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According to last estimates the victims of the earthquake in Haiti may be more than 200,000 people. Over 1,5 million people are left without homes. This is a tragedy of epic proportions.

The Body of Christ from all over the world has responded by sending donations, relief teams and also by prayer.

If you still haven't decided how to give, I would like to encourage you to consider giving through Christian Outreach International. Christian Outreach International is a world-wide, faith-based, humanitarian, mission and outreach organization, specializing in short term mission projects. Over the years, COI has become a recognized, trusted mission sending agency, providing over 25,000 with a mission/outreach experience.

Please visit www.coiusa.com to give and find out more about the work that's being done through the teams who have gone or will be going to Haiti.

In this interview I talk to Mary-Alice Isleib, president of COI. Tune in and hear some of the moving testimonies and challenges the teams are experiencing on the ground and how you can be involved.  Read More

  

I have just received a word that Metro Tabernacle Church in Kuala Lumpur has been attacked by Muslims. According to the British online edition of Times Online, two motorcyclists set the church building on fire in an arson attack over a court decision, which now allows Christians to use the word “Allah” when referring to God.

Muslims are angry over this court decision. They fear losing control over the term "Allah" (equivalent of the term "God" in the English language).

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60 years after the end of the World War II the Western civilization seems to have lost the will to fight. Regardless of the accusations of pacifists regarding wars such as in Afghanistan and in Iraq, the majority of Westerners have failed to understand the existential threat Islam represents.

Why the confusion?

First of all the number of people who are ignorant of the Bible and the biblical worldview is alarmingly great. Even Christians who have read the Bible are not necessarily the astute students one would expect a disciple of Christ to be. This is easy to understand. With prosperity and peace comes a certain lifestyle. People began to spend the majority of their time busy with their private lives. Family life, education, career and all other activities characteristic of a prosperous society, consume most of the time the average person has available to them.  Read More

  

Press Release, Sofia, December 3rd 2009
For the first time the Court in Luxembourg passed a judgement concerning detention of immigrants
On 30th November 2009 the Court of the European Communities in Luxembourg passed its judgment in case С-357/09 PPU on the reference for a preliminary ruling made by Bulgaria concerning the prolonged detention of Said Kadzoev in the country. The Court's decision reads that no exceptions are allowed to the rule that the maximum 18-months period of detention according to the Law on the Foreigners in the Republic of Bulgaria (LFRB) cannot be extended.  Read More

  

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Sofia, BULGARIA, October 12, 2009 -- On October 8th 2009 a group of civil organizations for protection of human rights in Bulgaria filed an official inquiry with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Migration Directorate concerning the investigation of the death of the Syrian citizen Mr.Hassun Albaadge which happened on the 6th of October this year in Busmantsi Detention Center for Illegal immigrants in Sofia*.  Read More

  

Sofia, October 13, 2009 -- A nationalist party in Bulgaria has proposed an Amendment to the  Religious Law, in an attempt to limit the freedoms of religious groups different from the State sanctioned Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

The sponsor of the bill, Tzveta Georgieva from the ultra-nationalist party "Ataka" ("Attack" in translation), has denied that the proposed amendment is in direct contradiction to the Bulgarian Constitution.    Read More

  

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Revised version/Aug. 22, 2009
A few years ago the Body of Christ began to throw around the idea of "marketplace apostles". Many books have been written since and a new buzzword found its place permanently in our vocabulary. The synergy between business and ministry is not a novelty in and of itself.  Read More