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Out of the Public Eye

As many of you will know, our colleague Mary Gardner was recently killed by a bomb explosion in Jerusalem. The manner of her passing was so unusual that it attracted a lot of attention from the press; all of a sudden, Mary became famous. I’ve spent a good deal of time this week talking to […]

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Africa

Ivory Coast: the Pace Intensifies

It is very hard to keep up with the news from Ivory Coast, today. Things are moving very quickly and there is a lot of claim and counter-claim on twitter which makes it hard to sort out the wheat from the chaff. However, this article seems to sum up things fairly well. After waiting four […]

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Africa

War?

As the world turns its collective gaze on the increasingly complex situation in Libya, events in Ivory Coast continue to go from bad to worse. I’ve tried to chronicle some of the issues in the country, but to be honest, it is more or less impossible to really know what is going on. However, the […]

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Africa

MSF on the Situation in Ivory Coast

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Observations

The End of the World Is Nigh (or Is It?)

The Independent has this fascinating report: The end of the world is nigh; 21 May, to be precise. That’s the date when Harold Camping, a preacher from Oakland, California, is confidently predicting the Second Coming of the Lord. At about 6pm, he reckons 2 per cent of the world’s population will be immediately “raptured” to […]

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Computing/Internet

ScribeSub

The internet makes it very easy to publish articles online. However, it is very difficult to actually make money through online publishing, especially if you are not a famous writer. One solution to this is ScribeSub an extremely easy to use online publishing platform. All articles on ScribeSub can be read for a dollar, of […]

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Observations

A Strange Day

Yesterday was always going to be a tiring day. Months ago, I agreed to do a lecture on the King James Version and Missionary Translations of the Bible at Plymouth University. (If you are interested in the subject, you can listen to a very similar lecture on the same theme here.) However, in the meantime […]

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Observations

Mary Gardner

From the Guardian Mary Gardner who was killed in the Jerusalem bombing on Wednesday. She was studying Hebrew there for six months. Photograph: Wycliffe Bible TranslatorsMary Gardner, the British woman killed in the Jerusalem bus bombing, was an evangelical Christian who had been living in Togo, west Africa, translating the New Testament into the local […]

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Africa

Are Things About To Get Worse in Ivory Coast?

Global Voices have recently posted a chilling piece on the situation in Ivory Coast. Over the last weeked, the situation in Côte d’Ivoire has taken a turn for the worst. On Saturday March 19, leader of the Student Federation of Côte d’Ivoire (FESCI), Charles Blé Goudé, called on the pro-Gbagbo youth movement Jeunes patriotes (Young Patriots) to […]

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Bible & Mission Mission

Thinking Mission

Global Connections have just released details of the next Thinking Mission forum. It might be of interest to some Kouya Chronicle readers. Thinking Mission Forum – 25 May 2011 Thinking about mission and mission that thinks Topic Western Dominance in World Mission: Time for a Change? Date 25/05/2011 Start time 11:00 End time 16:00 Venue […]