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Questions surround India’s ability to handle COVID-19 crisis
India (MNN) India
set record highs for new COVID-19 cases, and the world is responding to its call for help. Planes carrying
Meanwhile, new infections passed 20 million
yesterday, nearly doubling the pace set in March. Furthermore, “a lot of people aren’t getting to the [test sites],” John Pudaite of
Hospitals are
Prime Minister Modi (Photo courtesy of Speaker John Boehner via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/pciUVL)
“In the early days… one of his (Prime Minister Modi’s) ways to address the [pandemic] was to have everyone go outside at a certain time of the evening, bang on pots and pans and chant, ‘go corona; corona, go,’” Pudaite says.
BFTW hands out bibles during Persian New Year
Turkey (MNN) This year,
During the
Persian New Year celebration in March, many Iranians celebrate in Turkey, away from their own government. Businesses in Turkey, shuttered by the pandemic, eagerly welcomed Iranian revelers.
John Pudaite says, “This is usually a time of celebration, of feasting, drinking, shopping, open-air concerts, and other gatherings and cultural festivities. We saw this opportunity to reach out to Iranians.”
Iran has one of the fastest-growing churches in the world. In this festival, Bibles For The World saw an opportunity to hand out Bibles to Iranians as they celebrated. Pudaite says, “Most of our team were Iranian Christian refugees coming out of the camps. They were so eager to reach out to their fellow Iranians with the good news of Jesus Christ. Either they became believers while they were in Iran and realized they needed to get out from under that repressive regime, or they had met the Lord afte
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