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ROBBERS SUSPECTED OF KILLING CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST MISSIONARY INDONESIAN CHRISTIAN INJURED IN DRIVE-BY SHOOTING MOB STEALS MEDICAL EQUIPMENT FROM CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL IN NEPAL KOREAN MISSIONARIES CARRY GOD’S WORD TO HARD-TO-REACH PLACES RENEWED FIGHTING IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE JEOPARDIZES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL * HCJB WORLD RADIO-UK RELAUNCHES CHRISTIAN AUDIO WEBSITE

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ROBBERS SUSPECTED OF KILLING CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST MISSIONARY The American missionary who was killed in Riga, Latvia, on Monday, Nov. 1, served with Campus Crusade for Christ. However, ministry spokeswoman Karen Dye said his name and additional details are not being released pending an investigation by authorities. A police spokeswoman said the 49-year-old missionary was found with a knife plunged in his chest and what appeared to be strangulation marks around his throat. Investigators found the victim’s apartment in disarray and suspect he may have been robbed. The missionary had been living in Latvia for more than two years. Rev. Gregg Anderson, serving in Latvia with an evangelistic ministry called Seventy-Times-Seven, is calling on Christians everywhere to pray for missionaries worldwide on Sunday, Nov. 7. “I am shocked and puzzled at this atrocious crime,” Anderson said. “I am asking the Christian community to pray during worship services this Sunday and especially for this man’s friends and his family.” (Assist News Service/Mission Network News/Campus Crusade for Christ)

INDONESIAN CHRISTIAN INJURED IN DRIVE-BY SHOOTING On Thursday, Oct. 21, unidentified drive-by snipers shot and injured Hans Sanipi, a 25-year-old Christian. Sanipi was speaking with several other people in front of the church when two men on a motorbike passed and shot randomly into the crowd. Christians and Muslims alike are speculating why police have not yet found the mysterious “drive-by” killers who have murdered at least five Christians and injured 11 others since last April. Meanwhile, Muslim youths attacked pig farms owned by Christians on Oct. 20, claiming the smell of pigs was offensive, “especially during [the Islamic holy month of] Ramadan.” (Compass)

MOB STEALS MEDICAL EQUIPMENT FROM CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL IN NEPAL Staff and patients at the Dr. Iwamura Memorial Hospital and Research Center in Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, were helpless when about 200 people swarmed the facility on Thursday, Oct. 7, taking medical equipment valued at 3 million rupees (US$41,700). The hospital had previously been threatened several times by rebel groups in the area. The head of the hospital, Purnima Gurung, was out of the country at the time. “God is good,” said Gurung who continues to operate the hospital. “He will not forsake nor leave us in any circumstances. He is always with us.” In other news, believers from a church that was destroyed by attackers in western Nepal two months ago, continue to meet in homes. There are also reports of new converts as a result of this outreach. (Voice of the Martyrs)

KOREAN MISSIONARIES CARRY GOD’S WORD TO HARD-TO-REACH PLACES South Korea has rapidly become one of the world’s largest source of Christian missionaries. A South Korean missionary in an unnamed country speaks of introducing Jesus to Muslims, the most difficult group to convert. In Baghdad, South Koreans plan to open a seminary even after Iraqi churches were bombed in recent attacks. In Beijing they defy the Chinese government to smuggle North Koreans to Seoul while sharing the gospel with them. With more than 12,000 missionaries abroad, South Korea is second only to the U.S. with 46,000 missionaries and ahead of Britain’s 6,000. The Koreans have joined their Western counterparts in more than 160 countries. Imbued with evangelistic fervor, they have become known for aggressively going to the hardest-to-evangelize corners of the world. Their actions are at odds with the foreign policy of South Korea’s government which is trying to rein them in. It is the first time that large numbers of Christian missionaries have been deployed by a non-Western nation, one whose population remains two-thirds non-Christian. “It is very difficult,” said the South Korean missionary, “but not impossible. We are planting one church at a time.” (WorldWide Religious News/The New York Times)

RENEWED FIGHTING IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE JEOPARDIZES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL Warplanes in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) are again bombing the rebel town of Bouake in the northern part of the country in a renewed outbreak of hostilities. After hitting the rebel stronghold Bouake on Thursday, Nov. 4, Ivory Coast’s armed forces bombed at least three towns east and west of the insurgents’ main base and sent troops toward a buffer zone policed by U.N. soldiers. Henry Aussavy, a spokesman for 4,000 French troops in Ivory Coast, said three army helicopters fired rockets in the Bonguera area east of Bouake while two warplanes bombed the towns of Baoulifla and Seguela to the west. The raids were the first major hostilities since a truce signed in May 2003 ended fighting which had killed thousands and uprooted more than 1 million people. A cease-fire line cuts across the middle of the former French colony.

Evangelical Baptist Mission’s Chris Marine says the bombs fell uncomfortably close to the International Christian Academy (ICA) which is about three miles outside of Bouake. “The French military that evacuated the school two years ago are still living on campus,” he said. “The report that we have is that ICA staff and students are safe and unharmed.” The school reopened on Sept. 1 following the 2002 coup. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned that the fighting threatened to cut off thousands of people in Bouake from urgently needed relief aid. Marine is calling for believers around the world to pray. “Pray for peace in the country, and then pray for all missionaries living in the country, as well as for the school. Pray for the safety of the Christians who are living in the town of Bouake that is being bombed.” (Mission Network News/Reuters)

* Fréquence Vie (Frequency Life), an HCJB World Radio partner FM station operated by SIM and local churches in the coastal city of Abidjan, broadcasts a message of hope and encouragement in Côte d’Ivoire. The station airs 17 hours of daily programming in French and local languages.

* HCJB WORLD RADIO-UK RELAUNCHES CHRISTIAN AUDIO WEBSITE HCJB World Radio-UK has relaunched Audiopot, the only Internet resource for creative Christian audio in the U.K. Audiopot is an online library containing nearly 1,000 audio items relating to the Christian faith, including award-winning material from the U.K.’s top Christian radio production groups. Designed to challenge a non-Christian audience the spots are short (rarely longer than three minutes), creative and thought provoking. The site is dedicated to the memory of late HCJB World Radio-UK engineer Chris Coleman who worked to launch the site in its present-day form almost up to the moment of his death from cancer last July. (HCJB World Radio)

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