Zprávy HCJB 7.6.2009 - 13.6.2009

	V Řecku roste zájem o křesťanská knihkupectví, zvláště mezi studenty
	AMG International zaznamenává rostoucí zájem o křesťanská knihkupectví. V Řecku žije asi 25 000 evengelikálů a AMG tam provozovala první křesťanské vydavatelství. Nyní je takových obchodů pět – v Aténách, v Soluni, v Patře, v Larisse a ve Volos. V posledních třech případech s nimi spolupracují místní sbory ve městech. Chtělo by tak učinit více sborů za předpokladu dostatečných finančních zdrojů. Mnoho zákazníků knihkupectví v Patře jsou univerzitní studenti, kteří si sem chodí xeroxovat. Ptají se na vystavenou literaturu a často poprvé se zde setkávají s postavou Ježíše Krista i díky křesťanským pracovníkům obchodu. Ve městě Larissa křesťanské knihkupectví slouží i jako distribuční místo literatury v albánštině, na čemž se podílí misie Operation Mobilization. Zdroj: Mission Network News
	UCLA dovolila studentce při promoci poděkovat Ježíšovi
	Kalifornská univerzita v Los Angeles (UCLA) ustoupila tlaku promující studentky Christine Pope v její kampani na Facebooku a dovolí jí při jejím proslovu poděkovat Pánu Ježíši. Podle Popeové jí Fakulta molekulární, buněčné a vývojové biologie ústy poradkyně Pamely Hurleyové upírala svobodu slova tím, že jí nechtěla dovolit zmínit se o Ježíšovi ve její promoční řeči, protože je to proti fakultním nařízením založeným na principu oddělení církve a státu. Hurleyová řekla, že spojení použité Popeovou „můj Pán a Spasitel Ježíš Kristus“ má být čteno jednoduše „Bůh.“ V následné kampani na Facebooku Popeová získala během několika dní podporu 1500 lidí. Nakonec mluvčí UCLA prohlásil, že škola své postupy změnila a projevy studentů budou čteny v původní verzi. Zdroj: Christian Post
	Biskup ve Phoenixu trestán za zvonění zvonů
	Biskup ve Phoenixu v Arizoně dostal podmíněný trest 10 dní vězení s tříletou zkušební dobou za porušování nařízení města Phoenix o tichu, protože kostelní zvony zvonily k modlitbě každou hodinu. Ani pro bohoslužby nebyla udělena výjimka, ačkoliv zmrzlinářským vozů jejich zvukové efekty město povolilo. Biskup Rick Painter Katedrály Krista Krále se chce pomocí právníků z Aliančního ochranného fondu domáhat zákonnou cestou ochrany svých práv. Zvony na kostelní věži zvonily každou hodinu mezi osmou ráno a osmou večer. Na nejbližší hranici kostelního pozemku byla naměřena hladina 67 decibelů. Šepot je 30 decibelů a normální hovor 60-70 decibelů. Zdroj: Evangelical News, Alliance Defense Fund
	Všechny zprávy v angličtině
	HCJB GLOBAL GERMAN PRODUCERS LAUNCH VOZANDES MEDIA IN QUITO Source: HCJB Global What do recent giant steps of ministry transformation mean to Esther Neufeld, longtime program producer with HCJB Global Voice’s German Language Service (GLS)? Fewer steps to arrive for work. Not that she commuted great distances before, but the new offices of Vozandes Media are just upstairs from her apartment. She lives less than a block from Radio station HCJB in Quito. For years via international shortwave, the voice of Neufeld and other producers has traveled via the airwaves to German-speaking audiences across the Americas and Europe. Vozandes Media--newly formed and officially recognized within Ecuador--is continuing the ministry to German-speaking listeners who respond from 60 countries. Its administration shifts to HCJB Global’s World Office in Germany instead of remaining under the mission’s Latin America Region. For now, shortwave broadcasts from Ecuador are continuing in German and Low German to the Americas while digital shortwave broadcasts on a mere 4,000 watts are sparking positive reports from listeners in Europe and the Americas. Vozandes Media has added as delivery avenues for the message of salvation through Jesus Christ, shortwave and satellite in Europe, as well as podcasts on the Internet. Radio Station HCJB’s shortwave broadcasts are scheduled to end in 2010 as a new international airport near its antenna site east of Quito is set to begin operations. More recently, the German team added to its repertoire of program delivery an option called Phonecaster in which Europeans can select from a variety of German-language programs by calling a specific telephone number. The Low German program enjoys top popularity with a daily broadcast on Phonecaster. In early June, Vozandes Media’s status as a nongovernmental organization was legally recognized in Ecuador. Does this mean that HCJB Global no longer has a German outreach? “No, of course not!” retorted Horst Rosiak who directed the GLS and now heads Vozandes Media. He likened the change to a ship hoisting a different flag, but sailing as usual. “In the future we will work in partnership!” Rosiak, Neufeld and Iris Rauscher will continue the ministry under the flag of Vozandes Media, assisted by