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| Politicians who ignore faith dont harm their own political prospects- or their party. To ignore faith is an act of social vandalism against a society in search of community, purpose and wholeness, |
| Joel Edwards. Faith For Life. Oct/Nov 2003. |
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| Fear of the religious police who still watch locals and foreign people makes it difficult for local Christian people to express their faith in Christ. There are no Christian activities by local people, even though it is known that people are getting converted there.Belivers are advised not to mention their faith in public and they continue attending the mosque in most cases. |
| Faith For Life. Oct/Nov 2003. |
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There are currently 100 million children living on the streets today.
Of the 100 million kids living on the streets,18% are under the age of 15.
The main causes are belived to be urbanisation, family disintergration, abandonment, Lack of education, economic problems, national dept, poor housing, child headed household and orphanhood.
Many of these children are exploited in labour, or embroiled in prostitution, sex tourism and pornography.
In the Philippines it is estimated that there are 1.5 million street children working as pick pockets, beggars, drug traffickers and prostitutes.
In Brazil over 1000 street children die each year, whilst every thurd Brazilian child dies before its 18th birthday.
In India, children who beg,hawk or collect rags and garbage for recycling may be sexually assaulted by other street children.
It is estimated that as many as 130,000 street children exist daily in Nairobi, often they are high from sniffing glue, sleep in the streets and the alleyways, scavenge for food and are often shoeless and barely clothed.
Drug abuse is the most common form of escape from the harsh realities of survival for practically every child on the street.
In most cases the althorities do not offer street children protection as they often regard street children as extingishable vermin. |
| Faith For Life, Oct/Nov 2003. |
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| The Holy Bible is being given the 21st century treatment with a new image make-over. An advertising campaign making the good book more..now..has hit Scotland courtesy of top advertising executives who designed a series of posters to attract more people to the bible. |
| Scottish Catholic Observer, Oct 2003. |
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Regular Bible reading has become so rare that Christians are being urged to pray once a month for its revival.
Church leaders from across the denominations are backing the campaign, as fears grow over the demise of scriptural interest and understanding. |
| The Church of England Newspaper, Oct/2003. |
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| A leading prolife charity said it was appalled that yet another magazine loaded with sex tips is to be aimed at young children.Sorted, to be launched in January and aimed at boys as young as 11, was described by LIFE as yet another example of the corruption of young children on a mass scale. |
| Christian Herald, Nov/2003 |
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A Leading West Midlands newspaper said a lack of clear moral guidance was causing the church to shrink.
Commenting on plans by Lichfield diocese to make renewed efforts to halt a decline in church service attendance over the past year, the Express and Star said..what a large number of people want from churches is fairly simple. They want clear moral guidance.
Unfortunately, many are becoming confused by a Church which increasingly appears in turmoil itself, struggling to hold true to some of the tough truths in the Bible which appear too unpalatable for modern tastes. |
| Christian Herald, Nov/ 2003. |
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| More than 80% of the population in 59 major countries belive in a higher being, while 58% anticipate a life after death, 55% are convinced of the existance of heaven and 38% of hell. |
| Christian Herald, Nov/ 2003. |
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| Some 29 per cent of Christians are involved in some sort of voluntary work and nearly half of all Britain's churches are involved in non-proselytising acts of kindness every week. |
| The War Cry - 18 October 2003 |
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| Since 1947 Israel has resettled 850,000 Jewish refugees forced to flee their homes in Arab nations. |
| The Church of England Newspaper - October 16 2003 |
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Some 3,000 men and women were questioned about their most recent leisure activities. In all 17% said they had been to a pub during the previous week and 14% in a worship service.
Church-going has remained relatively stable over the last decade. In all polls carried out since 1993, between 14 and 16% of the interviewees said they had been to church recently. |
| Christian Herald - 25 October 2003 |
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In late April, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a former Catholic priest, declared voodoo an officially recognized religion. In response, some Christians in the chronically poor nation of 7.5 million people think this is an ominous sign.
"The government said they are going to turn the country entirely to voodoo. The Christians say we are going to turn the country totally to the Lord Jesus Christ. " worried Jean Berthony Paul, founder of Mission Evangelique du Nord D'Haiti. |
| Christianity Today - October 2003 |
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| Statistically, Christians are a small piece of Sri Lanka's puzzle. More than 70 per cent of the population is Sinhalese, while 17 per cent is Tamil. These two groups form the principal combatants in the civil war; Muslims (8 per cent) and Christians (7 per cent) mostly observe from the sidelines. Protestants make up only 1 per cent of the population, though the last 20 years have seen significant growth among evangelical churches, mainly along Pentecostal lines. |
| Christianity Today - October 2003 |
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A major survey has revealed that religious groups feel discriminated against in the allocation of funding, despite the aim of the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal to involve faith communities with local community projects.
The report, compiled by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, sees faith groups express "considerable disillusionment about efforts to co-operate with offical regenerative initiatives." The report concentrates on neighbourhoods and views of Christian, Hindu, Muslim and Sikh communities. Report compiler, Mr Farnell, stated that certain secular agencies felt uncomfortable about giving money to religious organisations, for fear that they would use the money to convert people rather than provide a service to benefit the whole community. |
| Faithworks - Issue 1 September 2003 |
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| According to the Charity Commission Annual Report 2002/03, there were 187,316 registered charities in the UK by March 2003, a substantial part of which is constituted of faith-based organisations and churches. |
| Faithworks - Issue 1 September 2003 |
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