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ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com, Web Site: www.assistnews.net

Thursday, November 4, 2004

U.S. MISSIONARY SLAIN IN LATVIA
Prayer called for missionaries around the world

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries

RIGA, LATVIA (ANS) -- Following the savage murder of a missionary in Riga, Latvia, the Rev. Gregg W. Anderson of 70x7(Seventy-Times-Seven) Evangelistic Ministry has called on all Christians and churches to pray for missionaries all around the world this Sunday, November 7.

The American missionary, who has not yet been named by the authorities, was discovered murdered in his apartment on Monday, November 1.

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. He wasn't immediately identified. Investigators found the victim's apartment in disarray and suspect he may have been robbed.

The missionary had been living in Latvia over two years.

Gregg Anderson, who has been making trips to the Soviet bloc nations for over a decade said that he had never experienced any problems while in Latvia as he ministers inside prisons.

“I am shocked and puzzled at this atrocious crime,” he told ANS. “I am asking the Christian community to pray during worship services this Sunday and especially for this man’s friends and his family.”

Dan Wooding is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS). Wooding is the co-host of the weekly radio show, "Window on the World" and was, for ten years a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. Wooding is the author of some 42 books, the latest of which is his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, go to www.fromtabloidtotruth.com.
danjuma1@aol.com.

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