{"id":6881,"date":"2017-01-04T13:14:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T18:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2017-01-04T13:14:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T18:14:21","slug":"world-news-briefs-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6881","title":{"rendered":"World News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large\"Missions Catalyst News Briefs 01.04.17<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. INDONESIA: Christian Governor Insists No Insult Intended<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. ALGERIA: Family Fears for Life of Christian Imprisoned for Blasphemy<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. TURKEY: Update on American Pastor Andrew Brunson<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. NORTH AFRICA: Why Focus on Nomads?<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. UKRAINE: Seminar\/Retreat for Pastors from Conflict Zone<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

    It\u2019s that time of year for a look back and a look forward. Some of my favorite news sources delivered:<\/p>\n

    An article from Justin Long on New Year\u2019s Day<\/a> highlights the just-published Status of Global Christianity<\/a> summary report from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, and observes that \u201cbetween now and 2050 we will add another 600 million unevangelized individuals\u2014about twice the size of the United States\u2014who will likely not hear the gospel once in their lifetime.\u201d Sobering. So is news from another source which asserts that around the world, a Christian is martyred every six minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    An item from Brigada Today<\/a> also includes an analysis of ministry progress and challenges, this time by providing a rare glimpse into the lives of Christians in the North African country of Tunisia. Tunisian believers are an estimated .2 percent of the population. Read and watch the beautiful multimedia presentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    As for the present, please pray for Governor Ahok in Indonesia as well as Slimane Bouhafs in Algeria and Andrew Brunson in Turkey. Both are imprisoned for their witness. See below.<\/p>\n

    Looking ahead,
    \nPat<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Missions Catalyst News Briefs 01.04.17 INDONESIA: Christian Governor Insists No Insult Intended ALGERIA: Family Fears for Life of Christian Imprisoned for Blasphemy TURKEY: Update on American Pastor Andrew Brunson NORTH AFRICA: Why Focus on Nomads? UKRAINE: Seminar\/Retreat for Pastors from Conflict Zone Greetings, It\u2019s that time of year for a look back and a look … Continue reading 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-6881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881","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=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6882,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions\/6882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}