Five-Fold Today
A Word through Ching Co, Cebu City, Philippines
EXPOSING THE ENEMY
There is an attack that has started to be launched out against the
people of God. This will come in a very similar manner to the attack
against Elijah from Jezebel after the Mount Carmel victory. (1 King
19:2-3)
Many of God's people has passed through many spiritual battles
covering all fronts and at this point, God has given us an assurance of
His victory in our heart and spirit. Yet many of His people are still
waiting for the physical manifestation of these promises.
As His people continue to press in to the promises of the Lord and as
we prepare to map and claim the inheritance and promise of God by
ACTS OF OBEDIENCE. It will be at this point in time that the attack
will be launched.
THE FORM THAT IT WILL TAKE
This attack will come as thought patterns questioning our integrity
or motives. The enemy would throw questions to us with the intention
of causing us to focus on our areas of weakness. The enemy would even
used words by our love ones and twist it and add sarcastic meaning and
colors to them with the intent of making us feel "unappreciated,
unloved, unimportant."
The enemy wants to confuse the issue at hand. He is trying to jump
ahead of the Holy Spirit after each of these spiritual victories and
intends to steal the peace in our hearts and instead is trying to
plant fear and discouragement by making us feel and think that " every
act of obedience we have just done were not of God but were just the
product of our own imagination."
THE WEAPONS OF WARFARE
The Lord is reminding us about what Jesus did when He was tempted in
the wilderness. He used the Word of God to silence the voices of the
enemy.
We are therefore to dig deep into our hearts and maybe even notes and
journals and to retrive and keep handy every prophetic words and
impressions that we have received from the Lord and from others and
further fortified these with the different Rhema promises from the
Bible that the Lord has given to us to claim.
And like Jesus we are to use these as our weapons of warfare and
speak these words back to the enemy to silence him.
THE PAST JOURNEY
The Lord has seen all the battles that His people have been through in
the past. Those were the seasons of breaking, molding, changing and
growing.
THE PRESENT POSITIONING
Like the children of Isreal, we have come out of our desert and God
has allowed us to stand and see our inheritance from a distance. It
is within our reach and this season He has already started to lead many
to step forward in boldness to start claiming these inheritance.
Some have been called to give up old established ministries and to
moved forward to plant and start new ministries by faith. Some have
been called to move and tranfer and effect changes in many areas which
includes work and to some even even actual changing of residences.
Some have been called to exercise physical prophetic actions similar
to what the prophets in the Old Testament were led to do. Jeremiah
was ask to buy a land at the very time when the people are about to be
led away into captivity (Jeremiah 32:7).
Many of these actions may even look foolish and impractical outwardly
but have great spiritual significance and meaning.
All these are part of God's positioning us to enter and claim the
inheritance that He has prepared for us. Every one of these action
and decision takes a lot of spiritual exercises of faith and trust in
the Lord. And Like Elijah after Mount Carmel, this is where we are
most vulnerable.
THE PROMISE OF GOD
The Lord is saying to those who are finding themselves facing these
attacks to stand firm in Him.
FOR WE ARE ACCEPTED IN THE BELOVED.
And His recompense and reward is with Him being readied to honor His
obedient children. He is preparing a banqueting table in the presence
of our enemies. And His anointing oil is ready to be pour down and we
will soon begin to see our cups overflows. Surely the goodness and
love of the Lord will follow us all the remaining days of our lives
and we will be dwelling in the Presence of the Lord forever. (Psalm
23:5-6)
He is delighted with the obedience of His people. He will not allow
any of His faithful children to lose or to miss their inheritance and
their blessings. He will make sure that all that He has promised to
us will be fulfilled.
PRAYER OF FAITH
" Father, we thank you for your word to us this day. And we stand in
these promises because we know that they will never fail. Cover your
people with a blanket called Perfect Love today and hide us from the
attacks of the enemy. Amen!"
