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GUERRILLAS IN COLOMBIA KILL 2 MORE CATHOLIC PRIESTS CHINESE CHRISTIAN BEATEN IN PRISON, ANOTHER CHURCH MEMBER KILLED BRAZILIAN OFFICIALS EXPEL MISSIONARIES FROM INDIAN RESERVATION BELARUS RELIGION LAW OUTLAWS SOME ORTHODOX CHURCHES MEDICAL OUTREACH IN IRAQ MAY LEAD TO PERMANENT MISSIONS PRESENCE SPECIAL AUDIO PLAYERS ASSIST BIBLE TEACHING IN RURAL BOLIVIA

Today’s News Stories:

GUERRILLAS IN COLOMBIA KILL 2 MORE CATHOLIC PRIESTS In less than 24 hours, two Roman Catholic priests in Colombia were killed last week, reported Zenit. In both cases, authorities are looking for motives behind the killings, but the assassination of religious leaders by Marxist guerrillas is common in Colombia. On Tuesday, Nov. 4, Father Saulo Carre ±o, 41, and hospital employee Maritza Linares were driving near Sarare Hospital in Saravena when two men approached on a motorcycle and began shooting. Both occupants of the car were killed. In a separate incident that night, Father Enrique L ³pez, 44, was bound, gagged and stabbed to death in his home in Villavicencio. His body was found the next morning by his housekeeper. (Voice of the Martyrs)

CHINESE CHRISTIAN BEATEN IN PRISON, ANOTHER CHURCH MEMBER KILLED A Chinese house church leader was beaten in prison, and a female church member was beaten to death in two recent incidents of persecution in China. Newly incarcerated Chinese Christian Zhang Yi-nan was badly beaten by fellow inmates Monday, Nov. 10, on the first day of his two-year imprisonment for “anti-party, anti-socialist” writings. Officials used excerpts from his personal prayer journal to convict him. For example, they said he wrote that he was “asking the Lord to destroy the strongholds in China.” Zhang was reportedly beaten by fellow inmates as “lesson 1” in his so-called re-education. Yi-nan played a key role in the growing house church movement in his area. He was arrested in Ping Ding Shan City Sept. 26 and sentenced last weekend to two years of “re-education through labor.”

News about the beatings came as family and friends mourned the death of a 33-year-old woman, Zhang Hong-mei, who was arrested Oct. 29 for her faith. At 2 p.m on the day of her arrest in Dong Miao Dong village near Ping Du City in Shandong province, her family was called by police and told to pay a bribe worth the equivalent of US$400. The family couldn’t raise that money, so at 7 p.m. Hong-mei’s husband, Xu Feng-hai, and her brother went to the Public Security Bureau (PSB) to request her release They found her bound with heavy chains and “visibly wounded,” and they were not allowed to speak with her. The following afternoon the family was called to the PSB station where they were told that Hong-mei had died that day at noon. An autopsy showed numerous wounds to her face, hands and legs, and serious internal bleeding. In a daring sign of defiance, about 1,000 people joined in a protest march in front of city offices the following day as the family went to city officials to request an inquiry. (Voice of the Martyrs)

BRAZILIAN OFFICIALS EXPEL MISSIONARIES FROM INDIAN RESERVATION New Tribes missionaries who have lived in tribal Brazil for almost 40 years have been told by officials to leave. They say only government workers are allowed on the Indian reservations. The Marubo land has only recently been declared a reservation, and representatives from the Indian department pleaded for the missionaries to be allowed to say — at least until they could get their own workers in place. The missionaries say the Marubos are “upset and anxious to overturn the decision.” Since the order was issued, the missionaries have stopped entering the reservation, but the Indians visit them in their houses nearby. (Christian Herald)

* HCJB World Radio broadcasts the gospel in Portuguese to Brazil via shortwave from Quito, Ecuador, and maintains a world office and radio studios in Curitiba. Portuguese programs, which have been on the air continuously since 1947, generate more listener letters than any language service at Radio Station HCJB in Ecuador. The ministry’s Portuguese programs also air on local radio stations across Brazil.

BELARUS RELIGION LAW OUTLAWS SOME ORTHODOX CHURCHES Orthodox Christian communities may register in Belarus, but only with the approval of a local Moscow patriarchate bishop, said Vasili Marchenko, the official in charge of religious affairs in the Brest region. While the 2002 Belarusian law on religion states that registration is compulsory, it makes no mention of approval by a Moscow patriarchate bishop in the case of Orthodox applications. The Simferopol and Crimea diocese of the Russian True Orthodox Church, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad headed by Metropolitan Lavr (Skurla) of East America and New York, has three parishes in Belarus, all of which have been refused registration and are now “illegal.” (Forum 18 News Service)

MEDICAL OUTREACH IN IRAQ MAY LEAD TO PERMANENT MISSIONS PRESENCE Despite the increasing number of attacks against U.S. soldiers in Iraq, the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) is taking measures to make a permanent presence in the country. “We’ve targeted medical aid as a way to establish a helping presence in Iraq,” says a ministry spokesman called “Doc” who just returned from his second trip to the country. “In the long term we hope to establish a missionary presence there. Right now we see an open door, and obviously there are many needs.” The Iraqi medical system has been in a shambles for years, he says. “A lot of people don’t understand that with the embargo after the Gulf war, there was an embargo on knowledge. Doctors there told me they are years behind Western medicine, and they want to catch up.” Doc contacted a medical school in the U.S. that is willing to help. He says while a few Iraqis want Americans to leave the country, many others have another view. “The Americans have stayed. They’re doing a lot of the things they said they would do, and I think some trust is starting to be established. It’s still not secure . . . but the Iraqis now have some hope.” (Mission Network News)

SPECIAL AUDIO PLAYERS ASSIST BIBLE TEACHING IN RURAL BOLIVIA In Bolivia “TapeTalk2” audio players are being placed in a rural Quechua village, reports Audio Scripture Ministries (ASM). The mission recently began a series of small shipments of the special wind-up, solar-powered players that are designed exclusively for missions use. ASM works with Bible translators, missionaries and others who recognize the need for Scriptures in audio format. They also assist projects such as leadership training, evangelism and Bible literacy, teaming with those on the field to provide the appropriate playback equipment, training and strategy. (Mission Network News)

* HCJB World Radio has worked with local radio partners to plant local AM and FM stations in the Bolivian cities of Santa Cruz, Tarija and Tupiza. Four stations with eight transmitters in four cities (La Paz, Caranavi, Santa Cruz and Sucre) are also affiliated with the ALAS, the ministry’s Latin American satellite radio network that makes Spanish programs available to local stations 24 hours a day.

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