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ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIANS ATTACKED DURING WORSHIP SERVICE

ROMANIAN TELEVISION STATION NOW COVERING ALL OF EUROPE

500 VILLAGERS ATTACK CHRISTIAN HOME FOR DESTITUTE IN INDIA

UZBEK ORGANIZATIONS SHUT DOWN FOR ‘SYSTEMATIC MISSIONARY WORK’

PRAYER BINDERS TO BE DELIVERED TO FAMILIES OF AMISH CHILDREN

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ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIANS ATTACKED DURING WORSHIP SERVICE

In Henno, Ethiopia, seven Muslim clerics instigated a brutal attack on 50 or more Christians on July 20. This report and others recently received by Washington D.C. based human rights group International Christian Concern (ICC) indicate increasing violence against Christians. Two prominent Muslims in Henno, who converted to Christianity in 2005, were hosting a worship service for other Christians in Henno. The service and the invited choir gained the attention of the whole village. Muslim leaders responded violently and instigated a riot using local gangs. One of the two Christian leaders was attacked with metal rods. He received five deep head wounds, several broken teeth and deep lacerations to his legs with several ligaments protruding from the skin. His pregnant daughter-in-law lost her baby because she was badly beaten as well. In total, 12 people were badly injured and five additional people received lacerations requiring medical treatment. No legal action was taken, but since that time a grassroots protest arose among area Muslims who denounced the attack. In fact, forty-seven key leaders became Christians and renounced Islam stating, “If Islam means killing innocent brothers and sisters – we do not want to follow it!” (International Christian Concern/http://www.persecution.org <http://www.persecution.org/> )

* Staff members at HCJB World Radio-Australia’s studios record Oromo language programs that air to 28 million speakers in Ethiopia and Kenya via FEBA Radio’s shortwave facilities.

ROMANIAN TELEVISION STATION NOW COVERING ALL OF EUROPE

Romania’s first Christian TV channel is now broadcasting via satellite to cover all of Europe. After 12 years of active presence in Romania, Alfa Omega TV started permanent 24 hour-per- day, 7 day-a-week broadcasting on June,11, 2006, coinciding with the Day of Pentecost. Now, after almost five months of broadcasting, the channel has been included in one of the most important digital DTH platforms in Romania, MaxTV. Their programming is retransmitted by cable TV networks from hundreds of towns in Romania. Their broadcast is free to air through the EUTEL SAT W2 satellite and can be picked up all over Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The daily program structure contains programs produced by Alfa Omega TV and other producers from Romania and the international media and also includes language segments in Hungarian, German and Serbian. (Assist News Service)

* HCJB World Radio broadcasts the gospel locally in eight Romanian cities via partner ministry Radio Voice of the Gospel. The network is a cooperative effort with the Evangelical Alliance of Romania and the Romanian Missionary Society.

500 VILLAGERS ATTACK CHRISTIAN HOME FOR DESTITUTE IN INDIA

Five hundred villagers in India’s Karnataka state attacked a Christian home for the destitute on Saturday, October 14, following false television news reports the shelter was trafficking human organs, detaining their clients and other fabricated charges. The workers at the Lourd Matha Seva Ashram home for the destitute in Thyagarathi village, near Sagar, India, are in jail on charges of wrongful confinement and abduction. National president of the Global Council of Indian Christians Dr. Sajan K. George said, “Hindu radicals are behind the harassment of the Christian home, and they have levied several fabricated charges, including trafficking in human organs, against the Christians.” (Compass Direct)

UZBEK ORGANIZATIONS SHUT DOWN FOR ‘SYSTEMATIC MISSIONARY WORK’

Two offices of Korean non-governmental organizations operating in Uzbekistan have had their activities suspended for three months for pushing their Protestant agenda. The Institute of Asian Culture and Development and the World Korean Aide Fund were said to be made up of evangelicals “engaged in systematic missionary work in the region,” according to Aktam Zhalilov, an expert at the Regional Policies Fund in Uzbekistan who delivered a report to journalists on Wednesday, October 18. Zhalilov stated, “South Korean missionaries are working under the cover of various foreign language, computer training and health centers, where contacts with young people and socially vulnerable groups are easy.” Zhalilov also called for the creation of a common database in the Central Asian states naming all organizations and foreign citizens whose illegal missionary activities have been exposed. (WorldWide Religious News)

PRAYER BINDERS TO BE DELIVERED TO FAMILIES OF AMISH CHILDREN

Binders containing hundreds of prayers for the victims and families of the October 2, Amish school house shootings in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, will be hand-delivered on Monday, October 23. Following the shootings, Faith and Action president Rev. Rob Schenck asked the organizations 63,000 internet supports to pray for the families of both the young victims and the family of shooter Charles Carl Roberts. Almost 500 prayers were emailed to Faith and Action from around the country. They are being printed out, put in plastic page protectors and bound in blue and brown three-ring binders to be given to the Amish families. Rev. Schenck said, “Both the Roberts and the Amish families were greatly relieved to know people were praying for them. They all expressed surprise. One Amish family told me they were living on the prayers being offered for them.” The delivery of the prayer binders will coincide with a visit Schenck had planned for more than a year before the shootings. (Christian Newswire)