{"id":5575,"date":"2015-04-29T09:26:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T16:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5575"},"modified":"2015-04-29T09:26:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T16:26:40","slug":"world-news-briefs-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5575","title":{"rendered":"World 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: Responding to Terror<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5573\">GUATEMALA: Hardened Gang Member Transformed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5571\">WORLD:\u00a0A Christian Response to the Crisis in the Mediterranean<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5569\">NEPAL: Death Toll Climbs, Christians Reaching Out<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5567\">USA: Perspectives Study Program Equipping 8,000 New Students Annually<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5565\">WORLD: Incomprehensible Languages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uSv4vBcFyvo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5576 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/LoveISIS.jpg\" alt=\"LoveISIS\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/LoveISIS.jpg 800w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/LoveISIS-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Readers,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you click only one link in this edition, let it be <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uSv4vBcFyvo\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uSv4vBcFyvo\">Who Would Dare to Love ISIS? A Letter from the People of the Cross to ISIS<\/a> from a group called Mighty. This POWERFUL video message will take less than four minutes of your time.<\/p>\n<p>For some helpful insights into the emotional lives of violent jihadis, read the transcript of Thomas Hegghammer\u2019s lecture, <a href=\"http:\/\/hegghammer.com\/_files\/Hegghammer_-_Wilkinson_Memorial_Lecture.pdf\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/hegghammer.com\/_files\/Hegghammer_-_Wilkinson_Memorial_Lecture.pdf\">Why Terrorists Weep<\/a>. I like to think that Missions Catalyst news stories are a great source of fuel for prayer, and this may be the best fuel I\u2019ve seen yet for prayer on this topic.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bosnewslife.com\/35141-african-man-turns-to-christ-moments-before-beheading\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.bosnewslife.com\/35141-african-man-turns-to-christ-moments-before-beheading\">African Man Turns to Christ Moments before Beheading<\/a>, which describes Mathew Ayairga\u2019s response when, on a beach in Libya, ISIS militants tried to force him to follow Islam (BosNewsLife).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blessings,<br \/>\nPat<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In This Issue: Responding to Terror GUATEMALA: Hardened Gang Member Transformed WORLD:\u00a0A Christian Response to the Crisis in the Mediterranean NEPAL: Death Toll Climbs, Christians Reaching Out USA: Perspectives Study Program Equipping 8,000 New Students Annually WORLD: Incomprehensible Languages Dear Readers, If you click only one link in this edition, let it be Who Would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5575\" 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-5575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575","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=5575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5577,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions\/5577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}