January 12, 2007
Persecution harder; but saved souls bring great joy
Malabar (India), SVM News, 12 January, 2007: The persecuted christians forget hardships and forgive torturings when they see the unlimited number of lost souls are coming towards Christ and experiencing the Salvation. It is a marvellous experience like a woman forgetting the harder pain and rejoice when she see the baby of which she gave birth with an unspeakable pain. [...]
Comments (1) Filed under: Vox Populi — Paul Ciniraj @ 6:17 pmJanuary 8, 2007
Severe Christian Persecution of Various Places in India
Kottayam (India), SVM News, 8 January, 2007: Christian pastors and believers are facing severe persecution in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra in India in between 29 December to 7 January.
Bangalore (Karnataka): Pastor Robert and a church member Mr. Rajendran suffered severe injuries in a daring daylight attack inside their church, the Jeus Preethi Church in [...]
January 7, 2007
Russian Priest Brutally Murdered on Orthodox Christmas Day
Yekaterinburg (Russia), SVM News, 7 January, 2007: The Orthodox priest Rev. Father Oleg Stupichkin (40 years old) brutally murdered in the Sverdlovsk Region, ltar-Tass in Russia on Saturday night, the 6th of January, the day on which Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas. He was the Church prior of St. Peter and St. Paul Church of Neivo-Shaitanksy [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: Vox Populi — Paul Ciniraj @ 1:14 pmJanuary 6, 2007
16 Tamil Civilian Christians Killed by Bombing in Sri Lanka
Illuppaikadavai (Sri Lanka), SVM News, 6 January, 2007: Sixteen innocent Tamil Civilian Christians including seven children under ten years killed and around 60 injured by aerial bombing that took place at Padahu Thurai near Illupaikadavai, in the un-cleared area of the District of Mannar in Sri Lanka on 2nd of January, 2007.
Four planes of Israeli [...]
January 3, 2007
Police Fired Gas Bombs During Church Service in Sudan
Khartoum (Sudan), SVM News, 4 January, 2007: All Saints Episcopal Cathedral Church in Khartoum in Sudan was fired tear gas by the police on Sunday, during new years evening mass. Many of the worshippers injured and six of them were hospitalised. Missionary of the Salem Voice Ministries reported to the SVM News Service.
Rev. Canon Sylvester [...]
Comments (1) Filed under: Vox Populi — Paul Ciniraj @ 9:18 pmJanuary 2, 2007
BIBLE AND PRAYER IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA
The U.S. Constitution was founded on Biblical principles, and it was the intention of the authors for this to be a Christian nation. There were 55 signers of the Declaration of Independence on the year 1775, of which 52 were orthodox, deeply committed evangelical Christians. The other three all believed in the Bible as the [...]
Comments (1) Filed under: Vox Populi — Paul Ciniraj @ 10:57 pmIndia: Hindu Militants Burned Church in Orissa
Koraput (Orissa in India), SVM News, 2 January, 2006: Christian Church was attacked and burnt by Hindu militants at a tiny village called Biriguda of Briguma Block of Koraput District in Orissa State in India on 23rd December, 2006.
Sangh Parivar activists set to fire on Biriguda Pentecostal Church on Saturday midnight to stop worshipping Jesus on Sunday and [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: Vox Populi — Paul Ciniraj @ 7:25 amDecember 31, 2006
Over a Million Muslim Converts to Christianity
Islam, SVM News, 1 January, 2007: Over a million Muslim converts to Christianity celebrated Christmas throughout the world. According the reports of the various missionary organisations and news medias.
The Salem Voice Ministries evangelising Muslims in India and many other Muslim nations. There are about 500 evangelists ministering among Muslims in different African, Middle East and [...]
Comments (8) Filed under: Vox Populi — Paul Ciniraj @ 11:40 pmDecember 29, 2006
All the Staff of a Church Killed in Iraq
Baghdad (Iraq), SVM News, 30 December, 2006: All the staff of the church of Revd. Canon Andrew PB White has been killed during the last year in Iraq. Persecution against Christians increased during the Iraq war and several Christians murdered and so many have fled Iraq. Few remain to keep the Christ candle lit but they live [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: Vox Populi — Paul Ciniraj @ 10:58 pmDecember 28, 2006
GCIC affiliated to UN
Bangalore (India), SVM News, 28 December, 2006: The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) has been included in the list of groups affiliated to the World Council of Independent Christian Churches (WCICC), which is an accredited NGO in consultative status in Category Two (Special Status) with the Economic and Social Council and the Department of [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: Vox Populi — Paul Ciniraj @ 12:17 amDecember 25, 2006
Pastor and believers attacked and arrested in India on Christmas
Dhamatari (Chattisgarh), SVM News, 25 December, 2006 (edited):
Pastor James Ram and another 10 members of the Church of God were arrested on charges of ‘illegal conversion’ by Chattisgarh Police on 24th of December at Dhamatari, which is about 40 miles from Raipur, the capital city of Chattisgarh State in India.
