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Download free booklet to guide your prayers in run-up to Christmas

Our Advent prayer booklet, designed to aid your daily prayers for the persecuted Church from 1-26 December, is now available to download from our website.

Alternatively, you can order a paper copy by contacting our Coventry office on 024 7623 1923. We have decided not to mail copies to our supporters this year.

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Buy Christmas cards that support and promote Barnabas Fund

Christian-themed Christmas cards that have information on the back about Barnabas Fund are available from Just Cards Direct. These raise awareness about our work, and we receive ten per cent from all sales of the cards.

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Latest international news

Protestors in call for Islamic state ahead of elections

As thousands of protestors occupied Tahrir Square in Egypt this week, Islamist demonstrators called for an Islamic state in “a show of force” ahead of the country’s elections due to start on Monday.

A scene from Tahrir Square
on 18 November
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 / Muhammad Moneib

“Jesus Christ” among words banned from text messages in for being "false, fabricated, indecent or obscene"

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has banned “Jesus Christ” from use in text messages, among a list of terms deemed “false, fabricated, indecent or obscene”.

Iranian Christian couple attacked upon release from prison

An Iranian Christian couple who were imprisoned for eight months without charge have been forced to flee the country after being attacked upon their release.

Arash Kermanjani and his wife
Arezo Teymouri

Elderly church members beaten while defending historic church in China

Elderly members of a 125-year-old church in China were beaten to the ground when they tried to stop the destruction of the building.

Church members sit amidst the rubble after demolition work starts
Image source: www.chinaaid.org.

Violent gang attack on unregistered house church in Vietnam

Twelve Christians were seriously injured and the pastor threatened with death during a violent gang attack on an unregistered house church in Vietnam.

Hanoi, ,
where the house church raid took place
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 / Nir Sinay

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Barnabas weekly newsletter 24 November 2011

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