BJP MLC for Holy Land subsidy, Ulemas for UP polls, China's 100 million believers...

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An Independent Clergy & Laity Partnership Initiative  Issue: No 1652   25-04-2013 ** Please add h...@thecsf.info to your address book to ensure future delivery. ** If the images below do not display correctly, please click here Ecumenical Evangelical Interdenominational Colossians 1:27-28 “To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.”   HEADLINE Shelar, BJP MLC, but for Holy Land subsidy As you are aware, The CSF has been urging Christians to campaigning for subsidies to the Holy Land for those community members, who cannot afford it. If all goes well, Maharashtra will soon have some sort of subsidy for the Christians to visit Holy Land, thanks to BJP member of the legislative council, Adv. Ashish ...   Links Audio Bibles Assamese Bengali English Gondi Hindi Malayalam Oriya Punjabi Tamil Telugu Urdu Text Bibles Awadhi Bengali English Gujarati Hindi Kannada Malayalam Marathi Oriya Punjabi Tamil Telugu Urdu   Subscribe Disclaimer Unsubscribe INDIA Elections: Ulema in the center stage of UP politics Uttar Pradesh, 23 April, 2013: With an eye on Lok Sabha elections, Muslim clerics are once again in the center stage of politics in Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav is busy getting them on his side before the elections. In the past the clerics start with the issues of Muslims, settle for ...   Immaculate Conception missionaries to Brazil & Papua-New Guinea Six novices in the diocese of Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) have taken their vows and joined the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, a female congregation linked to PIME. Archbishop Joji Govindu calls on the faithful to “support constantly through their prayers” Sisters Lourdes Braganza and Anne Ajitha, who will shortly leave for South America and ...   “Demand ethics in economic development,” CBCI Office for Justice and Peace tells Christian activists in the North East Assam,  April 24, 2013: At a two-day workshop on Catholic Social Teaching, the CBCI Office for Justice, Peace and Development (OJPD) called upon the Christian activists in North East India to demand ethics in economic development. “The kind of developmental model that is pursued in India, while favouring a few, remains detrimental to the livelihood and ...   ASIA + Bangladesh backs Sri Lanka on human rights issue Colombo, April 23, 2013: Bangladesh Tuesday said it will back Sri Lanka on the human rights issue, the Sri Lankan President’s Office said, reported Xinhua. Visiting Bangladeshi Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque gave the assurance when he met President Mahinda Rajapaksa here. During the meeting, Haque reassured the support of Bangladesh to Sri Lanka in the international ...   WORLD China’s 100 million religious believers must banish their ‘superstitions’ China, April 21, 2013: China is struggling to get its estimated 100 million religious believers to banish superstitious beliefs about things like sickness and death, the country’s top religious affairs official told a state-run newspaper. Wang Zuoan, head of the State Administration of Religious Affairs, said there had been an explosion of religious belief in ...   MISCELLANEOUS Two of the best comeback responses Number 1: If you ever testify in court, you might wish you could have been as sharp as this policeman. He was being cross- examined by a defense attorney during a felony trial. The lawyer was trying to undermine the police officer’s credibility. Q: ‘Officer – did you see my client fleeing the scene?’ A: ...   CARTOON Intercession, Awareness, Activism, Action ... 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