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Churches must be ready to respond biblically to sexual revolution, Lausanne Congress hears

(XIA-MARIA MACKAY. Christian Today)

Christians must not be silent as the “victory” of the sexual revolution spreads across the world, but neither should they condemn others, the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization has heard.

Rev Canon Vaughan Roberts, rector of St Ebbe’s, Oxford, told thousands of Christians gathered in Incheon, South Korea, that the sexual revolution had led to “the almost complete collapse of family life in our culture”, with “devastating effects” on families and children.

England

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Why are you a Christian, but your neighbor is not? 


(John Chipman. The Christian Post).

“Why did you come to believe in Jesus but your neighbor (or brother, or friend, etc.) did not?”

While the question of why we came to believe the Gospel and why others didn’t is not unreasonable, often theimplication behind the question is the unbiblical notion that everyone’s spiritual future is settled. It is not.

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Sharing the Gospel with Muslims is not easy, but it is essential

Winfried Corduan. The Christian Post.

Evangelizing Muslims is a notoriously difficult undertaking, particularly since Islam is also a missionary religion. Do not think that every Muslim you meet is out to convert you. But if the conversation runs to the topic of religion, be prepared to get some stiff debate. In its most basic form, Islam is a very rational religion, and it is not easy to counter some arguments on their own ground. Furthermore, most Muslims living in Western countries are trained to know why they do not believe in the Trinity or in Christ as God.

England

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Church of England invests millions to slash its carbon emissions


Hattie Williams. Church Times.

FURTHER tens of millions of pounds are to be pumped into efforts to drastically reduce the Church of England’s carbon emissions over the next six years, the first impact report on its net-zero programme says.

The report summarises progress on the General Synod’s ambition to achieve net zero by 2030, which was set in 2020 (News, 12 February 2020). The Synod approved a “route map” to this goal two years later (News, 15 July 2022).

In real terms, the target is to decrease the Church’s emissions — mainly from its buildings — by 90 per cent against the current baseline: 415,000 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent (415,000T CO2e). The remaining ten per cent is to be offset by carbon-cancelling schemes, such as tree-planting and installing solar panels.

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Priest sentenced for stealing church donations

BBC staff. BBC London

A priest has been given a suspended prison sentence for stealing money from his own church’s donation plates. Fortunato Pantisano, 44, was caught on CCTV taking about £200 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Fulham, west London, on 7 January. The Italian national pleaded not guilty to a charge of theft by an employee in June but was convicted of the offence following a trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

India

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The poor Indian diocese with a surplus of Catholic priests

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Aid to the Church in Need, the international Catholic pastoral aid organization, is calling on the faithful to lend a hand in support of seminarians in Northeastern India. There, the faith is still budding, with some Catholic communities only dating back a couple of decades, but they have been blessed with an abundance of young men discerning vocations as Catholic priests. 




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Así es la fe de Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, la mujer detenida por rezar en silencio («crimen mental»)

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Isabel Vaughan-Spruce suele ser una mujer pacífica que respeta la ley. Sin embargo, ha sidonoticia mundial viral porque ha sido dos veces detenida por rezar en silencio cerca de un centro de abortos en Birmingham, Inglaterra.

Vale la pena conocer cómo Isabel llegó a ser un símbolo de la lucha provida y la libertad de pensamiento.

Tras un proceso judicial, Isabel acaba de recibir 13.000 libras de la Policía “en reconocimiento por el trato injusto que recibió y la violación de sus derechos humanos”, tras presentar una denuncia sobre “dos arrestos injustos y encarcelamientos; agresión y lesiones, en relación con un registro y las onerosas condiciones de la fianza que se le impusieron”.

Nigeria

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Un pastor y una ONG entregan 400.000 dólares en suministros médicos a Nigeria

By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter

Seeing a quadriplegic woman crying while being carried out of a hospital and placed on an electric scooter donated among thousands of other medical items by a collective of nonprofits to medical facilities in the Plateau state of Nigeria brought tears to the eyes of longtime civil rights lawyer Emmanuel Ogebe. 

England

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11% of Protestants can’t distinguish between Old, New Testaments

Ryan Foley. The Christin Post.

More than one-tenth of Protestants cited a New Testament story when asked about their favorite Old Testament passage, according to the results of a new study. 

Lifeway Research released a report last week titled “Protestant Churchgoer Views on Bible Stories” based on responses collected from 1,008 American Protestant churchgoers in September 2023. The survey asked respondents “Of all the stories found in the Old Testament of the Bible, which one is your favorite?” 

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When Pius XII met with father of Big Bang theory

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“It truly seems that today’s science, suddenly going back millions of centuries, has succeeded in witnessing this primordial ‘Fiat lux,’ when a sea of light and radiation burst forth from nothingness with matter, as the particles of chemical elements split and assembled into millions of galaxies.” On November 22, 1951, before the members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pius XII proposed an analogy between the “Big Bang” — a hypothesis formulated a quarter century earlier in 1927 — and the original beginning described in the opening lines of Genesis.

Islandia

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Why churches should keep their doors open

Church Times.

NO COUNTY has more medieval churches than Norfolk. Earlier this year, I spent a sabbatical walking between more than 200 of them. The glories of Norfolk’s churches are manifold; chief among those glories is that so many of these churches are open each day.

Keeping churches open is not simply about scratching the itch of church-crawlers. There is a theological and missional imperative for keeping churches — rural and urban — open as much as possible.