Many groups and individual joined hands in behalf of brother Li Xiaodong to bring about this victory and answer to prayer!
Saturday, October 8, 2005
CHINESE CHRISTIAN GETS THE GREEN LIGHT TO STAY IN THE U.S.
By Jeremy Reynalds
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
* Excerpt from Assist News Report *
FAIRFAX, VA (ANS) -- Following a recent decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a Chinese refugee may stay in the United States.According to a news release from the Jubilee Campaign, a human rights organization, the Dept. Of Homeland Security (DHS) reversed its position in the refugee protection case of Mr. Li Xiaodong when officials determined he may remain in America.
According to the Jubilee Campaign, religious freedom and human rights groups, including Christians throughout the U.S., had collaboratively protested the decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Li v. Gonzales. Jubilee Campaign worked with Congressional offices and others to advocate a reversal of policy within DHS and the U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) concerning asylum cases involving religious-based persecution.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Drinking from the Ditches in Uzbekistan
Uzbek House Church Faces Crushing Opposition
by Compass Direct
In his village Tokhtabay Sadikov is considered a "strong man" a zealous Muslim and cruel persecutor of Christians in a remote village of Uzbekistan.
Kaldibek Primbetov, is the leader of the diminishing group of Protestants in Janbashkala village who have undergone extreme trials in an on-going attempt led by one powerful man to stamp out the Christian presence in this primarily Muslim area.
Below is a powerful example of the degradation these children of God are enduring; Quote...
"This past June, Sadikov ordered village authorities to turn off water services to all the known Christians in the village. “Our children have to drink dirty ditch water,” Primbetov said, “so they all get sick.” Despite pleas to the water company and local doctors, no one has dared to oppose Sadikov’s orders. .."
by Compass Direct
In his village Tokhtabay Sadikov is considered a "strong man" a zealous Muslim and cruel persecutor of Christians in a remote village of Uzbekistan.
Kaldibek Primbetov, is the leader of the diminishing group of Protestants in Janbashkala village who have undergone extreme trials in an on-going attempt led by one powerful man to stamp out the Christian presence in this primarily Muslim area.
Below is a powerful example of the degradation these children of God are enduring; Quote...
"This past June, Sadikov ordered village authorities to turn off water services to all the known Christians in the village. “Our children have to drink dirty ditch water,” Primbetov said, “so they all get sick.” Despite pleas to the water company and local doctors, no one has dared to oppose Sadikov’s orders. .."
Monday, October 17, 2005
Journalist urges Pastors to update their Congregations on Persecuted Church
A Report from Assist News Service...
Sunday, October 16, 2005
VETERAN JOURNALIST APPEALS FOR CHURCHES TO 'OPEN UP THEIR CONGREGATIONS TO NEWS ABOUT THE PERSECUTED CHURCH'
For Immediate Release
Contact: Dan Wooding at (949) 472-0974-GARDEN GROVE, CA
(ANS) -- Veteran journalist Dan Wooding has issued an appeal to pastors of churches around the world to open up their congregations to news updates about the persecuted church.
Wooding, 64, founder of the ASSIST News Service (ANS), based in Garden Grove, California, has suggested that pastors appoint a correspondent from their church to bring regular live updates about the persecuted church at their Saturday or Sunday services.
I believe it is vital that Christians become aware of what is happening to their brothers and sisters around the world so that they can pray for them and also get involved in helping them in a practical way, said Wooding, who before he moved to the United States in 1982 with his wife Norma, and two sons, Andrew and Peter, worked in London, England, as a senior reporter for The Christian, The Middlesex County Times as well as two Fleet Street national newspapers The Sunday People and the Sunday Mirror. He was also a regular reporter for BBCs Radio One.
Wooding gives regular live updates about the persecuted church on Pastors Perspective, which he co-hosts with Brian Brodersen. They present the show each Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday on KWVE FM 107.9 which is also broadcast on various other U.S. radio stations. (The show can he heard live from 3-4 PM, Pacific Time, on the web at www.kwve.org.
