Zprávy HCJB 26.7.2009 - 31.7.2009

	Překladatelské centrum bude nadějí válkou zmítaného Konga
	Násilný konflikt v Demokratické republice Kongo hubí denně asi 1200 lidí a je označován za původce jedné z nejhorších nastávajících humanitárních krizí. Průměrná délka života současných obyvatel Konga není ani 50 let. Podle Wycliffe Associates tato země potřebuje Ježíše víc, než kdy předtím, a proto založí překladatelské centrum na severovýchodě Konga ve městě Bunia. „Nedávno se právě v této oblasti násilnosti zmírnily,“ řekl Buce Smith z Wycliffe Associates. „Je to místo pro mír a bezpečnost. Pokud si pospíšíme, můžeme založit trvalou překladatelskou stanici. Křesťané v Kongu žádají, aby tato možnost nebyla promarněna.“ Centrum má být při Univerzitě Shalom a plánuje překlad Bible do pěti nových jazyků. 1.6 milionu lidí tak získá vůbec poprvé. „Misionáři nám také znovu a znovu říkají, že jakmile lidé pocítí v srdcích slova Bible v jejich vlastní řeči, konfliktů ubývá,“ řekl Smith. *HCJB World Radio spolupracuje na místním rozhlasovém vysílání evangelia v Konžské dem. republice na VKV ve městech Boma, Bukavu a Kinshasa. Programy jsou v angličtině, francoužštině, jazycích Kikongo Fioti, Lingala, Luba a Swahilštině. Týdenní programy jsou vysílány v jazycích Songe, Kikongo San Salvador na místních VKV stanicích v zemi.
	Konzervativní aktivista napadl Barnovu zprávu a homosexuálech
	Konzervativní aktivista Peter LaBarbera zpochybňuje některé závěry křesťanského analytika George Barny týkající se „Duchovního profilu dospělých homosexuálů.“ Podle nového Barnova průzkumu mezi dospělými homosexuály se 27% z nich považuje za znovuzrozené křesťany a 43% má „pravověrné biblické vnímání Boha.“ Podle Barny „lidé vydávající dospělé gaye za bezbožné prostopášníky štítící se evangelia neberou v úvahu fakta. Výrazná většina gayů uvádí, že víra je ústřední částí jejich života, považují se za křesťany a vyjadřují určitý osobní vztah k Ježíši Kristu v každodenním životě.“ Barnův termín „homosexuální křesťan“ však LaBarberu provokuje k otázce „Co bychom řekli průzkumu o křesťanech vyžívajících se v pornografii nebo o křesťanech provozujících krvesmilstvo? Zní to tvrdě, ale myslím, že biblicky vzato je to přiléhavá analogie.“ LaBarbera, který vede skupinu Američané za pravdu o homosexualitě řekl: „Myslím, že na světě jsou křesťané zápasící s hříchem homosexuality – ale co je to hrdý homosexuální křesťan? Je to pro mě protimluv, stejně jako třeba hrdý cizoložný křesťan.“
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	TRANSLATION CENTER TO PROVIDE HOPE IN WAR-TORN DEM. REP. OF CONGO Source: Mission Network News Labeled as one of the world’s worst ongoing humanitarian crises, the conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) leaves nearly 1,200 dead each day of conflict-related causes. The life expectancy in DRC is below 50 years. Wycliffe Associates realized this country needs Jesus more than ever and will be constructing a Bible translation center in Bunia in northeastern DRC. Some of the violence has subsided in this region recently, according to Wycliffe’s Bruce Smith. “There’s a window of peace of security,” he said. “If we move quickly, we can establish a permanent translation center. The Christians of the DRC are begging for this opportunity not to be missed.” The center will be at Shalom University with plans to translate the Bible into five new languages. This will give 1.6 million people access to the Scriptures in their own language for the first time. “Missionaries tell us again and again that conflict s ubsides when people begin to absorb the Bible in their own heart language,” Smith said. * HCJB Global Voice works with local partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo to broadcast the gospel on Christian stations in Boma, Bukavu and Kinshasa. Programs go out in English, French, Kikongo Fioti, Lingala, Luba and Swahili. Weekly programs in the Songe and Kikongo San Salvador languages also air from local FM stations in the country. REPORT: CHURCHES KEY TO MEETING LOCAL COMMUNITIES’ NEEDS WORLDWIDE Source: Tearfund Local churches are the answer to community needs, according to a report published by Tearfund on July 19. “In the Thick of It,” a position paper making the case for Tearfund’s view that local churches are key players in international development, describes the role local churches are taking around the world in meeting local community needs. “We passionately believe that local churches have something extremely valuable to offer, around the world,” said Matthew Frost, chief executive of Tearfund. “In our experience, faith and development are inextricably linked in the developing world, and that makes the church an essential partner in delivering sustainable development at the heart of the world’s poorest communities. In fact, we would argue that there are some parts of the world where development simply would not happen without the local church.” The paper calls on governments and international donors to recogn ize the role of faith in development and to develop strategies to engage with faith groups. “It’s very encouraging to see the British government take a huge step forward in recognizing the role of churches in meeting local needs and in engaging with local communities to facilitate discussion and come up with local solutions,” added Frost. “It’s time to