Discovering Jesus through Asian eyes

Jesus through Asian eyes15 May 2014  |   Carey Lodge – Christian Today

The Evangelical Alliance has launched a new outreach programme specifically targeted at the UK’s growing Asian population.

‘Discovering Jesus through Asian eyes’ is aimed at presenting the Gospel in a way that addresses many of the issues and questions that Asian people may have about Christianity. It was trialled in churches last year before being officially launched this week in London.

Sanjay Rajo of Naujavan, a Christian organisation dedicated to serving 16-30 year-old Asians, said that until now there has been a real gap in the market for outreach designed for young British Asians.

“In the last forty years Asians came to the UK from overseas but now we are seeing more young people, who are born here, confused about their identity and hunger for something spiritual,” he explained.

“This course will attract a younger generation … such as university students and young professionals in their 20s and 30s, who are interested in going on a course a bit like Alpha or Christianity Explored, but with an Asian edge. It ticks that box and allows us to engage in a unique Asian British way, there is nothing else out there like it.

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India’s Christians fear rise in persecution under BJP

17 May 2014  |  Cath Martin – Christian Today

After the BJP’s historic election victory this week, Christians in India have mixed feelings about the future and how the country’s new leaders will impact on freedom of religion.

The last week has been a massive turnaround for the once struggling opposition party that suffered defeats in the last two elections.

Taking them to victory was the charismatic Narendra Modi, who International Christian Concern reports has feigned ignorance about past Hindu nationalist attacks on minorities.

There are serious concerns among Christians, with one pastor, Ronald John, telling ICC the “persecution of Christians will increase under the BJP-led government”.

“Christians already are gripped with fear and concern over the election results. Hindu nationalist groups will take advantage of the situation and use it to attack churches and members of the Christian community,” he said.

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Formerly from the Underground Church in Saudi Arabia – Now a Powerful International Guest Minister at CTFM Melbourne this Sunday evening 22nd June

Dear friends & family in Christ in Victoria,

For those of you in the Melbourne area, Pastor Prabhu Isaac (a friend of Ps Daniel’s from the Underground Church in Saudi Arabia) will be ministeringGod’s Word this Sunday evening 6:30pm 22nd June at CTFM at 30 Star Crescent
in Hallam.

In 2001, the ministry of Interior Authority of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia arrested him and imprisoned for his involvement in Christian activities. He was put in a solitary confinement for a month and was deported after undergoing almost 7 months of physical and mental torture. He was terminated from his job and was not permitted to see or contact anyone including his wife. He was put through intensive interrogation and was pushed into prisons that were more like animal sheds, under the most disgusting and unhygienic conditions. There were implications of a death sentence by execution, or imprisonment for 10 years under some false charges; but the power and grace of God miraculously delivered him and he was released on 8th February 2002. He was deported to Chennai, India and there, he began full time ministry and began to serve the Lord.

Ps Daniel travelled to the US and lobbied with the US Congress for his and other’s release. Thank God for the US Congress and many others who helped secure the releases.

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Channel Nine News Video / Pr Daniel in NT this weekend / Boort & Wedderburn, Victoria on Sat 5th & Sun 6th July

Dear family & friends in Christ, 1) You may click the following link to watch the short but excellent video clip (from 1:55-2:08) from last night’s Channel Nine News segment…

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RUAP Media coverage / Celebrate 7th anniversary victory for Free Speech at Victorian Parliament steps from 12-1pm Wed 25th June

Dear family & friends in Christ,Free Speech Rally at Victorian Parliament in Melbourne

1) Please spread the word and watch Rise Up Australia National President Daniel Nalliah on Channel Nine’s 6pm Evening News tonight Thursday 19th June.

You may click the following link to read an article about RUAP that appeared in today’s Australian.

https://reformationharvestfire.com/events/liberals-and-geoff-shaw-eye-radical-preacher-nalliahs-numbers/

 2) From Pr Daniel – “This Sunday 22nd June 2014 marks 7 years since we won the court battle for free speech with the Islamic Council of Victoria.

It is also a very special day for my family as our little girl Brianna turns 7.

May I say a ‘BIG THANK YOU’ for all your prayers, financial and moral support.

Since I will be ministering in Katherine & Darwin in the Northern Territory this weekend, we have organized a public rally on Wednesday 25th June from 12 to 1pm on the steps of the Victorian State Parliament, in Spring St. Melbourne, to take a stand for Free Speech and to support the removal of Clause 98C in the Anti-discrimination Act in the Federal Parliament.

May I appeal to all who call Australia home. If you really love your country then please take the time to come and join us at this rally to make our voice known and take a stand to Keep Australia Australian.