Martha de Montenegro and Rebekka Schmidt. Axel and Katja Jeroma will split their time between the German radio ministry and HCJB Global’s Latin America Region in Quito. The beginning of Vozandes Media is reminiscent of the start of German programming in 1953 when Mennonite Brethren Missions/Services established the German Service, constructing the department’s offices at the station 13 years later in 1966. “I believe that the GLS is one of the few departments which used the same office space for 43 years,” said Rosiak, who heads Vozandes Media. Rosiak added that Vozandes Media has been, and will continue to be to its German fans, Die Stimme der Anden (Voice of the Andes). SURVEY: FEW COMMERCIAL U.K. RADIO STATIONS CARRY SPIRITUAL PROGRAMMING Source: HCJB Global Few commercial radio stations in Britain are carrying programming that applies to matters of faith, according to research conducted by HCJB Global-UK. On-air spiritual content in the country is at an all-time low with just 18 of the 300-plus commercial radio stations nationwide broadcasting a regular religious show, indicated survey results released by HCJB Global-UK last week. Of the stations still retaining religious programming, many are relegating such content to early Sunday-morning timeslots and disbanding their religious advisory teams. In the report, compiled by Whistling Frog Productions, the program production arm of Bradford-based HCJB Global-UK, the survey asked Christian producers and presenters nationwide to provide updates on the situation in their own towns and cities. “The regional breakdown of the 18 stations was by no means an even split across the country,” said Director Colin Lowther. “The majority of religious shows are in Scotland--10 out of the 18. Six remain in England and two in Northern Ireland. But each year we see another couple of religious shows disappear from the radar.” “Now must be the time for religious broadcasters to stop making programs for an imaginary Christian audience, and to instead redirect their efforts into producing creative material that is attractive to commercial radio’s largely non-believing audience,” added Lowther. “We need to stop advertising the local church coffee hour and start speaking the language of the listener.” The picture isn’t altogether gloomy, however. Heart 96.3 in Bristol and Heart 103 in Cambridge air a new one-minute, showbiz-style bulletin of fun and serious religious and Christian news that is proving popular. The program is underwritten by sponsors. In West Yorkshire, HCJB Global-UK’s award-winning program, “The Full Breakfast,” recently completed its 12th year of broadcasting on Pulse 2. In the Isle of Man, Manx Radio has been “increasing its religious output steadily for a number of years,” Lowther said. Rather than focus on the traditional world of Christian radio, Whistling Frog Productions “has a vision to reach those outside the church who listen to mainstream radio stations with the aim of placing creative radio material with a spiritual flavor onto local commercial stations,” he explains. “It’s also a resource for Christians who work in the radio industry and offers quality training to aspiring Christian broadcasters.” JOHN MUNDAY, MISSIONARY TO ECUADOR, DIES IN QUITO AT AGE 80 Sources: HCJB Global, God’s Fuel: The Story of John Douglas Munday Known to many as “Don Juanito,” John Douglas Munday died Saturday, June 6, in Quito, Ecuador, at the age of 80. A funeral service and burial was held the following day in Quito. Born Jan. 24, 1929, to Edwin and Jessie May Munday in Victoria, B.C., he later left his home country for a lifetime of missionary service. After several months with missionaries in Peru, he arrived in Ecuador in 1958. An English teacher, Munday was commissioned as a missionary from a Plymouth Brethren assembly known as Victoria Gospel Chapel. During two decades he directed the orphanage, Diospaj Ñan (God’s Way), for boys. Diospaj Ñan offered a home and hope for orphans. A friend, HCJB Global retiree Kay Landers who authored his biography, wrote, “For many years John Munday collected discarded and broken bits of humanity from the streets of Quito. Like the Lord he served, John did not despise the bent reed nor did he extinguish the flickering candle of those whose lives had been cruelly battered by their families and the horrific external circumstances into which they had been born.” Following his time at Diospaj Ñan, he continued to serve the Lord as an independent missionary. Describing Munday’s years in Ecuador, Christian author Elisabeth Elliot, the widow of one of the five missionaries speared to death in the Ecuadorian jungle in 1956, wrote of him, “He offered up his life for the helpless. He suffered for them, with them and because of them. I think John