{"id":7001,"date":"2017-03-01T09:37:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7001"},"modified":"2017-03-01T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:48:40","slug":"world-news-briefs-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7001","title":{"rendered":"World News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft 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<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6999\">IRAQ: A Little Hope in Mosul<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6997\">VANUATU: How Cultural Imperialism Obscures the Gospel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6995\">QATAR: Christian Migrants Build Stadiums for World Cup<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6993\">PAKISTAN: One Man Risks Death to Share the Gospel<\/a><\/li>\n<li value=\"NaN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6991\">MALAWI: When the Bible Preaches Itself<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7002\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Preemptive-Love-photo-of-children.jpg\" alt=\"Preemptive Love photo of children\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Preemptive-Love-photo-of-children.jpg 840w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Preemptive-Love-photo-of-children-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Preemptive-Love-photo-of-children-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><em>Children in a Mosul neighborhood; story below (Preemptive Love Coalition).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Greetings!<\/p>\n<p>Several of today\u2019s news briefs steer us away from the headlines with glimpses of smaller stories that tend to get lost in the shadows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A ministry working in Iraq finds a sign of hope amid devastation.<\/li>\n<li>Immigrants find work (and exploitation) building stadiums for World Cup soccer.<\/li>\n<li>A missionary thinks about contextualization while watching an Oscar-nominated foreign film.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where do you go to seek out stories from the shadows? Our news briefs are, by necessity, brief. Longer works may make a bigger impact. Have you seen any international films or documentaries that have made you think? What about books? Recently National Geographic (partnering with the audio-book company Audible) put together a list called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/features\/12-books-read-around-world\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/features\/12-books-read-around-world\/\">Around the World in 12 Books<\/a>, which could give you a year\u2019s worth of armchair travel, or, maybe better, inspire you to make a list of your own.<\/p>\n<p>Share your picks with us through <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/M_Catalyst\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/M_Catalyst\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/missionscatalyst\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/missionscatalyst\">Facebook<\/a>, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionscatalyst.net\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.missionscatalyst.net\">Missions Catalyst website<\/a>, especially if you\u2019ve found good candidates to use with a small group, team, church, or family.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<br \/>\nPat<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s note: Much thanks to all who let us know that the video about churches among the unreached which we featured in last week\u2019s Missions Catalyst is no longer accessible. Sorry! The producers found a mistake they couldn&#8217;t fix and felt they had to take it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRAQ: A Little Hope in Mosul VANUATU: How Cultural Imperialism Obscures the Gospel QATAR: Christian Migrants Build Stadiums for World Cup PAKISTAN: One Man Risks Death to Share the Gospel MALAWI: When the Bible Preaches Itself Children in a Mosul neighborhood; story below (Preemptive Love Coalition). Greetings! Several of today\u2019s news briefs steer us away &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7001\" 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-7001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001","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=7001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7005,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}