• YWAMers Join Global Initiative to Bring One Billion to Christ

  Youth With A Mission (YWAM) leaders currently meeting on Je-ju island in South Korea have thrown their support behind a global effort to bring one billion people to Christ in the next 25 years.

• Pope to Send Top Aide to Quake-Ravaged Peru

  As hopes fade of pulling any more survivors from the rubble caused by last Wednesday’s huge earthquake in Peru, Pope Benedict XVI announced Sunday that he would send his top aide to the country to show solidarity with the victims.

• Christians Alarmed at Non-Hindu Ban around Indian Shrine

  The state government of Andhra Pradesh in India has announced plans to impose a 110-square-kilometre ban of non-Hindu religions around a Hindu shrine.

• Churches Remain United in Asia Flood Response

  Members of the worldwide coalition Action by Churches Together International are continuing to save lives as they bring aid relief and assistance to vast regions of central and south Asia hit by severe flooding.

  

• Aid Group Buildings in East Timor Set Ablaze

  The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) has called for calm in East Timor amid the violence that has rumbled on since Xanana Gusmao was appointed to be the new prime minister by the country’s new president, Jose Ramos-Horta.