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U.K. Christians Urged to Have Robust Faith By Charles Boyd|Christian Today Reporter LONDON – The Archbishop of York has called on Christians to have a robust faith and stand up for what they believe in. Related     * T.V. Actor Says Christianity is Being Marginalized in Britain     * Religion Being Marginalized in Name of Tolerance, Warns Anglican Leader     * Christians: 'Illiberal Secularism' Prevailing in UK     * U.K.'s New Equality Laws Come Into Force     * U.K. High Court Weighs Whether Christian Couple Can Foster Writing in the latest edition of UCB’s Prayer for Today magazine, Dr. John Sentamu said people in Britain should “celebrate what makes us a Christian nation” and “reclaim the symbols and emblems of our nation from those that abuse them for their own ends.” He urged Christians to have “robustness” in their national identity as well as their faith. “We need to stand up for what we b...

Much Violence ahead of Day of Prayer for Persecuted Church By Michelle A. Vu|Christian Post Reporter This year marks the most violence against the Christian community leading up to the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church within the past seven years, said an advocate for persecuted Christians. Related     * Saddleback Church to Host Forum on Persecuted Church     * Millions to Pray for Persecuted Christians on Sunday     * Baghdad is Gripped with Anti-Christian Terrorism, Says Moeller “I would say candidly that in my whole tenure at Open Doors this is a year when more is taking place on the weekend of the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church than at any other time,” said Carl Moeller, president of Open Doors USA. This Sunday marks the 15th year of the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church – one of the largest prayer events in the world. Half a million churches in 150 countries are ...

Early church inspires 2011 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity by Charlie Boyd Posted: Friday, October 8, 2010, 9:26 (BST) Resources for next year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity are inspired by the early church in Acts. Photo: Christian Today Jerusalem churches have taken their inspiration from the unity of the early church in materials for the 2011 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Churches from across the denominations in the Holy City were tasked with drawing up resources for the week of prayer, which falls next year on January 18 to 25 for churches in the northern hemisphere. They selected as the theme for this year’s resources, “One in the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer,” based on Acts 2.42. As today’s global church seeks to build unity in spite of its huge diversity, the resources encourage believers to turn their attention to the values and practices that united the believers of the early church in Jerusalem. T...

Caste-based discrimination is a sin, say Indian churches by Brian Hutt Posted: Saturday, October 30, 2010, 2:36 (BST) Churches in India have committed themselves to being “zero tolerance zones” for caste-based discrimination. At a conference convened by the National Council of Churches in India and the World Council of Churches last weekend, 31 churches condemned the concept of “untouchability”, which is still practiced in India today, despite being abolished from India’s constitution in 1950. In a joint affirmation of faith, the churches described casteism as a “sin, apostasy and rebellion against God”, and a “crime against human beings”. They hit out at the treatment of Dalits, who rank lowest in the caste system and are often given only manual labour work to do, including the removal of human faeces from dry latrines. “We are ashamed that we as Christians have remained silent while our brothers and sisters have been violated and killed,” the church leaders state. They...

Early church inspires 2011 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity by Charlie Boyd Posted: Friday, October 8, 2010, 9:26 (BST) Resources for next year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity are inspired by the early church in Acts. Photo: Christian Today Jerusalem churches have taken their inspiration from the unity of the early church in materials for the 2011 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Churches from across the denominations in the Holy City were tasked with drawing up resources for the week of prayer, which falls next year on January 18 to 25 for churches in the northern hemisphere. They selected as the theme for this year’s resources, “One in the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer,” based on Acts 2.42. As today’s global church seeks to build unity in spite of its huge diversity, the resources encourage believers to turn their attention to the values and practices that united the believers of the early church in Jerusalem. T...

Prosperity gospel treads fine line between blessing and materialism, say theologians by Michelle A Vu, Christian Post Posted: Sunday, October 31, 2010, 1:34 (GMT) There needs to be a clear distinction between true biblical prosperity and the gospel of materialism, two African theologians have said. The message that God blesses those who give crosses the line from biblical into prosperity gospel when it becomes self-serving and is used to support the preacher’s extravagant lifestyle, said Kwabena Asamoah, the academic dean and associate professor of Religion and Pentecostal Theology at Trinity Theological Seminary in Legon, Ghana, at the recent Lausanne III conference. Asamoah, who also served as senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religion at Harvard Divinity School in 2004, defines prosperity gospel as “preaching, interpreting, teaching the word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord in a self-serving manner that places its emphasis on cons...

Methodist church attacked near Bradford by Brian Hutt Posted: Sunday, October 31, 2010, 22:09 (GMT) A Methodist church in a village near Bradford was badly damaged in an attack by vandals last week. Police confirmed that the vandals had not stolen anything in the attack on Birkenshaw Methodist Church, which took place sometime between Sunday evening and Monday afternoon. According to the Christian Institute, Bibles were burned, chairs and hymnbooks were slashed, a large crucifix had been torn from an inside wall, and keyboard and speaker cables had been cut. The cost of repairing the damage has been estimated at £2,000. The church, which has a congregation of around 60, has been left shaken by the attack. The Rev Graham Edwards, the church’s minister, said: “Everyone is very upset and it is very sad to go to the effort of refurbishing the whole place to find somebody will break in and, for what seems like no reason at all, will destroy and ruin things. “What is upsetting p...