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| Evangelical Fellowship of Egypt: Evangelicals Mourn Lives Lost on Egyptian Ferry Accident
"All our churches prayed for the victims and their families," said Fouad Youssef, Director of the Evangelical Fellowship of Egypt, who noted that by Feb. 8, about 600 people were missing and 408 bodies were found. "Christians are called to donate assistance to the victims' families," he continued. "Official letters of condolences were sent to Egyptian officials and President Mobarak." |
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European Evangelical Alliance: Publication of Danish Cartoons
As a group of people with deep faith convictions, the European Evangelical Alliance understands the upset among our Muslim friends and co-citizens about something that they perceive to be deeply insulting to their faith. At the same time, as Europeans, we also understand that our largely secularised societies find this upset incomprehensible. The satirising or criticism of faith is common in European media. Other faith communities (particularly Christians), while often being upset, have got used to these comments. |
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Evangelical Association of the Caribbean: Update – by Gerry Seale, General Secretary
January has been an exciting start 2006 in the Caribbean. During the first week Rev. Gerry Seale, EAC’s General Secretary and CEO, spent three very intensive days with 50 pastors and leaders of the Church of the Nazarene on the campus of the Caribbean Nazarene College in Santa Cruz, Trinidad. |
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Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe: Church Group Launches AIDS Policy in Zimbabwe
The Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) Tuesday launched an AIDS policy aimed at harmonizing and sharing best practices in a bid to halt the devastating effects of the pandemic.
EFZ chairman of the HIV/AIDS commission, David Chiweza, said at the launch that the policy gives life support to orphans, widows and vulnerable women and children. |
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Australian Evangelical Alliance: Multiculturalism and the Gospel (and some other issues)
The community tensions exposed by the Cronulla experience remain even though the worst of the disturbances have ceased. Although newspaper headlines are no longer full of descriptions of riots the issues that have come to the fore are not dealt with quickly or easily. |
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| WEA News |
International Director Visits Egypt and Israel
At the invitation of Christian
leaders in Egypt and Israel, Geoff Tunnicliffe,
International Director for World Evangelical Alliance
spent time interacting with Christian leaders in
these countries to learn about the current realities
for the church and finding how WEA could best serve
its member alliances and the Christian Community. |
| Transcript: Statement at WCC General Assembly – Geoff Tunnicliffe
The World Evangelical Alliance deeply appreciates the offer from the World Council of Churches to observe the proceedings at the 9th General Assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil. As a parallel network representing almost 400 million evangelical Christians around the world, our community identifies with many of the themes raised at this assembly. |
| Evangelicals Identify With Many Ecumenical Concerns - Statement by WEA¹s International Director on WCC General Assembly
As the General Assembly of the World Council of Churches draws to a close in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the International Director of the World Evangelical Alliance, Geoff Tunnicliffe, has issued the following statement. He took part in the ecumenical gathering February 14 - 23 as an observer. |
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