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An Independent Clergy & Laity Partnership Initiative  Issue: No 2522   30-07-2016 ** Please add hq@thecsf.org to your address book to ensure future delivery. ** If the images below do not display correctly, please click here Ecumenical Evangelical Interdenominational Psalm 119:93   “I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.” HEADLINE In first balcony talk, Pope tells youth to ‘make chaos’ Poland, July 27, 2016: On his first night in Krakow Pope Francis was already stirring things up with participants in WYD by hosting an off-the-cuff Q and A and telling them to ‘make chaos’ by spreading the joy of their faith. “You must do your duty and make chaos all night. Show your Christian joy, ...     INDIA Extreme Hindu activists kidnapped Pastors in Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh, July 26, 2016: Extreme Hindu activists kidnapped pastor Rampal Kori ,38, Nand Lal ,49, a member of his church, on July 21 night from a house at Mauganj tehsil in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, where they were leading a prayer meeting According to Pastor Kori, their abductors tied them to a tree ...   MPs assure minority rights protection in Education policy Chennai, July 28, 2016: Parliamentarians who participated in a recent seminar in Chennai on the draft of the National Education Policy assured the Christian missionaries that they would ensure protection to the rights of the minorities. At the seminar organised by the Consortium of Christian Minority Higher Educational Institutions and Stella Maris College, Ernakulam MP ...   Orissa youth at WYD: In the name of our martyrs, we learn mercy Krakow, July 28, 2016: The martyrs of Orissa “spiritualy accompany not only us, but all the young Indian pilgrims. This is because their death has changed our faith, not in a deeper way but certainly making us more aware. Thanks to them and World Youth Day we learn mercy”, says John. He is 21 years ...     ASIA + Card Bo calls on leaders to allow all religions to advise the government Myanmar, July 28, 2016: Mgr Charles Maung Bo, archbishop of Yangon, has asked State Counsellor and Minister Aung San Suu Kyi that all religious communities, not only Buddhists, be allowed to work directly with the government, to advise and assist the national reunification process in interfaith harmony. So far the Myanmar government, including the former ...     WORLD New Spine-Snapping ISIS torture device uncovered: ‘The Flying Carpet’ Iraq, July 28, 2016: In its jails in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State terror group uses a new method of torture to extract confession from prisoners. “The Flying Carpet” is a hinged board, to which inmates are strapped and then bent in half, breaking their backbones, a dissident group has revealed. Terrorists from Islamic ...     MISCELLANEOUS Spiritual way of seeing things: Why we SHOUT when angry? “Do you know why we SHOUT when angry? A Hindu sage who arrived at the Ganges River to take bath found a group of family members shouting in anger at each other. He then turned to his disciples, and asked, “Why do people shout in anger at each other?” The disciples thought for a while.  ...   CARTOON