In His Service,
Sis. Ching Co
SUDAN - MUSLIM FORCES PREPARE FOR "FINAL SOLUTION"
OFFENSIVE AGAINST SUDANESE CHRISTIANS
Reports from Sudan indicate that the government of Sudan is preparing to
launch a "final solution" that is intended to permanently eliminate the
black, mostly Christian inhabitants in southern Sudan. An imminent threat
looms over the south eastern region of the Nuba Mountains where eight new
divisions of the Sudanese army have already moved into place. The
government forces are equipped with tanks and new weaponry purchased from
China with money earned from the militant-Muslim regime's newly operational
oil pipeline. It is estimated that once the assault on the Nubian people
begins, it could take as little as a few days until Khartoum's objective of
genocide is complete.
An eerie silence is evidence enough to one pastor in southern Sudan that no
help can be expected from the international community. He echoes a
frequently asked question: "Why does the militant-Muslim regime in Khartoum
get help from their Muslim neighbors and yet our cries for help from fellow
Christians around the world seems to fall on deaf ears?"
Many of Sudan's non-Muslims are wondering why America responded to cries
for help from the Muslims of Kosovo who claimed that they were victims of a
genocide and yet is silent about a greater genocide taking place in Sudan?
One medical worker attending the wounds of an injured child at the hospital
in Yei asks, "How can America justify helping the oil-rich Muslims of
Kuwait by swiftly providing U.S. military assistance when the armies of
Iraq marched against them, and yet remain silent about what is happening in
southern Sudan?" The tears of a countless number of suffering civilians in
southern Sudan fall on the barren earth. The only thing awaiting them is
their earthen grave.
Once the Arab-government in Khartoum has gained total control of the region
belonging to the Nubian people, the government will be able to offer
increased security for the oil fields located to the south. The oil
pipeline was built by Talisman Energy of Canada with heavy investments from
China. A major effort has been launched by human rights organization to
persuade Canadians and Americans to divest stock holdings in Talisman
Energy.
The French humanitarian organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres, has
documented many of the bombings and conducted many interviews with
survivors from bombing raids. One young girl who escaped this bombing of
the school of Narus testifies: "I was unwell for a few days suffering from
acute diarrhea. For this reason I was often in the toilets located at the
end of the compound just behind the school. I was in the toilet when I
heard the sound of a plane. I immediately realized that the plane was the
Antonov. I got up, ran quickly out of the toilet and started running away
from that place. I dove on the ground just in time to hear the explosion of
the bomb and the fragments flying all over. After a few seconds I looked
back at the place where the toilet had been located, but it was no longer
there. What was the toilet is not a big crater." In 1999, the Government of
Sudan dropped more bombs during its aerialbombardments over the Equatoria
province in southern Sudan than in any previous year since the civil war
began 17 years ago.
The areas hardest hit were Kajo Keji, Yei, Maridi and Kaopeta. It has been
documented that more than sixty bombing raids took place in the Equatoria
province alone between January 1999 and January 2000. A total of about 400
bombs had been dropped on the civilian population, causing at least 22
deaths and wounding 51. An equal or greater number of deaths and injuries
have occurred in the Nuba region just since February 8, 2000. A
fact-finding team from International Christian Concern that visited the
devastated town of Yei discovered that a majority of the population had
fled because of the ever-constant threat of bombs dropped from Russian-made
Antonov airplanes. ICC's president Steven Snyder described the conditions:
"Nearly every solid-constructed building has either been damaged or
destroyed. Everywhere I saw sharp-edged pieces of shrapnel that the
Khartoum regime commonly uses in bombs that are intended to kill and maim
children."
Conclusive evidence from an inquiry carried out by a group of NGO's working
in southern Sudan found that the Khartoum regime had used chemical bombs in
the towns of Lainya and Loka. The inquiry discovered that many civilians
had suffered from symptoms such as poisoning, vomiting blood, miscarriages,
headaches and skin burns. Two field staff who visited the area three days
after the bombing complained of having some of the same symptoms. Mr.