may be numbered among those mentioned in Hebrews, ‘of whom the world was not worthy.’” Munday was renowned for his humor as well as his compassion. Amid long days of caring for children, he also hosted a program, “Llamada Desde los Andes” (Called from the Andes), that aired on Radio Station HCJB. “God gave me much when he gave me wise, loving and godly parents,” Munday wrote in his autobiography. “He didn’t give me a wife, but he did give me secondhand sons and daughters.” Copies of Munday’s book can be ordered by contacting Landers at kaylanders@comcast.net. AGENCY STEPS UP RELIEF EFFORTS IN PAKISTAN AS NEARLY 3 MILLION FLEE FIGHTING Source: Tearfund The suffering and need of millions of Pakistan’s displaced people has the potential to last for many months, according to the U.K. relief and development agency Tearfund. Nearly 3 million people are now reported to be uprooted from their homes in the Swat Valley and neighboring areas of northern Pakistan, local sources said. The majority left when Pakistan’s army began its offensive last month. “The needs are massively underserved and the world’s media attention is elsewhere,” said David Bainbridge, Tearfund’s disaster management director. “At present our response is a drop in the ocean. The delayed media attention to Sri Lanka hindered the humanitarian response there. We must avoid the same situation in Pakistan where limited access and media coverage make this another forgotten crisis where the humanitarian needs of the displaced are inadequately provided for.” World Health Organization officials and local sources reported that some 2.9 million people are estimated to have fled the region in recent weeks. More than half a million are living in camps while the rest are staying with extended families or friends who, in the majority of cases, are themselves poor. The conflict in the Swat Valley involves Pakistani armed forces in an offensive against Taliban militants. DEMAND GROWS FOR CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORES IN GREECE, ESPECIALLY AMONG STUDENTS Source: Mission Network News Increasing demand for Christian bookstores in Greece has been reported by AMG International. Some 25,000 evangelicals live in Greece where AMG has been working for decades and had the first Christian publishing company. There are now five such bookstores in the cities of Athens, Thessaloniki, Patra, Larissa and Volos. Local churches in the latter three cities have partnered with the stores in those cities. More churches are available and willing to create partnerships if financial resources become available. Many of the customers who utilize the bookstore in Patra are university students who make use of the copy machines. They ask questions about the literature they see and often encounter Christ for the first time because of the Christian workers they meet. In Larissa, the bookstore ministry also serves as a distribution center for Christian literature in the Albanian language--a ministry conducted in partnership with Operation Mobilization. * HCJB Global Voice has worked in partnership with Hellenic Mission Union International to establish a radio studio in Athens, Greece. 9 CHRISTIAN AFRICAN JOURNALISTS AWARDED FELLOWSHIPS TO ATTEND CONFERENCE Sources: World Journalism Institute, Evangelical Press Association The World Journalism Institute (WJI) has announced the recipients of the Joel Belz International Media Fellowships for 2009 with fellowships awarded to nine African Christian journalists. This will enable them to attend the annual World Journalism Institute (WJI) Conference for Minority Christian Journalists, held in partnership with the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) to be held in Tampa, Fla. The event will take place on Thursday, Aug. 6, with a special reception for the foreign journalists the following day. The NABJ convention is set for Aug. 5-9. The fellowship award of $2,500 is used to cover conference and convention expenses. This year’s Belz fellows include Segun Adeoye (Nigeria), Shirley Asiedu-Addo(Ghana), Surajudeen Olakunle Awosiyan (Nigeria), Gerald Bareebe (Uganda), Chi Ernest Cho (Cameroon), Florence Mutesi (Rwanda), Sunday Oguntola (Nigeria), Martin Luther Oketch (Uganda) and Tom Osanjo (Keny a). WJI exists to recruit, equip, place and encourage Christians in secular newsrooms across the U.S. and the world. EX-APARTHEID POLICE MINISTER WASHES FEET OF FORMER SUBORDINATES Source: Ecumenical News International A former minister of police in South Africa’s apartheid regime has again washed the feet of people he says he wronged while head of one of the most feared arms of the state--but this time they were apartheid’s foot soldiers themselves. Adriaan Vlok triggered a national debate in 2006 when in a biblical gesture