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Churches asked to sponsor bus shelter and radio adverts this Christmas

Leaders of a Christian movement focused on world evangelisation marked the oneyear count down to their third major gathering in over three decades Friday

What are you doing with your life for God was the question that turned Steve Harris around

By Ken and Kathy Young, serving in Japan
Editor’s Note: Ken and Kathy Young are reaching out to ordinary people in the Hiroshima region of Japan through Hope House, a holistic ministry geared toward helping families of patients in the medical center, as well as Bible studies. The following is an adaptation of a recent update [...]

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the summer 2009 Alliance Asia Pacific Regional Update.
Earlier this year, the Khmer Evangelical Church (KEC), the C&MA national church in Cambodia, elected Pastor Sok Sophon to serve as its new president. He had been a Khmer Rouge soldier who fought against the Vietnamese after they invaded Cambodia [...]

Christian Solidarity Worldwide CSW has welcomed a call from the President of the Democratic Republic of TimorLeste Dr Jose Ramos Horta for a UN arms embargo on Burmas military regime

By Ruth Davis and Jo Kiel, serving in Brazil
Editor’s Note: Jo Kiel, an Alliance missionary to Brazil, has developed a dynamic ministry. In evangelistic fashion seminars, Jo demonstrates the use of colors to accentuate outer beauty and introduces women to Jesus, the Master Painter, who can make them beautiful on the inside. Over the years she has [...]

A National Day of Prayer is being held at the NEC in Birmingham on October 17 with a major emphasis on praying for persecuted Christians worldwide

The following report comes from a field worker on the ground in Indonesia. It was originally dated October 6, 2009.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Christian and Missionary Alliance is bringing help and hope to those devastated by disasters in the Pacific Rim last week. More than 1,100 people died in the September 30 earthquake in Padang, Indonesia, and over 300 perished in the Philippines and Vietnam after Typhoon Ketsana leveled the coastal [...]