CHRISTIAN IN INDIA INJURED, ANOTHER MURDERED IN SEPARATE ATTACKS

MISSIONARY AIRCRAFT DAMAGED IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA, NO ONE INJURED

EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS IN MEXICO JAILED, FINED FOR THEIR FAITH

NEW TRANSMITTER ALLOWS ALASKA STATION TO DOUBLE BROADCASTS

NATIVE WORKERS BRING GOSPEL TO CONFLICT-RAVAGED LIBERIA

Today’s News Stories:

CHRISTIAN IN INDIA INJURED, ANOTHER MURDERED IN SEPARATE ATTACKS A Christian couple in western India’s Gujarat state is recovering from serious injuries received in an attack in early May. Jamubhai Choudhary was slashed with an ax, and his wife, Jathriben, suffered a bone fracture. Meanwhile, the brutal murder of the Rev. K. Daniel in Hyderabad on Friday, May 20, by pouring acid over his body has shaken the Christian community in southeastern India’s Andhra Pradesh state. Law enforcement officials deny that the attacks were religiously motivated, but Christian leaders believe they are the work of Hindu extremists. “Pastor Daniel had been threatened many times by the local Rashtrya Swayamsevak Sangh,” said Sam Paul of the All India Christian Council (AICC). Samson Christian of the council added, “Hindu fundamentalists have changed their usual way of attacking minorities . . . so that their attacks can be attributed to ‘personal disputes.'” (Compass)

MISSIONARY AIRCRAFT DAMAGED IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA, NO ONE INJURED Officials at New Tribes Mission (NTM) are thanking God for His protection after one of the ministry’s aircraft was damaged the morning of Wednesday, May 25. NTM officials reported that the incident took place as the aircraft was landing at a tribal airstrip. No one was injured. Only the pilot was on board the single-engine Cessna 206 while he was landing at an airstrip near Lengbati village. He was bringing cargo to missionaries who work among the Tobo people in a remote mountain region. The cause of the accident is not known at this time. However, bad weather which can come up suddenly in the rugged, tropical mountains may be to blame. Officials are investigating. (Mission Network News)

* Staff members from the HCJB World Radio Engineering Center in Elkhart, Ind., are working with partners in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, to design and build a satellite radio network with more than 32 outlets planned. The first outlet went on the air in Port Moresby in 2002. Test broadcasts have begun on a new shortwave transmitter in Port Moresby that HCJB World Radio engineers installed in late May. Together with Wycliffe Bible Translators, HCJB World Radio also helped plant a Christian FM radio station in Kitai in 1996.

EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS IN MEXICO JAILED, FINED FOR THEIR FAITH On Thursday, May 19, Pastor Francisco Sanchez Gonzalez and Raul Bautista of the Fountain of Heaven Church in Cuateceometl, Hidalgo, Mexico, were arrested. Six police officers and a local Catholic catechist appeared at the church at 10 a.m. after a town assembly decision to “eradicate” all non-Catholic Christians from the area. Local officials also informed church members that they must renounce their evangelical faith and pay a fine of 1,000 pesos (US$92) by the end of this month, or else their homes and the church’s chapel will be torn down. Legal representatives of the evangelical church have asked state and federal authorities to intervene and see to it that the Cuateceometl Christians be allowed to worship freely — a right guaranteed by Mexico’s constitution. (Compass)

NEW TRANSMITTER ALLOWS ALASKA STATION TO DOUBLE BROADCASTS The Tennessee-based World Christian Broadcasting Corporation, owner and operator of shortwave radio station KNLS in Anchor Point, Alaska, added a second shortwave transmitter and antenna May 1, enabling the station to double its multi-language programming to 20 hours a day. KNLS beams programs of general interest, coupled with Christian messages, in three languages — Mandarin, Russian and English. The broadcasts are within hearing range of 3 billion people, covering China, Russia and the Pacific Rim since 1983. (Assist News Service)

NATIVE WORKERS BRING GOSPEL TO CONFLICT-RAVAGED LIBERIA Native gospel workers in Liberia are committed to helping victims of the 14-year civil conflict by lighting the way with Christ’s love. The conflict left 250,000 dead and hundreds of thousands of lives broken by violence and loss in the poverty-stricken country. One indigenous ministry provides basic care to more than 300 refugees and more than 60 orphaned or abandoned children. A typical story is like that of 8-year-old Jennet whose father was killed when rebels attacked the family’s village in November 2002. Jennet’s mother was hit by a bullet, and the little girl was picked up by another escapee. Approximately one year after she lost her parents, Jennet met a group of native missionaries visiting the camp where she was living. “Jennet’s guardian told us about her condition,” writes one of the missionaries, “and requested that our ministry help take care of her. Jennet was very sick with malaria; she lacked food and clothing and was sleeping on a dirt floor without a bed sheet. I . . . consented to take her in.” Today Jennet is in the second grade and doing well in her studies. Her health has returned, and she is learning about restoration in Christ Jesus through gospel workers. Her mother has finally been located, but she has been paralyzed by the bullet that hit her and is helpless. (Christian Aid Mission)

* HCJB World Radio works in partnership with ELWA, a ministry founded by SIM in Monrovia in 1954, to air the gospel across the country and West Africa. The radio station was destroyed twice by civil war, first in 1990 and again in 1996. ELWA most recently went back on the air in 1997 with a small FM transmitter. Then in 2000 HCJB World Radio provided a low-power shortwave transmitter, again enabling the station to cover the entire region. ELWA broadcasts the gospel in 10 languages and plans to add more as resources become available. * * * * * * * * * * * * * Harold Goerzen HCJB World Radio 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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