Snyder is asking all Americans to ask this question: "Why has there been no
serious attempt on the part of the international community to stop the
slaughter and displacement of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians
in southern Sudan?" He adds, "This should be very troubling to any humane
person." The world now awaits in silence as the brutal regime in Khartoum
prepares to commit their "final solution" and to Islamicize all Sudan." ICC
urges Christians to call the White House and their elected representatives
in Washington to urge the U.S. to take every action necessary to end the
looming genocide.
From the Diggers
GERMANY
CHINA
The church in CHINA has multiplied 18-fold over the past 30 years, perhaps
the greatest growth of the church since Pentecost. Yet China still has more
than 1 billion unbelievers. The country only has 20 seminaries with 1,200
students in training. In some provinces, there is only one pastor for every
60,000 believers.
ASIA
MONGOLIA
NIGERIA
PAPUA/NEW GUINEA
...The pastor's life is in danger because many members of the
enemy clan belong to his church and he refuses to take up arms
against their people, the missionary said. "Please pray for
[Southgate Baptist Church and pastor Kirbsy], also please pray
specifically for the people of Korfena the village area in the
Asaro Valley where the fighting is concentrated."
MOZAMBIQUE
A pastor and 16 other people trying to escape the floods in Mozambique
received help from an unexpected source as they sat in the branches of a tree for two
days, according to the English charity Tearfund. "The water rose so quickly -
over two meters in a few hours," said pastor Samuel Naftal, chairman of "The
Association of Evangelicals of Mozambique" in Gaza province. "I helped some
people climb onto the roof of my house, and climbed into a tree with
others. We saw televisions, furniture and dead calves floating past. Everything was
destroyed. The people asked me to preach to them, so that they would stay
awake.
Today, I thank God for the mosquitoes, because they prevented me falling
asleep
and falling into the water. I would have been simply swept away," says Naftal.
After some time, the floods receded, and everyone could reach safety.
IRAQ
American mission agency Partners International reports that a researcher
working near the ancient city of Nineveh, where Jonah once preached, has
started three Christian churches with a total of around 150 members. Partners
International supports indigenous Christians, particularly in areas where
there are relatively few Christian churches. Partners in 50 countries plant over
1,000 churches each year, and some 230,000 people receive material aid and
development assistance.
COLOMBIA
...Notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar professed faith in Christ
just days before his death, Estrada said. Escobar called her one
day and they began a correspondence that culminated in his
"giving his life to God," DAWN said. Since then 13 others have
become Christians and confessed their crimes, Estrada said. Two
have been freed from prison and are serving as missionaries in
other countries, she said.
SUDAN
...Sudanese government troops routinely attack civilian and
humanitarian targets, have prevented relief flights from carrying
food and medical aid to famine-stricken areas, and abduct women
and children, selling them to slave traders, Graham said. A
Samaritan's Purse hospital, which has treated more than 100,000
Sudanese since 1998, was the target of two bombing attacks this
month.
..."When several thousand Europeans are killed and tens of
thousands displaced, the world calls it genocide. But when 1.9
million black Africans are killed and millions more are
displaced, tortured, and even sold into slavery, the world
remains strangely silent. Western governments not only fail to
take punitive action, they continue to trade openly with the
government of Sudan," Graham said.
...Governments could help the Sudanese by imposing trade
sanctions, taking military action, or condemning the government,
Graham said. "The international community has taken no meaningful
action to condemn the Sudanese government," but instead has
issued "empty, half-hearted rebukes." The United Nations also has
failed to impose trade sanctions, he said.
..."I call on my fellow Americans everywhere, and particularly my
fellow clergymen, to unite on this moral cause and ask our
president to lead the international community to save the
Christians in southern Sudan from butchery and slavery," he said.
Failure to respond to the crisis in Sudan could bring God's
judgment on the United States, he said. "His hand of blessing
could easily and quickly be removed."
Warplanes bombed a Christian boarding school in southern Sudan
March 23. Parents and students were making final preparations to
begin classes for 100 high school-age students from the Moru
tribe at the new school, built and supported by Christian Liberty
Academy of Arlington Heights, Ill., when the attack began, Assist
Communications said.