A group of the BJP and [...]
December 21, 2006
Jesus was born to die for us once; Have you born again to live with Him forever.
You call me Master and obey me not
You call me Light and see me not
You call me the way and walk on me not
You call me Life and desire me not
You call me fair and love me not
You call me rich and ask me not
You call m eternal and seek me not
You call me gracious and [...]
December 18, 2006
Catholic Arch Bishop, Priests and a Pentacostal Church attacked in India
Bangalore (India), SVM News, 18 December, 2006: The Roman Catholic Arch Bishop of Bangalore Rev. Bernard Blasius Moras was attacked along with the Diocese Secretary Father Anthony Swamy and Father Francis in front of the police on Monday, the 18th of December by the Hindu radicals of Sangh Parivar.
Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) [...]
December 15, 2006
Hanukkah and the Christian faith
The Jews remembered the purification of the Jerusalem Temple that was defiled by the Syrian King Antiochus Epiphanes in 169 B.C. The defiled Temple was purified and dedicated in 165 B.C by Judas Maccabeus. This event was celebrated every year thereafter. This is the popular festival of lights of the Jewish community called “Hanukkah”. It [...]
Comments (1) Filed under: Vox Populi — Paul Ciniraj @ 7:05 pmDecember 14, 2006
Converted Christians in Morocco Need Prayers
Converted Christians in Morocco Need Prayers
Rabat (Morocco), SVM News, 13 December 2006: More than thousand people converted into Christianity from Islam in Morocco. Salem Voice Ministries requesting prayers for the converted christians of Morocco to be protected from the persecutions and also to be growing in the Spirit.
Islam is the state religion in Morocco, a country of 30 [...]
Persecuting and Brutally Murdering Christians
Kottayam (India), SVM News, 14 December, 2006: An anti christian, claimed as a leader of an Islamic militant group threatened me by telephone with naughty words and gave me warning to count down the days of myself and my whole family. He was very angry and was shouting like anything.
“For to me to live is Christ, [...]
Comments (7) Filed under: Vox Populi — Paul Ciniraj @ 7:56 amNovember 30, 2006
Christmas New Year Greetings in 500 Languages for Free Use
Kottayam (SVM News): November 28, 2006: The Salem Voice Ministries published Christmas New Year Greetings in 500 languages in its website on November 25, 2006. It can be accessed at http://salemvoice.bravehost.com
The Christmas and New Year greetings has been compiled and published by Pastor Paul Ciniraj, the Director of the Salem Voice Ministries and the Chairman [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: Vox Populi — Paul Ciniraj @ 9:49 amNovember 21, 2006
Habel, Leader of At Anycost Jesus Mission Missing in Pakistan
Bajaur (Pakistan), (SVM News), November 21, 2006: The Co-ordinator of the At Anycost Jesus Mission in Pakistan, Pastor Habel, 30 years of old, has been missing since Friday, 17th of November, 2006. His wife Yemima Habel (25) informed by an email to Pastor Paul Ciniraj of the SVM News Service.
Both Yemima and Habel were involving [...]
November 20, 2006
Priest Missing in Baghdad; feared kidnapped
Baghdad (Iraq), (SVM News), November 20, 2006: A 34-year old Priest named Father Doglas Yousef Al Bazy is missing in Baghdad. He was last seen when he left home on Sunday morning. He is the Parish Priest of St. Elias Chaldean Church. Christians in Baghdad feared that he has been kidnapped.
The community and the [...]
Young Pastor Jailed in India for Praying over a Sick Woman
Rourkela (Orissa in India), (SVM News), November 20, 2006: Pastor Ashis Kumar Muna, 25 years old, was arrested on November 15 for praying over a sick woman at Jhirpani of Rourkela Steel City in Orissa. Police charged him with the forced conversion of Hindus to Christianity. He was denied bail by the court and is [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: Vox Populi — Paul Ciniraj @ 11:10 am
