{"id":6332,"date":"2016-04-20T13:37:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2016-04-20T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:37:14","slug":"world-news-briefs-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6332","title":{"rendered":"World News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><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\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In This Issue: Extreme and Surprising News<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6330\">RUSSIA: Gospel Enters the Unknown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6328\">BHUTAN: A \u201cHappy\u201d Place, But Not for All<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6326\">JORDAN: Most Hospitable Nation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6324\">ERITREA: World\u2019s Harshest Conditions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6322\">BURMA: Rescuing Hunted Children<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6320\">MALAYSIA: Court Upholds Right to Convert from Islam<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6333\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Yakutsk-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Yakutsk\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Yakutsk-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Yakutsk-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Yakutsk-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Yakutsk.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yakutsk is the coldest region on earth, with temperatures frequently well below zero. Yet the believers are warm, friendly, and faithful, say sources at Slavic Gospel Association. See related story below.<\/p>\n<p>Greetings,<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s news is full of \u201cextremes.\u201d Read about the coldest city on earth, the place with the most child soldiers, the \u201chappiest\u201d country, the most hospitable nation, and the place with the harshest conditions. Also read what I find most surprising of all, a story about a Malaysian court upholding the right to convert from Islam!<\/p>\n<p>Extremely happy,<br \/>\nPat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In This Issue: Extreme and Surprising News RUSSIA: Gospel Enters the Unknown BHUTAN: A \u201cHappy\u201d Place, But Not for All JORDAN: Most Hospitable Nation ERITREA: World\u2019s Harshest Conditions BURMA: Rescuing Hunted Children MALAYSIA: Court Upholds Right to Convert from Islam Yakutsk is the coldest region on earth, with temperatures frequently well below zero. Yet the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6332\" 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":"closed","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-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","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=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}