Little Blooms Children Ministry: Needs - Telugu Bibles, Food, Small Gifts and Prayer - That's all!

Update: 4 January 2010

Dear beloved in Christ

Greetings to everyone who reads this blog in the wonderful name of our Lord Jesus.

How are you? How are your family members? I hope you are well in Jesus name, we are all praying for you and yours all church members and yours needs. I hope you are also pray for me and my little children feeding.
Dear friend  our children wanted me Telugu children bibles. We have 44 little children, but I distributed only six because I have no money for buy the 44 bibles. I buy  six  bibles with my pocket money. we need 38 bibles. Please pray for them. now I am sending to you one week events in my school.  every day morning our children started the classes with worship. after  I explained them subjects.  every day I conduct the slip test in exams in main subjects. every day we played in ground in the evening. i give them feed only one time for day. we need one more meal and  books and cloths to our little children. we will try to construct the school sheds. please pray for my all needs in your prayer time. i hope you  will be praying for me in Jesus name. our father is understanding god. we are all moving in his hand. so he will do our all works.  we will get everything with prayer. so please keep praying for my little children needs,

 if you want i will send more photos to you. if you come visit me every time welcome,

        we are waiting for yours reply in Jesus name shortly

our little children sent to you kisses and hugs to you

thanking you

in his service

Bro.Ramesh babu peteti

little blooms children ministry.

andhrapradesh india.

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Christmas Message 2009:


Dear beloved in Christ

Greetings to you in the wonder full name of lord jesus.

                         How are you ? I hope you are all well in jesus grace. We are all praying for you and yours all church members. Specially our little children praying for yours family members.

                We celebrated Christmas grandly with  jesus blessings and yours prayer support. We were enjoyed that day. Our little children sang a songs  very well. After I gave them festival feed. Some hindus  were participated in that celebrations.  Now I am sending my celebrations photos to you.

             Our children asked me children bibles. Dear friend if you can possible please pray for this small gifts for my little children.

Please pray for my little children feeding and health.

   Our little children sent to you kisses and hugs to you.

Thanking you

In his service

Bro.Ramesh babu peteti

Little blooms children ministry.

Phone:+91-9490450082.

     if you want we will send compleate deatils to you.

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Update: 30 Dec 2009:
                                                       praise the lord

Dear beloved in Christ

Greetings to you in the name of lord Jesus.

We are all praying for yours and yours work.  i hope you are also pray for my little children feeding and their needs.

We have 44 orphan children. we need 44 Telugu bibles. please pray for this.

dear friend we have no monthly sponsors for our little children feeding. I kindly request you please pray for our little children feeding and their health.

We are all waiting for yours good message from yours in Jesus name. I am pastor Ramesh and director of Little Blooms children ministry. I have 55 church members also. I have 22 co pastors.  I will try spread the gospel in my state. please pray for my gospel needs. every day i give the message in my church. now i am sending to you today's message

thanking you

in his service

Bro.Ramesh babu peteti.

littleblooms children ministry.

voleru village, near bhattiprolu

guntur district

andhrapradesh

india- 522 265.

phone:+91-9490450082

e-mail: littleblooms@gmail.com

                           BY HIS NAME

Date:  29-12-2009
Speaker:  Bro.ramesh babu peteti
Gist:  Indeed it is sweeter than honey. It’s wonderful and blessed!

Once a devil possessed woman was brought to a servant of God. None could deliver her. However, that servant of God, filled by the mighty power of the Holy Spirit said, “Lord Jesus have mercy!” He repeatedly called out the name of Jesus. That’s all! The devil could not remain in that place! The name of “Jesus” made the woman to dance from some time and then made her fall on the ground. The same moment, the evil spirit left the woman for ever.

The name of Jesus is powerful isn’t it? Indeed it is sweeter than honey. It’s wonderful and blessed! Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved and sanctified (Acts 2:21, 4:12). Further, His name will heal us and give us good health (Acts 3:16). Also, if you ask anything in His name, He will surely do it (John 14:14). Yes! When two or three are gathered in His name, He would be there in the midst of them and bless them (Matthew 18:20). His precious blood shed on the cross for redeeming us, will wash away all our sins and make us clean it will make you holy and righteous. Today, our Lord wants to fulfill the desires of your heart through His divine grace.

