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Today’s News Headlines:

LOCAL AUTHORITIES SHUT DOWN 17 CHURCHES IN INDONESIAN PROVINCE POLICE KEEP EYEWITNESS TO MASSACRE IN PAKISTAN IN PROTECTIVE CUSTODY REPORT: CUBAN GOVERNMENT REMAINS INTOLERANT OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WITNESSING EXPANDS IN CENTRAL ASIA DESPITE REPORTS OF PERSECUTION 1 MILLION PEOPLE EXPECTED TO ATTEND EVANGELISTIC EVENT IN INDIA SCOTTISH MINISTRY LAUNCHES ‘VIRTUAL CHAPEL’ AIMED AT SEEKERS

Today’s News Stories:

LOCAL AUTHORITIES SHUT DOWN 17 CHURCHES IN INDONESIAN PROVINCE Seventeen churches in the Indonesian province of Aceh were closed down by local government authorities in September, reports the Barnabas Fund. Authorities gave no reason for these closures that have deprived more than 10,000 Christians of places to meet for worship. One congregation meets outdoors in a palm oil plantation. Christians in Aceh have been under increasing pressure since the implementation of sharia (Islamic law) in March. Although sharia was only supposed to apply to Muslims, Christian women are being forced to conform to Islamic dress codes. Aceh is a predominantly Islamic province. Implementation of sharia was allowed by the national government as part of a special autonomy agreement aimed at countering a violent separatist movement fighting for an independent Islamic state in Aceh. As a result, Christians are facing increasing difficulties and opposition. (Religion Today)

POLICE KEEP EYEWITNESS TO MASSACRE IN PAKISTAN IN PROTECTIVE CUSTODY One of two eyewitnesses to an execution-style massacre in Karachi Sept. 25 has been placed in “protective custody” for two more weeks by court order, pending security police investigations into the still unsolved attack. On Tuesday a district bench of the Sindh High Court today extended until Oct. 22 police protective custody of 27-year-old Robin Peranditta by Pakistan’s Criminal Investigation Agency. Robin Shareef, the other survivor of the shooting which left seven Christians dead, suffered critical wounds and lies unconscious in a Karachi hospital. Peranditta collapsed under police interrogation a few hours after the terrorist attack on the office where he worked as an errand boy and watchman. Peranditta was severely beaten but not shot when the thugs broke into the downtown Karachi offices of the Institute for Peace and Justice, a Christian welfare organization serving the massive port city’s poor. Court officials said Peranditta’s life is in danger because he saw the murderers. Meanwhile, two more Christian institutions in Pakistan have been targeted by violence since the Karachi attack. On Sunday, Sept. 29, a crude bomb exploded close to the wall of a small interdenominational Christian prayer hall in Baluchistan province. Despite damage to the building’s outer wall, no one was wounded in the remote village church in Kohlu where a few people were meeting. On Friday, Oct. 4, two unidentified men on a motorcycle threw a hand grenade at the main entrance of the Christian Mission Hospital in Bannu, just 30 miles from the Afghan border in Pakistan’s rugged tribal region. The explosion, which barely missed two police guards who had walked back into the compound minutes before, shattered hospital windows but caused no injuries. (Compass)

FIGHTING IN LIBERIA DEPLETES RESOURCES AT CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL In Liberia, looting and vandalism following fighting this spring left a Christian hospital’s resources depleted. World Vision Liberia reports that the facility was in a recovery period, and in need of help. In response, the agency took medicines and supplies to the Phebe Hospital in Bong County. Given the critical needs of the hospital, the latest assistance was timely, opening up fresh opportunities for World Vision workers to share the gospel. (Mission Network News)

* HCJB World Radio works in partnership with ELWA, a ministry founded by SIM in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1954, to air the gospel across the country and West Africa. The radio station was destroyed twice by civil war, first in 1990 and again in 1996. ELWA went back on the air in 1997 with a small FM transmitter supplied by HCJB World Radio. Then in 2000 HCJB World Radio provided a low-power shortwave transmitter, again enabling the station to reach the region. ELWA broadcasts the gospel in 10 languages and plans to add more as resources become available.

WITNESSING EXPANDS IN CENTRAL ASIA DESPITE REPORTS OF PERSECUTION While governments across Central Asia deny the existence of “persecution,” Christians in the region face continual harassment and oppression by area officials, says Bible Mission International’s Mark Reimschisel “We just heard a report out of Uzbekistan where a meeting was broken up,” he said. “Persecution is alive and well, but, in the face of that persecution, the believers see all kinds of new opportunities. And we’re excited that the young people, specifically, have not backed away from the Christian faith. In fact, they’ve embraced it even more.” Reimschisel says the fire of evangelism has swept this generation of believers in Central Asia. “It seems like whether we’re on a bus or in the train stations, or in the market, there’s always an opportunity for them to connect with someone with whom they can share the gospel. So we’re seeing a whole new generation of young people that are really willing to step up to the plate and take Christ to the nations.” (Mission Network News)

* HCJB World Radio is bringing words of hope and encouragement to people across Central Asia via radio. Together with partners, Christian broadcasts go out in Dari, Hazaragi, Pashto, Turkmen, Tajik, Southern Uzbek and Uzbek. These include all five major languages spoken in Afghanistan.

1 MILLION PEOPLE EXPECTED TO ATTEND EVANGELISTIC EVENT IN INDIA South Korean-based Manmin Ministries is expecting up to 1 million people to attend a crusade led by Dr. Lee Jae-Rock in the southeastern Indian city of Chennai (formerly known as Madras) Oct. 10-13. This is close to the traditional site of the martyrdom of Thomas, the doubting disciple who is said to be buried at the San Thom © Cathedral in Chennai. Lee is senior pastor of the 75,000-member Manmin Joong-Ang Church based in Seoul. (Assist News Service)

SCOTTISH MINISTRY LAUNCHES ‘VIRTUAL CHAPEL’ AIMED AT SEEKERS Light a virtual candle — but say a real prayer. That’s one of the options on http://www.rejesus.co.uk, a website launched during the Scottish Christian Resources Exhibition in Edinburgh Oct 3-5. “Even for people turned off by the idea of church and organized religion, Jesus of Nazareth still holds a fascination,” says Simon Jenkins, one of the site’s founders. “The site offers them a chance to explore the person of Jesus by downloading a gospel, watching a movie of His life, even pitting their wits in a pub quiz.” Visitors are encouraged to post a prayer in a virtual chapel. Then they click onto a candle and drop it into a candlestick. It will “burn” for 48 hours. (Assist News Service)

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