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Bývalý šaman z Haiti se stal věrným Kristovým svědkem. Podle OMS International přišel Yon Yon ke Kristu někdy na začátku roku. Potom, co řekl svým následovníkům voodoo, že chce poslouchat Radio 4VEH, aby se dozvěděl více o Kristu, byl Yon Yon téměř ubit k smrti. Krista přijal během svého léčení ze zranění v nemocnici. Protože je to muž, který má velký vliv, věří misionáři na Haiti, že bude úspěšný při vedení Haiťanů ke Kristu. (Mission Network News) |
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NIGERIAN PRESIDENT DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY
Nigeria’s president declared a state of emergency in the troubled central
state of Plateau on Tuesday, invoking sweeping powers in a bid to halt
religious and ethnic bloodletting that he said posed a “great threat” to
national unity. The declaration came amid reports of new violence by
suspected Muslim militants against four predominantly Christian villages in
Plateau state, wracked for months by cycles of revenge raids. President
Olusegun Obasanjo sacked Gov. Joshua Dariye and dissolved the legislature in
Plateau, saying elected officials had “wittingly and unwittingly encouraged
acts that have subverted peace and tranquility.” The state of emergency --
announced in an address on national radio and television -- came after
months of violence in the state. The violence in Plateau and Kano has led to
an escalation of religious tensions in other parts of Nigeria also.
(AP/International Christian Concern)
CHRISTIAN PHARMACIST, CONVERT WIFE ESCAPE EGYPT
Thirteen months after Egypt jailed and tortured a Coptic Christian
pharmacist for marrying a former Muslim woman, Boulos Farid Rezek-Allah Awad
was finally allowed to emigrate from Egypt to Canada in March. A few weeks
earlier, his wife Enas Yehya Abdel Aziz had escaped the country to claim
refugee status abroad. Egyptian security police officials told Rezek-Allah
last November that he was permanently blacklisted from leaving Egypt; they
vowed to track down and punish his wife for her “illegal” marriage to a
Christian. During his two subsequent attempts to leave for Canada, he was
turned back by Egyptian authorities. Rezek-Allah said he assumed Egyptian
authorities somehow learned that his wife had managed to slip out of Egypt.
“After they lost hope of catching Enas, they allowed me to depart,” he said.
Islamic law forbids a Christian man to marry a Muslim woman in Egypt, where
Muslim citizens are not allowed to change their religion. (Compass Direct)
FORMER HAITIAN WITCHDOCTOR COULD LEAD MANY TO CHRIST
A former witchdoctor in Haiti has become a faithful witness for Christ.
According to OMS International, Yon Yon came to Christ around the first of
the year. Yon Yon was nearly beaten to death after telling his voodoo
followers he wanted to learn more about Christ by listening to Radio 4VEH
through a fix tuned radio. He came to Christ while in the hospital
recovering from his injuries. Since he’s an influential man, missionaries in
Haiti believe he’ll be effective in leading his fellow Haitians to Christ.
(Mission Network News)
* Staff members from the HCJB World Radio Engineering Center in Elkhart,
Ind., are working with OMS International to establish a satellite radio
network based at 4VEH outside the city of Cap-Haitien that will deliver
programs to FM stations nationwide. Downlinks have been installed in Tortue
Island and Pignon, and at least three more are planned. HCJB World Radio
also helped partner World Gospel Mission with a small station in
Port-au-Prince.
13 CHURCHES UNITE FOR OUTREACH IN RUSSIAN MEGACITY
Finland’s IRR-TV recently completed an historic mission to the Russian mega
city of Ufa. All 13 evangelical/protestant churches in Ufa formed a
coalition of Christian Churches and worked hard with IRR-TV as they jointly
ministered to 1.2 million people for a six-week period. The ministry
included daily telecasts and live radio broadcasts. IRR-TV’s Hannu Haukka
said about “50 percent of the population [of Ufa] is Bashkir, Muslim by
religion. There was stiff resistance from the Islamists of Ufa, especially
from Bashkir State Television which is run by Islamic fundamentalists,” he
said. “During the six-week mission over 60,000 contacts with non-believers
were made. The call center alone received thousands of calls from
non-believers in the city.” (Assist News Service)
* HCJB World Radio reaches across Russia with a variety of radio ministries.
The mission has been sending gospel broadcasts across the country via
shortwave since 1941, first from Quito, Ecuador, and now from the U.K. In
the early 1990s the ministry began “planting” local radio ministries in
Russia and now works with partners in more than a dozen cities. In 2000 HCJB
World Radio helped launch the first Christian Russian radio satellite
network (operated by Christian Radio for Russia), reaching across Euro-Asia.
Downlinks have been installed with more than 26 partners in Russia alone.
SIM DIRECTOR CALLS MISSION AND CHURCH TO 10 DAYS OF PRAYER
Malcolm McGregor, new International Director of SIM, has issued a call to
the mission and related churches for 10 days of focused prayer between
Ascension and Pentecost (May 20-30, 2004). This call follows the practice
introduced in 1998 by Jim Plueddemann, the immediate past International
Director of SIM. Historically, the first practice of prayer during these 10
days is described in the first chapter of Acts. “I call on people in
churches, homes and SIM offices to focus their prayers in a special way on
our need for spiritual renewal,” said McGregor. “God is eager to bless us;
our part is to come to Him humbly, repentantly, and with faith.” (SIM News)
NOT-FOR-PROFIT HEAD VIES FOR WORLD ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR
When David Bussau, Australian Entrepreneur of the Year, arrives in Monaco at
the end of this month to vie for the title of World Entrepreneur of the
Year, he’ll be making history. Never in the 18 years since these awards
began have any of the 35 participating countries ever awarded their national
title to an entrepreneur from the not-for-profit sector. Yet no previous
World Entrepreneur of the Year winner can lay claim to creating 2.4 million
jobs worldwide and taking as many as 20 million people out of poverty. This
is exactly what Opportunity International, the organization that Bussau
founded, has achieved. “A groundbreaker in applying a capitalist solution to
solving world poverty, Bussau has developed an extraordinary, truly
entrepreneurial model for creating wealth rather than simply redistributing
it,” said an excerpt from the Australian Judging Panel comments.
(Opportunity International) |
Zprávy HCJB 19.5.2004
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