translate debate about faith and development into active partnership. And it’s time for the church in the West to realize fully its role and potential in tackling poverty at home and overseas.” DOORS CONTINUE TO OPEN TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL IN SLOVAKIA Source: Mission Network News Only a few thousand evangelical believers live in Slovakia where staff members with Greater Europe Mission (GEM) train youth leaders. GEM’s Linda Shattuck says there’s an opening for the gospel, and more workers are needed. “In the last 10 years Slovakia has gone through the changes that the U.S. has gone through since the 1920s. In a short amount of time, their whole society has turned upside down. They used to be a communist country, and now they’re becoming more capitalistic, and there’s been a void. People are really seeking.” Shattuck requested prayer for more cooperation among evangelical denominations in Slovakia as well as for courage for Christians who face opposition to the gospel. “Pray that they would be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit, but also bold and not afraid that their friends are going to think badly of them or that they might be penalized at work,” she said. * HCJB Global Voice helped put the first evangelical radio station in Slovakia on the air in Banská Bystrica in January 2009. The station broadcast 12 hours in Slovak and 12 hours in Czech. Programs in Slovak also air on Trans World Radio’s 24-hour satellite service (Radio 7) and the Internet (www.radio7.cz). In addition, Slovak programs air on Radio Lumen, a Catholic station in Banská Bystrica. APPLE MAKES YOUTH’S ‘NOTE TO GOD’ APPLICATION AVAILABLE ON IPHONE Source: The Sacramento Bee Across the ages, people have reached out to God with prayers and supplications. Soon they might be able to use their iPhones! Teenager Allen Wright thought up an application (app) for the Apple iPhone called “A Note to God.” It lets iPhone users send prayers into cyberspace and allows them to read the prayers of others. The messages are stored in a database, and users remain anonymous. Wright submitted his proposal to Medl Mobile, a Los Angeles firm that is developing apps for Apple to sell on its website. A Note to God was selected from 20,000 proposals. Wright, a high school junior at Fair Oaks, Calif., said he came up with the idea while lying in bed and feeling lonesome. “If you want to send a message and you don’t have anybody to talk to, you could send a little prayer,” he said. Apps, which iPhone users download from Apple, include everything from playing games to finding restaurants and transforming their iPhones into r emote controls. There are hundreds of other applications. Wright said he prays regularly and attends New Life Community Church in Fair Oaks. His favorite iPhone app is one that calls up quotes from Scripture. RELAXED RESTRICTIONS ON EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH RAISE CONCERNS Sources: The Washington Post, Baptist Press New guidelines on stem cell research in the U.S. allow federal fund appropriations to research many of the approximately 700 embryonic stem cell lines believed to exist. If researchers demonstrate that such cells were derived using ethical procedures, new rules permit research to study disorders and develop cures. While use of embryonic stem cells was not prohibited under the Bush administration, federal funding was limited to a small number of stem cell lines. Acting National Institute of Health (NIH) Director Raynard Kington said all embryonic stem cell lines that qualified for federal funding would have to meet a series of ethical requirements: the embryo that was destroyed to create a line must have been discarded after an in vitro fertilization procedure; donors must have been informed that the embryo would be destroyed for stem cell research and made fully cognizant of their choices, including donating the embryo to another couple who want a baby; no donors could have been paid for an embryo; and no threats or inducements could have been used to nudge couples toward making a donation. Critics say the relaxed restrictions could lead to ethical abuses, conflicts of interest and manipulation of infertile couples. They also expressed concern that the NIH guidelines fail to require that the fertility doctor and the embryonic stem cell researcher be different people. CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST CHALLENGES BARNA REPORT ON HOMOSEXUALS Source: OneNewsNow Conservative activist Peter LaBarbera is questioning some of the conclusions Christian researcher George Barna reached in his “Spiritual Profile of Homosexual Adults.” The new Barna survey of homosexual adults finds that 27 percent qualify as born-again Christians and 43 percent have an “orthodox, biblical perception of God.” According to Barna, “people who portray gay adults as godless, hedonistic, Christian bashers are not working with the facts. A substantial majority of gays cite their faith as a central facet of their life, consider themselves to be Christian and claim to have some type of meaningful personal commitment to Jesus Christ active in their life today.” Barna’s use of the term “homosexual Christians” prompted LaBarbera to ask, “Would we be talking about a survey of porn-using Christians or incestuous Christians? That sounds stark, but that is, I