{"id":5328,"date":"2015-01-21T06:05:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T14:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2015-01-20T18:24:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T02:24:30","slug":"missions-catalyst-news-briefs-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5328","title":{"rendered":"Missions Catalyst News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4515\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large.png\" alt=\"Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large\" width=\"620\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large.png 620w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large-300x100.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><strong>In this Issue: Stories from Niger, New York, and North Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5326\">WORLD: Latest Statistics on Scripture Access<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5324\">NIGER: 10 People Killed, Churches Burned<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5322\">UNITED STATES: Discipling toward Faith<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5320\">NORTH AFRICA: The Little Things<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5318\">FRANCE: Tragedy Leaves Parisians Open to the Gospel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dear readers,<\/p>\n<p>Our last edition of News Briefs featured a piece from Justin Long <a href=\"http:\/\/us1.campaign-archive1.com\/?u=c2bfc514437348a83f37050dd&amp;id=95a4d6c156&amp;e=76ac6a02b0\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/us1.campaign-archive1.com\/?u=c2bfc514437348a83f37050dd&amp;id=95a4d6c156&amp;e=76ac6a02b0\">analyzing the annual status of global mission<\/a> for 2015. You might also want to take a look at a follow-up article which points out that <a href=\"http:\/\/us1.campaign-archive1.com\/?u=c2bfc514437348a83f37050dd&amp;id=a13e30aa3f\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/us1.campaign-archive1.com\/?u=c2bfc514437348a83f37050dd&amp;id=a13e30aa3f\">70% of the least evangelized people live in just 70 states and provinces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we point you to an analysis piece from Wycliffe Global Alliance on the status of worldwide Bible translation.<\/p>\n<p>Readers may have already seen another piece of recent global analysis, Open Doors\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsusa.org\/christian-persecution\/world-watch-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsusa.org\/christian-persecution\/world-watch-list\/\">World Watch List<\/a>. The annual list ranks the top 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution and reports that it wasn\u2019t an increase in violence, primarily, that drove religious persecution to record levels in this last year but rather increased \u201ccultural marginalization\u201d of Christians. Take a look at the report itself, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsusa.org\/newsroom\/tag-news-post\/persecution-of-christians-reaches-historic-levels-conditions-suggest-worst-is-yet-to-come\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsusa.org\/newsroom\/tag-news-post\/persecution-of-christians-reaches-historic-levels-conditions-suggest-worst-is-yet-to-come\/\">Open Doors\u2019 press release<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2015\/january\/not-forgotten-top-50-countries-world-watch-list-open-doors.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2015\/january\/not-forgotten-top-50-countries-world-watch-list-open-doors.html\">Not Forgotten: The Top 50 Countries Where It&#8217;s Most Difficult to Be a Christian<\/a> (Christianity Today).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we hope you\u2019ll appreciate more personal stories from Niger, New York, North Africa, and France.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>Marti Wade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Issue: Stories from Niger, New York, and North Africa WORLD: Latest Statistics on Scripture Access NIGER: 10 People Killed, Churches Burned UNITED STATES: Discipling toward Faith NORTH AFRICA: The Little Things FRANCE: Tragedy Leaves Parisians Open to the Gospel Dear readers, Our last edition of News Briefs featured a piece from Justin Long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5328\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">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-5328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328","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=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5329,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions\/5329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}