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General Assembly Update
The General Assembly 2008 Website is now open!  Join the DAY ONE prayer campaign to pray the National Alliances around the world.  Even if you are unable to attend the meetings, we urge you to lend your support in prayer for the program of the upcoming Assembly and the countries that will be represented there at this event.  Members are encouraged to take advantage of the Early Bird Discount. 

WEA on YouTube Video
View video messages from Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe, International Director at: http://www.youtube.com/worldevangelicals

World Evangelical Alliance Goodwill Ambassador Visits Pakistan
WEA Goodwill Ambassador Rev. Johan Candelin, Finland, is back after a one week fact finding trip to Pakistan. His delegation included Mrs. Eija-Riitta Korhola, Finland, European Parliament, Mr. James Reimer, Canada, Global Investment expert and Mr. Tim Dean, UK, World Media Trust.  The delegation visited Pakistan representing the First Step Forum. The program was planned by Mrs.  Benazir Bhutto.

WEA and Advocates International Collaborate to Promote Religious Freedom and Human Rights
World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) welcomed the Advocates International (AI) as its newest Global Partner, adding strength to the alliance’s efforts in promoting religious freedom and human rights. “We are delighted that Advocates International has become a WEA Global Partner,” said Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe, the International Director of the WEA. “With a network of tens of thousands of Christian lawyers around the world, the work of promoting religious liberty and human rights will be greatly strengthened as AI is linked more strategically with WEA.”

World Evangelical Alliance Partners with WETIA
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) welcomed the World Evangelical Theological Institute Association (WETIA) into its growing network of Global Partners.  “We are very happy to welcome WETIA to the WEA family,” said the WEA International Director Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe. “In this era of digital communications and e-learning we believe that WETIA will be able to provide significant help to the WEA community.”

African Evangelical Leaders Call for More Efforts to Achieve Millennium Development Goals
Evangelical leaders from across the world have joined a meeting with the United Nations (UN) General Secretary Ban Ki-moon at a historic Global Leaders Dinner in Arlington, Virginia, on the evening of October 11.  The meeting was convened to educate and inform evangelical policy leaders about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and to emphasize the huge potential contribution they could make in the fight against poverty.

Christian Leaders Gather for 'Historic' Meeting with UN Head
Key Christian leaders came together in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, October 11, for a historic gathering attended by the Secretary General of the United Nations (U.N.) Ban Ki-moon. Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe, International Director of World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), was among a host of evangelical leaders who joined the Global Leaders Forum with Mr. Ban.

Religious Liberty:
International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP)
World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has the great pleasure to invite YOU and Christians around the globe to take part in the world's largest prayer group. Christians in more than 100 nations will pray with and for the persecuted church on November 11 and / or 18, 2007.  IDOP (International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church) brings Christians together for prayer. Brothers and sisters from Iceland in the north to Chile in the south, and Mongolia in the east to US in the west
will be united in prayer in the name of Jesus. The global IDOP website www.idop.org will provide you with fresh news,
trends, prayer topics, ideas and contacts to organizations that help the persecuted church.

Southern Sudan: On the path to war.
On 31 December 2004, Sudan's ruling National Congress Party ((NCP) formerly the National Islamic Front (NIF)) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) signed a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), bringing to an end 21
years of civil war and Islamic jihad.  ……" 'We're on a path back toward war,' said David Mozersky, the Horn of Africa
project director for International Crisis Group (ICG), which researches conflicts around the world. 'We're seeing a military build-up on both sides,' he said, '(and) the partnership between the two sides has broken down.' "

Muslims: Ramadan Night of Power
Christians are persecuted to greater or lesser degrees in all Islamic and Muslim majority states and regions. This arises from the Quran promoting Muslim superiority and supremacy, while decrying  Jews and Christians as corrupted peoples who are not to be befriended or trusted. Unifying and rallying his followers, Mohammed protected his power and his Islam by making apostasy and blasphemy capital offences and by demonising non-Muslims. These factors lead to the persecution of Christians and are the main reasons why evangelising Muslims has historically been so difficult.

Northern Nigeria: Persecution Intensifies; plus Gaza
Historically liberation from Sharia has only ever been gained through costly war so Nigeria's central government erred tragically in 2000 when it did not nip the northern Sharia movement in the bud and ban Sharia as being unconstitutional. Whilst Christians have always been persecuted in Nigeria's Muslim-dominated northern states, persecution has intensified since Sharia was enacted.  Sharia not only institutionalises religious discrimination and persecution, it provokes Islamic zeal and intolerance and the Muslim sense of superiority soars. The whole environment becomes incendiary.

Iraq: War, Terror and Western Complicity
In February 2007 Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi, al-Qaeda's appointed head of the 'Islamic State of Iraq', released an audio recording in which he threatened coalition forces ('Crusaders') and local Eastern Christians ('Byzantines'). He railed, 'We are not afraid of your coalitions . . . We have drunk blood [in the past] and we find no [blood] sweeter than that of the Byzantines [Christians] . . . Roast their flesh with car bombs, cut off their supply lines with [explosive] charges and tear out their hearts with sniper fire . .  . be careful not to lay down your weapons before the war is over . . .

Theological: 
The Philadelphia Statement, August 2007 >> Francais: Une Déclaration sur l'Engagement Social Évangélique

Asia:
Burma - Statement issued by the Evangelical Fellowship of Asia
It is with deep anguish and shock that we learn of the violent attack on Buddhist monks and civilians who were engaged in a peaceful protest in Burma during the past week.  We are appalled by the violent repression of unarmed protestors by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and the subsequent raids on Buddhist temples, rounding up Buddhist monks and activists. >>Help the Oppressed People of Myanmar (Burma): ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE RIGHT NOW!

Canada:
What’s different about Christian Boradcasting in Canada?
The EFC’s general legal counsel, Don Hutchinson, comments on the different, and discriminatory, standards required of Christian broadcasters in Canada in comparison to all other broadcasters. Read about it in this week’s weblog.

Caribbean: CONECAR Opens

Europe:
European Evangelical Assembly prays for martyred Christians in Turkey
Europe’s Evangelicals challenged to be Good News people
Christians have nothing to fear from Islam, says Europe Evangelical leader - by Maria Mackay, Christian Today UK
European Evangelical Alliance Brussels Representative, Tove Videbaek returns to Danish Politics ....

India:
Evangelical Fellowship of India Newsletter, October 2007
New India Bible Church Pastor and Wife Attacked
Attack On Marthoma Church, Amlai, Madhya Pradesh

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