He also co-hosts Window on the World with Bruce Sonnenberg, a five-minute weekly program that is carried on more than 420 U.S. stations and a further 50 around the world.
If pastors would appoint someone from their church to bring these updates, I believe the congregations would then become informed about the fact that we are part of a worldwide body of believers, and that many of those Christians are paying a huge price for their faith. They need to know that we are standing with them in these troubled times. The reports could be between five and ten minutes in length.
Wooding, himself a pastor’s son, says that there are about 200 million Christians in more than 60 countries that face persecution on a daily basis.
He added, The church correspondents who could bring these reports to each congregation can get their information from ANS http://www.assistnews.net/ which we provide to thousands of media outlets and Christians who wish to keep up to date with the news from around the world.
Wooding explained that all they have to do is to log onto the ANS website and then click on the red button which says, Subscribe to ASSIST News. They can also subscribe by sending an e-mail to Dan Wooding at danjuma1@aol.com.
He also said that there are also many other excellent sources that can provide news on this topic.
Wooding concluded by saying, I hope that many churches will heed my appeal and, by so doing, help equip their congregations with this vital information that our correspondents provide man of the hot spots of the world.
** You may republish this story with proper attribution.
Sunday, October 16, 2005
VETERAN JOURNALIST APPEALS FOR CHURCHES TO 'OPEN UP THEIR CONGREGATIONS TO NEWS ABOUT THE PERSECUTED CHURCH'
For Immediate Release
Contact: Dan Wooding at (949) 472-0974-GARDEN GROVE, CA
(ANS) -- Veteran journalist Dan Wooding has issued an appeal to pastors of churches around the world to open up their congregations to news updates about the persecuted church.
Wooding, 64, founder of the ASSIST News Service (ANS), based in Garden Grove, California, has suggested that pastors appoint a correspondent from their church to bring regular live updates about the persecuted church at their Saturday or Sunday services.
I believe it is vital that Christians become aware of what is happening to their brothers and sisters around the world so that they can pray for them and also get involved in helping them in a practical way, said Wooding, who before he moved to the United States in 1982 with his wife Norma, and two sons, Andrew and Peter, worked in London, England, as a senior reporter for The Christian, The Middlesex County Times as well as two Fleet Street national newspapers The Sunday People and the Sunday Mirror. He was also a regular reporter for BBCs Radio One.
Wooding gives regular live updates about the persecuted church on Pastors Perspective, which he co-hosts with Brian Brodersen. They present the show each Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday on KWVE FM 107.9 which is also broadcast on various other U.S. radio stations. (The show can he heard live from 3-4 PM, Pacific Time, on the web at www.kwve.org.
He also co-hosts Window on the World with Bruce Sonnenberg, a five-minute weekly program that is carried on more than 420 U.S. stations and a further 50 around the world.
If pastors would appoint someone from their church to bring these updates, I believe the congregations would then become informed about the fact that we are part of a worldwide body of believers, and that many of those Christians are paying a huge price for their faith. They need to know that we are standing with them in these troubled times. The reports could be between five and ten minutes in length.
Wooding, himself a pastor’s son, says that there are about 200 million Christians in more than 60 countries that face persecution on a daily basis.
He added, The church correspondents who could bring these reports to each congregation can get their information from ANS http://www.assistnews.net/ which we provide to thousands of media outlets and Christians who wish to keep up to date with the news from around the world.
Wooding explained that all they have to do is to log onto the ANS website and then click on the red button which says, Subscribe to ASSIST News. They can also subscribe by sending an e-mail to Dan Wooding at danjuma1@aol.com.
He also said that there are also many other excellent sources that can provide news on this topic.
Wooding concluded by saying, I hope that many churches will heed my appeal and, by so doing, help equip their congregations with this vital information that our correspondents provide man of the hot spots of the world.
** You may republish this story with proper attribution.
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