{"id":6220,"date":"2016-02-17T16:12:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6220"},"modified":"2016-02-17T16:12:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:12:29","slug":"world-news-briefs-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6220","title":{"rendered":"World News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this issue:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. MIDDLE EAST: Jesus Appears to Muslim Family and Tells Them He Is Sending a Man to Tell Them More<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. CHINA: Revival Falls on State-Controlled Churches<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. VIETNAM: Spiritual Climate<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. INDIA: Humiliating Attack Tests Young Pastor\u2019s Faith<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: The War on Christianity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Greetings,<\/p>\n

    For the first time in almost 1000 years, the leaders of two major church traditions met and agreed… on at least some things. Read Russian Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis Meet in Cuba, Sign Declaration<\/a>\u00a0(The Moscow Times). To see what they agree on, read the declaration<\/a> (Catholic Herald). You might also be interested in coverage of the event from World Watch Monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    This week\u2019s news has some interesting \u201cEast meets West\u201d themes, but I find a greater overarching theme: that of the unstoppable gospel. Perhaps the words of Jesus to Peter in Mark 16 are less about who is the head of the church than about who builds it: \u201c…I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Be encouraged. He is building.<\/p>\n

    Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In this issue: MIDDLE EAST: Jesus Appears to Muslim Family and Tells Them He Is Sending a Man to Tell Them More CHINA: Revival Falls on State-Controlled Churches VIETNAM: Spiritual Climate INDIA: Humiliating Attack Tests Young Pastor\u2019s Faith DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: The War on Christianity Greetings, For the first time in almost 1000 years, … 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-6220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220","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=6220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6221,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions\/6221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}