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DO ČÍNY PŘIJDE NA MILION KUSŮ LITERATURY PRO DĚTI |
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Open Doors, mezinárodní organizace pro pronásledovanou církev, odsouhlasila pro letošní rok poslat 1 milion kusů dětské literatury do Číny, včetně 81,500 ilustrovaných dětských Biblí, materiály pro nedělní školy a zpěvníky. To je součást plánu, podle kterého bude více než 3 miliony Biblí a ostatních křesťanských materiálů poskytnuto pronásledovaným věřícím v Číně. Množství učitelů nedělních škol a distributorů velmi riskuje, když učí děti o Ježíši a poskytuje tyto materiály. V mnoha částech Číny nemají mladí lidé přístup k učení jakéhokoli druhu náboženství a ve škole se učí, že Bůh neexistuje a víra v Ježíše je „protivlastenecká“. Každý, kdo je přistižen, že vyučuje křesťanství mládež do 18 let, může být pokutován, bit, uvězněn, mučen a vyslýchán. Děti křesťanů jsou zesměšňovány, diskriminovány a kvůli své víře čelí i násilí ve školách. I přes tyto obtíže se nedělní školy po celé zemi rozmáhají. „Jeden učitel nedělní školy v Číně mi vyprávěl příběh o studentovi, kterému vyhrožovali, že ho vyloučí ze školy, protože navštěvuje nedělní školu,“ říká prezident Open Doors USA Carl Moeller. „On pak řekl svému učiteli se slzami v očích, že by si zvolil Ježíše, protože by raději chodil do nedělní školy a dozvěděl se více o Ježíši, než do školy s běžnými předměty. To něco znamená, protože v Číně je vzdělání to nejdůležitější. Nedělní školy ovlivňují nejen děti, ale celou čínskou společnost. Proto je tak důležité poskytnout jim dětské Bible a ostatní materiály.“ (Open Doors)
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DO ČÍNY PŘIJDE NA MILION KUSŮ LITERATURY PRO DĚTI |
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Open Doors, mezinárodní organizace pro pronásledovanou církev, odsouhlasila pro letošní rok poslat 1 milion kusů dětské literatury do Číny, včetně 81,500 ilustrovaných dětských Biblí, materiály pro nedělní školy a zpěvníky. To je součást plánu, podle kterého bude více než 3 miliony Biblí a ostatních křesťanských materiálů poskytnuto pronásledovaným věřícím v Číně. Množství učitelů nedělních škol a distributorů velmi riskuje, když učí děti o Ježíši a poskytuje tyto materiály. V mnoha částech Číny nemají mladí lidé přístup k učení jakéhokoli druhu náboženství a ve škole se učí, že Bůh neexistuje a víra v Ježíše je „protivlastenecká“. Každý, kdo je přistižen, že vyučuje křesťanství mládež do 18 let, může být pokutován, bit, uvězněn, mučen a vyslýchán. Děti křesťanů jsou zesměšňovány, diskriminovány a kvůli své víře čelí i násilí ve školách. I přes tyto obtíže se nedělní školy po celé zemi rozmáhají. „Jeden učitel nedělní školy v Číně mi vyprávěl příběh o studentovi, kterému vyhrožovali, že ho vyloučí ze školy, protože navštěvuje nedělní školu,“ říká prezident Open Doors USA Carl Moeller. „On pak řekl svému učiteli se slzami v očích, že by si zvolil Ježíše, protože by raději chodil do nedělní školy a dozvěděl se více o Ježíši, než do školy s běžnými předměty. To něco znamená, protože v Číně je vzdělání to nejdůležitější. Nedělní školy ovlivňují nejen děti, ale celou čínskou společnost. Proto je tak důležité poskytnout jim dětské Bible a ostatní materiály.“ (Open Doors)
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VŠECHNY ZPRÁVY V ANGLIČTINĚ |
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SUSPECT ARRESTED IN SLAYING OF MISSIONARIES, STUDENT IN UGANDA
Police have arrested a suspect in the recent killing of two American
missionaries and a Ugandan student in the East African nation's northwestern
region. Amin Aruma was detained Saturday, March 20, about 10 miles from a
Christian agricultural training center where Warren Pett, his wife, Donna,
and the student were killed two nights earlier. The Petts, dairy farmers
from Mukwonago, Wis., were shot when seven armed men wearing military
uniforms raided the college near Yumbe, 310 miles northwest of Kampala,
where the couple taught. There has been no clear motive for the slaying of
the missionaries who were both 49. About 90 percent of the area population
is Muslim, and some were upset by the setting up of Christian schools in the
region, police said. The Yumbe district is a remote area near Uganda's
border with Sudan. About 10 percent of Uganda's 24 million people are
Muslims. Affiliated with Africa Inland Mission, the Petts had been in the
African nation for more than a year and were teaching at the Esther
Evangelical School of Technology, 15 miles east of Yumbe. (Religion
Today/Charisma News Service)
* HCJB World Radio, together with the Evangelical Churches of Kampala and
FEBA Radio, broadcasts the gospel locally in Uganda on two FM transmitters.
