http://www.assistnews.net The ASSIST NEWS SERVICE (ANS) provides a wide variety of national and international stories that goes to 2,600 media around the world. The news service is headed by veteran journalist Dan Wooding and has a string of experienced journalists and writers that include Michael Ireland, Mark Ellis, Jeremy Reynalds, Elizabeth Kendal, Rolland Baker, Bill Ellis, Maurice Rowlandson, Gordon Bailey, Herbert Eze, and many others. en-us http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09110111.htm For thirty years Bethlehem Bible College (BBC), an Evangelical interdenominational Bible college in the West Bank, has been a living testimony that God is alive among Palestinians and a witness to the blessings of God in this land. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09110110.htm Whittier Area Community Church (WACC), has been a fast growing church. With their church motto being “Following God+Loving People” they have been united for one purpose, reaching others to Christ by setting an example within themselves... http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09110109.htm A Chinese Christian human rights attorney and his wife have suffered physical abuse at the hands of Chinese officials. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09110108.htm Deep in the dense opium fields of the Golden Triangle, a young girl escaped marriage to notorious drug warlord Khun Sa, but instead found herself delivered as a bride to the son of his successor... http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09110107.htm When I was in elementary and high school, not many years ago, Thanksgiving was one of the most exciting times of the school year. It was dramatic in every way... http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09110106.htm A Catholic priest who has been active in the human rights movement and was sentenced to 8 years in prison and 5 years house arrest, has suffered a stroke and is in poor health, according to Jubilee Campaign USA... http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09110104.htm Albuquerque s Joy Junction Homeless Shelter will provide the following holiday feasts for the homeless. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09110103.htm As US President Obama visited China this week, Chinese church leaders hoped he would raise the issue of religious persecution with their government, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). However, the US is desperate for Chinese co-operation... http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09110099.htm The Bible intersects science in the critically acclaimed documentary, The Star of Bethlehem. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09110098.htm Two Christian converts from Islam, held in Iran s notorious Evin prison for more than six months, have been released. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09110102.htm ChinaAid is reporting at 10:13 AM (Beijing time), today (Wednesday, November 18, 2009,) nearly 200 nervous-looking Public Security officials seized two Chinese human rights lawyers outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing... http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09110097.htm Dina el-Gowhary, a 15-year-old Egyptian girl who converted from Islam to Christianity, has sent a plea to President Barack Obama, complaining of mistreatment by the Egyptian Government and asking for his mediation.