Zprávy HCJB 1.6.2007

	Křesťané v Chiapas po pěti týdnech stále bez vody.
	Přes pět týdnů poté, co vedení jednoho města v mexickém státu Chiapas podepsalo souhlas s obnovou dodávek vody odpojené křesťanům v lednu, jsou protestanti, pokud jde o vodu na mytí i o pitnou vodu, stále závislí na špinavých odlehlých studních a loužích. Dohoda z 23. dubna (viz zpráva z 24.4.2007) obsahuje požadavek, aby autokratičtí vládcové města (caciques) města Los Pozos ležícího blízko San Cristóbal de las Casas stáhli svou hrozbu vykázat z města 65 křesťanů, přestali je nutit k placení příspěvků na festivaly „tradicionalistických katolíků“ a obnovili dodávky elektřiny a vody řadě protestantských rodin. Evangelikální pastor a obhájce Esdras Alonso Gonzáles řekl, že vodovodní potrubí přerušené 30. ledna dosud není opraveno. „Celé zastupitelstvo s podepsaným usnesením z 23. dubna souhlasí s výjimkou vody - je to hrozné,“ řekl Alonso. „Nevíme, kdy vodu přijdou opravit; bratři nejsou schopni domoci se pravdivé informace. Dodal, že křesťané jsou šťastni, že již nebyli nuceni přispívat na tradiční Slavnost Svatých ve čtvrtek 3. května , a že nic nebrání jejich vlastním bohoslužbám, přestože nemají čistou vodu.
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	CHRISTIANS SUPPORTIVE OF BUSH’S REQUEST FOR INCREASED AIDS FUNDING Sources: Mission Network News, Assist News Service Christian leaders and aid organizations are applauding President George W. Bush after he asked Congress on Wednesday, May 30, to approve $30 billion in the next five years to mount a more aggressive campaign against the spread of AIDS worldwide, doubling the current U.S. program of $15 billion which expires in 2008. “The U.S. and our citizens have tackled HIV/AIDS aggressively,” Bush said in remarks in the White House Rose Garden. “The story has been quite different elsewhere, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Bush announced plans for First Lady Laura Bush to go on a June trip to Africa to see AIDS-related services in Zambia, Mali, Mozambique and Senegal. The president, referencing Luke 12:48, said, “She’s going to come back with her findings. She and I share a passion. We believe to whom so much has been given, much is required.” Bush’s program is focused on 15 countries with the worst AIDS outbreaks, amounting for about half of the world’s 39 million people diagnosed with HIV. Those countries are Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia. Christian aid organization World Vision believes its work can benefit from the increased funding. Bob Zachritz, World Vision’s senior policy adviser for global development, said, “What’s really effective is public/private partnerships. And we have one of these programs that’s funded by the U.S. government to care for orphans and vulnerable children. We started in Zambia.” Franklin Graham also praised Bush’s plan. “I look forward to continued partnerships with communities, schools, churches and faith-based organizations, and government to decrease the spread of HIV/AIDS and to give compassionate, Christ-like care to those already affected by it,” he said. Rick and Kay Warren issued a statement saying, “Certainly one of the president’s greatest legacies will be his insistence on putting compassion into action. No other president or world leader has ever done as much for global health as he. This is the right thing to do, and it is the right time to do it. Every American should support this effort to save lives at home and around the world.” A White House fact sheet said that in the first five years, the program would support treatment for 2 million people, prevent 7 million new infections and help care for 10 million. * HCJB Global Hands is working to battle the AIDS crisis in both Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. The ministry’s Hospital Vozandes-Quito in Ecuador operates an AIDS clinic, and the education department has produced a series of TV spots that urge prevention of AIDS through Christian values such as fidelity and abstinence. HCJB Global Hands has also sent out short-term ministry teams to South Africa to help at Hope Community Center, an HIV/AIDS ministry of King of Kings Baptist Church in Cape Town. Three HCJB Global Hands medical workers are now stationed at the Partners in Hope AIDS clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi. 4,000 CHRISTIANS DETAINED AT NEW DELHI RALLY OPPOSING VIOLENCE Sources: Religion Today, BosNewsLife Police in India detained about 4,000 people who were protesting violence against Christians at a New Delhi rally on Tuesday, May 29. The rally, “Stop Violence on Christians,” was held at Jantar Mantar (near Parliament), and included a variety of well-known Indian Christian leaders, including All India Christian Council (AICC) President Joseph D’Souza and that advocacy group’s secretary general, John Dayal. International Christian Concern, which investigates reports of persecution of Christians, reported that