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MILITANT HINDUS SUSPECTED OF KILLING CATHOLIC PRIEST IN INDIA CHRISTIAN RADIO PROGRAMMER IN INDIA PLACED UNDER HOUSE ARREST FIGHTING IN DEM. REP. OF CONGO FAILS TO STOP MISSIONARY PILOTS 8 NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS FORM NETWORK IN NICARAGUA 37,000 VIEW ‘JESUS’ FILM IN ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, IN ONE WEEK CONSERVATIVE GROUPS HAIL REJECTION OF GAY MARRIAGE IN ARIZONA

Today’s News Stories:

MILITANT HINDUS SUSPECTED OF KILLING CATHOLIC PRIEST IN INDIA A Catholic priest in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, was found dead in his hermitage on Tuesday, Oct. 7, apparently the victim of foul play. While not excluding disputes by neighbors, the investigation is centering on threats he had recently received from militant Hindus, reported the news agency Zenit. Attacks by militant Hindu groups against Christians have been increasing in recent months, especially in states where anti-conversion laws have been passed. (Voice of the Martyrs)

CHRISTIAN RADIO PROGRAMMER IN INDIA PLACED UNDER HOUSE ARREST Dhoniam, one of Gospel for Asia’s radio producers in India, is under house arrest — along with his young family — because of their Christian faith. They are not allowed to contact anyone unless they deny their faith in Christ. This has interrupted the production of GFA’s broadcasts in the Marwari language that can reach a potential listening audience of 13 million in India and Nepal. Dhoniam said the persecution is coming from members from his own extended family. (Gospel for Asia)

FIGHTING IN DEM. REP. OF CONGO FAILS TO STOP MISSIONARY PILOTS Missionary pilots are continuing their work in the Democratic Republic of Congo despite renewed fighting in the war-torn country. United Nations peacekeepers beefed up their presence in the country last week after a massacre took place in the northeast. Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) President Gary Bishop says the volatile war has forced the ministry to move at least one of its pilots across the border to Uganda. “We actually do our flying, each day, back and forth from Uganda into the areas that we can clear with the local military commanders and others,” Bishop said. “Obviously, as you can imagine, with fighting going on, anything in the air can be a target.” MAF pilots fly mission teams into the area to support a growing evangelistic work, especially in needy refugee camps. Fighting in the country has claimed more than 3 million lives since 1998, an average of more than 1,500 per day. (Mission Network News)

* HCJB World Radio works with local partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo to broadcast the gospel on FM 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.

8 NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS FORM NETWORK IN NICARAGUA Eight non-governmental organizations in the Central American country of Nicaragua have signed a memorandum of understanding in Managua to improve coordination and response to natural disasters in that country. The eight organizations include World Vision, Red Cross International Federation, OXFAM Great Britain, CARE, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), Catholic Relief Services, Centro Humbolt, and the Consultora para la Investigaci ³n y el Desarrollo en Nicaragua. They formed a network to share experiences, lessons learned and provide inter-institutional training to improve disaster response capacity. Plinio Vergara, country director for ADRA Nicaragua, will serve as coordinator of the network for the next year. “In the past, humanitarian organizations have responded to disasters separately. Now we want to provide a coordinated and standardized response,” Vergara said during the signing of the memorandum. (Assist News Service)

* HCJB World Radio works with partner ministries in two cities of Nicaragua. Radio Capilla Sin Paredes (Radio Chapel Without Walls) in Managua receives programming from ALAS, the ministry’s Latin American satellite radio network with more than 100 outlets in 18 countries. Staff members from the HCJB World Radio Engineering Center in Elkhart, Ind., also have provided technical help to a station in La Trinidad.

37,000 VIEW ‘JESUS’ FILM IN ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, IN ONE WEEK More than 37,000 people in St. Petersburg, Russia, came to view the “Jesus” film during the first week of October, reported Campus Crusade for Christ. Many were surprised to see the film’s impact on children and youth. The younger children, who are usually less attentive, were “very well behaved and interested in the film.” Organizers say one of the biggest problems is the small response to follow-up meetings as viewers seem afraid to get involved in a “sect.” There are no evangelical churches within a 30-minute bus ride of the area where the film is being shown. More than 100,000 people live in the area. (Mission Network News/Assist News Service)

CONSERVATIVE GROUPS HAIL REJECTION OF GAY MARRIAGE IN ARIZONA Conservative Christian organizations are cheering an opinion by Arizona’s Court of Appeals which concluded that same-sex partners do not have the legal right to marry. “We hold that the fundamental right to marry protected by our federal and state constitutions does not encompass the right to marry a same-sex partner,” said Judge Ann Scott Timmer on Wednesday, Oct. 8. “The choice to marry a same-sex partner has not taken sufficient root to receive constitutional protection as a fundamental right.” The Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal group, called the case a defeat of an effort by a gay couple to apply the Supreme Court’s decision upholding sodomy to same-sex marriage. “The Arizona Court of Appeals rejected any notion that Lawrence vs. Texas legitimized same-sex marriage,” said the chief counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, also welcomed the ruling. “The court’s decision is completely in line with both the historical and legal definitions of marriage,” he said. The court concluded that the couple failed in their attempts to argue that same-sex marriage is a “fundamental right” and that Arizona voters, working through their elected representatives or a state initiative, would be the ones to determine whether same-sex marriages should be permitted. (Religion News Service)

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