...A number of students and parents were injured, but none were
killed when a Russian-made Antonov MU2 aircraft dropped 12
shrapnel bombs, weighing 250 pounds each, on and near the
facility, Assist said. Christian Liberty Academy superintendent
Paul Lindstrom called for "total U.S. sanctions" against
Khartoum's hardline Islamic regime, which recently has increased
its attacks on civilian targets in its war against the south,
news reports said.
..."We are outraged by the continuing persecution of black
Christians, moderate Muslims, animists, and other non-Muslims in
Southern Sudan by the military regime in Khartoum," Lindstrom
said. "It is accurate to say that the government of Sudan is
engaged in genocide -- and the silence of the U.S. government to
all of this is deafening." He called on American Christians to
write to their congressmen in protest. CLA helps educate 60,000
students in the United States and 56 countries by providing
home-schooling materials and running schools.
Three German Christians got caught in an attack on a school in
southern Sudan. Representatives of the German Protestant Church's
development service were in the Nimuli region near the Ugandan
border March 14 when 12 bombs were dropped on the
church-sponsored elementary school, killing one person and
injuring 11, the German publication idea said. Several houses and
an Anglican church were destroyed, idea said. Sudanese military
aircraft have repeatedly attacked civilian targets in southern
Sudan in recent weeks, news reports say. The radical Islamic
regime in Khartoum is waging a war against Christians and
animists in order to impose sharia, or Islamic law.
The relentless bombing of hospitals in Sudan continues. Warplanes
dropped 10 bombs on the Samaritan's Purse-run hospital in Lui,
southern Sudan, on March 23, said Ken Isaacs, international
director of projects for Samaritan's Purse, a relief organization
based in North Carolina. It was the fourth attack on the hospital
this month.
..."There was little time to run for safety" before the first
bomb fell, said Isaacs, who was not injured in the attack. Six
people were injured, including a woman who had "part of her hand
blown off," and a young man was in shock with shrapnel in his
back and lacerations on his face, he said.
...The nearby town is deserted and all patients have been moved
out of the hospital to another site, Isaacs said. "God was very
gracious and faithful. He continues to protect us."
..."This is an evil, wicked damnable thing going on. Believers
need to speak out and beseech our government to bring pressure on
the government of Sudan to halt this. These are a simple people
who live in grass huts, are barefooted, and their clothes are
ragged. They are a threat to nobody in the world."
...Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan's Purse, has been
invited to testify to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
about the persecution of the southern Sudanese, who are at war
with the Islamic regime in the north. "When will the world say
'enough?' " Graham asked recently. "For years we have seen the
government of Sudan demonstrate its hatred of black Christians."
He called on governments to reject the "ethnic and religious
cleansing" in Sudan.
A Christian group redeemed 5,000 people from slavery in Sudan.
Christian Solidarity International paid $35 per person for the
slaves, news reports said. Most were Christians and animists
taken captive by Muslim troops during raids on their villages.
"The raids are one of the [National Islamic Front's] most
devastating instruments of the declared jihad [holy war], which
it is waging against ethnic and religious minorities that resist
its policies of forced Islamization and Arabization," the group
said. It said it has freed more than 30,000 slaves since 1995,
but more than 100,000 Sudanese are being held as slaves.
MEXICO
..."Fourteen homes were demolished by the mob as the Protestants
fled to the hills for refuge," said pastor Isaias Espinosa,
president of the Adventist Church in the region. "No one was
injured." The pastor of that district is no longer allowed to
enter the community, Espinosa said; refugees are staying at the
Las Margaritas Municipal Palace. Security forces have been
dispatched to Plan de Ayala, along with state officials who will
try to negotiate a solution so the banished families can return.
...Persecution of evangelicals is not uncommon in Mexico, Patrick
Johnstone says in Operation World, a missions handbook.
