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May 5, 2005
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Jeremy Reynalds
P O Box 27693
Alb., NM 87125-7693
Tel: (505) 400-7145
www.joyjunction.org
CHURCH ATTACKED AND BURNED TO THE GROUND
Sixth Time Gospel For Asia Building Has Been Targeted
A church affiliated with Gospel for Asia has been burned to the ground by insurgents.
According to a news release from Gospel for Asia (GFA), this is the third attack on the building this year and the sixth time it has been targeted by arsonists.
GFA officials said that police are investigating the April 19 attack on the Believers Church located in the Thoubal district in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. Four Christians associated with the church were injured in the violence, including one man who had to be hospitalized for his injuries.
"Such opposition is a daily fact of life for our missionaries on the front lines in many parts of Asia," said Gospel for Asia Founder and President K.P. Yohannan in a news release. "I ask the body of Christ pray daily for their persecuted brothers and sisters in these situations."
In an emergency meeting, Christian leaders in Manipur agreed to form an Inter-Church Peace Council and contact the state's Minorities Commission.
According to ministry officials, the Believers Church had been previously attacked twice this year, and a local court had ordered police to provide security while reconstruction took place. However, according to the GFA news release, a local newspaper reported that opponents have warned church members to abandon the premises or "face the consequences." Church officials vowed to rebuild.
"Christ calls us to take His message to ‘the least of these,'" Yohannan said in the news release. "We will not be deterred from sharing the love of Christ and obeying what Jesus has called us to do, no matter what the cost."
GFA LAUNCHES FIRST INDIAN-BASED CHRISTIAN TELEVISION NETWORK
In other GFA news, the organization recently announced the launch of the first Christian television network to be based in India.
The 24-hour a day network will broadcast Christian programming on three separate satellite channels once it becomes fully operational, Yohannan said in a news release.
"We have been praying about these opportunities for so long - to reach the masses in the 10/40 window region," Yohannan said. "No one is currently providing this type of outreach from the subcontinent."
The network will be called AY TV, which stands for Athmik Yathra (Spiritual Journey). Initial efforts call for the ministry to launch with 16 hours of programming, beginning this fall.
The satellite footprint for the new network will be massive, Yohannan said, reaching all of Asia, the Arab Gulf countries, and parts of Africa as well. One channel will carry English programming 24 hours a day; the other two will feature native languages. Half a billion people on the Indian subcontinent, for example, speak the Hindi language.
"Our goal is to focus 70 percent of the programming on evangelization and 30 percent on discipleship," Yohannan said. "We want to see people reached with the gospel message."
GFA announced in the news release it is opening the network to other Christian broadcasters who want to provide programming that will reach Asia. On-site production in India has already begun.
GFA is well acquainted with Christian broadcasting. Its 19-year-old international radio broadcasts already reach 1.5 billion people in 11 Asian countries.
In 2003, the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) awarded Yohannan its Individual Achievement Award in International Broadcasting.
With headquarters in Carrollton, Texas, GFA trains and sends native missionaries into the most unreached areas of Asia. More than 14,000 GFA native missionaries are now planting more than 15 churches a day in 10 Asian nations.
For additional information about GFA go to www.gfa.org
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