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Christian groups around the world have reacted with shock following news this week that a Christian woman had become the first woman to ever be given the death sentence for the crime of blasphemy in Pakistan.
Voice of the Martyrs says that while no-one sentenced to death for blasphemy in
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- STEFAN J BOS
Iraqi Christians called on people to pray after a series of explosions killed at least 50 people across Baghdad, shortly after nearly 60 people this weekend in a gun battle at a Syrian Orthodox Church.
Investigators said at least 10 explosions rocked Baghdad neighborhoods late Tuesday, 2nd
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Nairobi
The general secretary of the World Council of Churches has pleaded for the full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement for Sudan so that Africa's biggest country can achieve stability.
PICTURE: Benjamin Earwicker (www.garrisonphoto.org/sxc)
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- David Adams
The Australian Christian Lobby will continue its efforts to defeat proposed legislation aimed at allowing euthanasia, according to Lyle Shelton, the lobby’s chief of staff.
Greens leader Bob Brown introduced a private members bill to the Federal Parliament this week that would reinstate the rights of territory governments to legalise
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- PETER KENNY
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Politicians need to focus on the human face of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not discard it in favour of their own political agendas, the head of the World Council of Churches has said in the Middle
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- David Adams
Up to 20 million people have been affected by the worst floods in Pakistan in 80 years, prompting calls for the a greater international effort to address the disaster.
The United Nations said this week that while the response to their request made earlier this month for more funds to
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At least 1,500 people are believed to have died in Pakistan thanks to landslides and floods caused by the heaviest monsoon rains in years.
Entire villages have reportedly been washed away and, according to UNICEF, around 3.5 million people – a third of them children
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- JUDITH SUDILOVSKY
Health concerns relating to water quality have triggered an environmental advocacy group to call for the banning of baptisms in the lower Jordan River, where the Bible says Jesus was baptised.
"For reasons of public health as well as religious
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'Canberra Declaration' underlines importance of religious freedom, marriage and family and sanctity of life
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A group of prominent Christians say they expect hundreds more people to sign up to a document declaring the importance of issues such as religious freedom, marriage and the sanctity of human life in the lead up to next month’s federal election.
Called the Canberra Declaration, the document was formally
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- STEPHEN BROWN
Faith leaders can play a key role in the fight against the HIV pandemic if their public statements help combat stigma and discrimination, a meeting of faith groups in Vienna in advance of the 18th International AIDS Conference has heard.
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- CHRIS HERLINGER
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