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SWORD-WIELDING ASSAILANTS KILL 2 CHRISTIANS IN INDONESIA 2 STUDENTS EXPELLED FOR ATTENDING ‘ILLEGAL’ CHURCH IN UZBEKISTAN ISLAMIC COURT IN NIGERIA HANDS DEATH SENTENCE TO PREGNANT WOMAN MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP TO RELOCATE HEADQUARTERS TO IDAHO 650,000 PERUVIANS HEAR GOSPEL MESSAGE AT LUIS PALAU FESTIVAL IN LIMA WORLD VISION HELPS ECUADORIANS PREPARE FOR POTENTIAL ERUPTION

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SWORD-WIELDING ASSAILANTS KILL 2 CHRISTIANS IN INDONESIA Fresh violence claimed the lives of two Protestant Christians the night of Wednesday, Oct. 13. Yahya and Sakeus were attacked by unknown sword-wielding assailants as they walked along a crowded street in Jono Oge, Donggala district, a village 12 miles from Sulawesi’s provincial capital of Palu. Police was deployed at both Donggala and Poso, two villages that have been torn by sectarian clashes between Protestant Christians and Muslims in the last few years. Donggala Police Chief Sismantoro told journalists that his investigators were pursuing some leads but gave no further details as to who was behind the attack and why. Jono Oge is a predominantly Christian village known for its pig farming. Wednesday night’s attack was the second 1in the last eight months. In March, violence claimed at least one other villager, while two others suffered from serious injuries. (WorldWide Religious News/AsiaNews)

* 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.

2 STUDENTS EXPELLED FOR ATTENDING ‘ILLEGAL’ CHURCH IN UZBEKISTAN Two Christian students were expelled last month from a medical institute in Uzbekistan for being members of an “illegal” Protestant church. Aliya Sherimbetova and Shirin Artykbayeva are part of the Church of Christ in Nukus, a town in the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan, Forum 18 News Service reported. Six other local Protestant students have been harassed in Nukus this year. A Tashkent Medical Institute teacher reportedly raided the apartment of Sherimbetova, Artykbayeva and two other students in April, confiscating Christian literature and forcing them to move to communal lodgings where they could be more closely scrutinized. Sherimbetova is a second-year student, and Artykbayeva is in her third year of medical study. Karakalpakstan is a region where it is difficult for Christian churches of any denomination to gain official registration, making it illegal for believers to meet for worship. Uzbekistan’s religion law bans unregistered religious activity. (Religion Today/Charisma News Service)

* HCJB World Radio airs weekly Uzbek programs to Uzbekistan via shortwave from the U.K. An estimated 15 million Uzbek-speaking people are within range of the broadcasts. Uzbek is also one of three languages that HCJB World Radio airs to Afghanistan from an AM station outside the country.

ISLAMIC COURT IN NIGERIA HANDS DEATH SENTENCE TO PREGNANT WOMAN An Islamic (sharia) court in Lere, Tafawa Balewa, in Nigeria’s Bauchi state has sentenced a 29-year-old woman, Hajara Ibrahim, a divorcee, to death by stoning for allegedly being pregnant outside wedlock. But the sharia court also set free Dauda Sani, the 35-year-old man accused by the convict to be responsible for the pregnancy, for lack of evidence linking him to the act. Delivering judgment, Judge Abubakar Bello said the offence was contrary to the sharia legal code as practiced in the state, stressing that the offence was punishable with death by stoning. The judge however, handed over Ibrahim to her guardian to take care of her until she gives birth before the sentence is carried out. The sharia court judge said it is, however, subject to the approval of the state governor, Adamu Mu’azu. This is the fourth death sentence to be handed down since the state adopted the sharia legal code while more than 20 others are awaiting approval for amputation, including the media-celebrated Hussaini Maidoya who chopped off his wife’s leg. (Voice of the Christian Martyrs Nigeria)

MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP TO RELOCATE HEADQUARTERS TO IDAHO California is known for its high cost of living, forcing many mission agencies headquartered there to move. Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) is no exception as it will move its headquarters from Redlands, Calif., to Boise, Idaho, in the summer of 2005, says mission spokesman Kevin Swanson. “We’ve been very aware of the high cost of living and doing business here and always have in the back of our mind the question of stewardship. We want to be the best stewards of the resources the Lord has entrusted to us. It came up once again at our board meeting and our board of directors said, ‘It’s time to look again and see if it makes sense to move to a place where the cost of living is more economical.'” Swanson says moving to Idaho means a considerable savings in overhead for running MAF. “We are planning on letting that translate into increased ministry overseas. We’ve got opportunities overseas for new flight programs or expanding service in areas where we’re already working, and freeing up funds on this end is, of course, going to allow us to do more ministry on the other end.” (Mission Network News)

650,000 PERUVIANS HEAR GOSPEL MESSAGE AT LUIS PALAU FESTIVAL IN LIMA Luis Palau’s “Great music, Good News!” festival came to Lima, Peru, the week of Oct. 4-9 in a historic campaign for the world evangelist and author. In six days nearly 650,000 people heard Palau’s message of salvation. He was invited by the country’s political leadership and hundreds of churches to bring his festival of Christian music and celebration to Peru’s capital city of eight million. On his first full day in the city, Palau met with Peru’s national leaders, including President Alejandro Toledo, Lima Mayor Luis Castaneda Lossio and members of the Peruvian Congress. Long-time Palau team member Ruben Proietti said, “In my 25 years with Luis Palau, there has never been a day quite like this where so many top leaders of a nation were eager to receive Luis and listen to his counsel on the relevance of Jesus Christ to governing a nation.” The week of celebration concluded with two evangelistic festivals at Lima’s Campo Marte Park. More than 41,000 Peruvians filled out a decision cards confirming their commitment to become followers of Jesus Christ — a record response for the Palau ministry. (Assist News Service)

WORLD VISION HELPS ECUADORIANS PREPARE FOR POTENTIAL ERUPTION World Vision recently trained communication staff and community leaders on how to respond in the event of an eruption of Mt. Cotopaxi, an active snowcapped mountain in Ecuador. One of the most dangerous volcanoes in the Andes, Cotopaxi has erupted more than 50 times since 1738. Pablo Samaniego, an expert with Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute, provided an overview of the volcano’s activity. Maj. Oswaldo Navas, head of Civil Defense in Cotopaxi province, walked participants through World Vision’s mitigation plans. World Vision also discussed its communications plan that would go into effect in the event of an eruption that could melt Cotopaxi’s snowcap, inundating the valleys below Quito with fast-moving flows of mud and ash. Specialists at Ecuador’s Geophysics Institute know where the mud flows would go in the event of an eruption, said volcanologist Minard Hall as quoted in the Quito daily newspaper El Comercio. “We don’t have answers about when, only about where and how,” he said. Hall and Institute Director Hugo Yepes showed a newly updated map of affected areas should the volcano erupt. The revised map shows that the flows could reach the Los Chillos and Tumbaco valleys as well as Latacunga and Salcedo. (World Vision/HCJB World Radio/El Comercio)

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