VIETNAMESE BELIEVERS BRACE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW RELIGION LAW LAOTIAN AUTHORITIES ARREST PASTOR OF LARGE HOUSE CHURCH FLOOD DESTROYS CHURCH BUILDING, HOME FOR ELDERLY IN NIGERIA NATIVE MISSIONARIES HELP REACH ISOLATED PERUVIAN TRIBE FOR CHRIST CHRISTIAN BROADCASTS BRING NEW HOPE TO MUSLIMS DURING RAMADAN * HCJB WORLD RADIO TAKES RADIO TRAINING TO QUECHUA BELIEVERS IN PERU

Today’s News Stories:

VIETNAMESE BELIEVERS BRACE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW RELIGION LAW House church leaders in Vietnam are pleading with Christians worldwide to pray. On Monday, Nov. 15, a new restrictive religion law takes effect that will restrict worship services and permanently outlaw house churches. Dr. Carl Moeller, president of Open Doors USA, says: “We need to pray for church leaders in Vietnam. The new law would have a negative impact on the lives of thousands of Christians in Vietnam. Vietnam already is ranked No. 4 on Open Doors’ World Watch List of countries where persecution is the worst.” (Mission Network News)

LAOTIAN AUTHORITIES ARREST PASTOR OF LARGE HOUSE CHURCH Authorities arrested a native pastor in southern Laos at about 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19. Mr. Bouthao was taken into custody by Phin district police for conducting a worship service for 300 believers in his house in Saythamoung village, Phin district, Savannakhet province. Bouthao has been holding church meetings in his home for almost two years. The arrest was ordered by the head police of the Phin district office. (Christian Aid Mission)

FLOOD DESTROYS CHURCH BUILDING, HOME FOR ELDERLY IN NIGERIA Flash flooding in the southern Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom has severely damaged a church building and associated home for the elderly, said the leader of an indigenous ministry supported by Christian Aid Mission. Rains in Akwa Ibom this season have been particularly heavy, causing flooding throughout the state. Though he and fellow believers fought to keep waters at bay around the church and home buildings, they were overwhelmed. Waters inundated the church and parsonage, ruining much property and causing part of the church building to collapse. Of special concern are the elderly people living in the nearby home who are suffering due to lack of housing and care after their building was flooded. The ministry is striving to relocate them. Relief from heavy rains has not come as hoped in recent weeks. (Christian Aid Mission)

NATIVE MISSIONARIES HELP REACH ISOLATED PERUVIAN TRIBE FOR CHRIST Native gospel workers in Peru rejoice that they were recently able to send a team of nine to two communities of the Aguaruna tribe. Through a series of evangelistic meetings, some 101 souls were led to Christ. Missionaries report that many of the tribal people they contacted had never before heard the gospel of salvation. The Aguaruna tribe live in the northern jungles of Peru, along the Ecuadorian border. This semi-nomadic people retain many of their ancient traditions, such as worshiping ancestors, consulting shamans (witchdoctors), marrying multiple wives and hunting with poisoned darts. Many Aguarunas face extreme poverty as their forest homes have been slowly destroyed by outsiders who are using the region for cattle ranching, mining and logging. Frustration over this loss of land reached a breaking point in January 2002, when a group of 200 Aguaranas attacked a settlement of farmers who had intruded into their territory. They killed about 30 people with machetes, shotguns and poisoned arrows. Native missionaries are working to bring the love of Christ to this suffering people, relieving physical and spiritual poverty. During their most recent trip, they conducted evangelistic crusades at night and taught sessions on Christian family life during the day. They plan to return to these tribal communities this month to follow-up on those they have led to the Lord. Please pray with them as they carry the gospel to these remote people. (Christian Aid Mission)

CHRISTIAN BROADCASTS BRING NEW HOPE TO MUSLIMS DURING RAMADAN What would cause more than 1 billion people to abstain from eating, drinking and other indulgences from dawn to dusk? The answer is the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that started Friday, Oct. 15. Sammy Tippit Ministries is urging Christians around the globe to pray for those who need the hope of Christ and to be ready to serve those who are radically different. Tippit’s heart to reach Muslims for Christ has resulted in a variety of broadcasts based on his preaching. One series of television programs translated into Farsi airs across Iran on Tuesday evenings. Another series of bilingual English-Urdu TV programs recorded in Pakistan airs across the Middle East via India’s ETC satellite network on Friday evenings. The Raj TV network also carries broadcasts on Mondays. In addition, the ministry also airs radio programs to Afghanistan each Monday and Tuesday. (Mission Network News/Sammy Tippit Ministries)

* HCJB WORLD RADIO TAKES RADIO TRAINING TO QUECHUA BELIEVERS IN PERU HCJB World Radio missionary Allen Graham and Ecuadorian program producer Elisa del Salto of Quito, Ecuador, participated in a training seminar sponsored by the Runa Simi Institute in Peru Oct. 7-9. They provided practical training on the use of music in radio production. Half of Peru’s population speaks Quechua, and the objective of the seminar was to provide training to producers of Christian Quechua programs, Graham said.

The three-day seminar, held about two hours outside of Lima, included 50 program producers from 10 regions of Peru. “Few, if any, had ever taken any formal education in radio,” Graham said. “They came hungry to learn. They were focused on the topics being offered, anxious to take better programming back to their cities and villages. Most of them don’t own radio stations but buy airtime on secular radio stations to get the gospel out to the lost of Peru.”

Nelly Salazar Herrera, one of the attendees, shared that her father had listened to Radio Station HCJB in Quito for years. “He was a pastor with no formal training, so he got his biblical and pastoral training by listening to the shortwave broadcasts from Quito,” she said.

The eager attendees expressed a desire for more of this kind of radio training, and plans are already being made to hold a similar course next year. (HCJB World Radio)

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