The events of 1989, when people in Eastern Europe took their faith on to the streets and challenged communist regimes, marked a turning point in seeing the Church as a global community of believers, a world mission conference in Edinburgh has heard.
In the News
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June 9th, 2010
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June 9th, 2010
The president of a Christian legal defense organization says a column by a former official with the Clinton White House and the chairman of the Cato Institute calling for the legalization of homosexual 'marriage' is misguided.
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June 9th, 2010
Inter-faith organisation identifies mosques that meets its criteria, which include providing a separate prayer space for women.
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June 9th, 2010
Posters will start appearing in Tube stations, at bus stops and on cabs in central London this week in a campaign to counter the ?horrifyingly negative? image of Islam in Britain.
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June 9th, 2010
Geert Wilders, who is demanding a halt to immigration from Muslim countries as the centerpiece of his campaign for the Dutch prime ministership, has hailed Israel for 'fighting the jihad' and warned that 'the West is next' if Israel is unsuccessful.
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June 9th, 2010
Opera star Andrea Bocelli has praised his mother for rejecting the advice of doctors to abort him.
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June 9th, 2010
Prince Charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic 'spiritual principles' in order to save the environment.
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June 9th, 2010
Protestant churches are to use an ultrasound picture of 'Jesus in the womb' - complete with a halo - for a new advertising campaign that could plunge the church into an anti-abortion debate.
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June 9th, 2010
Eighty women who had become pregnant through IVF aborted their embryos last year. Some discovered that their baby would have been seriously deformed; but many had no medical reason to stop their pregnancy.
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June 9th, 2010
A row over saying prayers before meetings of a Shropshire town council has escalated after a councillor stuck headphones into his ears and listened to Bob Dylan while members said the Lord?s Prayer.