believe, the appropriate biblical analogy.” LaBarbera, who heads Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, said, “I think there are Christians who struggle with the sin of homosexuality--but proud homosexual Christians? That’s an oxymoron to me in the same way as I would say proud adulterous Christians.” RETALIATORY VIOLENCE BY BANNED MAOIST PARTY IN INDIA PUTS CHRISTIANS AT RISK Sources: Gospel for Asia, Assist News Service A ban by India’s parliament on the Maoist Communist Party of India has been welcomed by many, but it also raises concerns of increased retaliatory violence by Maoist rebels terrorizing West Bengal. The violence is causing serious problems for missionaries supported by Gospel for Asia (GFA) who are working in that state. The parliament officially labeled the Maoist Communist Party as a terrorist organization, giving authorities increased powers to arrest the rebels. The BBC reported that at least 6,000 people have been killed in Maoist violence in India while Newsweek magazine estimating the number of Maoist rebels at 10,000. The rebels are accused of extorting money from the poor and anyone associated with helping them. The rebels are most numerous in a five-state area of eastern India where the average family lives on less than 45 cents a day. A GFA correspondent reported that the group’s threats cause frequent strikes that shut down businesse s and government services. The fear of bloodshed makes it difficult to carry out ministry activities such as preaching, church construction and the drilling of wells. GFA has seven Christian fellowships, a Bridge of Hope center and five missionaries working in this area. * Radio programs in 12 languages air to India from HCJB Global-Australia’s shortwave station in Kununurra. Most of the programs are produced at the ministry’s studios in New Delhi, India. BELARUS PASTOR BANNED FROM PREACHING, CHURCH MAY SHUT DOWN Source: Assist News Service Belarus has warned a church in the capital city of Minsk that it could be closed after Ukrainian Pastor Boris Grisenko preached at a worship service, Forum 18 News Service reported. He was also fined. District police chief Viktor Pravilo refused to say how he had found out that Grisenko was preaching in the New Testament Pentecostal Church; however, churches in the country have often complained of “KGB secret police surveillance.” Pravilo said that “foreigners engaged in religious activity have long been a target of state hostility, along with their Belarusian co-religionists.” Catholic priests and nuns have regularly been expelled from Belarus, but the authorities announced on Wednesday, July 15, that they had completed the draft text of a concordat. It is unclear whether this will address violations of freedom of religion or belief. CONCERNS GROW REGARDING FATE OF 2 DETAINED CHRISTIAN IRANIAN WOMEN Source: BosNewsLife As the world focuses on the political turmoil in Iran, two detained Christian women are “in danger of being forgotten” amid concerns they may face execution, say Iranian Christians. Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, and Maryam Rustampoor, 27, have been held for nearly five months in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, apparently for converting to Christianity from Islam. Iranian Christians and rights investigators said the two young women, who were arrested on March 5, have suffered from sleep deprivation as part of police interrogations and were held in solitary confinement for three weeks in May and early June. A month later there was still no clarity regarding the case of the two, with one judge reportedly telling them they were both to be executed as “apostates.” After international pressure, the Iranian government’s parliamentary committee reportedly removed articles stipulating the death penalty for apostasy from the Islamic Pen al Code Bill, but the changes still have to be approved by legislators. MALAYSIA SET TO RULE ON USE OF ‘ALLAH’ AMONG NON-MUSLIMS Source: Compass Direct News With a Malaysia high court scheduled to determine the legality of the word “Allah” in non-Muslim literature, what is at stake goes beyond the sanctioned name for God among non-Muslims in a majority-Muslim nation. Already Malaysia’s government does not recognize the conversions and marriages of ex-Muslims Authorities also consider converts’ offspring to be legally Muslim. Malaysian authorities and Malaysia’s Roman Catholic Church have continued to lock horns over use of the word “Allah” in the Malay-language edition of The Herald, the church’s newspaper, as they await the ruling. The newspaper had been allowed to use the term until a final court decision, but the Kuala Lumpur High Court on May 30 overturned that brief reprieve. The Catholic newspaper has provided panoply of historical uses of “Allah” among Christians in Malaysia. Editor Lawrence Andrew quotes examples from a Malay-Latin dictionary dated 1631 and the Dutch-Malay Dictionary of 1650 which list “Allah” as the vernacular translation for God. Malaysia’s population is about 60-percent Muslim, 19-percent Buddhist and 9-percent Christian. About 6 percent are Hindu with 2.6 percent of the population adhering to Confucianism, Taoism and other traditional Chinese religions. © Copyright 2009 - HCJB Global - Colorado Springs, CO USA

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