{"id":4967,"date":"2014-09-03T09:25:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2014-09-03T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:29:56","slug":"missions-catalyst-news-briefs-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4967","title":{"rendered":"Missions Catalyst News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In This Issue:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. AFGHANISTAN: Election Crisis<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. MIDDLE EAST: Media Fueling Terror Threats<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. WORLD: Bad News, Good News<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. LAOS:\u00a0Five Christians Accused of Murder Found Not Guilty<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. YEMEN: Woman Burned to Death for Her Faith<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Dear readers,<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Lately I have been thinking about influencers and other leaders and those they recruit and lead.<\/p>\n

    You have probably heard about the foreign fighters in Syria<\/a> (Your Middle East). Take a peek into the life of a Tajik recruit<\/a> (Inter Press Service). Use it as fuel for prayer!<\/p>\n

    We are often told to pray for our leaders (those in authority). A kingdom worker in the Republic of Congo had an amazing sovereign appointment<\/a> with one.\u00a0See also 10 Muslim Leaders You Need to Know to Better Understand the Spiritual Battle<\/a> (InContext Ministries).<\/p>\n

    Pray, too, for Afghanistan. September 2 was to have been the inauguration of the first democratically elected president. The UN has delayed the audit<\/a> of a disputed election in that country, see story below, and pray for Afghanistan and its future leaders. Lebanon is also currently without a president, a situation that has increased a sense of insecurity for that nation\u2019s Christians<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    When I think of influencers, my thoughts naturally turn to newscasters and media. Some of today\u2019s news pundits seem nothing more than what I call secular preachers, but journalists can be a different breed. Eddie Arthur expresses my own feelings in his blog post In Praise of Journalists<\/a>. I wonder if he read about Ilgar Nasibov, the Azeri journalist beaten unconscious<\/a> (Note: graphic image). If you’d like to pray for journalists, check out the Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    In the battle with you,<\/strong>
    \nPat<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"Pat\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Pat Noble has been the \u201cnews sleuth\u201d for Missions Catalyst since 2004. In addition to churning out the news, she is working to create a SWARM (Serving World A Regional Mobilizers) in Northern New York using the NorthernChristian.org<\/a> website. You can connect with her at www.whatsoeverthings.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In This Issue: AFGHANISTAN: Election Crisis MIDDLE EAST: Media Fueling Terror Threats WORLD: Bad News, Good News LAOS:\u00a0Five Christians Accused of Murder Found Not Guilty YEMEN: Woman Burned to Death for Her Faith Dear readers, Lately I have been thinking about influencers and other leaders and those they recruit and lead. You have probably heard … Continue reading Missions Catalyst News Briefs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4970,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}