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500 MUSLIMS VANDALIZE INDONESIAN CHURCH, CAUSING MAJOR DAMAGE MUSLIM EXTREMISTS SHOOT, WOUND CHRISTIAN LEADER IN IRAQ TERRORISTS THREATEN TO ATTACK BIBLE SCHOOL IN SOUTHEAST ASIA ‘JESUS’ FILM MAKES LASTING IMPACT IN UKRAINIAN PRISONS CHRISTIAN AGENCY BUILDS HOPE FOR YOUNG GIRLS IN ZAMBIA THRIVING LOS ANGELES CHURCH TRIES TO ‘TURN CHRISTIANITY UPSIDE DOWN’

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500 MUSLIMS VANDALIZE INDONESIAN CHURCH, CAUSING MAJOR DAMAGE At about 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, a group was gathered in a home in Karawang, Indonesia, for a choir rehearsal when a group of Muslims came to complain, annoyed by the music. Nothing further developed, but the next evening a police officer came to the Nusantara Indonesia Christian Church and warned the pastor and his family to flee for their safety. After taking his family to the home of a church elder, the pastor returned 15 minutes later to find a mob of approximately 500 people surrounding the building and beginning to vandalize it. Again, he fled, but the destruction continued for two hours. As a result, the door and windows were damaged, the pews destroyed and the sound system vandalized. The next day some of the attackers met with local authorities to discuss the closure of this church. (Voice of the Martyrs)

* 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.

MUSLIM EXTREMISTS SHOOT, WOUND CHRISTIAN LEADER IN IRAQ An evangelical Iraqi Christian leader was shot last week by radical Muslims, say recent reports received by Christian Aid Mission. The man sustained two bullet wounds to his shoulder and one to his leg. He is alive and recovering from the attack. The leader reportedly had been warned by extremists to remove the cross from the top of the building where he regularly conducts services and to stop leading Christian meetings. He ignored the demands. The attack on this pastor is the latest in a string of violence against Christians in Iraq. On Saturday, Oct. 16, five church buildings were bombed in Baghdad. Thousands of Christians have fled the country, afraid of the growing animosity of militant Muslims. (Christian Aid Mission)

TERRORISTS THREATEN TO ATTACK BIBLE SCHOOL IN SOUTHEAST ASIA The U.S. embassy in a restricted country of Southeast Asia continues to receive reports that terrorist organizations may attempt to carry out attacks against Western connections, including mission agencies. Bob Bland of Teen Missions says the ministry has received a direct threat. “In one of the sensitive countries where we have a Bible school [a local television station] broadcast live that [the terrorists] were going to attack our Bible school on Nov. 14 after Ramadan ends,” he said. “We take that very seriously. Of course we’re concerned for the sake of our students and for the sake of the ministry. There are people out there who will attack Christians, so we need prayer for the safety of these young people.” Bland adds that the 25 students at the Bible school are having a “great impact” in the area through child evangelism. (Mission Network News)

‘JESUS’ FILM MAKES LASTING IMPACT IN UKRAINIAN PRISONS The first effort to show the “Jesus” film in a Ukrainian prison a year ago reaped unexpected results as 120 inmates came to Christ. Since then, a permanent ministry has been established in the jail system, says Brian Birdsall of the Jesus Film Project. “There’s a church cell group that meets in this prison, and when people are released, they go back to the local church which planted this sister church in the prison,” he says. “There’s a great sense of ownership and camaraderie between the central church in Kirovograd and the cell church that’s been planted in the prison.” While the “Jesus” film was launched 25 years ago and contains no high-tech special effects, it continues to be a “wonderful evangelistic tool in Ukraine,” Birdsall adds. (Mission Network News)

CHRISTIAN AGENCY BUILDS HOPE FOR YOUNG GIRLS IN ZAMBIA Village girls who want an education in Zambia are often forced to drop out of class because of the adversity they face such as teen pregnancy, HIV and poverty. Bob Bland of Teen Missions International said one headmaster built a special dorm for girls who wanted to continue their education. In the year since then, the growth has led to another request. “They’ve asked us to build more because they’ve got more girls coming in,” Bland says. “While we thought that maybe half of those might flunk out, none of them did, and so they’re still going to be in school. New we have 50 more girls who want to come in.” Bland says the spiritual results of the outreach are even more exciting. “Out of the 67 girls, every one of them has accepted Christ as their personal Savior! We see this as an opportunity to not only win people to Christ, but also to strengthen them in the Lord and to give these girls an education.” (Mission Network News)

* HCJB World Radio, in cooperation with In Touch Ministries and a local partner, added weekly Bemba programs in 2000. The programs air on Zambia’s Radio One Network, covering the country and much of Malawi, going out via shortwave, AM and FM. In 2003, weekly half-hour programs were added in the Nyanja language.

THRIVING LOS ANGELES CHURCH TRIES TO ‘TURN CHRISTIANITY UPSIDE DOWN’ A flourishing multicultural, multiethnic, multi-location church that formerly met in a downtown Los Angeles nightclub is getting the attention of Christian leaders for the way the congregation is reaching people in their 20s. Mosaic, which has services that include a creative mix of spirituality, the visual and performing arts and borrowings from non-Western cultures, has also caught the attention of The Los Angeles Times which recently spotlighted the church. Emphasizing relationships and serving other people, Mosaic has grown in less than six years from less than 100 members to nearly 2,000 with sister “communities” in San Francisco, Seattle, Manhattan, Atlanta and Nashville and more underway in Germany, Spain and Scotland. The congregation’s membership represents 57 nationalities, almost half of them Asian and the rest a mixture of Hispanics, whites, blacks and others. About 80 percent are single; the average age is 24. “Mosaic is the talk of many Christian leaders who want to reach out to the younger generation,” the newspaper observed. Its unusual name is meant to reflect the diversity of its members and a “broken and fragmented humanity that can become a work of beauty under the artful hands of God,” said Erwin Raphael McManus, Mosaic’s senior pastor. The church is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, but does not subscribe to all the stances of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. (Religion Today/Charisma News Service)

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