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| The Bible has a lot to say about anxiety and worry - there are more than 30 references in the NIV. |
| Baptist Times - July 3 2003 |
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| In Malawi around 75% of the country's 11 million people are Christian, while Muslims make up 20%. |
| The Church of England newspaper - July 3 2003 |
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| Although fair trade remains a niche market in the UK it is growing significantly, by some estimates at around 15% per annum. |
| Faith...forLife - Issue 12 |
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| Although Al-Qa'ida's numbers have halved since the 1990's, and some 2,700 known or suspected terrorists have been captured, there are fears that around 17,000 people who have been through Al-Qa'ida camps in Afghanistan may still be active. |
| Christianity & Renewal - July 2003 |
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| 60% of the New Churches are not allied to any stream. |
| Christianity & Renewal - July 2003 |
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| A quarter of a million believers are part of the New Church movement. It has been the fastest growing part of the church in the UK in the last 30 years. |
| Christianity & Renewal - July 2003 |
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| Pioneer People, an approach developed by a YWAM team in New York who, finding that traditional tract based street evangelism was fruitless, one morning set up a trestle table with a sign offering 'free prayer' and, that same day, prayed with some 400 people. Of them, 25 signed up for introduction to Christianity courses and four people prayed to receive Christ. Pioneer People have seen similar encouragements on the streets of Leatherhead by saying: "We don't want your name and address we just want to pray for you." Many have welcomed the invitation, and give their names and addresses anyway! |
| Christianity & Renewal - July 2003 |
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| Paul Beasley-Murray found that 45% of the 141 ministers responding to his questionnaire felt there was an overload of expectation, and 23% suffered from work overload, whilst 92% had suffered some form of stress. |
| Christianity & Renewal - July 2003 |
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| Contraceptive pills taken by more than three million women in Britain may be significantly raising their risk of breast cancer. A 45% increase in the disease was found among women who had been taking the second-generation Pill for three years or more. The findings follow a study of 95,000 women aged 30-70 by researchers at Tromso University in Norway. An estimated 3.25 million of the 3.74 million British women on the Pill now take a second-generation version. |
| Evangelicals Now - July 2003 |
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| After leaving office, Mr Byers visited partner organisations of Christian Aid in Kenya. What he say changed his mind about trade. He wrote in The Guardian that, since leaving the Cabinet, he had seen at first hand the consequences of trade policy: "No longer sitting in the air-conditioned offices of fellow Government ministers I have, instead, been meeting farmers and communities at the sharp end." |
| The War Cry - 21st June 2003 |
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| An estimated 5,000 Christians have been killed in Indonesia in religious violence. Ten thousand churches have been burnt down and 500,000 people have lost their homes in inter-religious fighting over the last four years. |
| Baptist Times - June 19, 2003 |
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| A third of male juvenile offenders are being reconvicted of similar offences within a year, according to Home Office figures. |
| Youthwork Magazine - June 2003 |
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| Tony Campolo told a mission festival in Vancouver, Canada, "We've embargoed Iraq for the past 10 years - and half a million children under the age of 12 have died as a result" |
| Christianity + Renewal - April 2003 |
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| A church in New Orleans had 300 members in 1996. The church ran Alpha three times a year, and has now grown to 1,300 - as a result of Alpha. |
| Christianity + Renewal - April 2003 |
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| The 2001 national UK census was the first to ask the 52 million respondants about religion. 37.3 million people had declared their adherence to Christianity, even though less than one in 10 people go to church weekly. |
| Christianity + Renewal - April 2003 |
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