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NORTH KOREA North Korea plans executions for contact with missionary Open Doors USA President/CEO David Curry says, “We received reports through a South Korean newspaper that North Korea is publicly saying that they’re going to order the deaths of 33 people that they believe are connected to Christianity, connected to a particular missionary there.” In answer to the question of heavy-handed tactics, Curry states, “North Korea has a theocracy. Their power is derived from their trying to convince their population that their leaders are God. Anything that would suggest otherwise, they would consider to be a threat against their government.” Fleeing hell NORTH KOREA | North Korean defectors are shedding light on dark human rights abuses in their native land—and some are telling of the light they found By DANIEL JAMES DEVINE & SOPHIA LEE Issue: "Inside the wire," March 22, 2014 Posted March 7, 2014, 01:00 a.m. Timothy Kang remembers those boots because they ...

pic found at  World Magazine Kenyan pastors murdered as tensions, violence escalate  Posted Nov. 4, 2013, 02:15 p.m. | JULIA A. SEYMOUR Little girl talks about her love for her adopted brother with Down’s Syndrome Persian Gulf officials, tired of waiting for U.S., move to boost aid to Syrian rebels Washington Post What Small Churches Can Do by Joe Thorn "The small church is not limited in its fruitfulness by its size. It is only limited by the will of head of the church, Jesus Christ. A small church may be relatively small in number, but it wields the power of God through the ministry of the word which the Lord has been pleased to use to accomplish the impossible since the beginning. The Lord will use you to accomplish his work not because you are right, but because you are his. You will trample the devil under foot not because of your size, but because of your Savior. Many small churches can do far more than they believe, and part of the key is to stop focusing on its...

Imagine for a moment, in Nigeria, an Islamic imam and his son are killed by Christians and their mosque set on fire. How do you think Western media would respond?  You no longer have to imagine, change the imam to a pastor and the mosque to a church and you have a real story that is being ignored by the press.   The silence of our friends – the extinction of Christianity in the Middle East 23 September 2013 9:31 by  Ed West The article states, "The last month and a half has seen perhaps the worst anti-Christian violence in Egypt in seven centuries, with dozens of churches torched. Yet the western media has mainly focussed on army assaults on the Muslim Brotherhood, and no major political figure has said anything about the sectarian attacks." How we survived terror at Nairobi's Westgate mall What it was like at the Westgate mall, from two of those who survived by  Aidan Hartley 28 September 2013 The gunmen approached them and — standing feet away from ...

Atom bomb nearly exploded over North Carolina in 1961: UK paper Reuters – Fri, 20 Sep, 2013 Various articles report: Fallout could have spread over Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and even New York City, the paper said, threatening the lives of millions of people. 260 times more powerful than the device that destroyed Hiroshima , according to a declassified report published Friday in The Guardian. The accident happened just three days after President John F Kennedy was inaugurated in January 1961. image from:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/world/asia/pakistan-church-bombing.html?ref=world Scores Are Killed by Suicide Bomb Attack at Historic Church in Pakistan Tunisian women 'waging sex jihad in Syria' The article states: Tunisian women have travelled to Syria to wage "sex jihad" by comforting Islamist fighters battling the regime there, Interior Minister Lotfi ben Jeddou has told MPs. "They have sexual relations with...