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Do Good for Fellow Christians in Eastern Ukraine and Their Outreach Efforts in the Midst of War -- a Personal Prayer Item from a Missionary to Ukraine

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This Is What A Pastor From Donetsk Told Me Today (click on the headline above this for the full article.  Intro. is below).  08/20/2014 Posted by Caleb Suko, missionary to Ukraine Today I sat down with a pastor friend (name withheld for safety reasons) from Donetsk. He and his family fled the city over a month ago with hopes that they would soon be able to return. However, the situation has only deteriorated in the past few weeks and along with it their hope for a return to normal life in their home city. Workers remove a body from a home that was shelled                                                                             just outside of Donetsk (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) Please pray for Eastern Ukraine and if you’d like to help believers like Caleb's pastor friend and his church please go here. To give by check, simply mail your check to us at: ABWE PO Box 8585 Harrisburg, PA 17105.  Please make your check out to ABWE Foundation and include Ukraine Cr

It is Time for Conservative Christians to Put Down Mean-Girl Barbie and Start Idolizing True Heroes Like Dr. Kent Brantly and Missionary Nancy Writebol

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Update, Sept. 16, 2014, Dr. Brantly: Fmr. Ebola patient delivers testimony before Senate committee Franklin Graham's Facebook post  (09/05/14) Tuesday, a crew from NBC News came to interview me about Dr. Kent Brantly’s miraculous story of surviving Ebola. Matt Lauer interviewed Kent as well, and this will air in an hour-long special TONIGHT at 10:00 p.m. EDT . The world will be watching as he gives the glory to God for healing him! This Is What It Feels Like to Survive Ebola Dr. Kent Brantly Are you sitting down?  Because TIME magazine posted a story by Dr. Kent Brantly on his ordeal with Ebola.  (Their first hug in a month.  Photo credit:  David Morrison -- Samaritan's Purse) "I never shed a tear when I called my wife and said, “Amber, my test is positive. I have Ebola.” Though the rest of my family wept, I felt strangely at peace. God blessed me with that peace that surpasses understanding. Since we had started treating patients with Ebola in Monro

If It Bleeds, it Leads, Then Why All of the Attention on Gaza and So Little, if Any, on the Slaughter of Christians throughout the Islamic World?

I just contacted my two senators ( www.senate.gov ) and my representative ( http://www.house.gov/ ). I am looking to add the White House ( www.whybother.gov -- just kidding, www.whitehouse.gov ). Will you join me? Here is what I sent to give you an idea of what to say (put it in your own words and be respectful, please): Dear Congressman/Senator: Israel's actions get round the clock coverage as they react to rocket fire, etc. in self defense. Meanwhile, across the Islamic world Christians are forcibly displaced; their churches turned into mosques, looted or burned; their women raped, whole ancient communities emptied and men crucified, killed by the sword, shot or forced to renounce their faith and become Muslim and hardly a word from Western media, Hollywood types or politicians. Have you spoken out? Why not change the conversation from Israel in Gaza to Islamic extremism's threat vs. ancient Christian populations in the Middle East? Are Palestinian lives more valuable than C

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