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BELIEVERS IN INDIA BATTLE NATURE, PERSECUTION INDIA’S MISSIONS NOT INTIMIDATED BY HINDU RADICALS CHRISTIANS TO JOIN IN PRAYER FOR PERSECUTED BELIEVERS ON SUNDAY MINISTRY PLANS GOSPEL BROADCASTS IN UNNAMED MUSLIM NATION NEW TESTAMENT TRANSLATED INTO ANOTHER LANGUAGE OF MEXICO MINISTRY PROVIDES TRAINING TOOLS FOR DISADVANTAGED PASTORS

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BELIEVERS IN INDIA BATTLE NATURE, PERSECUTION Believers in eastern India’s Orissa state are battling both persistent persecution and perennial attacks by nature. The area is hit by cyclones and floods nearly every year. This year’s September storms submerged 3,390 villages and affected nearly 3 million people in 18 districts, reported Christian Aid. One mission leader said 100 families from his home church were affected. “They are living in makeshift homes and suffering to the maximum due to continued rain and lack of food and clothes,” he said. The believers in that state also face constant persecution from right-wing Hindus. This same leader told Christian Aid he and his colleagues were severely injured in a merciless attack recently. They took the matter to the district officials, but afterwards a letter threatening attack on pastors of the area was circulated. He said a small village with a handful of Christian families in the southern part of the state was recently set on fire and then looted by hoodlums, though the incident seemed to be an ethnic rather than a religious problem. (Missions Insider)

* HCJB World Radio-Australia’s new shortwave site Kununurra airs 6.5 hours of daily English programming across South Asia, including India. Two half-hour programs in Urdu, airing Monday through Saturday, went on the air in July, and plans are being made to launch Hindi programs. A radio training center for South Asia has been established in New Delhi. In partnership with FEBA Radio, HCJB World Radio also airs weekly Christian programs to eastern India via shortwave in three languages: Bhojpuri, Chattisgarhi and Mundari.

INDIA’S MISSIONS NOT INTIMIDATED BY HINDU RADICALS A veteran missions observer says India’s mission groups are not intimidated by the present wave of violence and are forging ahead to bring the gospel to every people group. On a recent visit to the U.S., Christian Aid’s surveyor in India, whose name is withheld for security reasons, said mission organizations in his country are not letting attacks from radical militant Hindu groups keep them from fulfilling the Great Commission. “Christian preachers are accustomed to suffering from an anti-Christian government. They are pulling out all the stops and are deliberately proceeding into communities where the gospel has not been preached.” He said the message of evangelicals in India focuses on the person and work of Jesus Christ. “Trouble comes when Christians belittle the Hindu gods,” he said. “Some suffering is a result of foolishness.” At the same time he said that Hindu gurus are influencing the intellectual community of India. He added that the thinking of the elite 21 percent controls the lives of the remaining 79 percent of the population. (Missions Insider)

CHRISTIANS TO JOIN IN PRAYER FOR PERSECUTED BELIEVERS ON SUNDAY Christians around the world will unite in prayer for more than 200 million suffering believers during the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church on Sunday, Nov. 9. During that day (or Nov. 16) churches across the U.S. and worldwide will focus on prayer and support for Christians who are suffering because of their faith in Jesus Christ. This is one of the largest prayer events in the world and has heightened awareness of the persecuted church since the event’s inception in 1996. “This presents a tremendous opportunity for millions of people to make a difference in the lives of those being persecuted for their faith in countries like North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and many more,” says Open Doors USA President Carl Moeller. “Those persecuted believers have asked us who live in freedom to pray for them — always their No. 1 request. And this Sunday we have the opportunity to collectively lift our petitions to the Lord on their behalf.” (Assist News Service)

MINISTRY PLANS GOSPEL BROADCASTS IN UNNAMED MUSLIM NATION Nominal Muslims in a radical Muslim nation will get a chance to hear the good news of Jesus Christ thanks as American evangelist Sammy Tippit will visit the area. “We have just signed an agreement to start broadcasting in a nation that is entirely Muslim and very radical in nature,” he said. “We will be able to share the good news of God’s love in the homes of about 60 million people.” There are concerns that those responsible for airing the broadcasts will be targets for violence, but Tippit is more concerned about having such an overwhelming positive response to the gospel that they won’t be able to keep up. “People are very open. They have never heard the good news that God loves them. Our messages will be purely evangelistic. They will be in the cultural context and they will be in the language of the people.” He expects thousands to turn to Christ. (Mission Network News)

NEW TESTAMENT TRANSLATED INTO ANOTHER LANGUAGE OF MEXICO With the publication of the Coatzopan dialect of the Mixtec New Testament, the Bible League (TBL) has published the full New Testament in 105 languages spoken in Mexico. The Mixtec are among the people and language groups in the Mexican state of Oaxaca where TBL has focused major efforts in the past five years. Those who speak the Coatzopan dialect of the Mixtec language have access, for the first time, to the Word of God in their heart language. TBL has developed a pilot project of evangelism and discipleship training through audio and reading assistance to local Christians. This program is now being used as a model for reaching unreached people groups around the world. TBL works in partnership with Wycliffe Bible Translators to translate and publish Scriptures in remote languages. (The Bible League)

MINISTRY PROVIDES TRAINING TOOLS FOR DISADVANTAGED PASTORS Christian literature is desperately needed in developing countries, says Global Advance’s David Shibley. Many national pastors are constantly asking for these types of tools. “They’ve never seen a commentary or a Bible dictionary,” he says. The goal of Global Advance is to provide these resources for some of the 2 million pastors and church leaders who are capable, yet have little training and limited tools. “We have so much, and the church around the world has so little,” Shibley says. “We’re trying to narrow that gap and provide for our brothers and sisters around the world who are in need of basic Christian materials. Already we’re providing printed training resources in 16 languages.” Global Advance also has a multilingual training website that pastors can access from Internet cafes. Shibley says pastors in even the remotest parts of the world are getting online and downloading helpful information. (Mission Network News)

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