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South Asia Caravan Wins Awards
This year’s awards ceremony at the Baptist Communicators Association in Phoenix, AZ resulted in the IMB taking 20 awards, with the South Asia Caravan receiving two awards.
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Land of the Thunder Dragon Votes in Democracy
Among its people, the small Himalayan country of Bhutan is known as ‘the Land of the Thunder Dragon’, a fierce name for a country that fiercely values the preservation of its culture. Now, after a century of absolute monarchy, the Land of the Thunder Dragon has become the world’s newest democracy.
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Pakistan Votes for Change
On Monday, February 18, Pakistan held parliamentary elections for its National Assembly. While official results will not be released until March 1, unofficial results show big changes on the way for the government of Pakistan.
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INDIA--FIRST-PERSON (Johnny Kron*): Most of India’s Gadaria shepherds still have yet to hear good news of great joy.
The shepherds were the first ones to know; yet, this Christmas most of the shepherds in India still don’t know. India has more than 6 million Gadaria shepherds, yet the Gadarias do not yet know the Good News that the angels shared that first Christmas morning.
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Cyclone-ravaged Bangladesh villagers thankful for aid
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A Southern Baptist relief worker surveys the damage in a village devastated by Cyclone Sidr just a couple of weeks earlier. It was a poor community even before the 150-mph winds wrecked the houses and salt water killed their rice crop.
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SOUTH ASIA--FIRST-PERSON (Melissa Gardner*): Hosting a Christmas party in South Asia’s tropics is a learning experience
The Christmas party went very well. I learned a few things from this experience that I thought I would share with you. Here are some simple "Dos and Don'ts" that might help you in case you ever decide to host a Christmas party in South Asia...
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Journeyman partners with believers in South Asia to share Gospel
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Some in South Asia worry that becoming a Christian will mean being shut out of a culture where life and death are marked in a temple or mosque. Where will they have their wedding if they are no longer Hindu or Muslim? Who will mourn and bury them if they have lived as a Christian?
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TENNESSEE--Bangladesh relief efforts get initial funding.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Southern Baptists are working with Bangladesh Baptist leaders to identify areas of greatest need after a Nov. 15 cyclone killed more than 3,400 people in the Ganges River delta along the Bay of Bengal.
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Frank Page:
FIRST-PERSON (Frank Page): Burdened for a lost world
TAYLORS, S.C. (BP)--As I write this article, I will confess that my heart is full
and burdened. I recently have returned from meeting with our Southern Baptist mission
personnel in the South Asia region. more...>
Frank Page, in southern Asia, weeps for 1.4 billion lost souls
SOUTH ASIA (BP)--Loving the lost, as Christians should, begins with revival, Southern
Baptist Convention President Frank Page told a group of International Mission Board
missionaries in southern Asia. more...>
SBC president finds refreshment amid missionaries in Asia
SOUTH ASIA (BP)--Frank Page went to southern Asia to minister to others, but he
also was ministered to as International Mission Board missionaries extended their
love to him, prayed over him and laughed with him. more...>
Page predicts ‘bright future’ for IMB, voices challenges
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Southern Baptist workers in southern Asia are so committed to
spreading the Gospel that "they’d charge hell with a water pistol and not think
twice," SBC President Frank Page said at the International Mission Board’s home
office in Richmond, Va. more...>