Themed Articles
The Growing Persecuted Church in Indonesia
By Jim Jacobson
On 27 August 2005 Father Iwan Rusbani Setyawan was finishing the 5 p.m. mass at St. Anthony Chapel in Margahayu, a suburb of Bandung in West Java, Indonesia. This is what happened next:
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Re-affirming Holistic Mission: A Cross-Centered Approach in All Areas of Life
By Chris Wright
I was a bit puzzled, I must confess. There I was at the Lausanne Forum in Pattaya last year and I noticed that ‘Holistic Mission’ was one of the 31 special Issue Groups.
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Her Husband Assassinated; He Loved Muslims Too Much
By Jeff King
I went to meet Mrs. M. today. Her husband was a wonderful pastor who loved and reached out to Muslims. He was assassinated recently.
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Lessons of the Persecuted Church
By Todd Nettleton
“It must be understood that there are no nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far too great.
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Theological Reflections on the Christian Humanitarian Response
By Bryant Meyers
There are a number of theological themes that must be kept in mind as we explore the Christian response to humanitarian crises.
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Burma: Why Did Military Authorities Close Protestant Churches?
By Benedict Rogers
Three Protestant Full Gospel churches in the capital of Rangoon and a series of Protestant house churches elsewhere in the country have been closed down in the capital of Rangoon since early August, Burmese protestant sources told Forum 18 News Service.
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Learning from Persecuted Christians and Joining in the Struggle
By Carl Moeller
On 1 September 2005, the Indonesian Indramayu local court found Dr. Rebekka Zakaria, Eti Pangesti and Ratna Bangun guilty of breaching the 2002 Child Protection Law and sentenced them to three years in prison.
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A Theology for Uniting Evangelism and Social Ministry
By Scott Allen
One of the most destructive, yet least understood mindsets affecting evangelical Christianity generally, and evangelical missions in particular, has been Gnostic dualism.
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Dynamic Evangelism: Jumping Out of the Window and into the Harvest
By Greg Forney
The students are clamoring and the professor is holed up in his office. They want answers and he cannot hold them back for long.
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Persecution of Christians in the Muslim World
By Patrick Sookhdeo
While most Muslim states have signed United Nations declarations on human rights, they usually add caveats stating these are accepted as long as they do not contradict Islamic law (shari‘a).
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