World News Briefs

Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_largeMissions Catalyst News Briefs 11.4.15

  1. WORLD: Global Appeal of Western Music
  2. ARAB WORLD: New Film for Arab Atheists
  3. CHINA: A Vision to Send 20,000 Chinese Missionaries
  4. NORTH AFRICA: Monsieur Mouton and MicroSD Cards
  5. WORLD: Responding to Syrian Refugees
  6. PAKISTAN: NGO Tackles Anti-Christian Prejudice

Sam Purse Europe Refugee video

Who are these refugees, and why are they coming to Europe now? This issue includes a list of a dozen short videos, like this one from Samaritan’s Purse, about responding to the refugee crisis.

Greetings,

With so much of the news full of stories about lines being drawn to separate “us” from “them,” it’s refreshing to find stories where those lines are happily crossed. See Why Muslims Celebrate a Jewish Holiday (CNN, via COMMA) and A Woman Named Prayer, in which a Muslim woman shares the Christmas story (ActBeyond).

A great story about Muslim migrants meeting Christian Gypsies is only available to Wall Street Journal subscribers, unfortunately, but worth the read, and that story is all the more poignant if you read about the marginalization of the Roma in Hungary (Foreign Policy).

Did you know that the word Hebrew means “one who crosses over”? What man-made lines might you need to cross?

Blessings,
Pat

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