Evangelicals sometimes are portrayed as anti-Mexican spies and
destroyers of Mexican culture. In some parts of the country, mobs
destroy churches or homes, expel whole evangelical communities
from their villages, and harass evangelistic outreaches,
Johnstone said. Catholics who mix traditional Mayan religious
beliefs with Christianity often object to Protestants who preach
against syncretism.
ANGOLA
...Rebels stoned and then crucified six children recently,
claiming they supplied information to government forces, Paulo
said. More than 80 Christians have been killed this year by UNITA
troops because they were accused of helping the government, he
said.
...UNITA and the MPLA fought to free the southwest African
country from Portuguese rule. Portugal granted Angola
independence in 1975, but civil war broke out almost immediately
between the Marxist MPLA and UNITA, Time Almanac 2000 said. They
signed a peace agreement in 1994, but fighting broke out again in
1998 when UNITA reportedly violated the agreement.
NORTH KOREA: JUCHE, OPPRESSION AND DEATH
For those who are ‘free’, life is oppressive and severe as the
government stockpiles humanitarian aid for military use in the event of
war, rather than distributing it to the starving population. The north
of the country is beset with floods, and power shortages mean there is
no heating. The water freezes in the pipes.
Each March and April, as snow and ice melts off the mountain trails,
more North Korean refugees escape into China. Official Chinese figures
state that around 10,000 of these refugees were returned to North Korea
in 1999. Some 200,000 Christian ethnic Koreans live inside China in the
provinces bordering North Korea. These Christians try to shelter and
rescue refugees and are providing the only opportunity most North
Koreans get to hear the Gospel. However if they are caught doing this
the penalties are high and refugees sent back face certain death.
PLEASE PRAY SPECIFICALLY FOR:
God to convict Kim Sung Il of sin, righteousness and judgement.
May it be one day said, as the Churches said of Paul, "The man who
formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to
destroy." Galatians 1:23.
Indonesia: throat slit - raised from the dead
"As far as I could see, there were only ashes and the ruins of a burned-out
Christian hospital and training center in Jakarta," reports Voice in the
City's evangelist Suzette Hattingh. "Over one thousand students waited in the one
building which survived the recent attacks. Among them was a young man with a
scar running literally from one side of his throat to the other. He had
been the victim of an attack by a Muslim group, who viciously slit his throat and left
him to die, as they had done with many others. The police found his corpse and
loaded it on to a truck. He told us how he had seen his own body lying on the
ground, and that an angel came to tell him to return, because his time had not
yet come. With that, his spirit returned to his body. If I had not seen the
photos with my own eyes, I would not have believed it, but it is true. I am a
trained nurse, and I know that nobody who had lost so much blood through
such a serious wound could survive. This young man did not survive: he died and
returned to life. Today, he his alive and well," says Hattingh.
"God is doing something special in Indonesia," she continues. "An evangelistic
event in Pontianiak, West Kalimantan, was attended by 3,000 people, including
VIPs, who sat on the floor with everybody else. That's not all: Republic Radio
Indonesia (RRI) decided to broadcast the last two evenings throughout the
whole of southern Indonesia. That is astonishing, because Indonesia is still the
world's largest Islamic nation. I preached as though it would be the last
sermon held on earth..."
Source: Suzette Hattingh, Voice in the City
International
24-7 leader Pete Greig comments: "The idea is simple: participating groups
pledge to pray 24 hours a day in a fixed location for anything between a
week and a month. They then 'carry the baton of prayer' for that period.
The prayer passes from location to location in a never ending flow linked
up by the World Wide Web."
The big dream behind 24-7 is to turn the tide in youth culture and to
encourage and equip young people, who often find prayer difficult, to pray.
"Two months ago our dream was to see thousands and thousands of young
people mobilized in prayer. God has already fulfilled that dream." A dream
that was planted in Greig's head after a visit to Hernnhutt. In this German
town in the 18th century a community of Moravians started a 24-7 prayer
meeting that lasted for over a hundred years.
