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AMERICAN MISSIONARY PILOT DIES IN HELICOPTER CRASH IN INDONESIA VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS FORCE 96 CHRISTIAN FAMILIES TO LEAVE VILLAGE CAMBODIA, VIETNAM AIM TO STOP MONTAGNARDS FROM FLEEING HIGHLANDS HINDUS SUSPECTED OF ATTACKING 9 CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES IN INDIA INDIGENOUS MINISTRIES REACH OUT TO FLOOD VICTIMS IN MYANMAR MINISTRY TO DISTRIBUTE 100,000 ARABIC NEW TESTAMENTS IN SUDAN

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AMERICAN MISSIONARY PILOT DIES IN HELICOPTER CRASH IN INDONESIA Authorities are investigating a helicopter crash that killed 30-year-old American missionary pilot Neil Roesler in Indonesia’s remote eastern Papua province Monday, Sept. 20. Roesler served with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), on loan to the Swiss evangelical outreach Helimission which owned the helicopter. Earlier news reports indicated that the Bell helicopter went down during a storm in the mountainous Soba-Ninia district. The aircraft was last heard from Monday afternoon about 15 minutes before it was due to land in Wamena after leaving from Obukain, about 2,000 miles east of Jakarta. Search teams from Mission Aviation Fellowship and other mission agencies as well as Airfast (under contract from the mining firm P.T. Freeport Indonesia) began a search and rescue operation at first light the next morning and recovered the body just after noon. Rescuers spotted the downed chopper near Soba village in a mountain pass leading to the Wamena Valley. There were no other passengers on board. Roesler leaves behind his wife, Sandy, and two children, ages 2 years and 8 months old. (BosNewsLife/ TEAM/Mission Aviation Fellowship/AFP)

VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS FORCE 96 CHRISTIAN FAMILIES TO LEAVE VILLAGE Vietnamese officials have forced 96 Christian families (about 600) people to leave their village in Vietnam’s Lao Cai province and resettle 800 miles to the south in Binh Thuan province. The families had to leave all of their belongings behind, except their clothing, and were forced to walk through the jungle for a day until they could arrange to rent buses for the remainder of the journey. Once they reached Binh Thuan, they found there was insufficient land to settle and grow food, so only 22 of the families stayed, and the others are still seeking another place to live in peace. The 22 families that settled in Binh Thuan have no wells and must drink tainted water from the streams, resulting in physical problems. Others are suffering from malaria as they had to leave their mosquito netting behind. (International Christian Concern)

CAMBODIA, VIETNAM AIM TO STOP MONTAGNARDS FROM FLEEING HIGHLANDS Authorities on both sides of the Cambodia-Vietnam border will work together to stop hill-tribe people from fleeing Vietnam’s central highlands and crossing into Cambodia, state-controlled media reported. The agreement was reached at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City Monday, Sept. 13, that included leaders from the two countries’ 22 border provinces. It came after more than 200 members of ethnic minority groups, collectively called Montagnards, escaped into Cambodia following protests last Easter. International rights groups alleged at least 10 protesters were killed in the demonstrations, but Hanoi maintained that only two died after being struck by rocks thrown by other protesters. Cambodia and Vietnam “agreed to coordinate closely in preventing and handling the issue of people crossing the borders illegally . . . in fighting crimes and groups which are involved in terrorist activities along the borders,” the Labor newspaper reported, quoting a joint statement. (WorldWide Religious News/AP)

* HCJB World Radio, in cooperation with Campus Crusade for Christ, worked with a local partner to plant Cambodia’s first Christian radio station in 1998. New Life Radio in the capital city of Phnom Penh broadcasts the gospel in Cambodian and English.

HINDUS SUSPECTED OF ATTACKING 9 CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES IN INDIA Police in southern Indian’s Kerala state reportedly detained 15 people following two attacks on at least three priests and six nuns serving with Missionaries of Charity. The British Broadcasting Corporation reported that the attacks began the morning of Saturday, Sept. 25, when two nuns were delivering food to slum dwellers — mostly Dalits — living in the outskirts of Kozhikode. The attackers allegedly pulled the nuns out of their Jeep and broke off the crosses that they were wearing. The nuns managed to escape and took refuge in a police station after local residents intervened, the BBC reported. An hour later another Jeep belonging to Missionaries of Charity carrying Mother Superior Kusumam and six others, including a Kenyan missionary, arrived at the slum to help their colleagues, but were reportedly surrounded and attacked by 40 people carrying iron rods. Nine missionaries were admitted to a local hospital with head injuries. Government officials have pledged to take hard actions against the attackers. The incident raised fears of escalating violence against India’s minority Christians. Sajan George, national governor of the Bangalore-based Global Council for Indian Christians, blamed members of the right-wing Hindu parties, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), for being behind the attacks. Left-wing parties also condemned the attacks. (BosNewsLife/AFP/BBC)

INDIGENOUS MINISTRIES REACH OUT TO FLOOD VICTIMS IN MYANMAR Unusually heavy monsoon rains and melting of mountain snows has caused intense flooding in Myanmar (Burma) in recent weeks. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed along the Ayeyawaddy River in central and southwestern Myanmar, displacing hundreds of families. At least 20 have died since the river began overrunning its banks in late July. Many flood victims are trying to survive on upper floors of buildings, living in dangerously unsanitary conditions with their pigs, dogs and even cattle. Travel is only possible by boat. Illness is a growing problem due to the lack of clean drinking water, and bites from rats and poisonous snakes seeking refuge in houses. Flood victims say that authorities are unable to do anything to relieve their suffering. Some are reportedly threatening villagers not to say anything about the destruction to outside sources. Indigenous ministries are shouldering the burden of caring for flood victims, providing food, warm clothing and clean water for displaced families. Native missionaries are also seizing the opportunity to preach the hope of Christ. One Christian worker recently shared the message of salvation from a boat as he traveled a flooded area. He reported that “many boats came around and listened, and more than 30 people raised their hands to accept Christ.” (Christian Aid Mission)

MINISTRY TO DISTRIBUTE 100,000 ARABIC NEW TESTAMENTS IN SUDAN The picture of the Sudanese refugees is a stark one. Many of those fleeing for their lives are Christians, squeezed between warring factions. Because of the situation facing many believers, the World Bible Translation Center is responding. The center’s Dale Randolph says they are sending the easy-to-read Arabic New Testament to encourage the Christians. “Everyone has been moved by the persecution and the difficulties and the starvation and all the problems, particularly in the south. So we’re very eager to see copies of this Arabic New Testament get into Sudan. We’ve earmarked about 100,000 copies in the next 12 months.” Randolph says the distribution and the timing of world events are crucial for the church. “The distribution is done very discretely, and is done through trusted avenues. We’ve already gotten copies into Sudan. It’s a touchy area, but it’s an area where there’s a great need at the moment.” (Mission Network News)

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