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From our International Director

Posted on 31 July 2011.

Genesis 22 is the story of the Lord testing Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son, Isaac. It speaks of a lesson that we easily forget.

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AM-CCSM News

Posted on 28 July 2011.

By the time you read this, our latest international mercy team will be in China. They are planning to work in two orphanages in central China, as well as visit the foster home we run in that area.

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The Bai People

Posted on 25 July 2011.

The Bai people group, one of 56 officially recognised minority groups in China, has a population of over two million people. For more than 2,000 years, the Bai have inhabited Dali in Yunnan province, and today between 80 and 90 percent of the Bai still live in the Dali Bai Prefecture.

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90 Years of the CCP

Posted on 22 July 2011.

Last month the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrated its 90th anniversary. Television stations showed the celebrations and plenty of "good TV dramas related to the founding of the Party" (BBC).

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Floods Follow Drought

Posted on 19 July 2011.

Floods brought on by torrential rain over central and southern China had left at least 170 people dead or missing by early July. Government officials described the floods as the worst since 1955 and raised the disaster alert to the highest level.

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Hearts Opening to the Lord

Posted on 16 July 2011.

‘X' is a young Chinese student who has spent some time in the USA. Now back in China, she is continuing her studies at a college in the north-west of the country.

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Treated Differently

Posted on 13 July 2011.

Earlier this year, 21 year-old student Yao Jiaxin was sentenced to death by a court in Xi'an, central China, for killing a waitress to cover up a hit and run incident.

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