Zprávy HCJB 25.6.2003

 AMERICKÝ PREZIDENT VYZÝVÁN K UKONČENÍ OTROKÁŘSTVÍ V SÚDÁNU.
   Religion Today - Výkonný ředitel Christian Solidarity International John Eibner vyzývá prezidenta George W. Bushe, aby pomohl učinit rok 2003 „rokem vymýcení otroctví v Súdánu.“ Po svém návratu ze Súdánu, kde zkoumal situaci, Eibner oznámil, že „nynějším zastavením palby vznikl prostor pro masový návrat otroků ze severního Súdánu do jejich domovů na jihu.“ V samotném Súdánu Eibner a jeho kolegové zjistili, že mnoho arabských majitelů otroků je nyní připraveno propustit tyto africké otroky bez finančního vyrovnání, že koridory pro cestu otroků zpět domů jsou nyní otevřeny a cesta bezpečná. Během 20leté občanské války bylo zavlečeno do otroctví asi 200 000 žen a dětí. Eibner vyzval Bushe, aby této příležitosti využil k podpoře úsilí súdánské společnosti osvobodit otroky. Řekl: „V Súdánu nebude skutečný mír dokud zde ženy a děti budou v otroctví.“

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 VŠECHNY ZPRÁVY V ANGLIČTINĚ.
   SOLOMON ISLANDS MISSION HOSPITAL OPEN AFTER ARREST OF SUSPECTS

Patients and staff members are returning to Atoifi Seventh-day Adventist Hospital in the Solomon Islands after the arrest of a second person suspected of murdering Australian Lance Gersbach, a dedicated missionary and church worker who was beheaded on May 18. The hospital, based on the island of Malaita, began discharging patients who were able to treat themselves as shaken staff members left for the capital, Honiara, while police waited for the suspect to surrender. The hospital reverted to clinic status June 15, treating only outpatients. When police arrested the suspect 48 hours after the clinic reopened, the hospital resumed a normal working schedule, treating all patients. "We're all relieved the tension has ended," says Dr. Arnold Raubenheimer, who remained with his wife, Yvonne, as a medical officer at Atoifi after the murder of Gersbach. The hospital expects more than half the staff members who left for Honiara to return within a week. Solomon Islands police have arrested two men, Silas Eddie Laefilamo and Mark Nasusu, in connection with the slaying. (Adventist News Network)

* Studios at HCJB World Radio's office in Australia are used to record programs in English as well as Oromo, a language spoken in Ethiopia. A shortwave radio facility in Kununurra in northwestern Australia reaches across the Asia/Pacific region, an area with more than 60 percent of the world's population.

OPERATION HOPE BRINGS MUCH NEEDED AID TO IRAQI HOSPITAL

Sitting in a Basra hospital, a desperate Iraqi father voices a cry from the heart. "I'm hopeless and frustrated because of the instability of this nation and no chance for work. I don't know what can be done for us. We need food and medicine for the children." In the same hospital is a woman keeping a promise to a former friend. She said, "This boy's mother died a year ago, and now I have to be his mother." Lost battles for life occur because distance from the hospital hinder timely treatment. An Iraqi doctor at the hospital is suffering with his patients. "I always have a broken heart. I always suffer like the mother of this patient. I'm crying without tears," he said. But there is a glimmer of hope. Ron Oates of Operation Blessing is bringing aid to the country. He says, "We are delivering, on behalf of Operation Blessing, a hundred cylinders of medical grade oxygen to the main general hospital in Basra, and we hope to refill those bottles on a regular basis." Dr. Mark Cockburn of Rescue Net International said, "We have a doorway wherein we can go and can literally, physically lay hands on these people and serve them, so then we can reach out to them in a spiritual way." (Christian Broadcasting Network)

