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    <title>Pakistan Militants Attack Religious Procession, Killing Dozens Despite Floods - AP</title>        
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    <title>Westerners Urged to Earmark Aid for Pakistan&#x2019;s Marginalized Christians - CNS News</title>        
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    <title>Mac Hammond&#x2019;s Living Word Christian Center facing foreclosure - Minnesota Independent</title>        
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    <title>Economic conditions in southern Africa boil over </title>        
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Mozambique (MNN) -- Police in Mozambique clashed with demonstrators yesterday
who were in the streets protesting rising prices. The price of a loaf of bread rose 25 percent in the past year. 


The amount of increase represents a high
percentage of a daily income in Mozambique. Brent Bartlett, South
Africa spokesman for Trans World Radio, explains
that "the average person in Africa earns around or less than a dollar a day,
and they have to make ends meet on that. As
the prices steadily increase, people are beginning to find it more and more
difficult to make ends meet. At some point, the pressure cooker has got to
burst." 


On Wednesday, rioters in some areas burned tires and blocked roads while
reports of looting spread. Authorities tried to disperse the protestors by
firing rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowds, resulting in several deaths.



It-#39;s a familiar scene. In 2008, Maputo erupted into violence as global food prices soared.[...]]]></description>
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    <title>Pakistan disaster overshadows floods in Gambia</title>        
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			The Gambia River cuts through this tiny country. Every rainy season, the river swells and often surges past it banks causing mudslides, flooding, and destroying bridges and homes.

Gambia (MNN) -- Overshadowed by the millions affected by
flooding in Pakistan and the huge relief efforts taking place there, few people
know about the flood waters wreaking havoc in Gambia.


The Gambia River cuts through the middle of Gambia, a tiny
country on the western tip of Africa and the smallest country in mainland
Africa. Each year during rainy season, the river swells and often surges past it banks,
causing mudslides, flooding the country, and destroying bridges, homes and
livelihoods.


Since early July, it has been much of the same for the
people of Gambia with over 5000 people affected in some way by disaster,
according to All Africa News. Though this number may seem minute compared to the
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    <title>Clean water transforms a community and an entire generation</title>        
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			Living Water continues to install fresh water wells in communities in 26 countries around the world. (Living Water photo)

Kenya (MNN) -- In commemoration of their 20th
anniversary this year, Living Water International  wanted to pay a visit to some
of their very first fresh water projects.


Living Water-#39;s Stan
Patyrak ventured to a community where they installed a well 16 years
ago, to check up on what changes clean water had brought to the community.


Patyrak said: "I had an opportunity to go into the Rift
Valley to a community called Larujat and just see one of the projects that was
installed in 1994. Water was flowing, and the community just had benefited for
years."


Though the clean water crisis still affects nearly a billion
people, Patyrak was amazed to find a whole generation of kids in Larujat who
could not imagine life without fresh water.


During his visit, Patyrak approached one boy to see how his
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    <title>InterVarsity reaches students of fraternity (and sorority) row</title>        
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			Students come to Greek Conference to learn about Christ and following him inside a fraternity or sorority. (Greek IV photo)

USA (MNN) -- There are many college ministries in the United States that reach a variety of students who are searching for more. Unfortunately, it seems that there is one large segment on many campuses that goes overlooked and unreached: the Greek community.  


"We found that it-#39;s often kind of an overlooked segment of the campus, and it-#39;s a place that, if you-#39;re not involved in the Greek system, you tend not to tread," says Eric Holmer with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, regarding fraternities and sororities on college campuses. 


Convinced that this is an important mission field, InterVarsity started a separate ministry to these Greek brothers and sisters several years ago. "Greek InterVarsity  was created to reach out to this place that seemingly has it all together, but on the inside has a lot of needs, a lot of brokenness,[...]]]></description>
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    <title>Peaches and Survival Paks to help starving children</title>        
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			Childcare Worldwide provides Survival Paks for struggling families in Kenya, Peru, the Philippines, and more. (Childcare Worldwide photo) 

Peru (MNN) -- Every six seconds a child dies of starvation somewhere in the world. That adds up to over 14,000 children daily dying of hunger. 


With these kinds of numbers, every bit of sustenance helps. Aware of the need, nonprofit organization Gleaning for the Hungry has partnered with Childcare Worldwide  over the years to provide dried fruit for suffering children across the globe.


Recently, Gleaning for the Hungry provided Childcare Worldwide  with a generous supply of dried peaches. The ministry will take the fruit to Peru to help feed children who are a part of Childcare Worldwide-#39;s feeding program there. This special treat will bring joy and nourishment to many children in Peru.


