CLB-0-009 Bulletin: Agreement Welcomed, plus 4 more items

From: "Clergy Mail List"

Fri, 27 Oct 2000

Clergy/Leaders' Mail-list Bulletin No. 0-009 -- Fri 27 Oct 2000 Items: 1 Agreement on EU Directive Welcomed 2 First Christian Russian Radio Satellite on Air 3 Click! Nine Languages and Multiple Versions 4 Uzbekistan: Pastor Freed 5 John Newton's Status Report -------------------------------------------------------------------- AGREEMENT ON EU DIRECTIVE WELCOMED The Evangelical Alliance (UK) welcomed the 17th October 2000 agreement by European Employment Ministers on Employment Directive 565, which had threatened to make it illegal for Christian churches and other religious bodies to employ only people of the same faith. Martyn Eden, public affairs director of the Evangelical Alliance, said: "Our member organisations and churches have been concerned about the potential effects that the wording of the original draft would have had on religious groups. We are very grateful for the work of the DfEE, which has understood our concerns and have gone a long way to bring about positive changes to the Directive. "The Evangelical Alliance is fully against discrimination on any grounds. In negotiating changes to the Directive, the government has promoted human rights, whilst leaving religious liberties intact." The Alliance has nearly 6,000 linked churches and organisations that would have been affected by the original wording. It has been at the heart of a campaign to educate its members about the potential effects of the Directive and has been working behind the scenes lobbying the Government to make the potential effects known to Ministers. (Further information from http://www.eauk.org\hot-news\hot-news.htm or by email: press@eauk.org) ------------------------------ FIRST CHRISTIAN RUSSIAN RADIO SATELLITE ON AIR The first Christian Russian satellite radio network is on the air -- and millions of people across the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe will be able to hear Christian broadcasts in the Russian language locally. HCJB World Radio, in cooperation with The Evangelical Covenant Church, announced the satellite service Oct. 5 in Moscow. The 24-hour-a-day network is targeting Russia's 30 largest cities, but will be available even to small villages, according to David Kealy of HCJB. Christians in several Russian cities have broadcasting permits and others are applying to put local radio stations on the air. Once the signal is received via satellite dish, it can be distributed by local FM and AM stations, government- wired radio networks, commercial cable networks, audio cassettes, or radio systems in apartment buildings. Christians also are planning to install the service in hospitals and prisons. The network is supplying programming free to affiliate stations from a central hub in Moscow. Indigenous producers are providing 80 percent of the programming, and the rest comes from producers who are well known to the region. (News from ReligionToday is Copyrighted by Crosswalk.com. Content may be reproduced provided proper credit is given to religiontoday.crosswalk.com) ------------------------------ CLICK! NINE LANGUAGES AND MULTIPLE VERSIONS Bible Gateway - Search the Bible in Nine Languages and Multiple Bible Versions. You may click here for the link. Website address : http://bible.gospelcom.net/ ------------------------------ UZBEKISTAN: PASTOR FREED Stanislav Kim, an ethnic Korean pastor imprisoned in Uzbekistan for more than a year and a half on dubious charges, was freed on 9 October 2000 under a prisoner amnesty announced by President Islam Karimov. Pastor Kim, the leader of a registered Protestant Church in the town of Chirchik, was arrested and charged with fraud on 15 February 1999. In a court hearing that even his lawyer could not attend, he was sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment and sent away to a labour camp. It appears that the charges arose from the authorities' desire to stem Kim's work in the growing, legal, fellowship of house churches. About one quarter of the members are ethnic Uzbeks. His ministry and witness had already cost him his job as a foreman in a building company. Praise God for his release and for the way in which international religious liberty prayer and advocacy has been beneficial in Uzbekistan. "Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent - the Lord detests them both." Proverbs 17:5 ******* PLAN TO PARTICIPATE IN IDOP: 12 NOVEMBER 2000 ******* * The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church * * To request resources - Australia: IDOP@crossnet.org.au * * Canada: IDOP@efc-canada.com USA: IDOP@xc.org * * Globally elsewhere: IDOP@iobox.com * ************************************************************* ------------------------------ JOHN NEWTON'S STATUS REPORT I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am. ... John Newton (1725-1807) CQOD Compilation Copyright 2000, Robert McAnally Adams, Curator ------------------------------ End of Clergy/Leaders' Mail-list Bulletin No. 0-009 ********************************************************* ____________________________ Clergy/Leaders' Mailing List (Moderated) This mailing list is open to all Christians via Internet e-mail. Submissions welcome: (in DOS ASCII Text format please if 'attached' or 'imported') To subscribe, e-mail to: clergy-request@pastornet.net.au with SUBJECT reading SUBSCRIBE To unsubscribe, e-mail to: clergy-request@pastornet.net.au with SUBJECT reading UNSUBSCRIBE Copyright: Postings may be re-sent ONLY with all copyright notifications intact.

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