008
A NSW couple who defied a court order under Victoria’s religious vilification law are both serving nine months in Victorian prisons.
Vivienne Legg and Dyson Devine posted on their website claims that an occult group, the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), was really a pedophile ring in Victoria, and that its […]

Sep 3rd, 2007 3:39 AM  By BosNewsLife Special Reporting Unit
TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife) — Despite reported execution threats and police abuse, Iranians “massively” turn to Christianity, fueling an “unprecedented” demand for Persian Bibles and New Testaments, BosNewsLife learned from Iranian sources Saturday, September 1.

by Inspire Staff/TN : Aug 19, 2007 : Inspire Magazine (Ethiopia)
http://www.inspiremagazine.org.uk
“People always seek the money and the wealth of the earth, but what I seek is from God.”
Inspire Magazine has reported on a former Islamic leader in Ethiopia describing how he found faith in Christ after Jesus appeared to him in a dream.
Notes the report: […]

 Dear Friends and Family in Christ,
Attached (or read below) is the Official Media Release from the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal regarding the successful mediation between Catch the Fire Ministries and the Islamic Council of Victoria in this historic (spanning 5 years and now finalised) court case in Melbourne, Australia.
Thank you so much for standing […]

Standing for Jesus in a Multicultural Society  

Since when is quoting from the Bible a “hate crime”? It hasn’t happened yet in America, but one day, it could! Danny Nalliah knows this personally because, as an Australian pastor, he opposed this radical law in his country…and won! You will hear his story on Truths That […]

Article by Bill Muehlenberg- God is doing a new thing
Dear friends,
Evangelical Christianity was once found mainly in the West. But no longer. In 1960, there were an estimated 50 million evangelical Christians in the West, and 25 million in the rest of the world; today, there are an estimated 75 million in the West, and […]

by Wendy Cloyd/AH : May 4, 2007 : Citizen Link
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000004544.cfm
“We applaud the President’s courage in standing up for the Constitution and the principle of equal protection under the law.”
Although the U.S. House of Representatives, Wednesday, approved the controversial “Hate Crimes” bill, the President promised to veto the measure, should it also pass in the Senate.
Dr. […]

by Mark Ellis/AH : Mar 7, 2007 : ASSIST News Service
“God is shaking the foundation of Islam in Iran. We have been praying for some of the main government officials to come to Christ and God is answering us.”
One of the top Islamic leaders in Iran accepted Christ and left the country after facing death […]

Program Announced to Protect Religious Freedom in America
by Erin Roach/TN : Feb 23, 2007 : BPNews
“Why should it be permissible for an employee standing around the water cooler to declare that ‘Tiger Woods is god,’ but a firing offense for him to say ‘Jesus is Lord?’ These are the kinds of contradictions we are trying […]