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    <title>Christians on the defensive - Radio Netherlands Worldwide</title>        
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    <title>New Church Body Formed for North American Lutherans - Christian Newswire</title>        
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		    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:00:02 +0200</pubDate>
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    <title> Five years since Katrina, recovery still underway</title>        
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			Some of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (Katrina Help photo)

USA (MNN) -- Five years ago, on August 29, 2005, Hurricane
Katrina pummeled the U.S. Gulf coast from Florida to Texas, breaching levees in New
Orleans and taking almost 2000 lives.


Causing an estimated $81 billion (2005 USD) in damage, Katrina
was the sixth-strongest recorded Atlantic hurricane, according to the National
Hurricane Center.


Before the storm even struck, as it gained force in the Gulf
of Mexico, the North American Mission Board assembled team and readied
themselves to aid in relief.


NAMB-#39;s Mickey Caison explained their response after the
storm hit: "For the next sixth months, we were heavily involved in
responding in the disaster response capacity: almost 200,000 volunteer days,
more than 500 mobile units, 15 million meals prepared, and somewhere around
18,000 homes we actually worked on."


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    <title>Relief flexibility the key to meeting crisis needs</title>        
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Pakistan (MNN ) -- Flood waters in Pakistan are beginning to
recede in parts of the south, as the country struggles to provide desperately-needed aid to millions across the country.


An area roughly the size of the state of Mississippi was underwater,
and as the buildings re-emerged, survivors who were returning home found
destroyed and damaged homes and swamped streets. Sodden mud proved to be another issue even as
aid arrived. 


An
Operation Mobilization team was on the scene early with
help. Ray Cooper with OM wrote, "Most of the houses are
very badly damaged, and it is dangerous to live in them because the walls are
cracked. We visited a school where around 250 families have been living for the
last few days."


Cooper says their teams began a distribution but saw
another issue that would make what they were handing out nearly useless. "People have no firewood to cook with.
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    <title>Reach 4 Life helps prevent kids from becoming an HIV/AIDS statistic</title>        
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			The students who helped out with Reach 4 Life from Ouachita Bapist University in Arkansas. (Biblica photo)

South Africa (MNN) -- The HIV/AIDS pandemic has hit Africa
hard and South Africa the hardest. At least 5.7 million of its citizens live
with HIV/AIDS--more than any other country.


The question is: how can this staggering number be combated in that region and around the world?


Colin Bishop of Biblica  said for those seeking to address the HIV/AIDS issue, "There are two categories of the
fight: the one is taking care of people who are infected already. That means anti-retrovirals;
that means what some people regard as protection, which is condoms. And then
there-#39;s care: hospices, orphan care centers, and so on. But we are strictly into
prevention. We are targeting the uninfected, and we are trying to prevent them
from getting infected in the first place."


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    <title>UNICEF recruits World Hope for massive health project</title>        
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			UNICEF's Stefano Fedele and World Hope's Sierra Leone Director Saidu Kanu. (WHI photo)

Sierra Leone (MNN) -- U.S. government agency UNICEF recruited Christian ministry World Hope International  to implement health care in the largest area that any one organization has ever been asked to handle: Sierra Leone. 


World Hope was officially commissioned to implement "Nutrition Activities for Promotions of Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition and Infant and Young Child Feeding." In other words, they have been asked to help implement a program designed to improve health and nutrition for children under the age of five in Sierra Leone.   


The work of UNICEF through WHI will reach an estimated 76,500 children under five and over 19,000 pregnant women. So far, the program has already been conducting screening of children under the age of five to figure out who qualifies for referral for therapeutic and supplementary feeding centers. Community education and[...]]]></description>
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    <title>Church breaks world record by collecting shoes</title>        
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			Over 10,000 shoes were laid out to create the world's longest 'Sole Chain.' The inner circle reads: "Send shoes. See smiles. Save souls." (Buckner photo)

USA (MNN) -- Looking for new ways to get your church involved with a ministry project? Why not try the incentive of breaking a world record? It certainly worked well for one Baptist church in Houston, Texas.


Every year for the past ten years, South Main Baptist Church has collected shoes for Buckner International  Shoes for Orphan Souls. Over the years, the church has collected over 70,000 pairs of shoes for children worldwide. This August-#39;s drive alone resulted in more than 10,068 pairs of shoes.  