Reactions on the 24-7 website show a growing hunger to pray. A girl from
Aberdeen felt compelled to tell people on the street about Jesus. "I was
shaking, not with fear but with the living power of the true God. At home I
spent all night praying and I just met with Jesus there in my room.
Something was broken and the power of the Lord rained down on me."
What started with one church in Chichester, Sussex, is now a snowball out
of control. Groups from more than 30 nations are using the website. New
groups in the UK, France, Canada have registered prayer rooms, and
countries like Ukraine and Germany are making plans. Some get so encouraged
and just go on. A group from Youth With a Mission, decided they could not
stop and prayed for another week. The Salvation Army in the UK has
registered to pray a massive three months. Various major UK and
international organisations are currently discussing plans for involvement.
The website www.24-7prayer.com offers a place of encouragement, with
articles about prayer, tips to make prayer time more effective, prayer
requests and a growing amount of testimonies about God's answering of=
prayers.
"We have had amazingly instant conversations with key people in a local
school," says a participant from Hertford. "After praying, almost instantly
God has brought us together again with people that we haven't seen for
sometimes years and we see an amazing unity amongst ages, denominations and
church backgrounds... people's faces were glowing after being in the prayer
room."
Another person writes: "Somebody placed a prayer on the wall in our prayer
room about all the troubles and violence amongst young people in Chichester
(UK). This Saturday there was no trouble at all for the first time in a
month. Thank you God!"
Others are being challenged in a new way, says initiator Greig: "A girl
told God she always wanted to hold things lightly. When her brand new
laptop was stolen she stood up in church and said, 'OK, I meant what I said
to God. He can give me stuff and he can take it away. It's not gonna get me
down'. So is this an answer to prayer? Absolutely. God is doing something
deep here, and taking us at our word."
The 24-7 prayer model is currently operating in churches, student groups,
youth groups, festivals, citywide situations and bible colleges. While
youth is the primary focus, Christians of all ages are involved.
..."If you're selling yourself on the street you're not in a
relationship with God," Pfleger said. "Obviously there's
something missing, something out of whack with their lives; I'm
not afraid to make that assumption." The activist priest has
gained attention in the past by protesting against the Jerry
Springer Show and the marketing of alcohol and tobacco to
teen-agers. But the effort to evangelize prostitutes is not for
publicity, and the times of the outreach will be kept
confidential to avoid media exposure, he said.
...Parishioners "ran out of the pews and started bringing money
and placing it on the altar," when he announced the plan during a
Mass, Pfleger said. The outreach is part of an evangelism
campaign scheduled for next month that will involve 500 Roman
Catholics, including Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis George,
the Chicago Tribune said. "It's time to start being the church in
reality, besides having church on Sunday mornings," Pfleger said.
"We've forgotten that our call is to go outside of the church."
NEW ZEALAND
..."We've got to practice what we preach," Dunn said, adding that
he hoped churches will support the children after they are born.
Many parishes have programs for helping unwed mothers, he said.
...Dunn said he is following the examples of Scottish Cardinal
Thomas Winning, who says 107 women have declined abortions
through a similar program, and of his father, a gynecologist who
founded a pro-life group. There are about 15,000 abortions a year
in New Zealand, the Herald said.
April 5, 2000
Ching's email: ching@gsilink.com
Wednesday, April 05, 2000
Cebu City
Philippines
News From the Nations
Source : IRN
Lars Widenberg
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God gave a prophetic word during a worship service to a 16-year-old in
Tostedt, GERMANY. Nervous, she gave a long introduction, then blurted out
her word from the Lord: "God loves you!" The congregation was surprised at
the brevity of her message. That afternoon, however, a man called the
pastor and made everything clear. The man, an atheist, said he had been
prepared to commit suicide but decided to challenge God: "Tomorrow, I will
visit a church, and if you tell me that you love me, I will believe you."
When God spoke to him through the girl, the man gave his life to Christ.