HCJB World Radio also worked with Jesus Focus Ministries to put a 500-watt
FM station on the air in Masaka. Programs air in English and Luganda.
ZANZIBAR OFFICIALS, CHURCHES CONCERNED WITH RISING MUSLIM VIOLENCE
Moderate Muslim leaders, Tanzanian officials and foreign diplomats are
expressing concern about rising Islamic extremism in Zanzibar. The presence
of Islamic Wahhabi missionaries and jihad recruiters, combined with Muslim
anger about the war on terror and growing tensions in the Middle East, has
led to an increase in Islamist zeal, especially among younger Muslims. A
series of six bomb blasts this month heightened fears that radical Muslim
youths are rising up against Zanzibar's secular government, their moderate
Muslim leaders, anything Western and churches. Police are concerned that
extremists might be backed by anti-Western politicians and be linked to
foreign terror groups such as al-Qaida. The Muslim group Jumuia ya Uamsho na
Mihadhara (Revival and Propagation Organization) has distributed jihad
training videos and literature, advocating the killing of secular
politicians who refuse to impose sharia (Islamic law). The group is
suspected of bombing a number of electric transformers last weekend. Bomb
experts defused several grenades and a bomb placed inside a bar in
Zanzibar's capital city, Stone Town. There were no casualties in any of the
attacks. The Associated Press reported that Muslim missionaries in Zanzibar
from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Pakistan "go from mosque to mosque spouting
sermons of hate -- sometimes scripted by radical groups in Saudi Arabia."
(World Evangelical Alliance)
* Staff members from the HCJB World Radio Engineering Center in Elkhart,
Ind., have worked with local churches, the Lutheran Radio Center and Trans
World Radio to put FM radio stations on the air in three Tanzanian cities.
HCJB World Radio is also working with Radio Africa Network, a ministry of
partner CCFM in South Africa, to build a radio network based in the capital
city of Dar es Salaam. The first of these stations went on the air in March
2002.
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT REFUSES TO RENEW VISAS FOR 100 RELIGIOUS WORKERS
For the first time since Israel became a country 56 years ago, the
government has refused to renew visas for more than 100 foreign nuns,
priests and other religious workers. Those who overstay their visas risk
being arrested as illegal immigrants. On Wednesday, March 17, two Most Holy
Rosary sisters were stopped by police, and two days before that a Franciscan
brother was also halted in his steps by security patrols. These people have
been residing in Israel or the occupied territories for years, yet requests
to renew their visas continue to gather dust in Interior Ministry offices.
The policy to not remit visas to religious workers began during the previous
government when the Ministry of the Interior was headed by a Shas party
fundamentalist. Then one year ago when a Shinui liberal secular party
exponent took over the position, it was hoped that things would change.
However, the new interior minister and other government advocates have
reneged on their promises to church officials to resume renewing visas.
(Religion Today/Voice of the Martyrs)
ERITREAN BELIEVERS BRACE FOR ADDITIONAL CRACKDOWN
Eritrea appears to be laying the groundwork for another crackdown on
believers. For the first time since evangelical Christianity was declared
illegal in Eritrea, criminal charges have been laid against those who are
not a part of the officially recognized churches, says Todd Nettleton from
Voice of the Martyrs. The government only allows four groups to continue to
hold public meetings -- Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran and Muslim. "So
evangelical Christians have been prevented from meeting publicly for the
last two years, and those who have continued to meet in homes are now being
arrested and rounded up," Nettleton says. While 370 Christians are in jail
for their faith, the churches continue to grow. "The great thing that our
team came away with is the sense of unity among the Christian believers in
Eritrea," he says. "There is a great sense of working together -- all being
on the same team -- that's one of the great things that has happened as a
result of this persecution." (Mission Network News)
AID AGENCIES BRING RELIEF TO THOUSANDS OF QUAKE VICTIMS IN MOROCCO
An earthquake that devastated villages in northern Morocco last month killed
629 people and injured 926 others. The Feb. 24 quake, measuring 6.5 on the
Richter scale, also destroyed 2,539 homes, leaving 15,230 people homeless.
