An Independent Clergy & Laity Partnership Initiative  Issue: No 2359   30-10-2015  ** Please add ican@josephdias.info to your address book to ensure future delivery. ** If the images below do not display correctly, please click here Ecumenical Evangelical Interdenominational Romans 12:1 “ Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.”   HEADLINE City Harvest Church members support Pastor Kong Hee Singapore, October 28, 2015: City Harvest Church-affiliated website City News has published a video showing congregants of the Singaporean megachurch voicing their support for Pastor Kong Hee despite the recent guilty verdict. “Of course I am very saddened by the news because my heart cries out for all of them very much, but most important ...   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 Maulana Azad Minorities Finance & Development Corporation comes up with loan schemes Mumbai, May 13, 2008: Now the lower income groups among the minorities need not worry about getting a loan for education or business as the Maulana Azad Minorities Financial Development Corporation (MAMFDC) has got huge funds for the purpose. MAMFDC is a channelizing agency of National Minorities Development & Finance Corporation, a Government of India ...   Malegaon 2008 Blasts: NIA’s plea for custodial interrogation of accused pending in SC for 4 years Mumbai, October 29, 2015: India’s most elite anti-terror investigation team, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) which was established specifically to probe terror-related cases and was assigned investigation of Malegaon 2008 blasts by the UPA government in 2011, never had a chance for custodial interrogation of any of the accused in the case. On September 29, ...   The great Indian silence trick Kochi, October 26, 2015: Indian media in the past month have been replete with news and opinions about how fast Indians are growing in their intolerance for differences, and how violently dissidents are attacked and even annihilated. On Oct. 19, for example, Abdul Rashid Sheikh, a member of the Jammu and Kashmir state legislative assembly ...   ASIA + Crucified for Christ in Syria Syria, September 28, 2015: Christians in Syria are being killed in ISIS. They are being crucified in public. They are being terrorized. So far the charity, the Barnabas Fund, has liberated 158 Christians from Syria and found them a new home in Poland. Its founder and international director Patrick Sookhdeo has recently returned from a ...   WORLD ISIS hostage feels ‘born again’ after witnessing christian captives’ strong faith Syria, October 28, 2015: A Syrian priest who was held captive for months by the Islamic State terror group before being released said he was kept in an underground dormitory with 250 other Christians who refused to convert to Islam despite being pressured every day. “The Christians were often questioned about their faith and about ...   MISCELLANEOUS Son for 50 pence Several years ago, a preacher from a distant town accepted a call from a Church in Leeds. Some weeks after his arrival, he had an appointment that made him to board a bus to another part of the town. When he sat down,  he discovered that the driver had mistakenly given him his balance in ...   CARTOON Intercession, Awareness, Activism, Action ... This e-journal specifically highlights and documents persecution and violation of human rights of Christians, Minorities, Schedule Caste/Tribes and Other Backwards, urging you to at least - PRAY. Our aim is to identify fundamentalists and those disrupting communal harmony and indigenous communities - posing a threat to a just, equal, plural and secular citizenry. We oppose any kind of discrimination and oppression, whether of race, religion, culture, gender etc. specially when it comes from some of our own. Please pray for the following local, state, national, regional and international situations. Editor-in-Chief: Joseph Dias