{"id":6133,"date":"2016-01-20T16:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T21:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2016-01-20T16:59:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T21:59:44","slug":"world-news-briefs-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6133","title":{"rendered":"World News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In This Issue:
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  1. BURKINA FASO: Seven Servants Go Home<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. IRAN: Prostitute Hired to Hear the Gospel<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. NEAR EAST: 2015, the Year of Displacement<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. WORLD: World Watch List 2016<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. CENTRAL ASIA: Doing Business, Expanding the Kingdom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Greetings,<\/strong><\/p>\n

    By now you have probably heard that Saeed Abedini has been freed<\/a>. After more than three years in Iran he will soon be home with his wife and children.<\/p>\n

    You may know that another Christian brother, Michael Riddering, has \u201cgone home\u201d this week as well, but his wife is mourning. Will you rejoice with me that the Ridderings gave up leasing yachts in South Florida to serve the poor and sick in West Africa? I have a new hero in Mike. His story is not likely to inspire more workers in hard places, but it inspires me to live more purposefully and trust God to lead me, anywhere. Read on.<\/p>\n

    Rejoice in the Lord\u2026 always!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Pat<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Mike Riddering, 45, from Florida had been working as a missionary in Burkina Faso since 2011. (Mike Riddering\/Facebook, via World Watch Monitor)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In This Issue: BURKINA FASO: Seven Servants Go Home IRAN: Prostitute Hired to Hear the Gospel NEAR EAST: 2015, the Year of Displacement WORLD: World Watch List 2016 CENTRAL ASIA: Doing Business, Expanding the Kingdom Greetings, By now you have probably heard that Saeed Abedini has been freed. After more than three years in Iran … Continue reading 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-6133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133","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=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6135,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions\/6135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}