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KIDNAPPERS RELEASE SECOND PASTOR CAPTURED IN INDIA MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISTS ATTACK CATHOLIC COMMUNITY NEAR JAKARTA BRAZILIAN MISSIONARIES STEP UP CHURCH-PLANTING EFFORTS WORLDWIDE RUSSIAN TEAMS WORK WITH ARMENIANS TO DISTRIBUTE BOOK OF HOPE MEDICINE OPENS WAY FOR MISSIONARIES TO REACH REMOTE PERUVIAN TRIBES AVIATION MINISTRY HELPS BELIEVERS IN ECUADORIAN TRIBE SHARE GOSPEL

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KIDNAPPERS RELEASE SECOND PASTOR CAPTURED IN INDIA Pastor Tulsiram, a native missionary pastor serving with Gospel for Asia in east-central India’s Chattisgarh region, was released on Wednesday, Oct. 6, a day after being kidnapped. He and another pastor named Vijay were both beaten in front of their congregation and dragged away. Vijay managed to escape, but Tulsiram was kept overnight and beaten repeatedly. He was told to leave the village or be killed. Meanwhile, before a gathering of the village council, new believers shared how the gospel has changed their lives. A village priest testified, “I was going in the wrong way, and was directing others to the wrong way. Now I have found the right path. I will follow this path only; others can, too.” Alarmed by the genuine conversions, the council decided that the two pastors must leave the village and surrounding area. This step, they hope, will prevent further conversions and preserve traditional ways. “Let us thank God together for the speedy release of our dear brother,” said GFA President K.P. Yohannan. “Thank you for standing in the gap with us to intercede for him.” (Gospel for Asia)

MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISTS ATTACK CATHOLIC COMMUNITY NEAR JAKARTA Muslim fundamentalists attacked a Catholic community near the Indonesian capital of Jakarta Sunday, Oct. 3, halting the celebration of mass. The attack also interrupted the activities of the Catholic school of Sang Timur in the missionary complex of St. Bernadette in Cileduk, 25 miles west of Jakarta. AsiaNews reported that some 50 armed militants of the Islamic Defender Front (FPI), among them women, invaded the St. Bernadette premises. The attackers burned the front gate and blocked other exits, forcing attendees to leave the main hall of the center which is used as a chapel, and threatening them with machetes. On Friday, Oct. 1, inflammatory sermons were delivered in the local mosque against the Catholic community. A few Catholic eyewitnesses of the Sunday attack criticized the conduct of security forces. Some 50 police who were at the scene did not intervene decisively against the FPI activists when they began to block the exits. The local parish priest canceled the Sunday and Monday masses and suspended classes Monday and Tuesday at the school which has a student body of 3,000, including many Muslims. The fundamentalists describe the celebration of mass in the school building as “proselytism,” the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reported. (WorldWide Religious News/Zenit)

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

BRAZILIAN MISSIONARIES STEP UP CHURCH-PLANTING EFFORTS WORLDWIDE Brazil no longer exports only soccer players, but increasingly, religion. Once a predominantly missionary-receiving area, Brazilian missionaries are now being sent to the post-Christian West and around the world. The news magazine Isto E reported that more than 80 Brazilian denominations and churches have planted churches in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Africa and are “evangelizing intensively.” Many incorporate Christian radio and television programs aired via satellite or on acquired stations. The Pentecostal church, Deus e Amor (God is Love), which claims to have opened the world’s largest sanctuary in Sco Paulo last year, is present in 136 nations and also reaches worldwide via radio and television broadcasts. Deus e Amor owns TV stations in the U.K., Netherlands, Spain and Portugal. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, led by founder Edir Macedo, is spreading in a similar fashion. The church owns Rede Record, one of Brazil’s largest TV stations, broadcasting via satellite to North America, Africa and Japan. (Friday Fax/livenet.ch/deuseamor.com.br)

* 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.

RUSSIAN TEAMS WORK WITH ARMENIANS TO DISTRIBUTE BOOK OF HOPE The Book of Hope has completed its first distribution of Christian literature in the former Soviet republic of Armenia. Russian national teams first presented the Book of Hope to schoolchildren in Armenia last month. Team leaders led trained Armenian youth who were involved in the distribution. Ministry leaders said they are excited that the Russian church is already sending missionaries to other nations. The hope of the gospel appears to be coming full circle after years of harsh oppression against believers in Armenia where Christianity was first introduced in 301 A.D. With the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, freedom came to the little country. With that, a spiritual vacuum and an eagerness to embrace truth. The Book of Hope contains the four Gospels presented in chronological order in an attractive format that appeals to students. The book introduces Christ to students who are searching for answers to life’s deepest questions. (Mission Network News/Book of Hope)

MEDICINE OPENS WAY FOR MISSIONARIES TO REACH REMOTE PERUVIAN TRIBES Scattered throughout the jungles and mountains of Peru are at least 45 tribal groups, many of which have never heard the gospel. Because of their isolated locations and innate distrust of outsiders due to past prejudiced treatment, these poverty-stricken people are difficult to reach. Yet one indigenous ministry is finding the doors of their hearts opening through a medical outreach. Missionaries from this ministry recently traveled to an unreached village with a group of doctors and dentists. They hoped to gain the people’s trust by meeting practical needs. When they first arrived, team members were met with suspicion as most villagers had never seen a doctor before. Many were frightened by the men with their strange, dangerous-looking instruments. Yet after a leader in the community opened the way by submitting to having his teeth worked on, tribal people, intrigued by his good results, flocked to the makeshift clinic. Doctors saw 100 patients in four days. Among other things, they treated people for head lice — a rampant problem in this jungle community — and taught how to prevent future breakouts. The workers seized the opportunity to preach the gospel. At noon hour each day, doctors and patients took a break while a missionary taught basic Bible stories. For many villagers, this was their first time they had heard the truth of the Bible. It won’t be their last as the villagers begged the missionaries to return. Their chief even promised to accompany the gospel workers when they visited neighboring communities, assuring his fellow tribal people of the missionaries’ goodwill. (Christian Aid Mission)

AVIATION MINISTRY HELPS BELIEVERS IN ECUADORIAN TRIBE SHARE GOSPEL Shuar believers living in Ecuador’s Amazon jungle region are coordinating with Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) in order to share the gospel, says MAF President Kevin Swanson. He says these believers have recognized how aviation helps to provide openness in unreached villages. “When their evangelists walked into a village, they weren’t welcoming them at all, but they said when they came in the airplane, people in the village knew that MAF was only bringing good things in to them. So, if these people came in on the plane they must be somebody worth listening to.” MAF is seeking experienced pilots, mechanics and others to join the ministry. (Mission Network News)

* * * * * * * * * * * * * 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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