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  [Book review] The Great Debate: A Nineteenth-Century Defense of Christianity by a Renowned Muslim Convert

  This academic contribution to the dialogue between Christians and Muslims draws on the South Asian ‘Great Debate’ of 1854 in Agra and later additions to the unfinished Debate by a South Asian convert to Christ – providing a fascinating historical study and a resource for contemporary Christian debate with Muslims.

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  Asian seminary journal calls for 'integrative approach' to forming whole-person Christian leaders

  A peer-reviewed journal published by the Asia Theological Association has released a volume focused entirely on how theological institutions across Asia are working to form students not just academically but spiritually, relationally, and personally — a challenge that leaders in the region say is growing more urgent.

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  Pakistan's only church-run chartered university challenges govt repossession of historic hostel

  Widespread criticism from Christian leaders, rights advocates, heritage conservationists, and alumni of Pakistan’s only church-run chartered university appears to have prompted the Punjab government to publicly rule out the demolition of a century-old university hostel at the center of a growing dispute over ownership, heritage preservation, and minority rights.

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  Asia evangelical leader outlines seven-point plan to build disciple-making church movement across continent

  As the Asia Conference on Church & Mission (ACCM) 2026 concluded Thursday evening in Alabang, Metro Manila, Dr. Bambang Budijanto, General Secretary of the Asia Evangelical Alliance, described what he sees as a decisive turn in a movement that has been building across the region for two years — and laid out a concrete, time-bound plan to sustain it.

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  'Start from within': Asia Conference on Church & Mission closes with call to transformation, beginning at the top

  The Asia Conference on Church & Mission concluded Thursday evening in Alabang, Metro Manila, with delegates from 25 nations pressed to leave not with good intentions but with a named commitment — a specific congregation or community they would personally shepherd toward disciple-making in the year ahead.

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  Family crisis in the church traced to a 'theological failure,' ACCM panel warns

  Closing out the Asia Conference on Church & Mission on Thursday, a panel of evangelical leaders warned that one of the most serious failures in the global church is hiding in plain sight: the systematic displacement of parents as the primary disciplers of their own children.

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  ACCM2026 panel calls for shift from church programs to disciple-making cultures at church, denominational and national Alliance levels

  On the third and final day of the Asia Conference on Church & Mission, three church leaders from across Asia called evangelical congregations and denominational networks to stop measuring ministry success by attendance figures and program activity, arguing that the global church's failure to prioritize discipleship has produced a generation of spiritually shallow Christians — and that only a deliberate, relational, and intergenerational approach to disciple-making can reverse it.

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