Zprávy HCJB 16.4.2008

	Bible přeložena do oficiálního jazyka státu Orissa
	Křesťané ve východoindickém státu Orissa děkují Bohu za Písmo v jejich rodné řeči. Misionáři Gospel for Asia (GFA) šest let pracovali na překladu celé Bible do Oriya, oficiálního jazyku státu Orissa. „Mnoho z nás se za tento překlad modlilo,“ řekl jeden misionář. „Znovu se skláníme před Boží mocí, která toto dílo nesla.“ Je touhou každého misionáře dát Bibli do rukou všem, kdo touží dozvědět se o Kristu více. Věřící se nyní velmi radují při pomyšlení, že až budou číst Boží slovo ve srozumitelném jazyku, hlouběji porozumí Pánovým úmyslům s nimi samými. Oriya je nejběžnějším jazykem ve státě, ale mluví se zde i řadou nářečí. Misionáři GFA nyní pracují na překladu Bible do Najug, jiného běžně používaného jazyka v Orissa, aby mohli oslovit další skupiny obyvatel. Zdroj: Assist News Service
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	RESPONSE TO EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN IN POLAND ‘OVERWHELMING’ Source: Assist News Service The response to the recent ProChrist evangelistic campaign in Poland has overwhelmed organizers of the event with an estimated 20,000 people making decisions for Christ. About 80,000 people attended the crusade April 6-13. Programs were transmitted via TV satellite from Katowice in southern Poland to 103 venues nationwide. More than 26,700 people flocked to the Spondek sports arena in Katowice to witness the Polish programs. Only the sermons by German evangelist Ulrich Parzany needed to be translated. Some 10,600 decisions for Christ were registered in Katowice alone. During the closing night, Parzany asked only those to come forward who wished to make a decision to follow Christ for the first time in their life. As a result, 1,500 came to the cross near the platform. The evangelist praised the cooperation among churches in Katowice as 52 local churches in the city of 320,000 will offer spiritual follow-up courses to the new believers. Parzany was deeply impressed with the fact that he was invited to speak in Poland. After the heavy burden caused by the Nazi era, he regarded the invitation as a “special gift” and a “deeply felt sign of reconciliation and affection.” ProChrist in Poland was a joint venture of Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist churches in cooperation with the regional Ecumenical Council as well as the Catholic Fokolar Movement and the initiative, “Light and Life.” * Radio CCM, HCJB Global Voice’s partner ministry in southern Poland, operates six 24-hour-a-day FM radio stations, making gospel broadcasts available to more than 4 million residents. CCM is owned and operated by DEOrecordings, founded in 1986, a Christian nonprofit organization that uses music and the media to spread the gospel. The first station went on the air in Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in 1997. Plans are to expand the network to 17 stations nationwide, linked by satellite. Programs also air via the Internet (www.ccm.pl). 2 CHRISTIAN FAMILES ATTACKED IN HIMALAYAN NATION OF BHUTAN Source: Assist News Service Two Christian families in the remote Himalayan nation of Bhutan were physically attacked and kicked out of their homes after they committed their lives to Christ. Gospel for Asia missionaries Lali Bharose and Ekta Surgari, who recently began ministering in their village, shared the gospel with these families, and they chose to follow Christ. On Saturday, April 12, their fellow villagers attacked the new believers and forced them out of the village. They also asked Bharose and Surgari to leave the village. Less than 1 percent of Bhutan’s residents claim to be Christians. Sharing the gospel with people who follow one of the county’s two traditional religions, Buddhism and Hinduism, is illegal. BIBLE TRANSLATED INTO OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF INDIA’S ORISSA STATE Source: Assist News Service Christians in eastern India’s Orissa state are praising God to have the Scriptures in their native language. Gospel for Asia (GFA) missionaries worked for six years translating the entire Bible into Oriya, Orissa’s official language. “Many of us spent a lot of time praying for this translation,” one missionary shared. “We once again acknowledge God’s mighty hand behind this work.” It is the missionaries’ passion to get a Bible into the hands of every person in the state who seeks to know more about Christ. The believers are especially excited to have a deeper understanding of the Lord’s plan for them because now they will be able to read God’s Word in a language they understand. Although Oriya is the most common language in the state, several other dialects are frequently spoken. GFA missionaries are working to translate the Bible into Najug, another language spoken in Orissa, to reach a different subset of the population. STAFF MEMBER WITH RELIEF AGENCY IN HAITI CARJACKED, RELEASED Source: Mennonite Central Committee Joseph Saingelus, a Haitian staffer at the Christian relief agency Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), was carjacked by armed men on Tuesday, April 8, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. He was later released uninjured. The carjacking took place during several days of public unrest surrounding demonstrations against high food prices in Port-au-Prince. Saingelus was driving home in an MCC vehicle when armed men seized it and forced him to lie in the back, according to Charity Coffey, MCC’s Haiti representative. The men used the vehicle to kidnap another woman and rob her before releasing Saingelus, Coffey said. Police are investigating after MCC filed a police report. MCC is a relief, service and peace agency representing 15 Mennonite, Brethren in Christ and Amish bodies in North America. MINISTRY TO ROMANIAN ORPHANS FLOURISHES AMID POLITICAL UNREST Source: Religion Today In spite of the disappointments and fractious international relationships surfacing at the recent NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, there is good news coming out of country, reported Assist News Service. Karleen Dewey, a missionary to Romanian orphans since 1991, said that while hope for the future union of eastern European countries has floundered politically, ministry to Romania’s orphans continues to flourish. “Some must wonder whether international government organizations are relevant in the 21st century. Or are Christian missions progressing in former communist countries where governments cannot?” she wrote. “Good news is coming out of Romania. Children once abandoned are being placed in foster homes. Romanian adoptions are encouraged. Fewer babies are being abandoned in hospitals.” More than 20 volunteers have come to the small community of Marghita, Romania, from Sweden, U.K., Canada, Germany and the U.S. to care for abandoned children ranging from infants to teenagers. * HCJB Global Voice broadcasts the gospel locally in eight Romanian cities via partner ministry Radio Voice of the Gospel. The network is a cooperative effort with the Evangelical Alliance of Romania and the Romanian Missionary Society. © Copyright 2008 - HCJB Global - Colorado Springs, CO USA

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