June 10, 2019: Christian school demolished, Archaeological discovery, Pentecost
Daily Radio Script - Monday, June 10, 2019
Here are the latest headlines, brought to you by The Christian Post.
— A Christian school in India was demolished.
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The school's founder and leader, Vijay Kumar Pusuru, told Christian persecution watchdog Morningstar News that Hindu radicals convinced to demolish the ministry's buildings on May 13. About a dozen children in the school's care, orphans and fatherless children, were also taken by the government.
India is the 10th worst country in the world when it comes to Christian persecution, according to Open Doors USA’s 2019 World Watch List.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-school-demolished-in-india-children-seized-report.html
— Archaeologists discovered a gate and high place to a city that existed the times of the Old Testament.
Professor Rami Arav of the University of Nebraska headed the excavation. In a Christian Post interview, Arav said the gate was “unique since it is the only city gate of a capital city preserved from the Southern Levant from the biblical period.”
The city was called Bethsaida in the Old Testament.
According to Chris Sinkinson, a lecturer at Moorlands College in England, “The discovery of this city will have significant implications for our understanding of the world of the Bible at that time.”
— A documentary about Recy Taylor is being used to highlight the issue of rape of black women.
Riverside Church in Manhattan screened the film Wednesday night, followed by a panel that talked about what churches can do.
Recy Taylor was an influential figure the Civil Rights Movement. A devout Christian and sharecropper, Taylor was gang raped by a group of white boys in 1944. Odyssey Impact is screening the film around the country and using Taylor's story to extend a national conversation about the history of rape for black women.
During the panel, Candace Simpson, associate minister at Concord Baptist Church, said, “I was so moved by what I would call Recy’s testimony. And I think that’s a fundamental part of the Christian tradition which is confessing and telling your story."
— Churches celebrated Pentecost Sunday.
Pentecost is the day Christians remember the coming of the Holy Spirit, as described in Acts 2.
The Christian Post interviewed Martin Mittelstadt, a professor of New Testament who also teaches Pentecostal history and theology at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri.
Pentecostal Christians emphasize Pentecost, he said, because "Jesus was not simply someone unique to work on our behalf but Jesus became for us the example of the consummate man of the Spirit. As Jesus is filled with the Spirit, He becomes the one to baptize in the Spirit and so the early church is able to do all that Jesus began to do and teach."
— Faith themes are big on Country radio.
The Christian Post pointed out 7 recent examples, including Matt Stell's "Prayed for You," Little Big Town's "The Daughters," and Brad Paisley's "My Miracle"
https://www.christianpost.com/news/7-country-music-hit-songs-put-faith-back-on-the-mainstream-charts.html?page=1
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