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By Ken Walker
 Mosab Hassan Yousef
The son of a Hamas founder whose Christian conversion made international headlines released the complete story of his faith journey today in a memoir brimming with spy-novel-like drama.
Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef details a six-year-long conversion process that originated with a Bible study in Jerusalem and resulted in his departure from the Islamic terrorist organization. He was baptized in 2005 near Tel Aviv in a ceremony performed by a San Diego woman visiting the church that Yousef attended.
The 31-year-old says his faith has sustained him ever since, particularly since leaving his homeland in 2007. The pain of separation is better understood when one reads his account of the lifelong, close-knit ties forged by Palestinian families.
"Whenever I compare my pain to [Christ's], I forget my pain," said Yousef, who lives on the West Coast. "When I feel alone in this journey, I know that He feels with me because He went through much worse. Every step I get closer to the cross I learn more about His sacrifice and pain, which absolutely makes me forget about my pain."
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Despite budgets already stretched by relief work in Haiti, Christian aid groups are mobilizing teams in Chile, which was rocked Saturday by one of the strongest recorded earthquakes.
Samaritan's Purse and World Vision were among the first to have workers on the ground in Chile, where a magnitude 8.8 earthquake has left at least 723 people dead and thousands displaced.
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For the first time in 45 years, the nation's leading black Methodist denominations are uniting to address problems facing African-American males during a summit called the Great Gathering, which began Monday and runs through Wednesday.
With a combined membership of 5 million people, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME), African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion) and Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) denominations are meeting at the Carolina Coliseum in Columbia, S.C., to map out strategies to help improve the lives of black men, their families and communities.
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The head of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Zamfara state told Compass Direct News that he was disappointed in the lack of response by state police to recent church burnings by Muslim youths.
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By John Bevere
To be holy is to live like Jesus, to walk as He did on this earth, bearing the same fruit. Jesus made this clear: "You did not choose me; I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures" (John 15:16, TEV).
What enduring fruit is Jesus referring to? He revealed the answer to this during His Last Supper: "The truth is, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works..." (John 14:12, NLT).
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