Of the 926 injured, 101 remain in the hospital. The World Food Program
launched a $200,000 emergency operation while Food for the Hungry has
responded through Latin American partners by providing emergency relief to
survivors. Blankets, tents and food already have been distributed to
villages. With more than 700 staff members throughout Africa, Food for the
Hungry can send aid to neighboring countries quickly, including Morocco. By
helping to meet people's physical needs, the project has opened doors for
future outreach and long-term Christian ministry. (Mission Network News)
MINISTRY TO SEND 1 MILLION PIECES OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE TO CHINA
Open Doors, an international ministry to the persecuted church, has agreed
to provide 1 million pieces of children's literature to China in this year,
including 81,500 illustrated children's Bibles as well as Sunday school
materials and songbooks. It is part of the ministry's commitment to provide
more than 3 million Bibles and other Christian resources for persecuted
believers in China. Many Sunday school teachers and distributors face great
risks to teach children about Jesus and deliver these materials. In many
parts of China, youths are not allowed access to religious teaching of any
kind and are taught in school and college that God does not exist and that
believing in Jesus is "unpatriotic." Anyone caught teaching Christianity to
youth under 18 can face fines, beatings, imprisonment, torture and
interrogation. Christian children can face ridicule, discrimination and
violence in school because of their faith. In spite of the difficulties,
Sunday schools are thriving throughout the country. "A Sunday school teacher
in China told me a story about a student who was told he would be kicked out
of school because he was going to Sunday school," says Open Doors USA
President Carl Moeller. "He then told his teacher with tears in his eyes
that he would choose Jesus because he would rather go to Sunday school and
learn about Jesus than learn his school lesson. This is huge because
education in China is everything. Sunday schools are impacting not only the
children, but the entire fabric of Chinese society. That's why it's so
important to provide them with children's Bibles and other materials." (Open
Doors)
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VŠECHNY ZPRÁVY V ANGLIČTINĚ |
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SUSPECT ARRESTED IN SLAYING OF MISSIONARIES, STUDENT IN UGANDA
Police have arrested a suspect in the recent killing of two American
missionaries and a Ugandan student in the East African nation's northwestern
region. Amin Aruma was detained Saturday, March 20, about 10 miles from a
Christian agricultural training center where Warren Pett, his wife, Donna,
and the student were killed two nights earlier. The Petts, dairy farmers
from Mukwonago, Wis., were shot when seven armed men wearing military
uniforms raided the college near Yumbe, 310 miles northwest of Kampala,
where the couple taught. There has been no clear motive for the slaying of
the missionaries who were both 49. About 90 percent of the area population
is Muslim, and some were upset by the setting up of Christian schools in the
region, police said. The Yumbe district is a remote area near Uganda's
border with Sudan. About 10 percent of Uganda's 24 million people are
Muslims. Affiliated with Africa Inland Mission, the Petts had been in the
African nation for more than a year and were teaching at the Esther
Evangelical School of Technology, 15 miles east of Yumbe. (Religion
Today/Charisma News Service)
* HCJB World Radio, together with the Evangelical Churches of Kampala and
FEBA Radio, broadcasts the gospel locally in Uganda on two FM transmitters.
HCJB World Radio also worked with Jesus Focus Ministries to put a 500-watt
FM station on the air in Masaka. Programs air in English and Luganda.
ZANZIBAR OFFICIALS, CHURCHES CONCERNED WITH RISING MUSLIM VIOLENCE
Moderate Muslim leaders, Tanzanian officials and foreign diplomats are
expressing concern about rising Islamic extremism in Zanzibar. The presence
of Islamic Wahhabi missionaries and jihad recruiters, combined with Muslim
anger about the war on terror and growing tensions in the Middle East, has
led to an increase in Islamist zeal, especially among younger Muslims. A
series of six bomb blasts this month heightened fears that radical Muslim
youths are rising up against Zanzibar's secular government, their moderate
Muslim leaders, anything Western and churches. Police are concerned that
extremists might be backed by anti-Western politicians and be linked to
foreign terror groups such as al-Qaida. The Muslim group Jumuia ya Uamsho na
Mihadhara (Revival and Propagation Organization) has distributed jihad
training videos and literature, advocating the killing of secular
politicians who refuse to impose sharia (Islamic law). The group is
suspected of bombing a number of electric transformers last weekend. Bomb
experts defused several grenades and a bomb placed inside a bar in
Zanzibar's capital city, Stone Town. There were no casualties in any of the
attacks. The Associated Press reported that Muslim missionaries in Zanzibar
from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Pakistan "go from mosque to mosque spouting
sermons of hate -- sometimes scripted by radical groups in Saudi Arabia."
