Zprávy HCJB 9.4.2008

	Promítači evangelizačního filmu propuštěni z indického vězení, policisté také viděli jejich film
	Čtyři pracovníci skupiny Gospel for Asia byli propuštěni z vězení, ale ještě předtím jim bylo umožněno kázat jejich věznitelům evangelium. Na začátku byli všichni čtyři uvězněni a falešně obviněni z násilného obracení lidí na křesťanství, a to v pátek 28. března v indickém státu Predeš. K jejich zadržení došlo ve chvíli, kdy promítali film o životě Pána Ježíše. Policisté misionáře ve vazbě dokonce bili. Během prvního večera jejich vazby je ale policisté požádali, aby jim film o životě Krista promítli. Ti jim film rádi předvedli, přítomen byl i okresní policejní náčelník. Po filmu jim misionáři vysvětlili podstatu evangelia a modlili se za ně. Došlo tak k obratu v chování policistů. Hned byli srdečnější a laskavě je opatrovali až do soudu, který byl za tři dny. V úterý 1. dubna byli misionáři propuštěni na kauci a soudce slíbil, že film a všechno zařízení jim bude ihned vráceno. Zdroj: Assist News Service, Gospel for Asia
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	FILM CREW RELEASED FROM JAIL IN INDIA AFTER POLICE VIEW MOVIE Source: Assist News Service, Gospel for Asia Four members of a Gospel for Asia film team have been released from jail, but not before they were able to share the gospel with those who arrested them. The four-member team was arrested and falsely charged with forcing people to convert to Christianity on Friday, March 28, in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state. The men were showing a film about the life of Christ when they were arrested. The police also beat the missionaries after they were in custody. But then, during their first night in jail, the officers asked the team if they could watch their film about the life of Christ. The missionaries gladly showed the movie to the audience of police personnel, including the district superintendent of police. After the film, the missionaries explained the gospel to the officers and conducted a prayer service for them. As a result, there was an obvious shift in the officers’ attitudes. They became more cordial to the missionaries and treated them kindly for the next three days that they remained in jail. The four men from the film team were released on bail Tuesday, April 1, and the court promised that all their film equipment would be promptly returned. * Radio programs in 17 languages air to Asia and Southeast Asia from HCJB Global-Australia’s shortwave station in Kununurra. Most of the programs are produced at the ministry’s studios in New Delhi, India. CHRISTIAN VIETNAMESE PRISONER DIES AFTER REPEATED BEATINGS Source: BosNewsLife A Vietnamese Degar Montagnard Christian who refused to join the communist-backed church in Vietnam’s central highlands has been tortured to death in prison. In a statement released Monday, April 7, the Montagnard Foundation Inc. (MFI), representing Christians in the region, reported that Rahlan Hen from the village of Ploi Beng died last month while serving a six-year jail term for refusing to join the “church of [local communist official] Siu Kim” which many feel teaches people to “worship the government and not God,” MFI explained. “This is why Rahlan Hen refused to join.” Hen was beaten and kicked severely during his arrest on June 14, 2006. The torture apparently continued for years as he was transferred from prison to prison, often keeping him in facilities where his family couldn’t locate him. On her last visit with him at the Phu Yen province prison, his wife saw that “one of his legs was paralyzed and that he could barely walk,” MFI reported. “She was overcome with sorrow, but could do nothing to help him. All she could offer him was her tears.” On Monday, March 17, she was summoned to her husband’s prison, “but when she arrived, the security police informed her that he was already dead,” MFI stated. When she asked to take his body home, officials allegedly refused saying, “He has been sentenced to six years in prison so you can come back and pick up his bones in three more years after he has finished his prison term.” ZIMBABWE HOSTS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA HIV/AIDS CONFERENCE Source: Baptist World Alliance A Baptist World Aid-sponsored conference on HIV/AIDS was held in Zimbabwe in February in the capital city of Harare. A total of 65 delegates attended from South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Eleven Baptist conventions and unions, including five from Zimbabwe and three from South Africa, were represented. “It was thrilling to hear how Baptist churches in the southern part of Africa are responding to the challenge of HIV/AIDS and poverty,” said Angelo Scheepers, chairman for the southern region of the All Africa Baptist Fellowship. Among other topics, delegates discussed institutional and community care, foster parenting and orphan care, counseling HIV victims, and HIV/AIDS and the local church. On the last day of the conference, held Jan. 30-Feb. 3, delegates adopted the Harare Resthaven Declaration, stating that they “share God’s concern for justice and reconciliation throughout human society and for the liberation of all people from every kind of oppression, especially that of poverty and HIV and AIDS.” The delegates confessed that “our churches have not done enough to prevent and alleviate poverty and to combat the spread and effects of HIV and AIDS.” * 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 Fish Hoek Baptist Church in Cape Town. Three HCJB Global Hands medical workers are now stationed at the Partners in Hope AIDS clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi. MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP INDUCTS NEW PRESIDENT Source: Assist News Service John Boyd, a native of Scotland reared in South Africa, was installed as the new president of Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), a faith-based, nonprofit ministry that serves missions and isolated people around the world with aviation, communications and learning technologies. During the installation service on Friday, April 4, chairperson of the MAF board of directors Julie Shimer said, “We are delighted to welcome John Boyd as the eighth president and chief executive officer of Mission Aviation Fellowship. It is clear that God has been preparing John for this step for many years, and we look forward to his leadership in this era of rapid expansion of the Gospel using every means available to us.” Boyd added, “I believe God will continue to lead MAF in strategic ministry initiatives in areas of the world that desperately need our services.” Boyd and his wife, Tanya, joined MAF in 1993 following a highly successful business career. He served as a missionary pilot in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti and Lesotho, supporting the outreach of missionaries, local churches, medical ministries, and relief and development organizations. SURVEY: NATIONAL JOURNALISTS ADMIT LIBERAL BIAS IN REPORTING Sources: Baptist Press, Religion Today Just 6 percent of national journalists describe themselves as conservative, compared with 36 percent of the overall population, according to an annual survey released in March by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. The State of the Media report stated that 2 percent of the journalists and news executives surveyed consider themselves “very conservative” while 53 percent of national journalists described themselves as “moderate,” 24 percent as “liberal” and 8 percent as “very liberal.” Overall, only 8 percent of journalists at national media outlets said they attend church or synagogue weekly. Almost two-thirds of the journalists in the survey admitted that their political leanings impact their reporting as the line between reporting and commentary is blurred. © Copyright 2008 - HCJB Global - Colorado Springs, CO USA

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