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LIST REVEALS NAMES OF 222 CHRISTIANS KILLED IN SOUTHERN SUDAN POLAND BECOMING MISSIONARY-SENDING NATION AS REVIVAL SPREADS CHILDREN’S OUTREACH BRINGS NEW HOPE TO STREET DWELLERS IN GHANA MINISTRIES REACH OUT TO 1,000 ‘FORGOTTEN REFUGEES’ IN UKRAINE CHRISTIAN IMMIGRANTS SEE NEW YORK AS ‘PRIME CONVERSION GROUND’ ATS URGES AMERICANS TO EXERCISE RIGHT TO VOTE AND CHOOSE CHRIST

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CORRECTION: An article in the July 19 news update inadvertently stated that Hindu extremists have been assassinating Christian leaders in Indonesia. The attackers are actually Muslim extremists.

LIST REVEALS NAMES OF 222 CHRISTIANS KILLED IN SOUTHERN SUDAN Brad Phillips, president of the Persecution Project Foundation (PPF), announced today the release of a list giving the names and ages of 222 Christians who were among 234 civilians killed in Sudanese government-sponsored attacks near Akobo last May. During a recent visit to the region in southern Sudan, Phillips met with representatives of the Presbyterian Church of Sudan to hear firsthand accounts of atrocities committed by militia groups. “Most of the dead are women and children,” Phillips said. “Ninety-three of the victims were children 12 years old or younger.” Another 78 people were wounded, and the raiders also stole 6,000 cattle. Such attacks threaten to disrupt the peace process in Sudan that has endured more than 20 years of civil war. Last year PPF and its partner, Voice of the Martyrs, were the first non-government organizations to assist the displaced Christians in Akobo by delivering tons of Bibles, food, medicine and crisis relief “Life Pack” supplies. This followed Akobo’s return to control by the rebel group, Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, in March 2003. (Assist News Service)

POLAND BECOMING MISSIONARY-SENDING NATION AS REVIVAL SPREADS Poland is experiencing an unprecedented missionary movement and preparing for what may be its largest Christian revival in decades, says a key evangelical leader who narrowly escaped death for his faith in Christ 23 years ago. “Under communism the older generation of believers always had to defend their faith. But this younger generation has more freedom, so they go and are willing to reach others with the gospel,” said Jerzy Marcol, 49, director of Biblical Mission Association (BMA). The ministry has sent 20 missionary workers to hotspots around the globe, including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Papua New Guinea and Russia. Marcol says there is increasing interest in the gospel in Poland, especially among the youth. Hundreds of young people publicly committed their lives to Christ during the “Festival of Life” conference in Wisla, Poland, July 14-18. “In the communist era we had very limited opportunities to be the sending country,” Marcol said. “Now we have a missionary movement from Poland.” He escaped prosecution in 1981 when he refused to say the military oath to “defend communism to my last drop of blood.” The prosecutor told him that he “didn’t know what to do with a soldier who wanted to follow Jesus. But you are free to serve in the army without a military oath.” After leading several suicidal soldiers to Christ, the flabbergasted hospital director told him to “go home and preach the gospel.” Marcol has been working to spread Christianity throughout Poland and beyond ever since. (Assist News Service)

* DEO Recordings, HCJB World Radio’s partner ministry in southern Poland, operates 24-hour-a-day FM radio stations in five cities, making gospel broadcasts available to more than 3 million residents. The ministry is also awaiting approval of a broadcasting license for a sixth city of 1.5 million. A Christian satellite radio network to link the Polish stations and expand the ministry is planned. Programs also air via the Internet (visit http://www.ccm.pl).

