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If God, Why Suffering?

By Vince Vitale According to Christianity, what God values above all is relationship. But for relationship to be meaningful, it must be freely chosen; for relationship to be freely chosen, there must be the possibility of it being rejected;

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Reading the Psalms and Other Ancient Hebrew Poetry

Article By Trina Dofflemyer (RZIM) Losing a fortune in the Chicago fire of 1871 was just the beginning of Horatio Spafford’s agony. Two years later a transatlantic shipwreck claimed the lives of his four daughters. In his deep grief, he

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The Church That Prevails

08/04/2020 By The Rev. Canon Phil Ashey One of the most powerful scriptures that arrests me is Jesus’ proclamation about his Church: “When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say

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homes destroyed in Fulani attacks in southern kaduna

In Southern Kaduna, it is everything but…

The crises in southern Kaduna continue to deepen as more villages are devastated by Islamist Fulani Militias and hundreds are killed while rhetoric, intimidation and falsehood take centre stage rather than a concerted and coordinated effort to stop the

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Courageous Martyrs

As jihad continues in northern Nigeria (From Barnabas Aid July/August 2020) Under cover of darkness the extremists come, planning to kill, maim, pillage and destroy in northern Nigeria. They surround the village and shatter the silence of the night

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Nothing Without Love

Oft quoted at weddings, preeminent celebrations of romantic love, a poem is read extolling the virtue of love: Love is patient and kind Love is not jealous or boastful… Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,

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Chibok Schoolgirls Kidnapping: A Forgotten Tragedy?

By Abbie Brooks The story of the 276 kidnapped Chibok girls is one that was heard around the world. Just over six years after the event, violence in Borno State continues. For five years, a rebel insurgency in north

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The killings in Southern Kaduna

A pastor of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Shamah Kuyet Ishaya and 18 people were killed on 19th July 2020, about 7pm during a wedding reception at Kunkum Daji in Kaura LGA, and many injured were taking to

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The New War Against Nigeria’s Christians By The Fulani Herdsmen

– Wall Street Journal A slow-motion war is underway in Africa’s most populous country. It’s a massacre of Christians, massive in scale and horrific in brutality. And the world has hardly noticed. A Nigerian Pentecostal Christian, director of a

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Pastors under pressure in Northern Nigeria

Nigeria’s president plays down the jihad against Christians as an ethnic ‘clash.’ By Hassan John First published in the Wall Street Journal with the heading, “Boko Haram Put a Bounty on My Head” on Oct. 25, 2018 6:46 p.m. ET

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