Today’s Headlines:

MISSIONARIES TURN TO RADIO FOR OUTREACH IN MOZAMBIQUE NIGERIAN ANIMISTS ATTACK PRIESTS, DESTROY CHURCHES HARVEST ’06 PACKS ARENA IN NEW ZEALAND MINISTRY AND BUSINESS TEAM UP IN ARGENTINA SALVATION ARMY UNVEILS LONG-TERM KATRINA RECOVERY PLAN

Today’s Top Stories:

MISSIONARIES TURN TO RADIO FOR OUTREACH IN MOZAMBIQUE Missionaries Paul and Karen Zimmerman with Africa Inland Mission are preparing to launch a new endeavor to spread the Gospel in Northern Mozambique. After five years of difficult attempts to plant churches and do more traditional discipleship and evangelistic outreach, the Zimmerman’s and Africa Inland Mission have partnered with HCJB World Radio to plant a radio station targeting this unreached group. Zimmerman notes, “If you decide to pick up some literature that’s Christian, or you’re found reading a segment of the Bible or going to our outreaches, you’re ridiculed. So, if you just have a radio, you can pick up the station and listen to it privately, or while you’re walking on the beach, or while you’re fishing and nobody knows about it.” For more information about the project, visit http://www.aim-us.org. (Mission Network News)

NIGERIAN ANIMISTS ATTACK PRIESTS, DESTROY CHURCHES Around Easter, traditional animists attacked churches in Ode-Aye town, Nigeria, beating two Anglican priests into comas and destroying church property worth an estimated 6 million naira (US$48,831). The Rev. Joshua Ogunele, an Anglican bishop, reported that followers of native religions attacked the St. Christopher Anglican Church along with other nearby churches. The church’s priests, the Rev. Chris Adetula and the Rev. Oladejo Luji, nearly lost their lives, he said. During their annual Okute festival, adherents of the native religion had imposed a 21-day ban on Christian worship, especially use of drums. Rev. Ogunele said Christians in the community see the ban on worship in churches during the festival as an as an infringement on their religious rights. “The attacks on churches in Ode-Aye during the Okute festival have been an annual occurrence since 1983.” (Compass Direct)

HARVEST ’06 PACKS ARENA IN NEW ZEALAND A three-night evangelistic event called Harvest ’06 made a huge splash in Christchurch, New Zealand. April 28-30, more than 21,000 New Zealanders crowded the Westpac Center Arena to hear Christian recording artists Audio Adrenaline, Steven Curtis Chapman, the Katinas and messages from Southern California pastor/evangelist Greg Laurie. Over 2,000 people committed their lives to Christ. A huge publicity effort in conjunction with 120 local churches as well as an advance team of teens from Laurie’s church called “Students With A Testimony” (SWAT) combined to create curiosity in the secular media and around the city. “The Harvest Team and Greg Laurie have elevated the awareness in our city that we need the gospel of Jesus Christ. They have come as servants and have demonstrated that there is hope for our city. We’ve never seen anything like this,” said David MacGregor, senior pastor, Vineyard Fellowship in Christchurch. (ASSIST News Service)

MINISTRY AND BUSINESS TEAM UP IN ARGENTINA Operation Mobilization and the Volkswagen Car Company have teamed up in Argentina to provide support and education for young people. Operation Mobilization is buying a building while Volkswagen will purchase computers and furniture for a learning center in a poor neighborhood in Cordoba. Initially, the center will teach ten kids English, mathematics and basic computer skills. However, they also hope to share their faith in Jesus Christ. (Mission Network News)

SALVATION ARMY UNVEILS LONG-TERM KATRINA RECOVERY PLAN Maj. Dalton Cunningham Commander of the Alabama-Louisiana-Mississippi division of the Salvation Army outlined the details of their long-term recovery plan for those impacted by Hurricane Katrina last week. The plan, held in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity, Project Teamwork and Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, will use the remainder of donated funds totaling $362 million for such things as reconstruction, housing development, volunteer programs and job readiness training. The Salvation Army’s first stage of recovery has gone toward direct financial assistance to survivors, meals, cleaning and personal hygiene supplies, equipment and lodging for survivors and Salvation Army personnel. In the ongoing response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Salvation Army has served more than 5.6 million hot meals and assisted nearly 1 million people in 30 states through April 2006. The denomination continues to accept donations for hurricane victims even as it prepares for potential new storms this year. (Evangelical News)

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