police “rounded up and detained about 4,000 participants” in the rally, attended by an estimated 5,000 people. The crowd was reportedly released after an official announced there was not enough room in the jails to hold so many people. “This was the first time since November 1997 that such large numbers of Christians have been arrested in the Parliament Street police station,” ICC quoted Dayal as saying. Rev. Madhu Chandra, regional secretary of the AICC, said that in 2006 his group recorded at least one anti-Christian attack every three days, “but this rose to one attack every alternate day during the first four months of this year.” VENEZUELA MEDIA CRACKDOWN LEAVES TWR UNHINDERED FOR NOW Source: Mission Network News Thousands of protesters marched in Venezuela this week regarding President Hugo Chávez’s decision to silence opposition media station Radio Caracas Televisión by denying renewal of its broadcast license. Even as Chávez defended his decision, he took aim at yet another station, Globovision, one of the few channels that is still harshly anti-government. Chávez accuses the station of encouraging attempts on his life. Trans World Radio’s (TWR) Jim Munger said, “Chávez has been pretty clear, from the beginning, what his direction is. He continues to fill out the details. There’s no question that he is socialist with a Marxist interpretation. He has stated that openly, and that’s the direction he’s going with the government.” The question remains as to if the gospel message that TWR broadcasts would make the organization a target. TWR’s stations and ministries are operating without hindrance. Given the tension in the region, though, Munger urges prayer. “I think we need to pray that God would be glorified through everything that happens there, that God would give wisdom to the church leaders, and that they would know how to live and minister in a context that’s difficult.” DARFUR’S CHRISTIANS VULNERABLE TO UNFAIR AID DISTRIBUTION Sources: Barnabas Fund, BosNewsLife Barnabas Fund, a U.K.-based aid organization, reported that the small minority of Christians displaced by the fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region are vulnerable to being excluded in the international aid distribution process because local organizations run by the Muslim majority could discriminate against them. Barnabas Fund has been helping in Darfur since December 2004 to ensure that Christians do not miss out by providing food aid directly to 100 Christian families, distributed via Sudanese church leaders. The families receive food parcels, apportioned on family size, containing items such as sorghum, white beans, lentils, rice and oil. This aid has often enabled Christian families to stay together during the crisis. However, a recent poll conducted by Reuters AlertNet, a humanitarian news and information website, indicates that the world may not be aware of the entire situation in Darfur because information is being suppressed. Four-fifths of the 46 aid agencies represented by those responding indicated they could not talk about who was behind attacks on civilians and aid workers that are making their work difficult. Two-thirds report they could not discuss rape. “The aid agencies are telling us that they are staying quiet because they don’t want to risk their work with the people in the camps,” said AlertNet’s editor, Martyn Broughton. “Journalists and the public depend on those agencies to know what’s going on. But we’ve shown that they’re afraid to talk. Self-censorship may be another crisis in Darfur.” More than 3.5 million people in Darfur are reliant on international aid. UPDATE: CHIAPAS CHRISTIANS STILL WITHOUT WATER AFTER 5 WEEKS Source: Compass Direct News More than five weeks after town bosses in Chiapas state, Mexico, signed an agreement to restore water lines cut off from Christians since January, the Protestants still rely on dirty, distant wells and puddles for washing and drinking. The April 23 agreement calls for the autocratic rulers or caciques of Los Pozos (near San Cristóbal de las Casas) to withdraw a threat to expel 65 Christians, cease forcing them to pay for “traditionalist Catholic” festivals and restore electricity and water services of several Protestant families. Evangelical pastor and attorney Esdras Alonso González said that water lines cut since Jan. 30 had not been restored. “Everyone in the municipality is respecting the agreement, except in the matter of water -- it’s horrible,” Alonso said. “We don’t know when they’re going to restore the water; the brethren have not been able to get good information. He added that the Christians are happy that they were not forced to contribute to the traditional Saint’s Festival on Thursday, May 3, and that they don’t have any interference in their worship services, despite the fact they don’t have clean water. © Copyright 2007 - HCJB Global - Colorado Springs, CO USA

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