{"id":5463,"date":"2015-03-18T06:06:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T13:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2015-03-17T19:57:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T02:57:15","slug":"world-news-briefs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5463","title":{"rendered":"World News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><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>In This Issue: Gains and gaps for the world\u2019s women<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5459\">INDIA: Hope and Healing for Abandoned Girls<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5461\">WORLD: Gains and Gaps for the World\u2019s Women<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5457\">IRAQ: Thirty Days of Prayer for ISIS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5455\">NIGER: Addressing Fear with Faith<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5453\">CENTRAL EUROPE: Church Plant Starts with Pimps and Prostitutes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Greetings,<\/p>\n<p>My sleuthing this week yielded tons of news about women. This could be because March 8th was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/\">International Women&#8217;s Day<\/a> and March is <a href=\"http:\/\/womenshistorymonth.gov\/\">Women&#8217;s History Month<\/a> in the US.<\/p>\n<p>My task is to pick what might be relevant for you as you think about the task of \u201cmaking disciples of all nations.\u201d Some of these stories and statistics don\u2019t have an obvious relation to spreading the Good News but may be noteworthy for us as we strategize for the future.<\/p>\n<p>May the Spirit inspire new ideas and maybe nudge some to do a new thing as we face the challenges ahead!<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>Pat<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In This Issue: Gains and gaps for the world\u2019s women INDIA: Hope and Healing for Abandoned Girls WORLD: Gains and Gaps for the World\u2019s Women IRAQ: Thirty Days of Prayer for ISIS NIGER: Addressing Fear with Faith CENTRAL EUROPE: Church Plant Starts with Pimps and Prostitutes Greetings, My sleuthing this week yielded tons of news &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5463\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World 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-5463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463","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=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5464,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}