Asia

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  The Chosen’s Elizabeth Tabish stars as refugee in film about persecution of Armenian Christians

  By Chris Eyte Asia US & Canada 1 month ago

  Elizabeth Tabish, known for her role as Mary Magdalene in The Chosen TV series, is starring in a faith drama based on real events telling the story of a persecuted Armenian refugee family fleeing to the U.S to seek asylum. Called “Between Borders”, produced by Pinnacle Peak and StoryLight Productions, and released through Fathom Events in theaters nationwide in the U.S. on Jan. 26, the story is set in the background of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the 1980s, which resulted in thousands of re

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  Church leaders in China face criminal charges, harassment

  By Edward Ross Asia

  1 month ago

  Authorities in China on Tuesday (Oct. 8) released on bail a church leader jailed since August 2023 for printing Bibles, while the Christian co-founder of a special children’s school has been arrested on charges of “inciting disturbances” for his human rights activism.

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  COALA 2.5: Global South mission leaders seek to deepen conversations about new polycentric missions paradigm

  By Timothy Goropevsek Asia

  1 month ago

  Following the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Incheon, one hundred mission leaders from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America gathered in Busan, Korea from September 30 to October 1 for COALA 2.5, an emerging movement focusing on Global South-led missions. Recognizing the shift away from the primarily Western-led “Christendom” era of missions, COALA – which stands for Christ over Africa, Latin America and Asia – seeks to introduce new paradigms for today’s “polycent

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  An warning of how nationalistic moral reform hinders the tranformative power of the gospel

  By Jesse Zexi Sun Asia

  1 month ago

  Christian media can too easily fall into the role of propaganda for a kind of moral reform that denies the transformative power of the whole gospel for a world in need of it. We must be Christ-centric rather than cross-centric followers of Jesus. It is beyond the cross in the new kingdom of God that we participate in the purposes of god.