Latin America: Comentario is ‘A dream come true’

Launch events in several Latin American cities have celebrated the March publication of a new Spanish Bible commentary which has been 12 years in the making.

The single-volume hardback, Comentario Biblico Contemporaneo (CBC), is the work of more than 100 writers, representing most of the 16 Spanish-speaking countries in South and Central America.

The commentary, with an initial print run of 5,000, has been published jointly by Certeza Unida, the editorial branch of IFES (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students) and Ediciones Kairós in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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CHRISTIAN WOMEN PERSECUTED DISPROPORTIONATELY

The Leuven Consultation, staged in Belgium in early June, heard that 215 million Christians are experiencing high, very high or extreme persecution in more than 50 countries, with women suffering dis-proportionately.

Freed from poverty and oppression

Every year, 150–200 women are helped by Open Doors, as they escape North Korea’s poverty and oppression and flee to China

The Bible acquitted in court

The acquittal of two Christian street preachers in late June was a victory for the public reading and teaching of the Bible, and for free speech and freedom of religion.

Intelligent Design and the Olympics

On 3–8 July, Professor Stuart Burgess exhibited his Olympic bike work at the headquarters of the Royal Society in London near Buckingham Palace.

Algeria: God has raised up His church

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‘God is enlarging our dream.’

Nigeria: more girls released

 

On 8 May, the Nigerian Government said it had secured the release of 82 of the nearly 300 girls kidnapped from their school in Chibok, northern Nigeria.

Iraq: Worship returns to liberated towns

Christians celebrated Palm Sunday in the burned-out church in Qaraqosh

 

Karamles is a Christian village that was home to 800 Christian families before the invasion of IS…

Don’t express beliefs…

Sarah Kuteh

 

“You can’t know in advance whether someone would be offended by a comment.”

Oldham: Church for all

Church members reach out in the open air

 

…what makes the place so intriguing is that it is home to a very diverse congregation, especially a growing Iranian Christian community fleeing from persecution.