Bread NEWS 17 - 'Armenia: crusade 'evil meetings' take place in spite of intimidation' & 'Nicaragua Holds Its Ground against Pressure to Legalize Abortion'

Report from Breaking Christian News:   According to a report from the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) proceedings, 11 countries called for the country of Nicaragua to legalize abortion. The Christian Telegraph reports, however, that delegate Carlos Robelo “flatly refused to bow under pressure” and his country remains one of the few left in the world that maintains a total ban on abortion. Robelo reportedly told the HRC that Nicaragua would continue to stay pro-life in its policies, and would not allow “therapeutic abortions.”  He stated that his nation’s current legislation “expresses the will of the country’s people.” ---------------------   Report from Eurovision:   "In the week before our evangelism in Armenia, our advertising campaign flooded the nation.  This caused a great commotion," said Eurovision director, David Hathaway.  "Seeing that people would be coming from every part of the country, pressure was put upon the government to overturn our legal contract with the stadium.  Armenia has the same anti-evangelical laws as Russia.  The director was afraid and cancelled the contract."  In the following days the directors of the three other stadiums in Yerevan, the capital city, after first agreeing, then also being intimidated, withdrew the contracts.  David continues, "Our organisers were also called in for interrogation.  Then the authorities mounted a great counter-campaign against our 'evil meetings' - on TV and in the newspapers - giving incredible national publicity to the challenge of the gospel!  As a result, the whole nation was shaken by the power of God.  And I still spoke to 4,000 people in Yerevan, before the crusade began!"