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Ethiopia (MNN) -- The needs of children in Ethiopia are phenomenal. CURE International understands their needs and started doing something about it. The CURE Ethiopia Children's Hospital (CECH) is a pediatric orthopedic teaching hospital in Addis Ababa. Established in 2008, the hospital is a state-of-the-art, 60-bed hospital complex that provides modern medical and surgical care to the physically disabled children of Ethiopia. Just recently, CURE launched CUREkids in Ethiopia, telling…

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USA (MNN) -- One of the largest needs for Christians around the world is books, Bibles, and other resources to help guide them in their Christian walk. One organization that is helping meet those needs is Christian Resources International. CRI Executive Director Jason Woolford says the ministry has had an impact. "Over the last 57 years, we have sent $249 million worth of free Bibles and Christian teaching tools to…

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Syria bloodshed continues despite peace plan

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(Photos by Freedom House 2) Syria (MNN) -- Syria has accepted a peace plan by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan that includes a cease-fire by the Syrian government, and not a moment too soon. The United Nations estimates more than 9,000 civilians have been killed in the Syrian uprising. Carl Moeller, president and CEO of Open Doors USA explains: "The six-point plan has some of the characteristics of primarily protecting the…

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Judge Patimat Dadayeva in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan has ordered up to 70 copies of translations of 15 different Islamic books, by the late Turkish Muslim theologian Said Nursi, to be destroyed. She refused to tell Forum 18 News Service why she ordered their destruction and refused to order other Islamic books seized from local Muslim Ziyavdin Dapayev to be returned. "This is blasphemy," Dapayev's lawyer Murtazali Barkayev…

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Registration open for huge North American mission conference

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USA (MNN) -- Even though Urbana 12 seems like a long ways off, registration is now open.

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Chinese officials take 70 Christians into custody

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China (MNN) -- ChinaAid, a ministry partner of the Voice of the Martyrs, got word this week that a house church which has been meeting for nearly 20 years was raided by police. More than 70 Christians were taken into custody. The church, in far west China's region of Xinjiang, China, was meeting at the pastor's home when officials stormed in. Ten policemen and Domestic Security Protection agents announced that…

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The Haiti conference members. Haiti (MNN) -- Haiti has experienced significant spiritual revival since the January 2010 earthquake. And with a growing church, the country is in even more desperate need of trained leaders to disciple and guide it. Greg Yoder with Christian World Outreach was in Haiti recently conducting a conference to help train church leaders. Typically, this conference is limited to elders, pastors, and high-up leadership in churches.…

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Some Christians may lose citizenship in Sudan

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Sudan (MNN) -- Hundreds of thousands of people face an uncertain future in Sudan. Many who live in the north may have move to the south. Lee DeYoung with Words of Hope explains. "People of South Sudan ancestry, who may have been living for generations in the north, will lose their citizenship and may be forced to leave on perhaps very short notice. These are rumors. They may come true.…

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A pilot connects church planting and evangelism to the rural church in Indonesia

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Indonesia (MNN) -- Brian and Holly Underhill, along with their children, Hattie, Isaac, and Eli, are missionaries with Mission Aviation Fellowship, assigned to Indonesia as a pilot/mechanic family.

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Christian converts released on bail in Iran

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An Iranian court has agreed to temporarily release three Christian converts on a large sum of bail

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Uzbekistan: Religious literature only for

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On 5 February police and NSS secret police officers raided an unregistered mainly ethnic Korean Baptist Church's Sunday worship service near Tashkent. On 7 February the state Religious Affairs Committee ruled that Christian literature confiscated during the raid was allowed only for "internal use" by registered religious organisations. On 13 February the Church's Pastor, Vyacheslav Kim (a 65-year-old pensioner), was fined 100 times the minimum monthly wage in his absence.…

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China: A post-Communist managerial state and freedom of religion or belief

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Violations of freedom of religion or belief in China have continued, yet religious communities of all kinds have been growing rapidly. The Chinese Communist Party's attitude toward religion - and so towards the fundamental human right of freedom of religion or belief - has reflected the views of Chinese political elites from the 19th century onwards that religion is "superstition" and a barrier to modernisation, Forum 18 News Service notes.…

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Christians help ease refugee transition into the United States

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USA (MNN) -- Remember the last time you moved? Remember what it was like to find the new grocery store, bank or a good church? How about the first time you walked into a new church where you didn't know anybody? Do you remember the relief of finding a friendly face, or someone who took the time to show you around?

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Foster care adoption on the rise in the U.S., says Buckner

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USA (MNN) -- Times have changed in the adoption world, and Buckner International has watched it happen. Since 1984, Buckner has been placing children into adoptive families has seen changes in adoption trends over the years, particularly in the last 4 decades. Since the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade in 1974, domestic infant adoptions have declined. There are more options available for single women who are pregnant today,…

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Uganda begins drive to register 'nodding disease' cases

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Uganda (MNN) -- A terrifying, mysterious disease has taken more than 3,000 Ugandan children captive. "Nodding disease" has been in northern Uganda for the last three years, but only last week the country began the drive to register cases. At this point, over 200 children have been killed by the debilitating disease. And without a cure, the problem seems far from over. "In the last month we have found this…

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