World Mission and Persecution Watch

Surprise conversions in Japan

A large turnout at Franklin Graham’s first evangelistic festival in Japan astonished local pastors who had invited the evangelist.

The three-day event drew over 30,000 people to the Chatan Sports Complex in Okinawa, with about 2,000 responding to the invitation to put their faith in Christ.

This comes despite hundreds of Japanese Christians, including high-profile pastors, opposing the evangelistic event on account of Graham’s support for the war in Iraq.

Jihadist says sorry

A Muslim militant charged with beheading three local Christian schoolgirls in Poso, Indonesia, admitted last month to his involvement in the 2005 revenge attack and said he was deeply sorry.

The suspect, the son-in-law of Poso Muslim leader Adnan Arsal, admitted his actions were wrong.

Student groups banned

Student Christian unions are preparing to take legal action against politically correct university authorities across Britain after being denied the usual privileges offered to student bodies.

In one example - Heriot-Watt in Scotland - the Christian Union has been told it has been officially excluded because its core beliefs discriminate against those of other faiths.

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