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Report on Community Forum in Sydney & CTFM Dedication service / Pr Daniel ministering in Katherine & Darwin, NT from 20-23 June

Dear family & friends in Christ,

1) The National President of Rise Up Australia Party, Daniel Nalliah was one of the five speakers at a Community Forum in Sydney. Other speakers at this event were Robert Balzola (Lawyer), Peter King (Barrister), Bernard Gaynor (ex-Military) & Marella Harris (Local Resident).

More than 100 people came for this event and were very challenged by the speakers.

The evening focused on “Protecting our public interest in Australia”.

Each speaker covered many areas of great interest for every Australian.

Daniel Nalliah stated, “Events like these should be held in every city and state in order to bring an awareness of the impending dangers for Australia and the West.”

2) Last Sunday was a great day in the life of everyone at CTFM, as we spent much time dedicating our lives and ministry into the hands of the Lord.

The service started at 9.30am and finished with lunch around 3pm.

Everyone who came for the service was greatly blessed.

3) Please pray for Pr Daniel who will be ministering in Holy Spirit miracle healing revival services and Rise Up Australia Party meetings in Katherine, Northern Territory from Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd June.

Also a special breakfast on Saturday 21st June and local radio station interview on Friday 20th June.

Pr Daniel will also be ministering at 7:30pm Monday 23rd June in Darwin at the Christian Outreach Centre at 10 Crerar Rd, Berrimah.

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Excellent Radio Interview with RUAP National President Daniel Nalliah / CTFM dedication service this Sunday 15th June / Pr Daniel ministering in Katherine & Darwin, NT from 20-23 June

Dear friends & friends in Christ, 1) You may click the following link to listen to RUAP National President Daniel Nalliah’s recent radio interview regarding the Muslim Hijab, Burka, Multiculturalism…

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RUAP National President Daniel Nalliah speaking at a special dinner event in Sydney 7pm Friday 13th June

Dear friends & family in Christ, 1) This Pentecost Sunday 8th June beginning at 7:30pm Pr Daniel will be speaking on a must watch live webcast right here at www.reformationharvestfire.com…

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This spread of ‘holy fascism’ is a disaster

Sunday 18 May 2014 – Patrick Cockburn

Earlier this month, Saudi liberal activist Raif Badawi was sentenced to 1,000 lashes, 10 years in prison and a heavy fine for insulting Islam. In fact, his crime was to establish an online discussion forum where people were free to speak about religion and criticise religious scholars.

He had been charged with “apostasy” in 2012, because of his writings and for hosting discussion on his Saudi Arabian Liberals website, and was sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes but on appeal a heavier sentence was imposed.

Mr Badawi will appeal against the verdict, but it is complicated by the fact that his lawyer and brother-in-law, Waleed Abulkhair, is himself in jail. He was detained without explanation last month when on trial for damaging the image of the kingdom and breaking his allegiance to the king. Under Saudi Arabia’s harsh Sharia code, almost any critical word or deed makes a person liable to severe punishment.

Lashings and beheadings generally get little publicity except where a foreigner is involved. The local media is muzzled and foreign press for the most part excluded. This contrasts with the blanket coverage of the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram, the al-Qa’ida type movement in northern Nigeria.

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CTFM dedication service this Sunday 15th June / Weekend ministry report

Dear family & friends in Christ, 1) For those of you in the Melbourne area, we wish to invite you to our special dedication service of Catch The Fire Ministries…

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Missing Girls of Chobok, Nigeria: Why Christians Should Care….and Act

Afolabi Sotunde ReutersBy Dr David Curry , CP Guest Contributor – May 2, 2014

$12.50. This reportedly is the current “market” price for Nigerian girl brides in some areas of Cameroon and Chad.

Two-hundred and thirty Nigerian girls, mostly Christians ages 16-20, were kidnapped from a boarding school in the northeastern village of Chobok by members of the Muslim terrorist group Boko Haram on the night of April 21. Approximately 200 girls are still missing.

The parents have taken to the streets and pleaded for help from the government to rescue the girls. But the government seems powerless to make a concerted rescue attempt.

It probably is too little and too late. Some of the girls could have already been married to Muslim men and forced to convert to Islam. If the past kidnappings of Nigerian girls are any indication, some are now sexual slaves for Boko Haram members, while also making their meals and doing their dirty work.

A worker with Open Doors International, which partners with churches in northern Nigeria, states: “The abducted girls will most probably be responsible for cooking and cleaning for the insurgents. But there is every possibility that these children could be forcefully converted to Islam and married off to members of the group or other Muslim men.”

