Muslims protest against church construction in Indonesia
Muslims on June 11 protested a second time against plans for a church building in Central Java, Indonesia, sources said.
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Abiding in Christ is a key requirement for God's mission
"Abide in me... that you bear much fruit, so showing yourselves to be my disciples". Such fruit is not the output of human effort, it is the result of the Holy Spirit's transformative work in our lives. So why to we invest such energy into achieving material outcomes?
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World Christianity insists we listen to majority world theology
In a lecture series at China Evangelical Seminary back in April, Alexander Chow, Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity at New College, University of Edinburgh, established the need for Christians worldwide to listen to theologians from the Majority World. The future of the Global Church depends on us having ears to hear.
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Practicing your faith when your culture no longer tolerates it
The anti-Christian realities in India provide ample evidence that a culture can quickly turn against freedom of religion. Sadly, in India, some Christian leaders claim that if there is one place you can go to remain unaware of what is happening, it is in established churches on a Sunday morning! Thankfully the Holy Spirit is not so constrained and Christians continue to multiply in the midst of heightening persecution.
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Four million Christians are facing death and persecution in Myanmar
In Myanmar, the Church is often the strongest surviving institution in an isolated community, destroying it weakens not only worship but the community’s capacity to resist the oppressive control of Myanmar's military junta. Christians are often thought of as collateral damage in Myanmar’s civil war, but they are also being targeted.
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Asian seminary journal calls for 'integrative approach' to forming whole-person Christian leaders
By CDI StaffA peer-reviewed journal published by the Asia Theological Association has released a volume focused entirely on how theological institutions across Asia are working to form students not just academically but spiritually, relationally, and personally — a challenge that leaders in the region say is growing more urgent.
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Pakistan's only church-run chartered university challenges govt repossession of historic hostel
By A. S. JohnWidespread criticism from Christian leaders, rights advocates, heritage conservationists, and alumni of Pakistan’s only church-run chartered university appears to have prompted the Punjab government to publicly rule out the demolition of a century-old university hostel at the center of a growing dispute over ownership, heritage preservation, and minority rights.
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Asia evangelical leader outlines seven-point plan to build disciple-making church movement across continent
By CDI StaffAs the Asia Conference on Church & Mission (ACCM) 2026 concluded Thursday evening in Alabang, Metro Manila, Dr. Bambang Budijanto, General Secretary of the Asia Evangelical Alliance, described what he sees as a decisive turn in a movement that has been building across the region for two years — and laid out a concrete, time-bound plan to sustain it.
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'Start from within': Asia Conference on Church & Mission closes with call to transformation, beginning at the top
By CDI StaffThe Asia Conference on Church & Mission concluded Thursday evening in Alabang, Metro Manila, with delegates from 25 nations pressed to leave not with good intentions but with a named commitment — a specific congregation or community they would personally shepherd toward disciple-making in the year ahead.
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Family crisis in the church traced to a 'theological failure,' ACCM panel warns
By CDI StaffClosing out the Asia Conference on Church & Mission on Thursday, a panel of evangelical leaders warned that one of the most serious failures in the global church is hiding in plain sight: the systematic displacement of parents as the primary disciplers of their own children.
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ACCM2026 panel calls for shift from church programs to disciple-making cultures at church, denominational and national Alliance levels
By CDI StaffOn the third and final day of the Asia Conference on Church & Mission, three church leaders from across Asia called evangelical congregations and denominational networks to stop measuring ministry success by attendance figures and program activity, arguing that the global church's failure to prioritize discipleship has produced a generation of spiritually shallow Christians — and that only a deliberate, relational, and intergenerational approach to disciple-making can reverse it.
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Museum of the Bible to host 'Dawn of Christianity' exhibit on Jordan's biblical heritage
The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., signed an Aug. 1 agreement with Jordan's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities to host "Jordan: Dawn of Christianity," an international exhibit tracing key biblical sites in modern-day Jordan.
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