Of course, this year there was a bit of an extra catch to the donation. As a creative way to get people involved just a little more than they might normally be, the church set out to break a shoe-related world record. The church "SoleChain" project goal was to have enough shoes to create the longest line of shoes[...]]]></description>
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    <title>'Almost Christian' teens trouble church scholars - The Tennessean</title>        
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    <title>Author: More teens becoming 'fake' Christians - CNN</title>        
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    <title>Former Pastor Admits To Plotting To Kill Blind Man - WJZ</title>        
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    <title>SGA receives more literature for Russia</title>        
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			"Days of Praise" published by the Institute for Creation Research (SGA photo)

Russia (MNN) -- In the United States, Christian bookstores are a normal
amenity, as sizeable towns have multiple stores with shelves full of any
Christian title you might want. From study guides to Christian novels, from children-#39;s
stories to Bibles, U.S. Christians have a surplus of resources at the tip of their fingers.


However, in many other countries across the world,
Scriptures and Christian resources are scarce. That-#39;s why Slavic Gospel
Association  is overjoyed to receive a generous gift from David C. Cook
Ministries of over 117,000 Russian-language books to be distributed in Russia
and Ukraine.


The volumes include four titles: The Life of Christ, The Picture New Testament, Six Busy Days, and A Child-#39;s Book of Prayers.


Additionally, 15,000 copies of the children-#39;s book, Jesus the Baby, will be sent to kids in
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    <title>Ministry focuses on 'Sewer of Africa' </title>        
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C. African Republic (MNN) -- The Central African Republic (CAR) is one of the poorest nations in the world. But that-#39;s not the worst of its problems.


OneHope  President Rob Hoskins just returned from that nation. "It-#39;s referred to in Africa as the -#39;poo-bell-#39; of Africa, which is translated -#39;the sewer of Africa.-#39;"


Hoskins says there-#39;s a reason for this. He says it seems CAR is a magnet for terrorist castaways from other nations. "When they get kicked out of Uganda, they go to CAR. The rebels from Chad are in CAR. The rebels from Northern Congo are in CAR. The Hutus from Rwanda: they-#39;re in CAR. So you have military bases all across the country. [It-#39;s] one of the highest percentages of child soldiers in the world."


Even the kids lack hope because there-#39;s no educational system in place. 


Hoskins met with government leaders to talk about how OneHope could help. "The prime minister is a wonderful Christian man and[...]]]></description>
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    <title>Taliban murders aid workers</title>        
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Pakistan (MNN) -- The bodies of three Christian aid workers
have been found in Pakistan. 


Authorities recovered the bodies of the three workers on
Wednesday, not long after threats had been issued against workers trying to provide aid. The trio had been kidnapped and killed by
members of the Pakistani Taliban in the flood-ravaged country. 


Pakistan has been hit by its worst flooding in decades, with
the United Nations now estimating that more than 21.8 million people have been
affected. 


Carl Moeller with Open Doors says details are sketchy, although
for security reasons, victims-#39; names and the name of the related aid agency are being
withheld. Moeller adds, "Some of the
relief workers there have been threatened by Taliban, but this is the first case we-#39;re aware of that foreign aid workers have been killed by the Taliban." 


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    <title>A ministry tackles poverty head on </title>        
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International
(MNN) -- Poverty is on the rise. Close
to one billion people around the world live on less than $1 a day, and that
number has grown by 74 million in 24 months due to the recent economic
environment. 


Amid those heightened
concerns, the United Nations warned that the current financial crisis "threatens
the well-being of billions of people, none more so than the poorest of the
poor." It will only compound the
problems posed by higher food and fuel prices. 


The issue of international poverty can seem so big it-#39;s
hard to know where to start making an impact.


That-#39;s why Bright Hope International  is
holding a three-day Poverty Summit October 5, 6 and 7 to explore why this is
happening and what can be done about it.


Their team works to provide holistic help to the extreme
poor through the indigenous church delivering basic needs, including physical,
economic and spiritual help. 


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			Hurricane Earl was originally headed straight for Haiti, but now it's projected path has changed, as it has veered off to the north. (Weather Channel photo)

Haiti (MNN) -- It-#39;s the middle of hurricane season, and
three storm systems loom over the Caribbean, threatening to destroy livelihoods
and hit the already crippled nation of Haiti.


Hurricane Danielle already missed Haiti. At one point,
Hurricane Earl was headed straight for Haiti, "But it-#39;s taking a swing to
the north before it gets to Hispaniola, so it looks like Haiti might be spared
this one," said Eva DeHart of For Haiti with Love.


But even if Hurricane Earl continues to follow its current
projected path, would Haiti be ready if another storm were to hit? Millions
still reside in tent cities, and of course few building are left standing to
provide any sort of structure.


DeHart doesn-#39;t think Haiti is prepared: "They-#39;re going
to be vulnerable to the elements, and any severe[...]]]></description>
		    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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