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ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
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Friday, April 1, 2005

WYCLIFFE MOURNS THE DEATHS OF TWO MISSIONARY COLLEAGUES

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

GUYANA (ANS) -- Two Wycliffe Bible Translators missionaries have been found dead outside their burned out home in southern Guyana near the border with Brazil.

Wycliffe received word Thursday morning (March 31) of the deaths of Rich 42, and Charlene, 58, Hicks who have worked with the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) in the Wapishana language project since 1994, according to information passed on to ASSIST News Service (ANS).

"On Wednesday evening, March 30, the couple was found dead outside their burned home in southern Guyana near the Brazilian border. The U.S. Embassy in Georgetown reported that the details surrounding their deaths are inconclusive at this point, but that local officials are investigating the incident as a double homicide," says a statement released by Wycliffe.

Wycliffe said that Charlene grew up in a missionary family in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas. Rich, a Canadian, grew up in South Africa where his parents were involved in missions work. After Rich finished college he worked in cabbage and sauerkraut production in Nova Scotia. Char finished college and began to teach, eventually teaching missionary children in Mexico and in other schools around the world.

After further education in Saskatchewan and an extended visit to Guatemala, Rich began linguistics training in Dallas where he met Char in January 1990.

The couple was married in March 1992. Two years later they went to Guyana to help with language development and translation of the Scriptures into the Wapishana language. The couple did not have any children.

** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Garden Grove, CA. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in Sept., 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.

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"'Bad Omen,' As Hamas, Islamic Jihad Join PLO"
By Julie Stahl
CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
April 01, 2005

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - The Palestinian Authority may become more radicalized if Chairman Mahmoud Abbas continues to cooperate with terror groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad without disarming them, officials and analysts here said.

Abbas, the chairman of both the PA and the PLO, invited Hamas and Islamic Jihad to join the Palestine Liberation Organization this week -- an invitation accepted by both groups."

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March 31, 2005
Palestinian Terrorists Step Up Arms Smuggling

Margot Dudkevitch (Jerusalem Post):
Hizballah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas have intensified their efforts to smuggle weapons from Egypt to cells operating in the territories, with the increasing involvement of Negev Bedouin, according to an internal Shin Bet document.

Between July 2004 and February 2005, 180 anti-tank rockets, five anti-aircraft missiles, 600 kilograms of explosives, 3,000 rifles, 400 handguns, and 400,000 rounds of ammunition were smuggled from Egypt into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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