Source: Joelnews
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A Christian worker traveling in a remote section of CHINA was awakened in
the middle of the night by hostile villagers. In an attempt to save himself
and others on his team, he emerged from his tent and prostrated himself on
the ground before the mob. A few hours later, the village leaders returned
to invite the worker's group to breakfast. The workers were able to show
the "Jesus" film several times to eager and attentive villagers. Thank God
for this brother's willingness to lay down his own life for the sake of his
team.
Source: Joelnews
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Grace, a BUDDHIST woman in Asia, asked an American woman to help her learn
English. As the two began studying the Bible together in English, Grace
learned about God's love and His desire for a relationship with her. One
day, she removed her jade Buddha pendant and told it, "If I am truly to
become God's daughter, then you break." Two weeks later, she heard
something fall into the sink and looked down to see the jade Buddha broken
in two. She immediately gave her life to Christ. Since then she has boldly
witnessed to family, friends, co-workers and taxi drivers and has led her
niece, a former co-worker and her 81-year-old grandmother to Christ.
Source: Joelnews
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More than 600 adults watched the "Jesus" film when it was shown in a city
in northern MONGOLIA. One of the men who accepted Jesus as a result was a
painter of Buddha images who had been drinking for 22 years. After coming
to Christ, he stopped drinking and started painting pictures to be used
when Bible stories are told. Praise God for rescuing this man from his
bondage to sin.
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Since July 1999, 18 new Fulbe believers in NIGERIA have been arrested
because of their faith, and five others have been beaten by their families
or neighbors. Others have endured the loss of wives, children, cattle or
possessions, along with other forms of harassment and persecution. To date,
not one of them has yielded to pressure to return to their former religion.
Glorify God for the steadfast faith of these new believers. Ask God to
strengthen them for their trials and make them bold, effective witnesses to
his saving power.
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Christians are caught in the crossfire of a tribal war in Papua
New Guinea. A church was forced to cancel its meetings this week
because the fighting got so close to the church that its leaders
sent the people home, a missionary to the area said.
..."These guys are not fooling around; they have high-powered
rifles, M16s, and AK47s and hundreds of other weapons of all
descriptions. Christians are caught up in this mess, under threat
from their own people if they don't take up arms and join the
fight to defend their tribe," the missionary told Religious Media
Agency, based in Australia. At least two Christians have been
killed in the fighting and a pastor's life has been threatened,
the missionary said.
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Mosquitoes and sermons saved our lives
Source: Tearfund
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Repentance continues in Nineveh
Source: Partners International, www.partnersintl.org
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Drug lords in Medellin, Colombia, are turning to the Lord of
Lords. Fourteen of 17 members of a drug cartel that once ruled
the city have professed faith in Christ, said Maria Estrada, who
started a ministry in Colombia's Bellavista Prison. More than 300
prisoners belong to a church there, she told Discipling a Whole
Nation.
Source: Religion Today
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"Are the lives of Europeans more valuable than those of
Africans?" Franklin Graham of Samaritan's Purse asked in a March
15 article in The Wall Street Journal. Graham decried the failure
of the governments of the United States and other Western nations
to respond to the ongoing genocide he said is being carried out
by Sudan's Islamic regime against Christians and animists.
...The suffering in southern Sudan "is the most appalling I have
seen in 25 years as an international relief worker," Graham said.
"I've seen the heart-wrenching suffering of Kosovar Albanians.
Sadly, the brutality in Sudan -- where the U.S. has taken no
action -- has devastated and ended thousands more lives than the
conflicts in the Balkans."
Source: Religion Today
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March 27, 2000
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Seventy-two Protestant families have been banished from a village
in Chiapas, Mexico. More than 150 evangelical residents of Plan
de Ayala were run out of the town near Las Margaritas by a mob
that gathered in the village center wielding machetes and guns
March 5, eyewitnesses told Adventist News Network. It is the
latest violence arising from more than a decade of tension
between Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians in Chiapas
state.
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Christians are targets in Angola's civil war. UNITA rebels, who
have opposed the ruling MPLA party for more than 30 years, kill
Christians because they won't take sides in the conflict, a
report by the British Broadcasting Company said.