(World Evangelical Alliance)
* Staff members from the HCJB World Radio Engineering Center in Elkhart,
Ind., have worked with local churches, the Lutheran Radio Center and Trans
World Radio to put FM radio stations on the air in three Tanzanian cities.
HCJB World Radio is also working with Radio Africa Network, a ministry of
partner CCFM in South Africa, to build a radio network based in the capital
city of Dar es Salaam. The first of these stations went on the air in March
2002.
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT REFUSES TO RENEW VISAS FOR 100 RELIGIOUS WORKERS
For the first time since Israel became a country 56 years ago, the
government has refused to renew visas for more than 100 foreign nuns,
priests and other religious workers. Those who overstay their visas risk
being arrested as illegal immigrants. On Wednesday, March 17, two Most Holy
Rosary sisters were stopped by police, and two days before that a Franciscan
brother was also halted in his steps by security patrols. These people have
been residing in Israel or the occupied territories for years, yet requests
to renew their visas continue to gather dust in Interior Ministry offices.
The policy to not remit visas to religious workers began during the previous
government when the Ministry of the Interior was headed by a Shas party
fundamentalist. Then one year ago when a Shinui liberal secular party
exponent took over the position, it was hoped that things would change.
However, the new interior minister and other government advocates have
reneged on their promises to church officials to resume renewing visas.
(Religion Today/Voice of the Martyrs)
ERITREAN BELIEVERS BRACE FOR ADDITIONAL CRACKDOWN
Eritrea appears to be laying the groundwork for another crackdown on
believers. For the first time since evangelical Christianity was declared
illegal in Eritrea, criminal charges have been laid against those who are
not a part of the officially recognized churches, says Todd Nettleton from
Voice of the Martyrs. The government only allows four groups to continue to
hold public meetings -- Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran and Muslim. "So
evangelical Christians have been prevented from meeting publicly for the
last two years, and those who have continued to meet in homes are now being
arrested and rounded up," Nettleton says. While 370 Christians are in jail
for their faith, the churches continue to grow. "The great thing that our
team came away with is the sense of unity among the Christian believers in
Eritrea," he says. "There is a great sense of working together -- all being
on the same team -- that's one of the great things that has happened as a
result of this persecution." (Mission Network News)
AID AGENCIES BRING RELIEF TO THOUSANDS OF QUAKE VICTIMS IN MOROCCO
An earthquake that devastated villages in northern Morocco last month killed
629 people and injured 926 others. The Feb. 24 quake, measuring 6.5 on the
Richter scale, also destroyed 2,539 homes, leaving 15,230 people homeless.
Of the 926 injured, 101 remain in the hospital. The World Food Program
launched a $200,000 emergency operation while Food for the Hungry has
responded through Latin American partners by providing emergency relief to
survivors. Blankets, tents and food already have been distributed to
villages. With more than 700 staff members throughout Africa, Food for the
Hungry can send aid to neighboring countries quickly, including Morocco. By
helping to meet people's physical needs, the project has opened doors for
future outreach and long-term Christian ministry. (Mission Network News)
MINISTRY TO SEND 1 MILLION PIECES OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE TO CHINA
Open Doors, an international ministry to the persecuted church, has agreed
to provide 1 million pieces of children's literature to China in this year,
including 81,500 illustrated children's Bibles as well as Sunday school
materials and songbooks. It is part of the ministry's commitment to provide
more than 3 million Bibles and other Christian resources for persecuted
believers in China. Many Sunday school teachers and distributors face great
risks to teach children about Jesus and deliver these materials. In many
parts of China, youths are not allowed access to religious teaching of any
kind and are taught in school and college that God does not exist and that
believing in Jesus is "unpatriotic." Anyone caught teaching Christianity to
youth under 18 can face fines, beatings, imprisonment, torture and
interrogation. Christian children can face ridicule, discrimination and
violence in school because of their faith. In spite of the difficulties,
Sunday schools are thriving throughout the country. "A Sunday school teacher
in China told me a story about a student who was told he would be kicked out
of school because he was going to Sunday school," says Open Doors USA
President Carl Moeller. "He then told his teacher with tears in his eyes
that he would choose Jesus because he would rather go to Sunday school and
learn about Jesus than learn his school lesson. This is huge because
education in China is everything. Sunday schools are impacting not only the
children, but the entire fabric of Chinese society. That's why it's so
important to provide them with children's Bibles and other materials." (Open
Doors)
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Zprávy HCJB 30.3.2004
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