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(Worthy News) – Sri Lankan Christians fear more attacks are coming as the nation is still in mourning over the horrific bombings on Easter Sunday.

At least 253 people were killed and hundreds more were wounded. Thursday the number was decreased from 350 to 253, officials explaining that they initially thought many people had been killed due to unidentifiable body parts.

In two major cities in Sri Lanka it’s very quiet as residents and office workers are staying indoors and shops are closed. There’s concern that more attacks are on the way with the US embassy warning that terrorists could target places of worship again this weekend. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – More than fifty percent of Protestant church attendees have admitted to not engaging in evangelism in the past half a year, according to a recently released report by LifeWay Research.

When asked how many times they shared with somehow “how to become a Christian,” 55 percent of respondents answered zero.

24 percent of respondents said that they had shared how to become a Christian to someone 1-2 times, 12 percent responded 3-5 times, 5 percent said 6-10 times, 1 percent said 11-15 times, and 3 percent reported 16 times or more. [ Source: Christian Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Four Christians have been arrested in Nepal, including a United States citizen, months after a controversial law criminalizing religious conversion went into effect in the Asian nation.

On Tuesday morning, police in the city of Ghorahi arrested a Christian society leader, an Indian national, a citizen of Colorado and a Nepali interpreter at their hotel for their alleged involvement in religious conversion by “allurement,” according to the NGO Christian Solidarity Worldwide.

The four of them had attended a one-day pastors’ conference that took place Monday in a local church. [ Source: Christian Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – A major archaeological discovery in Israel raised the question of how to preserve the past without stopping progress towards the future when a modern highway and an ancient town came to a crossroads.

“No one expected it, including the Israel Antiquities Authority,” said Yehuda Govrin, who headed the salvage excavation at Beit Shemesh.

What they found was the biblical town of Beit Shemesh from the time of Isaiah and Hezekiah. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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