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ARMED MEN MURDER ANOTHER PROMINENT INDONESIAN CHURCH LEADER PASTOR, ASSOCIATE IN INDIA RELEASED ON BAIL AFTER 6 WEEKS IN JAIL HINDU VILLAGERS IN INDIA EXHUME CHRISTIAN’S BODY IN CEMETERY DISPUTE BELIEVERS IN RURAL BOLIVIAN TRIBE FACE INCREASING PERSECUTION TEACHERS HELP MISSIONARIES STAY ON THE FOREIGN FIELD LONGER AUSTRALIAN CHURCH TO MARK BIBLE SOCIETY’S 200TH ANNIVERSARY

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ARMED MEN MURDER ANOTHER PROMINENT INDONESIAN CHURCH LEADER In what has become a seriously disturbing trend, another prominent Christian leader has been murdered in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Rev. Susianty Tinulele, 26, of the Presbyterian Christian Church of Central Sulawesi in Palu, was preaching the evening of Sunday, July 18, when attackers sprayed her and the worship team with gunfire. Tinulele died instantly after being shot through the head. Another woman, Desrianti Tengkede, 17, was also killed. Three other worshipers were seriously wounded and are recovering in a local hospital. Witnesses report that four men on motorbikes, wearing black masks, arrived at the front door of the church and opened fire with machine guns. The attack culminated a weekend of violence in Central Sulawesi in which a bomb exploded outside a cultural center Saturday night. That same evening Helmy Tombiling, 35, a well-known Christian in the area, was stabbed to death. Jihad attackers have tried many times to reignite a large-scale conflict in Central Sulawesi since fighting in the area from 1998 to 2001 left 2,000 people dead. In December 2001 the Malino Accord was signed, resulting in a dramatic decline in communal clashes. However, sporadic attacks have continued. In November 2003 Hindu extremists began assassinating Christian leaders and conducting carefully planned machine gun attacks on worshipers during church services. (Religious Media Agency)

* HCJB World Radio worked with local Indonesian partners to establish a local Christian station in Sumba Island. Plans are also being made to establish stations on Roti Island and at Kupang in West Timor. Equipment was sent from the HCJB World Radio Engineering Center in Elkhart, Ind.

PASTOR, ASSOCIATE IN INDIA RELEASED ON BAIL AFTER 6 WEEKS IN JAIL A Christian pastor and his associate in India, jailed six weeks ago for allegedly violating the anti-conversion law in India’s eastern Orissa state, were released on bail Wednesday, July 14. Subas Samal and Dhaneshwar Kandi of Kilipal village had been arrested May 29 and charged with “conversion by inducement” under the Orissa Freedom of Religion Act. Their arrest came after local Hindu villagers forcibly shaved the heads of Samal and six local Christian women to mark their “re-conversion” to Hinduism. After Hindu villagers were arrested in connection with that incident, locals retaliated by bringing charges of illegal conversion against Samal and Kandi. A court magistrate insisted on carefully studying the men’s case file before granting bail because theirs is the first case brought under the state’s anti-conversion law. Now free, local believers are working to negotiate a peaceful solution to the conflict with their Hindu neighbors in Kilipal. (Religion Today/Compass)

HINDU VILLAGERS IN INDIA EXHUME CHRISTIAN’S BODY IN CEMETERY DISPUTE Madhu Chandra, coordinator of Operation Mobilization’s work in Chandigarh, India, has appealed to the All India Christian Council to look into the case of the body of a Christian believer that was removed from a cemetery in the northeastern state of Manipur last week. The body was that of the mother of the pastor in Patsoi village. She had died on Tuesday, July 13. A small group of 25 Christians meet in Patsoi, a village of 500 homes. Local believers had purchased land in the village so that it could be used as a church cemetery. When the woman’s body was ready to be buried in the cemetery, many villagers protested, saying they could not have a Christian cemetery in their village. The original landowner of the cemetery claimed that the land was sold to the church for a park, not a cemetery. However, the sale deed “clearly mentioned the purpose of cemetery,” Chandra explained. Christians later reburied the woman in the cemetery of a nearby Christian village. They have appealed to local police officers in the case, but so far the officials have taken no action. (Assist News Service)

BELIEVERS IN RURAL BOLIVIAN TRIBE FACE INCREASING PERSECUTION SIM workers say that believers among Bolivia’s Aymara people are being persecuted for their faith. Tribal leaders such as Felipe Quispe are working to unify the Aymara communities against the Bolivian government and the Spanish minority which control the country’s resources and wealth. The Aymaras say they have been downtrodden for 500 years and want to throw off the rule of what they consider to be “foreigners” in their land. Aymara leaders are pressuring local communities throughout the region to reject evangelicals and Catholics alike and to return to the animistic beliefs of the ancient Incas. Pastors report an increasing resistance by the Aymara leadership against their work of evangelism, discipleship and even ministry inside the churches. One Aymara pastor was preaching in a rural evangelical church on a recent Sunday morning when Quispe happened to be in the same town spreading political propaganda. After hearing that some of the villagers were attending an evangelical church service, he tracked down the church and interrupted the pastor’s sermon. He grabbed the Bible out of his hands and threw it on the ground, stating, “This is American propaganda. We do not believe in this book. We believe in the Inca gods. That is what Aymaras believe. We reject this book.” (SIM)

* 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.

TEACHERS HELP MISSIONARIES STAY ON THE FOREIGN FIELD LONGER Teachers are helping missionaries stay on the mission field longer, says Michelle Baxter who works with Greater Europe Mission, a partner in SHARE Education Services — a pool of educators from 14 different mission organizations. “It’s pretty difficult to have one educator to know all the needs of a child from kindergarten all the way up to high school. So if you pool all the educators in one area, then we can all work in our areas of expertise.” Education is a concern of all missionary families. “One of the top three reasons that missionary families come home is because they feel the educational needs of their kids are not being addressed, and that’s where we step in to help,” Baxter says. “All sorts of teaching positions are needed, including kindergarten teachers, speech therapists and educational counselors. It’s a perfect opportunity to make an eternal difference not only the students, but also for those the missionaries are able to minister while they remain on the field.” (Mission Network News)

AUSTRALIAN CHURCH TO MARK BIBLE SOCIETY’S 200TH ANNIVERSARY St. Swithun’s Anglican Church in Pymble, Australia, will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Bible Society with a Bible-reading marathon that will go from Monday to Saturday, July 26-31. More than 70 readers, including some local celebrities, will take part in “Bible Aloud 200.” The entire Bible will be read aloud in 15-minute segments starting at 6:30 a.m. and ending at 10:30 p.m. daily. Pastor Roger Chilton said the marathon was being held for two reasons. “Firstly, as chairman of Bible Society in Australia, we wanted to celebrate the society’s worldwide bicentennial, and secondly, as a local parish church, we wanted to give the church a common task and get them excited about telling other people about the Bible.” Organizer Christopher Clark added, “As far as we are aware, this will be the first complete public reading ever of the Contemporary English Version of the Bible in any church.” (Bible Society New South Wales) * * * * * * * * * * * * * James A. Ferrier HCJB World Radio U.S. Ministries Communications Director E-mail: Phone: 1-719-590-9800 Fax: 1-719-590-9801 Web: http://www.hcjb.org http://www.beyondthecall.org * * * * * * * * * * * * *

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