{"id":6257,"date":"2016-03-03T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6257"},"modified":"2016-03-03T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T21:07:08","slug":"world-news-briefs-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6257","title":{"rendered":"World News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In This Issue:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. BURMA: Week of Prayer March 7-13<\/li>\n
  2. NIGERIA: Churches Unite for First Time to Address Violence in North<\/li>\n
  3. INDIA: More than 500 Rescued from Slavery<\/li>\n
  4. ISRAEL\/PALESTINE: Palestinian Christians and Messianic Jews Issue Joint Statement<\/li>\n
  5. MEDITERRANEAN: Migrants Sold Fake Life Jackets<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

    This past week\u2019s major news stories unsettled me. I felt as if the world was changing too fast to make sense of it. Not until I sleuthed for news we could use for Missions Catalyst did I find relief. I found stories about the things that matter most and that speak of the good news of the Gospel and its advance.<\/p>\n

    Consider the story of Shahid<\/a>, a Libyan man who came to Christ and now reports baptizing Muslim-background believers on the same shores where ISIS beheaded 21 Coptic Christians (Light the Way), or the story of a skateboarding disciple-maker<\/a> in one of Asia\u2019s urban centers who is seeing lives changed (Pioneers). I\u2019m also encouraged by reports of those reaching out in love to the world\u2019s refugees.<\/p>\n

    If your head is spinning by what you are hearing, take heart. Heaven\u2019s headlines are always GOOD News.<\/p>\n

    In Him,<\/strong>
    \nPat<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      In This Issue: BURMA: Week of Prayer March 7-13 NIGERIA: Churches Unite for First Time to Address Violence in North INDIA: More than 500 Rescued from Slavery ISRAEL\/PALESTINE: Palestinian Christians and Messianic Jews Issue Joint Statement MEDITERRANEAN: Migrants Sold Fake Life Jackets Greetings! This past week\u2019s major news stories unsettled me. I felt as … 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-6257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257","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=6257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6258,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions\/6258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}