Zprávy HCJB 6.6.2007

	Výhrůžky smrtí misionáři se obracejí v evangelizaci
	Daya Marandi, misionář Gospel for Asia (GFA) v indickém státu Utarpradéš, který dostal výhrůžky smrtí od protikřesťanských extrémistů, již není v bezprostředním nebezpečí. S radostí popisuje, jak se výhrůžky smrtí změnily v možnost svědčit o spasení naráz před skoro celou vesnicí. Koncem května bylo Maramdimu vyhrožováno smrtí, pokud hned nepřestane se svou činností a neopustí Utarpradéš. Také vyhrožovali násilím 60 členům Dayova sboru, pokud nebudou svolní s návratem k původní víře. Přestavitelé GFA na to reagovali kontaktováním policie a setkáním se s policejním důstojníkem, který se s Dayovou misií dobře znal. Ten nařídil místním policistům misionáře chránit a poslal tajné policisty na nedělní shromáždění jeho sboru. Když se zvěst o výhrůžkách roznesla po vesnici, lidi popadla zvědavost a chtěli vědět, co vlastně křesťané dělají, že tak popudili extrémisty. Tu neděli pak téměř všichni lidé z vesnice přišli do Dayova sboru. Ti všichni slyšeli evangelium a teď misionáře chrání před extrémisty. „Chvalte Pána! Znovu obrátil k vlastnímu prospěchu to, co člověk mínil zle,“ řekl prezident Gospel for Asia, Dr. K.P.Yohannan. Zdroj: Christian Newswire, Gospel for Asia
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	MISSIONARY DEATH THREATS TURN INTO PREACHING OPPORTUNITY Sources: Christian Newswire, Gospel for Asia Gospel for Asia (GFA) missionary in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, Daya Marandi, who received death threats from an anti- Christian extremist group is no longer in immediate danger. He joyfully reports that the death threat turned into an opportunity to share the Gospel with nearly his entire village at one time. In late May, Maramdi was threatened with death if he did not immediately abandon his work and leave Uttar Pradesh. They also threatened to harm the 60 members of Daya's church unless they each agreed to return to their former religions. GFA leaders in Uttar Pradesh responded to the threats by contacting the police, meeting with the police superintendent who was familiar with Daya's ministry. He ordered his local officers to protect the missionary and had a plainclothes officer attend Sunday services at Daya's church. When word of the death threats spread throughout the village, the people became curious and wanted to know what the Christians were doing that had raised the ire of the extremists. That Sunday, nearly every person in the village attended Daya's church. These people who heard the Gospel preached are now defending the missionary against the extremists. “Praise the Lord! Once again, God has taken what man meant for evil and used it for His own good purpose,” said Gospel for Asia President, Dr. K.P. Yohannan. * Radio programs in 17 languages air to India from HCJB Global Voice-Australia’s shortwave station in Kununurra. The programs are produced at the ministry’s studios in New Delhi, India. CHALDEAN PRIEST, 3 DEACONS SHOT IN NORTHERN IRAQ ATTACK Source: Compass Direct News Iraq’s Chaldean community continues to mourn the deaths of a priest and three deacons shot on Sunday night, June 3, by unknown assailants in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Father Ragheed Ganni was leaving his Holy Spirit parish at 6:40 p.m. with three deacons when armed men stopped him, pulling him from his car, a source in the Mosul archbishopric said. The attackers gunned down the four Christians, shooting Ganni approximately 15 times before driving away in the priest’s car. “Members of the Holy Spirit parish, located in eastern Mosul, waited until 10 p.m. to collect the bodies from the street for fear they would be attacked,” the source said. The archbishop’s office identified the three murdered deacons as Basman Yusef, Waheed Isho and Ghasan Bidawid. Both Yusef and Bidawid were in their mid-20s and unmarried, while Isho, in his late 30s, left behind a wife and four children. Ganni’s death is the first known killing of a Chaldean clergyman in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. “You cannot imagine what the bodies looked like,” a priest (who photographed the corpses) reported. 4 CHRISTIAN NURSING STUDENTS ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMY IN PAKISTAN Source: Assist News Service At least four Christian nursing students of the nursing school of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in the capital city of Islamabad have been accused of desecrating Quranic verses. The Christian Study Centre in Rawalpindi said the nursing students, including Edna, Seemab, Kanwal Bakhtawar, and another Christian student whose name could not be ascertained, were accused of desecrating Quranic verses placed in the classroom. Although allegedly taking place back in May, the incident remained low-profile until Friday, June 1, when the school’s students began public protests and chanted slogans against the alleged blasphemy. The students, as well as the Principal of the Nursing school, Ms. Stella, and a teacher, Fazila Khokhar, were suspended immediately in the wake of the incident. "We request all friends to pray for the girls, teacher and principal, so that God may keep us in His safe hands and also for our Muslim friends so that they may remain cool and resolve the matter through negotiation," said a spokesperson for the Christian Study Centre, Rawalpindi. Security in and around the hospital has been increased as around 150 Muslim clerics gathered outside the hospital on Friday. TWR AFRICA RADIO PIONEER DIES UNEXPECTEDLY AT AGE 63 Source: Assist News Service An African pioneer of radio ministry has died unexpectedly. Stephen Boakye-Yiadom, Trans Word Radio’s (TWR) International Director for Africa, died Saturday, June 2, of heart failure. The 63-year old received his missionary calling in Germany. After his training as a bank manager, this son of a cocoa farmer in Ghana, West Africa, came to Germany in 1970. He abandoned his plans to move on to the USA for further studies after he received his calling as a missionary to Africa by listening to a program on Evangeliums-Rundfunk (Gospel Radio) in Wetzlar, Germany. He studied theology in Basel, Switzerland, and was trained as a radio missionary at Evangeliums-Rundfunk, German partner of TWR. In 1976 he went to Nairobi, Kenya, where he established a TWR branch. Subsequently he became TWR’s International Director for Africa in 1992. With his appeal “Africa needs Jesus,“ Boakye-Yiadom opened the eyes of many Germans to the need for radio mission. He leaves behind his wife Grace and four adult children. BILLY GRAHAM LIBRARY POINTS TO THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS Source: Baptist Press A crowd of 1,500 people, including former presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, gathered in Charlotte, N.C., May 31 to dedicate the Billy Graham Library. The 40,000-square-foot, $27 million facility sits on 63 acres just four miles from the farm where Graham grew up. It opened to the public June 5 for 90-minute self-guided tours with no cost for admission. “I feel like I've been attending my own funeral with all these speeches,” Graham, 88, said during the dedication. “I know they all meant it. But I feel terribly small and humbled by it all, and I feel I don't deserve it because it's been a whole team of people that have worked together, prayed together, traveled together, believed God was going to do wonderful things together.” The tour of the library begins in a barn with a cross-shaped door representing Graham's humble beginnings and expands into exhibits covering the highlights of his ministry. “This library is not about Billy Graham, but it's about the message that Billy Graham has preached for the last 60-plus years,” Franklin Graham said at the dedication. “And that is the message of the cross. And if you look at the library, what you see is a cross. My father's name is not on the building, but the cross. The only way that you can come into the library is through the foot of the cross.” © Copyright 2007 - HCJB Global - Colorado Springs, CO USA

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