..."Christians are the object of false accusations, because they
take a neutral position in armed conflicts," Jaime Paulo of the
Angolan Christian Churches Council said.
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When the Korean War ended in July 1953, the Korean Workers Party, led by
Kim Il Sung, went to work reconstructing the country and their own power
base. Kim Il Sung’s power was inextricably linked to his personal
interpretation of Stalinist ideology (Juche) that set himself up as a
god to be worshipped, embraced self-sufficiency and self-defence whilst
eliminating all dissent. North Korea is officially atheist with
religious activities banned and virtually non-existent. When Kim Il Sung
died in July 1994, his son, Kim Sung Il, took the reins of power.
US Cornerstone Ministries says that some 2300 Christian congregations
with around 300,000 members have disappeared from North Korea since
1953. A Korean pastor said that anyone caught with a Bible is
immediately shot and that 400 Christians were executed this way in 1999.
He said that for Christians to meet in groups of four or five is to risk
their lives. With no freedom of religion, all North Koreans are victims,
prisoners of an ideology with no salvation.
Around 100,000 Christians are believed to be among the one million
prisoners of conscience suffering horrendous conditions throughout the
country’s 200 labour camps where torture, starvation and death are
commonplace.
spiritual safety for North Korean Christians whose very beliefs are
banned and who are suffering severely; may they be very conscious of the
Holy Spirit’s indwelling and not give up hope, no matter what.
physical safety for North Korean Christians who risk their freedom,
their families and their lives just to own a Bible, pray, meet with
other Christians and speak about Jesus; may the eyes of the secret
police be blinded to Christian activities.
wisdom for foreign governments trying to ease the humanitarian disaster,
and that aid will reach the suffering and oppressed people.
the Gospel to diffuse through North Korea, bringing with it human
dignity, hope and salvation.
Source: Intercessors Network
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A fresh prayer movement by young people from England is spreading like
wildfire all over the world. The '24-7' movement is a non-stop chain of
groups of -mostly- young people praying for their friends and heroes.
Amazingly, less than two months after the kick-off, thousands of young
people are on their knees with a new desire to pray. And some can't stop.
Source: Joel News
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BERLIN
God called Noel Richards from England to organise a huge concert called
"Calling all Nations" in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. The main purpose of
this is to call the youth of the World to come together and worship Jesus
and be commissioned and sent to fulfil their destiny in this world. Noel
had continuous trouble with the authorities who give permission to rent the
stadium. Recently some intercessors found out that the main purpose why
Hitler had called for the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 was to offer up
the Youth of the World as a sacrifice for War. Before the Games were
opened, Hitler had some time of meditation ("prayer") in a special room
where soil was soaked with the blood of soldiers from World War I . Right
after this, he went to the opening ceremony of the Olympic games and
officially opened them. We believe that God wants to turn Germany history
around - where curse and death for the whole world was released from
Germany, Berlin, the Olympic Stadium - he now wants to release blessing and
live for the World. It is a thing of undeserved grace. But we also sense
that it is a call for strong spiritual warfare as the devil does NOT want
to see this take place. On April 25th Noel Richards and some friends and
intercessors from England and Berlin will come to pray at the Olympic
Stadium. Please join us in prayer and maybe fasting for a breakthrough:
that the curses that are on this place will be broken; that the Lord will
show precise strategies how to pray and to intercede; that they will SOON
get the official permission to rent the stadium.
Source: Love Berlin
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CHICAGO
A Chicago priest is paying prostitutes to listen to the Gospel.
"We want to buy their time, whether it's for 10 minutes or 30
minutes, whatever it takes," Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina's
Roman Catholic Church said.
Source: Religion Today
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A Catholic bishop is offering women money to forgo an abortion.
Patrick Dunn of Auckland, New Zealand, said he will give women
who are considering an abortion money out of his own pocket, if
necessary, if they decide to keep their baby, New Zealand Herald
said. "It is a scheme that will allow women the right and freedom
to choose life instead of death," he said.
Source: Religion Today
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