Zprávy HCJB 5.6.2008

	Neznámí útočníci napadli křesťanskou školu v pásmu Gazy
	Palestinský křesťan řekl, že útok na křesťanskou školu v pásmu Gazy minulý víkend vzbudil v této malé náboženské menšině strach. Podle zprávy Palestinského Centra pro lidská ráva (PHCR) ozbrojení útočníci vtrhli v sobotu 31. května do školy v El-Manara v Gaze, svázali dva hlídače, zbili je a nakonec ukradli autobus patřící Palestinské Biblické Společnosti. Palestinský křesťanský představitel, který si z bezpečnostních důvodů přeje zůstat v anonymitě řekl, že policie údajně jednoho z útočníků uvrhla do vazby. Je prý ale příliš brzy na to říci, kdo stojí za útokem. „Způsobili to hodně strachu, někteří lidé jsou vyděšeni,“ řekl tento křesťanský představitel. Na webové strance PHCR jsou útoky nazývány „pokračováním bezpečnostního chaosu ničícím tuto palestinskou oblast … Ústředí vyzývá úřady k přijetí odpovídajících opatření k zábraně opakování podobných tragédií a na ochranu životů a majetku civilistů.“ V pásmu Gazy žije asi 1 600 000 lidí, z nichž asi 2000 uvádí křesťanské vyznání, z toho je asi 200 evangelikálů. Zdroj: Compass Direct News, Assist News Service
	Všechny zprávy v angličtině
	EVANGELISM TEAMS AIM TO PLANT CHURCHES IN 40 UKRAINIAN CITIES Source: Don Betts Evangelistic Association In the first phase of an outreach called Project 125 a total of 40 ministry teams -- 20 from the U.S. and 20 from Ukraine -- will participate in a series of evangelistic campaigns in 40 key Ukrainian cities that don’t yet have an evangelical church. Each team will travel to one of these cities to hold a weeklong evangelistic effort with the objective of planting a church on the final day. About 40 trained church planters in Ukraine are ready to move with their families to one of these cities to help start a church. Additional teams are being recruited to go next year, reaching a total of 125 cities. Leading the project are Slavic Nesterurk, president of the Ukrainian Baptist Union, and Evangelism Director Slavic Gruntkovsky. They will be assisted by Mick Stockwell and Shannon Ford of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board (IMB) and evangelist Don Betts of Dayton, Ohio, who has conducted similar crusades across Ukraine in the past 18 years. The Ukrainian Baptist Union and the IMB are helping train the church planters and will set up an accountability structure to report to the Baptist Union, IMB, the supporting church and the Don Betts Evangelistic Association. In each city the outreach includes a citywide “freedom crusade” held Friday through Sunday. Typically each crusade results in about 500 decisions for Christ. On the Monday following the crusade the new believers attend a praise/testimonial service. Trained church planters then take the new believers to form a church, and the converts are enrolled in an eight-week discipleship program. A major emphasis in each city is on the youth with separate meetings held for this age group. “A children’s crusade is conducted each week, and buses are rented to bring the children to the crusades,” Betts explained. “In a recent children’s crusade there were 1,500 children who attended.” Teams will visit young people at youth clubs, soccer games, on the streets and at orphanages. “The children in these orphanages many times go without the very basics for life,” he said. “They need food and long-term assistance when possible.” Part of the ministry for each team will be to make special visits to handicapped children and youth as well as poor children who have special needs. Participating churches are raising money to buy basic school supplies and clothing for the poorest children. “Thousands of these items are needed,” Betts added. “One orphanage had 300 children with no shoes. Efforts are under way to provide each child with a backpack containing a metric ruler, a set of colored pencils, ballpoint pens, watercolor paints, pencils and erasers.” * HCJB Global Voice worked with local churches to establish Radio Emmanuel, a 500-watt FM station, in Kiev in June 2005. Two additional outlets in Kiev and one in Dneperpetrovsk are also affiliated with New Life Radio, a Russian satellite radio network operated by Christian Radio for Russia with HCJB Global Voice as the principal partner. In addition, weekly Ukrainian programs air to the country via shortwave. CONVOY OF HOPE RESPONDS TO DISASTERS IN MYANMAR, CHINA Source: Assist News Services Convoy of Hope (COH), a nonprofit organization that provides resources for organizations and churches, has shipped two truckloads of supplies to Myanmar (Burma) and distributed them to victims of the recent cyclone. COH’s Hal Donaldson said that these shipments consist of protein-enriched rice casserole (donated by Feed my Starving Children of Minneapolis), nonperishable food