{"id":5001,"date":"2014-09-17T14:38:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T21:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2014-09-17T14:38:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T21:38:42","slug":"world-how-is-islamic-state-affecting-muslim-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5001","title":{"rendered":"WORLD: How Is Islamic State Affecting Muslim Nations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/\">Mission Network News<\/a>,\u00a0September 11, 2014<\/p>\n<p>As Islamic State (IS) terrorists wreak havoc in Iraq and Syria, their actions are spurring a ripple effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s moving across the globe,\u201d says Bruce Allen of <a href=\"http:\/\/forgottenmissionaries.org\/\">Forgotten Missionaries International (FMI).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FMI supports national church leaders in Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Each of these countries is now fighting Islamic State recruitment efforts. Allen says believers are fighting IS darkness with the light of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pastors and church planters and evangelists in these countries have a great window of opportunity,\u201d he shares. \u201cEspecially as leaders of the Christian community in these places of darkness, we have to be people who are buoyed by confidence and who are motivated by hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/islamic-state-muslim-nations\/\">Read full story<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/interviews\/isis-effect-forgotten-missionaries-international\/\">listen to an interview with Allen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb See also <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.godreports.com\/2014\/09\/only-known-survivor-of-isis-war-atrocity-shares-his-dramatic-story\/\">Only Known Survivor of ISIS War Atrocity Shares His Dramatic Story<\/a> (GodReports; see also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=i1Eqe5s1rmY\">New York Times video coverage of this story<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnewsdailyreport.com\/brother-of-top-isis-leader-repents-converts-to-christianity\/\">Brother of Top ISIS Leader Repents, Converts to Christianity<\/a> (World News Daily Report).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0Mission Network News,\u00a0September 11, 2014 As Islamic State (IS) terrorists wreak havoc in Iraq and Syria, their actions are spurring a ripple effect. \u201cIt\u2019s moving across the globe,\u201d says Bruce Allen of Forgotten Missionaries International (FMI). FMI supports national church leaders in Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Each of these countries is now fighting Islamic State &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5001\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WORLD: How Is Islamic State Affecting Muslim Nations?<\/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-5001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001","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=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5002,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions\/5002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}