{"id":6031,"date":"2015-12-02T14:50:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6031"},"modified":"2015-12-02T14:50:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:50:58","slug":"world-news-briefs-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6031","title":{"rendered":"World News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large\"<\/a>In\u00a0 This Issue:<\/p>\n

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  1. EUROPE: Iranian Musician Finds a New Song<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. LEBANON: One Million Syrian Refugees<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. INDIA: Hindu Radicals Storm Prayer Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. PHILIPPINES: Deaf Disciple Deaf<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. NEPAL: Between the Dragon and the Elephant<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

    Image: World Watch Monitor; Syrian refugee children in a makeshift tent. More than a million Syrian refugees are registered with the UN in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

    Greetings,<\/p>\n

    In a 2014 article for the International Journal of Frontier Missiology<\/em>, L.D. Waterman explored eight dimensions of life in Christ<\/a>, three of them dealing with aspects of identity: core identity, social identity, and collective identity. This week\u2019s news deals with all three. An Iranian musician finds a new core identity, refugees must adapt to a new social identity<\/a>, and Nepal is battling for its own collective identity. For most of my life I thought only of core (or personal) identity, which may be understandable for someone from individualistic America. Yet identity can be much more complex.<\/p>\n

    A look at how we spend our time<\/a> might suggest where we find our identity (Flowing Data).<\/p>\n

    For insights into how an individual embraces an identity as a terrorist, see the 55-minute documentary My Brother the Terrorist<\/a> (LINK TV), or, for a Christian perspective, please read Four Islamic Voices<\/a> (INContext).<\/p>\n

    In Christ,
    \nPat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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