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YWAM active in Iraq (posted Dec 7, 2003)
In 2007 Americans gave $2.9 billion to overseas missions. Aericans also paid $8.4 billion to see movies, $13 billion to buy chocolate, $23 billion to buy toys, $23 billion to buy stuff for their pets, $24 billion for jewelry, $58 billion for soft drinks, $85 billion for lawn and garden care, and $354 billion to eat out in restaurants.(quoted from Venture International; June 2008)
From WCN issue #24
PROJECT HANNAH–Trans World Radio's innovative radio outreach to oppressed Asian women celebrated its fifth anniversary on November 9. Known as Project Hannah, TWR now beams out programs in 13 languages over more than 150 stations throughout Asia, Latin America and the USA; five additional languages were to be added by the anniversary date. "Statistics confirm that there is no people more abused, aborted, exploited, humiliated, denigrated, harassed, molested, battered and even murdered and enslaved than the women of this world," says Marli Spieker, executive director and founder of Project Hannah. (www.twr.org)
MILITANT GROUP CLEARED IN STAINES
TRIAL–Four years after the brutal murder of Australian missionary
Graham Staines and his two sons, their murder trial took a bizarre turn when
a Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) officer testifying for the
prosecution declared that none of the 18 defendants are members of the
militant Hindu group Bajrang Dal. Earlier, CBI reports on the case named six
assailants, including prime suspect Dara Singh, as members of the Bajrang
Dal. Numerous eyewitnesses also claim they heard the attackers chant Bajrang
Dal slogans as they attacked the missionary and his sons. Staines and his
two young sons, Philip and Timothy, died on the night of January 22, 1999,
at the hands of an angry mob that doused their jeep with gasoline and set it
afire. The Bajrang Dal is actively engaged in training “warriors of the
Hindutva revolution” and openly equips
volunteers with weapons and firearms. Christian spokesmen in India believe
Barang Dal benefits from its close association with national leaders of the
ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). (Compass, 03/02/11)
From WCN issue #23
THE JESUS FILM PROJECT--The
internationally known film “Jesus” recently reached two new translation
milestones: the 700th language version of the film and the 200th translation
of a dramatized audio version.
The film's 700th language version, Beembe, will serve more than 250,000
speakers in the Congo. In the midst of civil war, the translated script was
almost lost. The translators gave it to a pastor who later had to flee the
country, but not before he wrapped the script in plastic and buried it. Upon
his return, he found all his possessions stolen. The script, however, he
found intact.
Motivation to select this particular language version of the film came from
a distant relative of a famous missionary who invested his life decades ago
in Africa: David Livingstone. In 1997, today's David Livingstone and his
wife celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary by challenging their personal
supporters to invest in a new translation of the Jesus film. The desire of
all who gave, Livingstone says, was “that all who spoke this language would
have the opportunity to hear the gospel in their own language.”
In the last four years, translations of the dramatized audio version of
Jesus have climbed from five to 200. The 200th audio version, Garhwali, will
serve the more than two million speakers of that language in India.
CHINESE EVANGELISTS--“Young women
evangelists in China are bringing thousands to Christ,” reports evangelist
Randy Clark in Charisma News. Clark tells of two teenage girls who leave
their families for a month-long evangelistic tour twice a year. “The pair
are typical of the new evangelistic wave in China,” says Clark. They
returned from their latest journey with bloody feet after forty days of
walking, having planted eighteen churches with about forty members each.
“Although all age groups are evangelistically active, the number of young
women sent out is growing, because villagers are less likely to be
suspicious of them than of two unknown men.” (Friday Fax 2002, Issue 13, 29
March)
A FOX IN ESTONIA--With no official
freshmen orientation at Estonia's Tartu University, Campus Crusade for
Christ has partnered with the Estonian Evangelical Students Association to
hold a week-long orientation known as “Fox Week.” The first thing incoming
freshmen, known as “foxes”, see as they enter the university are two
Christian organizations working together to serve students. In addition to
providing orientation, mixers and other university “survival” events, the
organizations partner new students with Christian upper class people. (World
Today, Vol. 9, No. 1, Winter 2002)
SETTLEMENT--The Bush administration
proposed an $8 million settlement involving U.S. missionaries in Peru. In
April 2001, the Peru/U.S. drug interdiction program misidentified the
missionaries' plane as part of a drug smuggling operation and shot it down.
The mistake left 35-year-old Veronica Bowers and her seven-month-old
daughter dead, her husband Jim, their son and pilot Kevin Donaldson injured.
(MNNews; 03/26)
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