Mission
In developing countries around the world, a common sight is that of women and children carrying water buckets and walking for miles to get water from the closest water well. Such is also the case in Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country in which the United Nations said the water conditions are the third worst in the world as of 2012.READ MORE
US
Marking the day that the first group of 102 Korean immigrants arrived in the U.S. at Hawaii, January 13 was officially recognized by the California State Assembly as Korean American Day, as Assembly Concurrent Resolution 3 (ACR3) was unanimously passed at the Assembly Floor today.READ MORE
World
21 Christians have been kidnapped and are being held hostage by militants who identified themselves as being part of the Islamic State on Monday. The militants, who said they are part of the “Tripolitania Province” of the Islamic State, released the announcement via SITE Intelligence Group, which has previously released the Islamic State’s videos and statements.READ MORE
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Kelvin Cochran, the former fire chief of Atlanta, was fired Tuesday of last week (Jan. 6) after his book, “Who Told You that You Were Naked?” was published and distributed to other employees in the fire department. In the book, he expresses his Christian beliefs, which include his stance that homosexuality is a sin. Initially, Cochran was placed on an unpaid suspension for a month, but was terminated at the end of that suspension period.READ MORE
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The White House uploaded a video on Facebook Thursday evening, in which President Obama announced that he proposes to offer a free community college education for two years for those who are “willing to work for it,” and expressed hopeful expectations that Congress would be supportive of the proposal.READ MORE
World
Global persecution of Christians was the most severe in 2014, according to a study released by Open Doors USA on Wednesday. Open Doors releases an annual World Watch list, which lists 50 countries in which Christian persecution has been most severe for that year.READ MORE
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An overwhelming majority of the 114th Congress, which is preparing to be sworn in on Tuesday, is Christian, according to a study released by the Pew Research Center on Monday. 92 percent of Congress identify themselves as Christian, 57 percent of which identify as Protestant. 31 percent said they are Catholic.READ MORE
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After one of YWAM's ships were capsized on Saturday morning, Aaron Bremner, a 24-year-old who was among those on the vessel, has been missing since. The ship was flipped over twice as it encountered rough waves a few miles from shore at Kailua Bay. Four other crew members that Bremner was on board with made it to shore safely on a portable raft, according to Phil Cunningham, the Communications Director for YWAM Ships.READ MORE
Church
Cornerstone Church, located in Harbor City, CA, is atypical as a Korean immigrant church, in that it doesn’t have a separate Korean ministry (KM) and English ministry (EM). Instead, worship is organized according to age group, and the sermon is preached in the more dominant language for each age group while translation is made available for everyone else.READ MORE
Society
Candidates hoping to fill positions in the Los Angeles City Council have been busily campaigning for the March 3 primary elections, including David Ryu, who is running for the position in District 4. Ryu said that “Phase 1” of his campaign is to encourage the community to register to vote.READ MORE
Ministries
The widely known Passion movement kicked off the year with its first of a series of three conferences for 2015, which took place on January 2-4 in Atlanta, during which more than 20,000 college students and young adults gathered.READ MORE
World
While the location of and circumstances surrounding the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 remains a mystery, three of the passengers on the plane were identified as a Korean missionary family. Seong-beom Park, Kyung-Hwa Lee, and their 11-month-old daughter Yuna Park, were on their way to Singapore to figure out visa issues to be able to stay in Indonesia long-term as missionaries.READ MORE
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Thousands of people gathered at Christ Tabernacle on Friday to mourn the death of Officer Rafael Ramos, one of two officers who were killed on December 20. Ramos and Officer Wenjian Liu were shot and killed in Brooklyn by a lone shooter who proclaimed on social media that he was acting in response to the recent incidents involving Michael Brown and Eric Garner.READ MORE
Mission
Over a thousand youth, college students, and young adults gathered in San Diego, CA for Korea Campus Crusade’s annual “Higher Calling” Conference. The four-day conference began on Sunday evening with a concert featuring Phil Wickham, and the evening ended with the first plenary session, during which Pastor Jim-Bob Park, the senior pastor of Oriental Mission Church (OMC), preached.READ MORE
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The coming of the new year also brings good news for undocumented residents in California: all California residents will soon be able to acquire legal driver’s licenses, regardless of immigration status, beginning January 2, 2015. Assembly Bill 60 (AB 60), also known as the Safe and Responsible Drivers Act, was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in 2013, and will start being implemented next year, allowing over 400,000 undocumented Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) residents, and an estimated total of 1.4 million undocumented residents, in the state of California to apply and test for legal, non-commercial driver’s licenses. READ MORE
The Sunday Assembly, also known as the “Atheist Church”, based in the United Kingdom is scheduled to have its first global assembly. The “church” is also known to have a branch and ...
World May 06, 2014 02:34 AM EDTThe leaders of the DPRK have been making very strong statements regarding human rights. A representative from the North Korean government has stated in a speech that the U.S. is a ‘living ...
World May 08, 2014 03:08 AM EDT
