Zprávy HCJB 7.6.2007

 Káva umožňuje křesťanským skupinám v Ugandě poskytovat lidem práci i evangelium.
   Třicet pracovníků na ugandské kávové farmě tisíce mil vzdálené od Franklin Parku v Pensylvánii rozvíjí projekt zápodopensylvánských křesťanů nabízející práci i evangelium v jedné z nejchudších afrických zemí. Neziskový Christian East African and Equatorial Development Trust, který provozuje Ugandandan Gold Cofee, je společným dílem Američanů, Uganďanů, prodejců a distributorů kávy, kteří sázejí, sklízejí, míchají a prodávají kávu pěstovanou na 36 akrové farmě v ugandské oblasti Bunyoro-Kirara – bývalém království se silnými anglikánskými kořeny.

Podnik umožnil vytvoření asi 30 pracovních míst v oblasti s asi 60% nezaměstnaností. Zisk se vrací do Ugandy a pomáhá k úhradě základních místních potřeb. „Potřebovali jsme vytvořit zde pracovní místa a udržitelný příliv peněz,“ řekl Worth Helms, pojišťovací makléř v penzi, který skladuje bedny s kávou ve svém předměstském domu u Pittsburghu. „Chtěli jsme lidi naučit, jak řídit samostatnou činnost tohoto druhu.„

38letá Sylvia Nannoynga-Tamusuza, Uganďanka, která získala doktorát v etnomuzikologii na Univerzitě v Pittsburghu a úzce spolupracuje s pittsburghskou skupinou provozující Ugandan Gold řekla, že takový kávový model je pro Ugandu prospěšnější, než tradiční charitativní činnost.

Misijní práce musí být o „posilování schopnosti lidí postarat se o sebe,“ řekla Nannoynga-Tamusuza. Helms řekl: „Cokoli nového je podnikáno, musí být spojeno s myšlenkou, že lidé to nakonec budou provozovat sami. Musí být v tomto smyslu povzbuzováni, jinak jejich závislost bude nekonečná. Kdybyste se mě v roce 1998 zeptali, jestli bych nechtěl začít v Ugandě s podnikem, řekl bych Vám, že jste blázen.“ Zdroj: Associated Press, Religion Today
 
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   COFFEE ALLOWS CHRISTIAN GROUPS TO BRING JOBS, GOSPEL TO UGANDA

Sources: Associated Press, Religion Today
Thirty workers at a Ugandan coffee farm thousands of miles from Franklin Park, Pa., plant the seeds of a venture that allows a group of western Pennsylvania Christians to bring jobs and the gospel to one of Africa’s poorest countries. The nonprofit Christian East African and Equatorial Development Trust, which runs Ugandan Gold Coffee, is a network of Americans, Ugandans, coffee shops and distributors that plant, harvest, blend and sell coffee grown on a 36-acre farm in Uganda’s Bunyoro-Kitara region, a former kingdom that has strong Anglican roots.

The venture has created more than two dozen jobs in an area where about 60 percent of people are unemployed. Profits are returned to Uganda to help meet basic needs. “We wanted to create jobs over there, we wanted to create self-sustaining income,” said Worth Helms, a retired insurance broker who stores boxes of the coffee in his suburban Pittsburgh home. “We wanted to teach people how to manage an entity like this.”

Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza, 38, a Ugandan who got her doctorate in ethnomusicology from the University of Pittsburgh and works closely with the Pittsburgh-based group that runs Ugandan Gold, said the coffee farm is more helpful to Uganda than the traditional charitable model.

Missionary work should be “about enhancing people’s capacity to sustain through their own lives,” Nannyonga-Tamusuza said. “It means that whatever is created, it needs to be thought about so that people can manage it. They need to empower them, otherwise we perpetuate dependency. If you had asked me in 1998, would I be starting a business in Uganda in 1999, I would have said you were crazy,” Helms said.

INDONESIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTACKED, BOY REFUSES TO DENY CHRIST

Source: Voice of the Martyrs
On June 3, 2007, a mob of Muslim extremists attacked a children’s Sunday school class held in a house church in West Java, and assaulted some of the children and the pastor’s wife. According to The Voice of the Martyrs’ contacts in Indonesia, more than 50 extremists stormed the house where 15 children were worshipping and pushed the pastor’s wife to the ground. “They used Bibles to hit her on the head and assaulted her with fists. The children were shocked and cried hysterically for help. A 12-year-old boy was kicked and beaten. The attackers spit on his Bible and demanded he deny Christ, but he said no. They threw Bibles on the floor, threatened to burn them and carried some away when they left,” the contact said. While the attack was taking place, police were near the house church did not stop the attack. “I was hysterical and shouted ‘in the name of Jesus,’ as they tore a picture of Jesus from the wall, but the police never did anything to assist us,” said the pastor’s wife. None of those injured sustained serious physical injuries.

PIRATES HIJACK SOMALIA FOOD AID, 35,000 WITH DWINDLING SUPPLIES

Sources: Evangelical News, Baptist Press
Pirates are intercepting food shipments off the coast of Somalia, worsening the plight of nearly 35,000 people displaced by the country's worst violence in 16 years, according to a humanitarian organization operating in the country. Increasing numbers of people in relief centers suffer from respiratory tract infections and acute diarrhea, but medical and food supplies are dwindling. “Without rapid intervention, malnutrition is also expected to increase,” Sharif Haji, World Vision's primary healthcare coordinator in Somalia said. Pirates have confiscated four shipments of food supplies and the next ship scheduled to travel to Somalia has refused to go without an armed escort, said Josette Sheeran, the World Food Program's (WFP) executive director. Food shipments were delayed for weeks after pirates hijacked two WFP ships last year.

SRI LANKAN PASTORS ARRESTED FOR DESTROYING BUDDHA STATUES

Source: Compass Direct News
A pastor and two associates from Mt. Carmel Theological College in Kandy, Sri Lanka, were arrested on May 27 and charged with destroying Buddhist statues. Pastor Suresh Ramachandran, principal of the college, was released on May 28 after proving to authorities that he was visiting a hospital with his daughter at the time of the alleged incident. Pastor Christian Velu Selvarajah and Stephen Thomas, however, are still in custody and deny the charges. The chief monk at a local Buddhist temple has accused the men of destroying two small statues of Buddha placed by a roadside in Kandy district. Masses angry at the accused held demonstrations outside the college, and Buddhist authorities were upset with the news of Ramachandran’s release. Ramachandran has since received threats, and police have advised him to take precautions. With local radio stations giving extensive coverage to the incident, however, tensions remained high.

UPDATE: BEIJING HOUSE CHURCH ACTIVIST SECRETLY SENTENCED TO 6 MONTHS

Sources: China Aid Association, Christian Newswire
China Aid Association has learned that Beijing house church activist Hua Huiqi was secretly sentenced to six months in jail on Monday, June 4. Neither his wife nor his lawyer, Mr. Li Dunying, were allowed to attend the court trial which lasted about two hours at Chayang District People's Court. Although Hua had been under criminal detention on the charge of intervening in public affairs since January 26, he was formally arrested on February 8, on the charge of obstruction of justice. Hua's wife received the official notice of the arrest from the police on February 10. Hua and his mother were both arrested and beaten by police in January. The police even poured cold water over him in the 20 degree temperature. Hua's mother, 76- year-old Ms. Shuang Shuying was formally arrested on February 9 and sentenced to two years by a Beijing court on February 26. Hua, an active house church Christian in Beijing, is expected to be released next month.

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