items, five-gallon buckets, latex gloves, face masks, and other supplies. COH also purchased and shipped 10,000 LifeStraws -- a personal water purification device that provides an individual with up to one year’s supply of safe drinking water. In Myanmar the ministry has implemented a six- to 12-month emergency relief and recovery plan that includes the shipments of food and supplies as well as a staging area in Bangkok, Thailand, where a response team has been assigned to oversee ongoing activities and partner relationships. While COH responds to the cyclone in Myanmar, it is also working with partners in China after the earthquake. COH has teamed up with Federal Express to send a charter plane to China filled with latex gloves and face masks. SRI LANKAN PASTOR, ASSISTANT ABDUCTED, THEN RELEASED Source: Mission Network News, World Evangelical Alliance A Sri Lankan pastor and his assistant were abducted on Saturday, May 31, and later released, according to a report from the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) dated June 4. Pastor Kandiah Sivakumaran and his assistant, Mariyappan Yuvaneswaran, were abducted in Tabbowa in the Puttlam district. “It is reported that they have suffered beatings,” states a WEA website report. “There is no information on the identity of the captors or clear reason for the abductions.” The kidnappers arrived at the scene in a white van in an attack reminiscent of another recent incident when two people were abducted while traveling on the Mannar-Puttlam road. Police continue to investigate. Meanwhile, restrictions on Sri Lankan Christians have been increasing as a new curfew law requires individuals to report where they are going and what they are doing. Another law bans late-night prayer meetings, reported Gospel for Asia (GFA). Students at GFA’s Bible college in Sri Lanka have also faced attacks and harassment. CHRISTIANS HOLD NEGOTIATIONS WITH COLOMBIAN FARC REBELS Source: BosNewsLife Open Doors, a Netherlands-based group defending persecuted Christians, met with the leadership of Colombia’s rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), on Wednesday, June 4, to discuss death threats against Colombian Christians and the closure of 132 churches in the country since 2004. Open Doors said in a statement that as long as Christians follow FARC regulations, “rebels will not start a fight with a church that obeys [their] rules.” One Open Doors pastor in southern Colombia, however, explained that it’s impossible for Christians to obey the rebels’ rules “because we cannot go against biblical principles.” A week earlier FARC founder Manuel Marulanda died of a heart attack, but it’s unknown how his death will affect the situation. For four decades he controlled the 17,000-member force which has dominated a large part of Colombia. FARC also holds hostages in exchange for jailed guerrilla fighters and is using them in a negotiation with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to demilitarize a southern portion of the country. Despite the difficulties, analysts say a U.S.-backed security campaign has weakened FARC as several leaders have been killed or deserted the group. * Together with local partners, HCJB Global Voice broadcasts the gospel on FM stations in four Colombian cities. The ministry also continues to air Spanish programs across the country and all of Latin America via shortwave from Quito. UNKNOWN ASSAILANTS ATTACK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN GAZA STRIP Source: Compass Direct News, Assist News Service An attack on a Christian school in Israel’s Gaza Strip last weekend has created fear among the area’s tiny religious minority, a Palestinian Christian said. Armed attackers broke into the El-Manara school in Gaza City at 2 a.m. Saturday, May 31, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR). The assailants tied down two school guards and beat them before stealing a bus belonging to the Palestinian Bible Society, the PCHR reported. A Palestinian Christian leader who requested anonymity for security reasons said that police had reportedly arrested one of the assailants. But he said it was too early to say who was behind the attack. “It created a lot of fear, and some people are terrified,” he said. The PCHR website calls the attack the “continuation of the security chaos plaguing the occupied Palestinian territory. . . . The center calls upon the authorities to place adequate restrictions to prevent the recurrence of such tragedies in order to protect civilian lives and property.” Christians are outnumbered in Gaza where of 1.6 million inhabitants, only about 2,000 claim to be Christian, and just 200 of these are evangelicals. © Copyright 2008 - HCJB Global - Colorado Springs, CO USA

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