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SOUTH KOREAN MISSIONARIES WARNED TO STAY OUT OF MIDDLE EAST WORLD VISION SENDS RELIEF SUPPLIES TO 3,000 FAMILIES IN MYANMAR AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO PRESSURE RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN TURKMENISTAN MUSLIM EXTREMISTS WORK TO INCITE HATRED IN CAMEROON FOUNDER OF HIGH-TECH CHRISTIAN SATELLITE TV SERVICE DIES AT AGE 66 MISSIONARIES FIND MUSLIMS IN NEW YORK SURPRISINGLY OPEN TO GOSPEL

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SOUTH KOREAN MISSIONARIES WARNED TO STAY OUT OF MIDDLE EAST Officials in Seoul, South Korea, are telling the country’s missionaries and humanitarian aid groups to stay out of the Middle East for now. The order reportedly came after terrorists in Iraq threatened retaliation against anyone conducting evangelistic activities. Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Soo Hyuck explained that the country’s concerns stem from repeated threats made by extremists. “Terrorists will act against South Korea if they find we have entered Iraq for the purpose of propagating Christianity,” he said. South Korea advised all its civilians in Iraq to leave after terrorists executed South Korean interpreter Kim Sun Il who was in the country to work for a trading company while earning money to attend seminary. While the terrorists have demanded that South Korea withdraw its troops from Iraq, the government is making preparations to deploy thousands of additional South Korean troops to the war-torn country. (Mission Network News)

WORLD VISION SENDS RELIEF SUPPLIES TO 3,000 FAMILIES IN MYANMAR World Vision is rushing aid to more than 3,000 families in the Asian country of Myanmar (Burma) after massive monsoon rains in the region flooded low-lying areas. Teams recently brought food to the country, and additional emergency supplies are on their way to help stem the spread of waterborne disease. Nearly 10,000 people need mosquito nets, blankets, kitchen utensils and rice. Team members say the humanitarian efforts are opening up opportunities to share the love and hope of Christ with people in need. (Mission Network News)

AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO PRESSURE RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN TURKMENISTAN Despite gaining state registration under much-trumpeted “liberalization” of Turkmenistan’s religion law, secret police raids and threats against a Baptist congregation in Turkmenistan have continued. On Wednesday, Aug. 4, the country’s secret police raided a Bible study, arrested the participants and held them for three hours. Authorities also confiscated Bibles and hymnals and threatened a “big problem” if the meetings continued. State officials have told another state-registered community, the Hare Krishnas, that they do not know whether the community should be allowed to operate. A wide range of religious communities have either been unsuccessful with registration applications, or do not bother to apply because of the harsh controls they would be subjected to. Asked about making a registration application, one Jehovah’s Witness said, “Why should we when persecution continues?” (Forum 18 News Service)

* HCJB World Radio works in partnership with Back to the Bible to air Christian Turkmen programs. Twice-weekly broadcasts began airing from an undisclosed site outside of Turkmenistan in 2001 and moved to daily programming in 2003.

MUSLIM EXTREMISTS WORK TO INCITE HATRED IN CAMEROON Foreign Muslim extremists have infiltrated the northern provinces of the West African country of Cameroon as they work to incite local Muslims to rise up again Christians. Cameroon, which shares its porous western border with Nigeria, has experienced a dramatic rise in religious violence since about a dozen of Nigeria’s northern states adopted sharia (Islamic law). Garga Aoudou, a community activist with a Dutch development organization, told Inter Press Service (IPS) that the area has been “inundated with fliers inciting Muslims towards a hatred of Christians. . . . Religious fanatics exhort Muslims to increase the number of marriages between young Muslim men and Christian girls in order to convert them to Islam. The fliers also urge Muslims to refuse to rent houses or sell land to Christians — or to get them to move by raising the rent.” Bishop Yves Steven added that “several Christian families were forcibly evicted from their homes . . . before they could collect their property.” An IPS report indicated that local Muslim leaders who are keen to preserve the peaceful coexistence are equally concerned about “outside agitators.” (World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission)

* HCJB World Radio signed a partnership agreement Eternal Life Mission in 2002 to plant a Christian radio station in Bamenda, Cameroon.

FOUNDER Of HIGH-TECH CHRISTIAN SATELLITE TV SERVICE DIES AT AGE 66 Robert W. Johnson, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dominion Video Satellite Inc. and the Sky Angel nationwide direct-to-home satellite television service, died of heart failure Thursday, Aug. 5. He was 66. Johnson spent nearly 25 years building up the world’s first Christian satellite TV system of its type. The ministry’s goal is to provide families in the U.S. and eventually worldwide with “Christ-centered, family-safe television alternative in their homes.” In 1980 Johnson had a vision to use emerging technology known as high-power direct broadcast satellite (DBS). He believed this could be the “last opportunity” for Christians to use this technology to spread the gospel. He also saw the instrument as an opportunity to unify churches and equip believers to fulfill the Great Commission. Today Dominion is one of only four companies in the U.S. licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to own and operate a high-power DBS service. The ministry will continue under the interim leadership of his son, Robert W. Johnson Jr., Dominion’s vice president of finance and chief financial officer. (Sky Angel)

MISSIONARIES FIND MUSLIMS IN NEW YORK SURPRISINGLY OPEN TO GOSPEL Susan Perlman, a Jew who converted to Christianity, says she found some Muslims to be surprisingly open to the gospel during recent evangelistic efforts in New York City. Perlman, first assistant to the executive director of Jews for Jesus, was in New York City last month to take part in a massive street evangelism campaign. She says while the primary focus of Jews for Jesus is winning the Jewish people for Christ, the missionaries encountered a number of Muslims who expressed a desire to learn more about Him. Although Perlman notes that most members of the Islamic faith whom missionaries contact reject the gospel, the evangelists encounter a select few who are open to the message. (Religion Today/Agape Press) * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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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