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Evangelism

• Don't knock those who share faith at doorsteps | But before we give the heave-ho to the next well-meaning soul who invades our space, we ought to look at the bigger picture: The only reason they've come into our lives is to share the faith that puts a smile on their lips and a sermon in their hearts (Ken Garfield, The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• College trains ministers to broadcast the gospel | North Greenville College's low-power FM station doesn't reach much farther than Travelers Rest, but it's part of a fast growing mass communications program at the school — itself part of a fast growing industry: media ministry (The Greenville News, S.C.)
  
  
• TEAM may be an agent for social change | Convocation of evangelicals, Pentecostals, Catholics and mainline Protestants constituted an ecumenical gathering unprecedented in the 34 years I have lived in Tallahassee (Leo Sandon, Tallahassee Democrat, Fla.)
  
  

India's Dalits:

• 5000 Gujarat Dalits convert to Buddhism | The conversion ceremony was earlier scheduled for June this year (Hindustan Times)
  
  

Persecution

• Vietnam says Christian leader's death not murder | Communist Vietnam has denied a report from a U.S. human rights group that an ethnic minority Hmong Christian leader had been killed by authorities (ABC Radio Australia News)
  
  
• Vietnam says five Central Highlanders denounce banned religion | Vietnam says a group of five men from an ethnic minority in the country's Central Highlands have denounced their involvement with a Christian independence movement (Radio Australia)
  
  
• A plea to help North Korean refugees | Christians campaign for bill allowing North Koreans to apply for refugee status or asylum in the United States (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
  
  
• A Christian organization accused of forced conversion | Kunti Bai Sahu, a 36-year-old woman, living with her two children near capital Raipur said she was offered money to change her religion (ANI)
  
  
• Murdered missionary's widow to continue work in India | She's taken over her husband's work with lepers (ABC Radio Australia News)
  
  

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