CHILDREN’S OUTREACH BRINGS NEW HOPE TO STREET DWELLERS IN GHANA Christians have a powerful message for street children wandering the streets in the West African country of Ghana. They may be despised and rejected by the world, but organizations such as Every Child Ministries (ECM) are demonstrating God’s love to them, opening opportunities to spread the gospel. Since early 2000 ECM has been ministering to street children in the capital city of Accra. In addition to helping with people’s physical needs, missionaries have helped them form their own church leadership team, “giving them a feeling of identity, importance and belonging.” ECM has even had success in reaching children in Ghana’s predominantly Muslim areas, especially in poor, remote areas. Team teachers say the children “listened and participated eagerly in the Bible study.” ECM distributes food to the needy as funds become available. A large shipping container recently arrived in Ghana after three months in transit that contains much-needed supplies and solar panels. Team members are praying that the container will pass easily through customs. (Mission Network News)

MINISTRIES REACH OUT TO 1,000 ‘FORGOTTEN REFUGEES’ IN UKRAINE Camps near the western border of Ukraine contain about 1,000 refugees from countries such as Afghanistan, China, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq and Sierra Leone. These barbed-wire compounds in effect hold entire families as prisoners and are a small part of the largely forgotten refugee problem on Europe’s eastern edge. Some people have paid up to $5,000 to Mafia-type organizations to get them to a country in the European Union (EU), only to find out too late that they have only been taken as far as Ukraine. While some of the people get legal help to be officially recognized as refugees, illegal immigrants receive no help, and their children are not integrated into local schools. Even hospitals are reluctant to treat them. A trustee for the Scottish Agency for Relief and Development (SARD) states that EU countries actually pay Ukrainians to make sure the refugees don’t get any further. A Christian organization called Blythswood Care, together with SARD, has sent tons of aid to a Ukrainian charity to help these desperate people. (Operation Mobilization/Blythswood News)

* HCJB World Radio has worked with local churches to establish radio ministries in Kiev and four other cities in Ukraine. Stations in two Ukrainian cities are also affiliated with New Life Radio, a Russian satellite radio network started with HCJB World Radio’s help in 2000. In addition, daily programs air to Ukraine via shortwave.

CHRISTIAN IMMIGRANTS SEE NEW YORK AS ‘PRIME CONVERSION GROUND’ A generation of Christian immigrants sees New York City as “prime conversion ground,” reported The New York Times. These envoys are traveling to New York to evangelize their compatriots as well as to convert members of other immigrant groups. Missionaries with a twist, they are reversing the path that for generations has sent Americans and Europeans to Africa, Asia and Latin America to spread the gospel. They are drawn to the city’s vast and growing ethnic populations, its reputation as a salvation-needy capital of sin and its status as a major metropolis. Many of the emissaries come from cultures that were themselves the objects of 19th- and early 20th-century European or American missionaries. Like their earlier counterparts, they preach in public (on street corners in some cases), establish churches, and work to educate people and improve their lives. For example, the Church of the Pentecost, the largest Pentecostal denomination in Ghana, has 57 churches in the U.S., including five in New York City. In 2000 the denomination established the Pentecost International Worship Center specifically to reach out to non-Ghanaians. (Religion Today/Charisma News Service)

ATS URGES AMERICANS TO EXERCISE RIGHT TO VOTE AND CHOOSE CHRIST As this fall’s presidential election in the U.S. approaches, the American Tract Society (ATS) has kicked open the gate between preaching and politics with a “God Bless America Voters Pack.” The packs mark the first time in the Christian publisher’s 179-year-old history to incorporate voter registration with gospel tract evangelism. The tract states that refusing to make a choice in voting or in trusting Christ becomes its own choice. “It’s not about partisanship, it’s about the importance of making a choice to exercise the right to vote and claim the precious freedom for which so many have sacrificed and are sacrificing to give us,” said ATS President Dan Southern. “Literature in these packs also extends the significant opportunity to make an eternal choice — that of choosing Christ as a personal Savior, and the eternal freedom that choice brings,” he said. “We are asking folks across the country to participate in one of the most important activities available to them this year — voting — and make one of the most important choices they can make in a lifetime — trusting Christ.” Churches, faith-based groups and individuals are working to distribute the tracts at special events and in their neighborhoods. ATS also partnered with an organization called Redeem the Vote (http://www.redeemthevote.com) to further promote voter registration. (Assist News Service) * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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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