21st century
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[edit] Immediate Past
- 2000 - Militants detonate two bombs in a Christian church in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, killing seven persons and injuring 70 others. Jonathan James, International Director of Asia Evangelistic Fellowship (AEF) announced the launch of the Asia College of Ministry (ACOM) the indigenous training school of AEF to train national missionaries in Asia.
- 2000 - As determined in its bylaws, the AD 2000 & Beyond Movement formally ceases operations on December 31, 2000.
- 2001 - New Tribes Missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham are kidnapped in the Philippines by Muslim terrorist group; Baptist missionary Roni Bowers and her infant daughter are killed when a Peruvian Air Force jet fires on their small float-plane. Though severely wounded in both legs, missionary pilot Kevin Donaldson landed the burning plane on the Amazon River; Six masked gunmen shoot up a church in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, killing 15 Pakistani Christians.
- 2001 - Turkey: After 20 years of work by the Bible Society, a new modern Turkish translation of the Bible was published.
- 2002 - Militants throw grenades into the Protestant International Church in Islamabad, Pakistan, during a church service. Five persons are killed and 46 are wounded
- 2003 - Publication of Back To Jerusalem Called to Complete the Great Commission - Three Chinese Church Leaders with Paul Hattaway brings Chinese and Korean mission movement to forefront
- 2004 - Four Southern Baptist missionaries are killed by gunman in Iraq
- 2006 - Abdul Rahman, an Afghan Christian convert, is forced out of Afghanistan by local Muslim leaders exiled to Italy. Missionary Vijay Kumar is publicly stoned by Hindu extremists for Christian preaching.
- 2007 - 18 April 2007 three Christian workers murdered in Malatya in Turkey.
[edit] Chronology of the Future
- 2020 - Global Warming scenario: Over 250 million people in Africa are exposed to water shortages; in some countries, food production cut by half (UN Report on Global Warming).