he washed the feet of nine elderly women, all victims of South Africa’s police in the violent crackdown against opponents of the regime in the 1980s, and asked their forgiveness. He did the same for Rev. Frank Chikane who was director general of former South African President Thabo Mbeki’s office and a former general secretary of the South African Council of Churches. Chikane escaped death after being poisoned due to a T-shirt sent to him by the police. In the Free State provincial capital of Bloemfontein, Vlok washed the feet of 13 former police officers and soldiers, asking their forgiveness for “setting a bad example and leading people astray.” “I have sinned against the Lord and against you,” he told them. The foot washing took place during a men’s meeting arranged as a follow-up to lay preacher Angus Buchan’s “mighty men” gathering in May which had been attended by about 140,000 people. Vlok asked about 500 people at the men’s evening if there were any former police officers or soldiers in the audience “who stood in the trenches for the apartheid regime” and whom he could ask for forgiveness. Thirteen men came to the front, and he knelt before them and washed and dried their feet. * HCJB Global Voice has worked with local partners to plant local radio ministries in six South African cities: Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Pinetown, Roodepoort and Badplaas. HCJB Global Hands also helps with projects such as the Living Hope Community Center, including an AIDS clinic operated by partner Fish Hoek Baptist Church in Cape Town. UCLA ALLOWS STUDENT TO THANK JESUS AT GRADUATION Source: Christian Post The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) relented to pressure by graduating student Christiana Popa’s Facebook campaign and will allow her to thank Jesus in her personal statement. Popa claimed the school’s Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, was denying her freedom of speech when she was told by Pamela Hurley, a faculty adviser, that she would not be allowed to mention Jesus in her graduation remark because it went against the department policy based on the principle of separation of church and state. Hurley said that Popa’s reference to “my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” would be read simply as “God.” Popa’s subsequent Facebook campaign received the support of 1,500 people in a matter of days. As a result, a UCLA spokesperson said the school had reviewed its procedures and would read the statements as originally submitted by the students. REPRESSIVE NEW RELIGION LAW, PUNISHMENTS TAKE EFFECT IN AZERBAIJAN Source: Forum 18 News Service Azerbaijan’s new religion law and amendments to both the Criminal Code and the Administrative Code came into force in late May. The latest changes both introduce new “offenses” and introduce new punishments for religious activities and organizations to which the government is opposed. In addition, all religious organizations that have managed to obtain state registration will have to re-register by Jan. 1, 2010, the third time such re-registration has been required since Azerbaijan gained independence some 20 years ago. Many religious organizations fear they will fail to regain their legal status as happened with earlier re-registration rounds. Condemning the adoption of the law and the amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offences was Fazil Gazanfarolgu Mustafaev, a parliamentary deputy and chair of the Great Formation Party. He was one of only about eight deputies to vote against them (while about 100 voted in favor). “The new Religion Law will limit people’s rights to freedom of conscience, that is clear,” he said in an interview in the capital city of Baku on Wednesday, June 3. PHOENIX BISHOP HANDED SENTENCE FOR HOURLY RINGING OF CHURCH BELLS Sources: Evangelical News, Alliance Defense Fund A bishop in Phoenix, Ariz., received a suspended sentence of 10 days in jail and three years’ probation for violating a Phoenix noise ordinance because his church rang its bells hourly as a way of praising God. The ordinance does not include an exemption for religious worship, though it does provide an exemption for ice cream trucks. Bishop Rick Painter of Cathedral of Christ the King has retained attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund to pursue legal options to defend his rights. The bells at the church normally chime at the top of every hour from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The bells have been registered to emit only 67 decibels from the nearest property line. A whisper is 30 decibels, and a normal conversation is about 60 to 70 decibels. © Copyright 2009 - HCJB Global - Colorado Springs, CO USA

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