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Today’s Headlines:

2 LATVIAN MEN ARRESTED FOLLOWING MURDER OF AMERICAN MISSIONARY

35 U.S. MARINES TURN TO GOD BEFORE START OF FALLUJA BATTLE IN IRAQ

PRAYER DAY TO FOCUS ON 200 MILLION PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE

CHRISTIANS USE CREATIVE METHODS TO DRAW EGYPTIANS TO CHRIST

RETIRED COUPLE BEGINS YEARLONG CROSS-COUNTRY PRAYER CAMPAIGN

MISSIONARIES JOIN THOUSANDS OF FOREIGNERS EVACUATING C ”TE D’IVOIRE

Today’s News Stories:

2 LATVIAN MEN ARRESTED FOLLOWING MURDER OF AMERICAN MISSIONARY The American missionary serving with Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) who was killed in Riga, Latvia, Monday, Nov. 1, has been identified as 50-year-old Andrew “Drew” Rush. “Drew had been a part of the Campus Crusade team in Latvia since 1996,” said Karen Dye of The DeMoss Group which handles public relations for CCC. “According to local police and the U.S. Embassy, this was a criminal act, and Drew was killed during a robbery in his flat.” There is no indication that Rush was targeted because of his missionary work, and police have arrested two Latvian men in the case. Earlier, a police spokeswoman in Riga said Rush was found with a knife plunged in his chest along with what appeared to be strangulation marks around his throat. Investigators found the victim’s apartment in disarray. A memorial service is planned for Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, Nov. 15. (DeMoss Group/Assist News Service)

35 U.S. MARINES TURN TO GOD BEFORE START OF FALLUJA BATTLE IN IRAQ With U.S. forces massing outside Fallujah, Iraq, last Friday, 35 marines swayed to Christian rock music and asked Jesus Christ to protect them in anticipation of the biggest battle since American troops invaded Iraq last year. Men with buzz cuts and clad in their camouflage waved their hands in the air, M-16 assault rifles lying beside them, and chanted praise lyrics late Friday in a yellow-brick chapel, reported the French news agency AFP. The U.S. military, with many soldiers coming from the conservative American south and Midwest, has deep Christian roots. In times when fighting looms, many soldiers draw on their faith to help them face the battle, AFP reported. Their chaplain, named Horne, told the worshipers they were stationed outside Fallujah to bring the Iraqis “freedom from oppression, rape, torture and murder.” He prayed, “We ask you God to bless us in that effort.” The marines then lined up, and their chaplain anointed them with oil. Then the crowd followed him outside their small auditorium for a baptism of about a half dozen marines who had just found Christ. The chaplain’s assistant, Navy corpsman Richard Vaughn, baptized them a rubber dinghy filled with water, plunging their heads beneath the surface. (Assist News Service)

PRAYER DAY TO FOCUS ON 200 MILLION PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE Open Doors with Brother Andrew is calling on Christians to pray for more than 200 million suffering believers during the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church on Sunday, Nov. 14. Churches around the world will focus on prayer and support for brothers and sisters who are being persecuted for their faith in Jesus Christ. Brother Andrew says, “Our hope, of course, is that [prayer] will not be restricted to one Sunday, but that every Sunday, indeed, every day, will be a day of prayer for those who are not as fortunate as we with all [our] liberty.” Persecution and religious discrimination is widespread with 200 to 400 million believers around the world facing alienation because of their faith. (Mission Network News)

CHRISTIANS USE CREATIVE METHODS TO DRAW EGYPTIANS TO CHRIST The Muslims who govern Egypt have allowed Christians to practice their beliefs freely for centuries. But recent opposition by Muslim extremists, particularly in southern Egypt, has made conditions more difficult for some of the Christians there. In the face of this, native evangelical missionaries are using creative outreaches, helping to meet people’s physical and emotional needs, to draw them to Christ. One ministry reaches out to poor teenage girls in rural areas, providing them clothing and distributing gifts such as headbands that they could not afford otherwise. They invite girls to evangelistic meetings where they hear the gospel — many for the first time. At one such recent meeting, 700 girls attended, and many gave their lives to Christ. Another ministry working among the poorest parts of Cairo has been reaching disabled adults and handicapped children. Recently the ministry conducted two weeklong camps, one for adults and one for children. The camps were an opportunity for these disabled people, some of whom are terminally ill and all of whom endure great difficulty every day, to have fun and experience the love of Christ. Through loving relationships with these adults and children, gospel workers make connections with family members that allow them to spread the gospel to people who would ordinarily be closed to it. (Christian Aid Mission)

