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By Adrienne S. Gaines
The North Korea Freedom
Coalition has been leading
yearly protests in
Washington, D.C., since 2004.
Part of North Korea Freedom Week, which began with a prayer service on Sunday, the rally joined Christian and human rights groups, 30 North Korean defectors and politicians such as Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.
"North Korea is the worst human rights tragedy in the world today," said Suzanne Scholte, a charismatic Christian who chairs the North Korea Freedom Coalition, which is organizing Freedom Week. "While there are many tragic situations and terrible atrocities occurring in the world, the North Korean people are the most isolated, the most persecuted and the most suffering."
In February Open Doors, a Christian advocacy organization and a co-sponsor of Freedom Week, named North Korea the world's worst persecutor of Christians for the seventh consecutive year. And last month the U.S. State Department again designated the closed communist nation as one of eight "Countries of Particular Concern" for its severe religious freedom violations.
Although international concerns have centered largely on North Korea's nuclear arms capabilities, Scholte said dictator Kim Jong Il uses his nuclear program to distract the international community from his regime's human rights abuses.
"We believe that silence is death," Scholte told Charisma. "What we feel is we're at this turning point right now. We're either going to have the Obama administration take us on a course that will help and give hope to the North Korean people, or we're going to go back to the same pit that we've been in throughout the Clinton and Bush administrations where we let Kim Jong Il set the agenda and we just concentrate on the nuclear issue. Concentrating on the nuclear issue. That will lead to the deaths of millions more people."
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 Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson today announced plans to retire as president of Regent University during a meeting with the school's Board of Trustees. Robertson founded the Virginia Beach, Va., university in 1978 and will step down as president effective July 1, 2010.
Robertson, chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network and co-host of The 700 Club, will remain chancellor of the university and a member of its trustee board. He became the school's sixth president in 2000.
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By R. T. Kendall
We show God gratitude by not only telling Him, but we show gratitude also by living a holy life. Never forget that we are not saved by being holy; we are holy because we have been saved. But because we are still sinners, we easily forget and become careless.
Gratitude is demonstrated furthermore by our giving Him one-tenth of our income. Now tithing was made legal under the law. We, however, are not under the law but under grace. We are not required to tithe as a condition to salvation. But God promises to bless those who do.
We show our thanks to God for saving us by sharing our faith with others. What if our gratitude to God were summed up entirely by our witnessing to others? What gratitude to God would you have manifested until now?
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