BACK TO THE BIBLE HELPS RESTORE SRI LANKA CHURCH

Back To The Bible staff are helping a church congregation in Sri Lanka not only restore their building, but also their faith. According to Back To The Bible's James Kanaganayagam, in late May, a violent mob attacked believers and destroyed their church and homes. Many Christians fled to a neighboring village for help. As for returning home, "There's concern that they may not be able to get back to the villages unless they say that they're not going to propagate the gospel or spread the good news and therefore make converts. So there's a lot of pressure on the church leadership now. There's also social pressure on them by their neighbors and communities." Kanaganayagam says that prayer support plays a vital role for the Sri Lankan Christians. "The believers, who are now displaced, are also very discouraged. It's been a couple of weeks now since this event happened. They are questioning why this has happened to them." (Mission Network News)

U.S. PRESIDENT URGED TO HELP END SLAVERY IN SUDAN

Christian Solidarity International U.S. Executive Director John Eibner urged President George W. Bush to help make 2003 "the year of the eradication of Sudanese slavery". Following his return from a fact-finding visit to Sudan, Eibner reported, "the current cease-fire offers a window of opportunity for a mass exodus of slaves from northern Sudan to their homes in the south." While in Sudan, Eibner and his colleagues found that many Arab slave masters are now prepared to release black African slaves without compensation fees, and that land corridors for the return of slaves to southern Sudan are now open and secure. During Sudan's 20-year-old civil war, more than 200,000 women and children have been enslaved. Eibner encouraged Bush to use this window of opportunity to support Sudanese civil society's efforts to free the slaves. "There will be no true peace in Sudan as long as black African women and children are enslaved," he said. (Religion Today)

SGA LAUNCHES 'ORPHANS REBORN' OUTREACH IN RUSSIA

Evangelical churches in Russia are being allowed to reach out to children in orphanages. Michael Johnson of Slavic Gospel Association (SGA) says this type of ministry is desperately needed, because orphans in this country face a difficult future. "Statistics show that when these children are let out of these orphanages apart from hearing and responding to the gospel these kids will end up as drug addicts, alcoholics and prostitutes. They'll be recruited by the local Mafia, and many of them will in fact commit suicide." As a result, SGA has started "Orphans Reborn" in an effort to help fund this outreach opportunity. "We've equipped workers with things such as Bibles, Christian literature, discipleship materials and humanitarian aid," he said. "We go into these orphanages every week to do evangelism and disciple these children." (Mission Network News)

CHRISTIAN TV STATION MARKS 7TH YEAR IN NORTH AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST

It was on May 31st 1996 that the Arabic Christian television channel, SAT-7, in partnership with more than 30 leading agencies and churches, began broadcasting satellite television programming to the Middle East and North Africa. For some, it seemed that SAT-7 would not continue for long, having chosen the most difficult region in the world to broadcast to, but on May 31st of this year, they celebrated 7 years on the air. From the modest beginning of a two hours-per-week service in 1996, SAT-7 now broadcasts a total of 120 hours of programming every week for Arabic-speaking Christians in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. SAT-7 CEO Terry Ascott recalls, "Our first broadcast went out fine, but the next week we had to repeat it, because the new block of programming wasn't finished. In those days we had no available programs, very few staff, no studios, not even a camera!" Today SAT-7 is an established and professional operation with more than 100 staff worldwide. More than 50 percent of the programs are produced in SAT-7's own studios in Lebanon and Egypt. "It was a radical step then for Christians to use such satellite technology in the Arab World," said British-born Ascott. "Today this media is no less strategic a tool for sharing the Christian faith. And there is still no shortage of great programming ideas or new opportunities. The only difference now is that it is clear to all that this is a strategy that works, and it is therefore easier for people to get involved." (Assist News Service)

* HCJB World Radio reaches across North Africa, the Middle East and Europe with Christian Arabic programming aired via shortwave, satellite and local stations. The Radio Al Mahabba (Radio Love) Arabic satellite network airs programs direct-to-home 24 hours a day. This region has the world's highest concentration of personal satellite dishes.

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