RETIRED COUPLE BEGINS YEARLONG CROSS-COUNTRY PRAYER CAMPAIGN An elderly Christian couple has embarked on a yearlong prayer journey that will take them to the steps of every state capitol in the country. Phillip Epperson, who recently turned 65, and his wife of 38 years, Vicki, began their Prayer Across America campaign on Sept. 11 in Springfield, Ill., the Assemblies of God News reported. The two will conclude their odyssey Sept. 11, 2005, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. In between, they will be praying from 1-2 p.m. every Thursday afternoon (except for the weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas) as they travel from Augusta, Maine, to Honolulu, Hawaii and from Tallahassee, Fla., to Juneau, Alaska. Epperson said the Holy Spirit stirred him to undertake the prayer campaign before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Eppersons will take the 17,000-mile expedition in a recreational vehicle, hoping Christians will meet them at the capitols of their states. Each week, the hour will kick off with patriotic and Christian songs, followed by prayers of thanksgiving to God for blessings, repenting for sins, a call to return to the Lord, prayers for wisdom for national leaders and prayer for awakening in the church. Epperson is obtaining state permits to make sure officials aren’t caught off guard in case the crowds are large. (Religion Today/Charisma News Service)

MISSIONARIES JOIN THOUSANDS OF FOREIGNERS EVACUATING C ”TE D’IVOIRE Airliners in C ´te d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) are shuttling thousands of foreigners out of the country, including many missionaries, even as peace talks convene. Nita Zelenak of New Tribes Mission says the ministry was forced to make a tough call this week. “There’s been a continued deterioration of civil order in Abidjan and also other parts of Ivory Coast. It has reached a point where the safety of foreigners is uncertain and so, our missionaries are no longer able to carry out their ministries. New Tribes has decided that it’s best that we evacuate the country.”

While no NTM missionaries have been targeted or victimized, Zelenak says the teams need prayer. “Pray for the actual getting out of the country, the actual evacuation. There are a number of people being evacuated out of the Ivory Coast. It’s not just our missionaries, so there’s the matter of getting the flights, getting out, packing up and getting ready to leave and the uncertainty of knowing when you’re going to be able to go back.”

The International Christian Academy (ICA) outside of Bouak © in the northern part of the country will evacuate students and staff from the school this weekend, said ICA Director Dan Grudda in an e-mail report. “Arrangements [for the evacuation] are mostly completed, but we know that changes do occur at times,” he said. The school reopened with a limited enrolment this fall after fighting in the area forced it to close two years ago.

SIM spokesman Jon Shea said the ministry is making plans to evacuate its staff members based in the coastal city of Abidjan. “Our regional headquarters staff in Senegal, in consultation with our Ivory Coast leadership, has a plan, but no dates yet.”

France and some other Western nations flew hundreds of their nationals out of the country on Thursday in a second day of evacuations as South Africa convened urgent talks in a crisis it warns could destabilize West Africa. Abidjan experienced the first day of calm since anti-foreigner mobs took to the streets last weekend after a sudden, deadly clash between the forces of Ivory Coast and its former colonial ruler, France. Some shops reopened and traffic returned to streets strewn with charred vehicles and the remnants of roadblocks. Residents crowded supermarkets and waited in long lines to draw cash from ATMs.

Once one of West Africa’s most prosperous and stable countries, Ivory Coast has experienced instability since a 1999 military coup ignited ethnic and regional tensions between the predominantly Muslim north and mostly Christian and animist south. France, with some 14,000 citizens in the country, sent helicopters on Wednesday to pluck trapped foreigners from villages and bring them to Abidjan’s international airport.

The recent violence began when Ivory Coast warplanes killed nine French peacekeepers and an American aid worker in an air strike Saturday, Nov. 6, violating a 2003 cease-fire in the two-year-old civil war. Within hours, France had wiped out the nation’s newly built-up air force, sparking an uprising by loyalist youths who took to the streets with machetes, iron bars and clubs. The raids were the first major hostilities since a truce signed in May 2003 ended fighting that had killed thousands and uprooted more than 1 million people.

A cease-fire line cuts across the middle of the former French colony. Fellow African leaders have condemned the mayhem, driven by President Laurent Gbagbo’s fiercely patriotic supporters and checked only intermittently by his government.

France’s first 900 evacuees arrived in Paris late Wednesday with more flights leaving Thursday. Belgium, Canada, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and the U.N. also organized planes. Britain is working in neighboring Ghana to support evacuations of Britons and also redirected the HMS Albion assault ship to Ivory Coast. (Mission Network News/Associated Press/SIM/HCJB World Radio)

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