Zprávy HCJB 16.5.2007

	Zabavený sborový majetek vrácen na základě mezinárodního tlaku.
	China Aid Association (CAA) oznámila, že úřady ve městě Kunšan v provincii Jiangsu vrátily veškerý konfiskovaný majetek dvěma domácím sborům, kde 29. dubna 2007 proběhly dvě oddělené policejní šťáry. Úředníci Veřejné Bezpečnosti (PSB) řekli dvěma pastorům – Cui Chengan a Liu Riguo, že rostoucí mezinárodní tlak po zprávě CAA a také obavy z negativního vlivu události na zahraniční investice v oblasti způsobily v celé záležitosti zvrat. Úředníci PSB. se soukromě sborům omluvili a dokonce slíbili odškodné za lavice a za schránku na dary, k jejich poškození došlo během šťáry. Po omluvě oba pastoři stáhli žaloby, které v této věci 9. května podali. Oba sbory byly napadeny odděleně 29.dubna 2007 Městskou správou veřejné bezpečnosti v Kunšanu. Policisté tehdy prohlásili, že shromáždění „jsou ilegální,“ zabavili notebooky, projektory, DVD přehrávače, zesilovače, mikrofony, Bible a další materiál. Také odnesli pokladnice na dary. Zdroj: China Aid Association
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	OUTSPOKEN REV. JERRY FALWELL DIES UNEXPECTEDLY AT 73 Sources: Assist News Service, Baptist Press, Christian Newswire Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority and used it to mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University. He was 73. News sources including the Associated Press (AP) and CNN, quote Ron Godwin, the university's executive vice president, as saying that Falwell was found unresponsive late Tuesday morning and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later. Falwell credited his Moral Majority with getting millions of conservative voters registered, electing Ronald Reagan and giving Republicans Senate control in 1980. Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church grew from 35 members in 1956 to more than 24,000, and the school he founded, Liberty University, saw its enrollment expand from virtually nothing in 1971 to more than 21,000. In 1956 Falwell began the "Old-Time Gospel Hour," a local radio and TV ministry that eventually expanded worldwide. During the past 50 years, more than 3 million people have contacted Falwell's ministry saying they came to know Christ by listening to or viewing his preaching. Although Falwell once opposed mixing preaching and politics, the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision prompted him to found the Moral Majority in 1979. The political lobbying organization grew to 6.5 million members and raised $69 million as it supported conservative politicians and campaigned against abortion, homosexuality, pornography and bans on school prayer. "Jerry has been a tower of strength on many of the moral issues which have confronted our nation," fellow evangelist Pat Robertson said Tuesday. Falwell leaves behind his wife, Macel -- they were married 49 years -- as well as three grown children and eight grandchildren. 8TH INDIAN STATE TO ENACT ‘WORRISOME’ ANTI-CONVERSION LAW Source: Compass Direct News The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party is expected to enact an anti-conversion law in the northern state of Uttarakhand. On April 15, Uttarakhand Chief Minister B.C. Khanduri said that his government would introduce a law to ban “conversions with allurement or fraudulent means” in the upcoming session of the Assembly. A representative of the Christian Legal Association told Compass that the “sole motive” behind proposing anti-conversion bills is to make it easier for Hindu extremists to thwart Christian work, adding that it was “worrisome” that the number of states with an anti-conversion law was increasing. Seven India states already have anti-conversion laws, known as Freedom of Religion Acts: Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. Hindu extremists commonly use anti-conversion legislation to falsely accuse Christians of converting people through force or allurement; thus they justify attacks on Christians or deflect prosecution away from themselves by pressing charges of “forcible conversion” without any evidence. VIETNAMESE LAWYERS RECEIVE ‘UNJUSTIFIABLE’ LONG PRISON TERMS Source: BosNewsLife Vietnamese Christian lawyers, Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan were sentenced Friday, May 11, by a court in Hanoi to prison terms of five years and four years respectively, followed by four year and three year periods of probation. The charges against them included “disseminating and libelous information against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.” A chorus of Western human rights activists and Vietnamese dissidents condemned the sentences. The International Movement for Democracy and Human Rights in Vietnam said, “The sentences are absolutely horrific and unacceptable by any justice system on earth,” and went on to ask political and religious leaders around the world for an “effective intervention” to help release the two attorneys. Christian Solidarity Worldwide Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas said in a statement that there was an “extraordinary display of defiance by the Vietnamese government in the face of widespread international attention and condemnation.” He described the resulting sentences as “both unjustifiable and disproportionate to the alleged offences.” Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan are among the most prominent lawyers defending religious freedom cases in Vietnam. CONFISCATED CHURCH PROPERTY RETURNED AFTER INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE Source: China Aid Association China Aid Association (CAA) is reporting that authorities in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province returned all confiscated items to two house churches that were raided separately on April 29, 2007. The Public Security Bureau (PSB) officers told the two church pastors, Cui Chengnan and Liu Riguo, that the increasing international pressure after CAA’s report and the fear of negative impact of the foreign investment in that area made them do so. The PSB officers apologized to the church privately and even promised to reimburse the cost of the church pew and offering box which were ruined by the PSB during the raid. Following the apology, the two pastors withdrew previous legal actions they had filed on May 9 regarding the raid. The two house churches were raided separately by the Kunshan Municipal Public Security Bureau on April 29, 2007. The policemen declared their meetings “illegal assemblies” and confiscated their notebook computers, projectors, DVD players, stereo, microphones, Bibles and other materials. They also took away the church offering boxes. STUDY: FULL-TIME-MOM’S WORKLOAD WORTH $138,000 SALARY Source: Baptist Press A recent survey of 40,000 mothers by Salary.com revealed that if stay-at-home moms were really compensated for their yearly job load, their salary would be about $138,000. The survey examined 10 typical job functions of fulltime moms, concluding the women work a 92-hour workweek with more than half the time spent in overtime. “Mom works multiple jobs and rarely gets a break from the action, working an average of 52 hours of overtime,” said Bill Coleman, senior vice president and chief compensation officer at Salary.com. Mothers who work outside the home averaged a 49-hour workweek beyond their full-time paying jobs. Job titles moms often carry include housekeeper, day care center teacher, cook, computer operator, laundry machine operator, janitor, facilities manager, van driver, CEO and psychologist, Salary.com said. Using the salaries of people who actually get paid for each of those jobs, the website determined the would-be salary of a stay-at-home mom. © Copyright 2007 - HCJB Global - Colorado Springs, CO USA

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