Religions > Bible > Pray for the World 18 October 2005 Update From HCJB World Radio
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Pray for the World 18 October 2005 Update From HCJB World Radio |
Pray for the World 18 October 2005 Update From HCJB World Radio
Today's Headlines:
CUBAN AUTHORITIES CONFISCATE PRESS USED TO PRINT SCRIPTURES
MINISTRY PROVIDES LIGHTHOUSE FOR GOSPEL AMID FLOODING IN GUATEMALA
OFFICIALS LEVEL CHURCH USED AS SANCTUARY FOR NIGERIAN LAW OFFICERS
ECUADOR'S WAORANI CHRISTIANS SEEK TO REACH VIOLENT TRIBE
Today's Top Stories:
CUBAN AUTHORITIES CONFISCATE PRESS USED TO PRINT SCRIPTURES
Cuban police raided a private home and confiscated printed Gospels of John
and a small printing press in the city of Colon Sunday, Oct. 9. Five
plainclothes secret police officers entered the house in the morning and
called in 12 armed, uniformed police who used a truck to haul away the
Scriptures and the press. Officials called the materials "subversive and
dangerous." Police then took Pastor Eliseo Rodriguez Matos to the local
police station for interrogation. Matos is the leader of an Assembly of
God church. Police also called Caridad Diego, Cuba's minister of religion,
in Havana. She is an atheist who supports the communist government in
restricting evangelism. Diego said the confiscated printing press was
"very dangerous." "We agree with the government's assessment," said Tom
White, executive director of Voice of the Martyrs, USA. "The Word of God
is dangerous. It can produce eternal freedom in the midst of evil
tyranny!" White was a prisoner in Cuba 25 years ago after the plane from
which he was dropping Christian leaflets crash landed there. (Voice of the
Martyrs)
MINISTRY PROVIDES LIGHTHOUSE FOR GOSPEL AMID FLOODING IN GUATEMALA
Disease now threatens the survivors of Guatemala's mudslides that resulted
from Tropical Storm Stan. Aid has been slow in getting through, mainly
because of the devastation to the area's infrastructure. More than 130,000
people have been directly affected by the storm and its impact on the
region, said Guatemalan President Oscar Berger. AMG International's Roger
Thomas says the organization is still getting damage reports. "We're
fearful that mudslides have completely covered the town [where we have a
children's project]," he said. "Two of our projects have been flooded, and
they tell us that they have lost everything. But some of our other
projects have fared better and are actually being used as shelters for the
communities in which they live." Ministry continues amid the crisis, but
there are many prayer needs. "They're a lighthouse for the area where
people can come," Thomas said. "If there are any supplies, that's where
they will be. In many cases, roads are not passable and relief supplies
are not getting through yet. Food is a situation in the capital city
because it's not able to get into town." (Mission Network News)
OFFICIALS LEVEL CHURCH USED AS SANCTUARY FOR NIGERIAN LAW OFFICERS
Authorities in Nigeria's Kano state have demolished a church that catered
to law officers in a police barracks. The Deeper Life Bible Church in the
city of Kano was destroyed on Aug. 4. Michael Agbahime, 54, pastor of the
church's Brigade Group, said officials from the Kano state Environmental
Agency and Islamic law enforcers known as Hisba demolished the facility.
Agbahime said that Nigerian police authorities had permitted the church to
build the sanctuary for law enforcement personnel at their request, a
common practice across the country. "We have not received any explanation
as to why the church was demolished," he said, "and neither did the
government of Kano state inform police authorities on the reasons for her
actions." Agbahime believes the church was destroyed as part of a campaign
to Islamicize the state. (Compass)
ECUADOR'S WAORANI CHRISTIANS SEEK TO REACH VIOLENT TRIBE
In May a young man named Cawe from the Waorani tribe in Ecuador informed
Dan Edwards, a Calvary Chapel Chino Valley missionary, that some of the
Waorani Christians want to spread the gospel to a splinter group known as
the Tagaeri. Members of the group have continued the revenge killings that
were once prevalent among the Waorani. There will be a large celebration
in January 2006 to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of five
missionaries who were killed by the Waorani Indians -- then known as Aucas
-- in the jungles of Ecuador. This celebration is to commemorate what God
has done in the lives of the Waorani and how He has used those faithful
men to bring the gospel to their people. After this historic occasion
concludes, Edwards and Cawe decided another one will commence -- the
mission to reach the Tagaeri. Jim Elliot, one of the five men who were
killed, wrote, "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what
he cannot lose." Fifty years later that same sentiment has risen within
the hearts of the Waorani. Now they desire to reach the Tagaeri, knowing
full well that it may cost them their lives. (Assist News Service)
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