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Leading The Way Continues to Impact Indonesia One Year After Revival Gatherings

Crowds worship at the Istora stadiumASSIST News Service (ANS) – Tuesday, May 13, 2014

ATLANTA, GA (ANS) — One year after nearly a thousand people made commitments to follow Christ at Leading The Way’s revival gatherings in Jakarta’s Istora Stadium last May, the ministry is continuing to impact the world’s largest Muslim nation.

“Our Indonesian revival was only the beginning of a long-term outreach to Indonesia,” explained Leading The Way’s Founder and President Dr. Michael Youssef.

He added: “On March 1 this year, we launched THE KINGDOM SAT in the Indonesian language. So now on satellite television we have what we’ve been broadcasting in the Arab world for five years. Now anyone in Indonesia with a satellite dish will have access to the Gospel subtitled in their language. That’s remarkable growth from just a simple stadium evangelistic outreach.”

A team of 100 Christian leaders is following up with each person who committed his or her life to Christ at last year’s meetings in Jakarta. One of those team members was a former Muslim extremist who had become an evangelist and risked his life to bring people to the meetings: “He brought 17 buses of people every night. The second night, 30 people showed up at his doorstep, and they threatened to kill him if he took people to the final night. So he shows up with all these buses, and at the end of the meetings they were interviewing him on camera with his face covered, and my son Jonathan asked him, ‘How come they threatened your life, and yet you are here and you brought all these people?’ He said, ‘If they kill me, I go to Jesus,’ with a big smile on his face. “I wish every Western Christian could watch this incredible man of courage. He’s not afraid. He said, ‘I’d rather see these people saved than worry about my life,’ and he is one of those people who is doing a lot of the follow-up.”

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Pastor Daniel opens City of Casey Council meeting in prayer / Ministering in Sunbury this Pentecost Sunday morning 8th June / Live webcast this Sunday evening / RUA Prayer this Friday

 Dear friends & family in Christ, 1) We thank and praise God for every opportunity He gives us to lift His name on high! Yesterday the City of Casey Council…

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The natural rain pours down before the supernatural rain of the Holy Spirit as Pr Daniel and team visits Mildura, Vic / Radio interview link

Dear family & friends in Christ,

In the past few years there has been something amazing happening in almost every place Pr Daniel goes to minister, and that is that the rains come down.

Many have watched the DVD ‘Faith like Potatoes’, the incredible story of the South African Preacher Angus Buchan, who leads God’s people in repentance and prayer, with rain often following.

Well, this amazing falling of rain in many parts of Australia started after we carried out the prayer assignment on Mount Ainsley.

CTFM teams who have been on tour have seen this first hand in several parts of Australia and so it did happen once again in Mildura.

As the vehicle passed the sign which said ‘Welcome to Mildura’, it started pouring down with rain.

Not quite sure whether it had been raining before, a CTFM team member asked the receptionist at the apartments who stated, “I cannot remember when I last saw the rain.”

Then the Pastor of the church stated, “You have brought the rain with you.”

This happens almost every trip and Pr Daniel gets calls from farmers to come on their land and pray for rain.

Now you might wonder why so much emphasis on the rain.

This is very important as the Bible states in Deuteronomy 11:13-14 “It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul, that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.”

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Why Are Christians the World’s Most Persecuted Group?

Why Are Christians the World’s Most Persecuted GroupRaymond Ibrahim – Frontpage Magazine

Why are Christians, as a new Pew report documents, the most persecuted religious group in the world?  And why is their persecution occurring primarily throughout the Islamic world?  (In the category on “Countries with Very High Government Restrictions on Religion,” Pew lists 24 countries—20 of which are Islamic and precisely where the overwhelming majority of “the world’s” Christians are actually being persecuted.)

The reason for this ubiquitous phenomenon of Muslim persecution of  Christians is threefold:

Christianity is the largest religion in the world.  There are Christians practically everywhere around the globe, including in much of the Muslim world.  Moreover, because much of the land that Islam seized was originally Christian—including the Middle East and North Africa, the region that is today known as the “Arab world”—Muslims everywhere are still confronted with vestiges of Christianity, for example, in Syria, where many ancient churches and monasteries are currently being destroyed by al-Qaeda linked, U.S. supported “freedom fighters.”  Similarly, in Egypt, where Alexandria was a major center of ancient Christianity before the 7th century Islamic invasions, there still remain at least 10 million Coptic Christians (though some put the number at much higher). Due to sheer numbers alone, then, indigenous Christians are much more visible and exposed to attack by Muslims than other religious groups throughout the Arab world.   Yet as CNS News puts it, “President Obama expressed hope that the ‘Arab Spring’ would give rise to greater religious freedom in North Africa and the Middle East, which has had the world’s highest level of hostility towards religion in every year since 2007, when Pew first began measuring it. However, the study finds that these regions actually experienced the largest increase in religious hostilities in 2012.”

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