March 2010

March 29, 2010

India Statistics

300 Million go Hungry in India. India ranks 65th out of 88 countries. In Persecution Update India.

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March 29, 2010

Millennials: the next missionaries

This short post discusses Millennials and how they are different. I’m not sure what the age ranges are here. But it is a useful post. In Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog.

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March 29, 2010

TechStats: Global mobile data surpasses voice

Ericsson announced mobile data traffic surpassed voice traffic worldwide, amounting to more than 140,000 terabytes per month, generated by 400 million smartphones (vs. 4.6 billion mobile subscribers making voice calls). Mobile providers are worried about the capacity of their networks as smartphone usage grows. In ReadWriteWeb.

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March 29, 2010

Cheers for the wrong Jesus

Eddie Arthur reflects on how the crowds were cheering for “the wrong Jesus”: they expected a king to deliver them. When Jesus didn’t do what they thought he should, a week later they turned against him. “The real Jesus does not let us down, but we have to accept his agenda, not squeeze him into ours.” Read  The Wrong Jesus

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March 29, 2010

Australia growing 2x as fast as anyone else

The majority of Australia’s growth was due to overseas migration. To keep up with population growth, Australia needs to plant 451 new churches every year. Instead, apparently churches are closing. By Steve Addison.

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March 29, 2010

Mongolia: millions of livestock die in cold

Mongolia is experiencing its worst winter in years, killing off their livestock. The Red Cross is appealing for help. In BBC.

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March 29, 2010

Yemen divided over child brides

Hundreds of women were demonstrating in front of the Yemeni parliament: some in favor of child brides, and others against it. Take a look at a deep cultural divide. In IRIN.

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March 29, 2010

Somalia: prostitution + HIV + truckers

SOMALIA: High-risk truckers still unaware of HIV (IRIN).

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March 29, 2010

Somalia: new martyr

Somali Militants Kill Pastor, Crack Down on ‘Non-Muslim’ Culture. Militants track down an underground church leader and kill him. In Crosswalk.com.

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March 29, 2010

Will Libya Change?

Is Gaddafi’s son a modernizer – or just the front man in a performance? In TIME.

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March 29, 2010

Haiti: Tent City Economics

A nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince is now home to 50,000 people, and an economy that includes a makeshift movie theater and a lot of beauty salons. In NPR.

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March 26, 2010

China population’s to peak at 1.4 billion

China’s population is slowing. India’s population is growing three times as fast. China is likely to peak at just under 1.4 billion in 2026, and India will become the world’s most populous country. In Next Big Future.

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March 26, 2010

China: aid send to drought regions

Over 18 million and 11 million livestock have been impacted by drought in Yunnan, Guangxi, Sichuan and Chongqing. 1.4 million tons of emergency aid have been sent. In The Guardian.

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March 26, 2010

China: 25% of largest cities

Nearly 25% of the world’s 1,000 largest cities are in China. In 1980, China had 51 cities with populations greater than 500,000. Now it has 236, and by 2025 it is likely to be over 336 and be 59% urban. From the United Nations.

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March 26, 2010

Fear of philanthropy

Seth Godin writes an excellent post about the challenge of philanthropy: the question everyone who gives asks is, “how much is enough”? A very insightful article.

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March 26, 2010

Shutting down a structure of sin

Iceland is on the brink of achieving what many considered to be impossible: closing down its sex industry. How: a strong women’s movement and a high number of female politicians. In The Guardian.

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March 25, 2010

The trouble of being like the West

1 in 10 Chinese adults are diabetics, study finds: After working overtime to catch up to life in the West, China now faces a whole new problem: the world’s biggest diabetes epidemic.

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March 25, 2010

Lone crazy people vs leaders

Seen: “As we learned when studying the case of the dancing hippie, it’s the first follower that transforms a lone nut into a leader.” (ReadWriteWeb)

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March 24, 2010

An inexpensive solution for toilets

Sanitation is an issue impacting 2.6 billion people in the developing world. Here’s one innovation: the Peepoo (seriously), a disposable bag that can be used once as a toilet and then buried in the ground. Crystals in the bag kill off disease-causing pathogens and break down the waste into fertilizer for the ground.

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March 24, 2010

New Prayer Campaign: 24/7/6mo for Europe

Non-Stop Prayer for Europe – Starts Now! with a new website to assist it. HT: Andrew Jones.

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