Category: News Briefs

In This Issue: Church planting among the Deaf

• NORTH AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST: A Church for the Deaf
• LAOS: Mother Evicts Children for Following Christ
• FIJI: Permission Granted to Methodist Church
• BANGLADESH: Selling Books on the Bus
• WORLD: Don’t Overlook the Arts

In This Issue: Gathering a harvest in Pakistan

•  PAKISTAN: Reaping the Harvest
• SAUDI ARABIA: Glimmers of Light
• HORN OF AFRICA: Lost Christians
• IRAN: Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani’s Letter from Prison
• INDONESIA: World Prayer Assembly Happening Now

Quotable

“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

John 4:34-38

Continue reading Missions Catalyst 05.16.12 – World News Briefs

In This Issue: Ministries all over the world bearing fruit

• MIDDLE EAST: Internet Evangelism Bears Fruit in Libya, Saudi Arabia
• INDIA: Women at the Heart of Apatani Church
• DENMARK: Making Disciples
• NIGER: Sowing Seeds of Change
• HIMALAYAS: A Commitment to Tibetans

Continue reading Missions Catalyst 05.02.12 – World News Briefs

In This Issue: Many ready, but yet to be reached

• CHINA: Millions Ready to Believe
• AFGHANISTAN: Parliament Members Embracing Christianity?
• WORLD: Day of Digital Outreach
• UGANDA: A Night in a Kraal
• EGYPT: Sending Out Missionaries

Continue reading Missions Catalyst 04.18.12 – World News Briefs

In This Issue: Living and telling the story of his suffering

• MALI: Military Coup, “It’s Personal”
• NORTH KOREA: Global Day of Prayer
• YEMEN: Youth on Slain American, “We Love You, Joel”
• BURMA: Army Ransacks Church

Continue reading Missions Catalyst 04.04.12 – World News Briefs

In This Issue: Overcoming fear to build relationships

• USA: Evangelicals and Muslims
• SOUTH SUDAN: 2,200 New Refugees
• UGANDA: Child Sacrifice
• LAOS: Officials Confiscate Church
• ISRAEL: Hate Crimes against Christians

Continue reading Missions Catalyst 03.21.12 – World News Briefs

In This Issue: Religious communities struggling to live side by side

• TURKEY: On Questioning Religions
• INDONESIA: Saying “No” to Islamic Intolerance
• CHINA: House Church Leader Released
• IRAN: Officials Concerned over Spread of Christianity in Malaysia
• SRI LANKA: Pastor Threatened, Church Ordered to Close

Continue reading Missions Catalyst 03.08.12 – World News Briefs

In This Issue: 200 years after Adoniram Judson

• NORTH AMERICA: Debut of New Evangelical Missions Network
• BURMA: Christian Kachins Killed, Tortured Despite Ceasefire
• SAUDI ARABIA: Christian Men and Women Arrested for Meeting Together
• EUROPE: The Status of Church Planting
• CENTRAL ASIA: Baptized in the Shower

Continue reading Missions Catalyst 02.15.12 – World News Briefs

In This Issue: Breakthroughs and challenges for the Church in Africa

• EGYPT: Loving Your Enemies
• NIGERIA: Bloodiest Attacks Yet
• SUDAN: Church Leaders Threatened
• CAMEROON: Wycliffe Celebrates 25 Years of Progress
• ACROSS AFRICA: Deepening Discipleship

Continue reading Missions Catalyst 02.01.12 – World News Briefs

In This Issue: How God is using one grandmother

• INDIA: Grandma Leaves for the Mission Field
• KUWAIT: Member of Royal Family Goes Public with Faith
• SYRIA: Film on Life of Paul Shown at Local College
• LAOS: Officials Arrest Eight Christians
• WORLD: Human Trafficking

Continue reading Missions Catalyst 01.18.12 – World News Briefs