Do you need this power and authority today? First, confess all your sins in the name of the Lord Jesus and beg Him to forgive all your sins, trespasses, transgressions and iniquities. He wills wash away all your impurities in His name and make you holy. You will be made a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). Whoever you may be, please do a little bit of introspection as to whether you have had this blessed experience. Surrender yourself at His feet. Yes! Our Lord is a living God. As you read this, He will talk to you. He will send His power into you to turn your life upside down. All old things in you will pass away! You would put on a new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4:23, 24). Receive this new life and be blessed abundantly forever. He died on the cross only to give you this blessed experience.

Prayer:

Loving Lord! I thank You from the bottom of my heart for offering Yourself on the cross to die for my sins. Wash me with Your precious blood and make me clean and holy. Accept me as Your dear child. From today onwards, I trust that You would hear my prayer offered through Your holy name and justify me. I fall at Your nail-pierced feet and thank You for sanctifying me.

Amen.

Help the street children this Christmas!

From: Gideon Gospel Ministries <ggmindia@sancharnet.in>
Date: Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: Please pray for Street children Christmas

Glory to God!

Greetings in Jesus Name! We are going to enter in the month of December, which we call it Christmas month, which makes children happy with candies, sweets, cakes and new clothes. We are all praying and planning to conduct Milk & Bread program for Street poor children in several villages to feed the hunger children and to give them Christmas message. Attached are some pictures of previous years we served the street children and in our Pastors congregation Sunday school children. Please pray that this year also Lord will supply our needs for this project to touch the hearts of street poor children. We will be praying for you. Please do pray for us. God bless you!

Yours humble servant of the Lord,
Evangelist Gideon Yathirajam

Please note our alternative e-mail is gideon709@yahoo.com

Help the needy children across Russia this Christmas!

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Russian Ministries appeals for urgent help to distribute 50,000 Christmas gifts of hope

By Peter Wooding
Special to ASSIST News Service MOSCOW, RUSSIA (ANS) -- Russian Ministries is appealing for help to reach their ambitious goal of distributing 50,000 gifts of hope to needy children across Russia this Christmas.

Project Hope Director Paul Tokarchuk

Moscow-based Project Hope Director Paul Tokarchuk says last year they distributed 30,000 gift-filled boxes, which include children's Bibles. "This year we are hoping to arrange at least 50,000 Christmas gifts for Project Hope.  More than 150 churches across Russia are involved in preparation to fill the boxes as well as present the Gospel.
"We are working with Western churches and individuals who are helping us to provide an empty box and a Bible and we are partnering with national churches in Russia to fill the boxes.  On one hand it's a sacrifice for individuals but on the other hand it's a blessing that they can share through their little gifts that provide a hope for the children."
Russian Ministries Senior Vice President Sergey Rakhuba says they first launched Project Hope three years ago as a creative way to avoid growing restrictions by the Russian government on Western humanitarian aid: "Project Hope is a partnership with the evangelical church in Russia in order to reach out to as many at risk children as possible during Christmas time.  Three years ago the Russian government put lots of restrictions on charity aid that was coming in from abroad especially from the UK and the United States. 

Russian Ministries Senior Vice President Sergey Rakhuba

"While Samaritans Purse still ships hundreds of thousands of their shoeboxes to the former USSR countries and around the world, three years ago they were restricted some sending them to Russia.  In response Russian Ministries approached the evangelical churches in Russia, who were receiving these shoeboxes and said 'because of the Russian government lots of needy children won't get anything this Christmas and why don't we try and still do something?'"
Paul Tokarchuk says Project Hope opens many opportunities to help disadvantaged children hear the hope of the Gospel: "We are always happy to see how they receive the gifts but also how they hear the Gospel through Christian puppet theatre and Bibles for them and that has an eternal impact."
"Many of these abandoned children are the victims of abuse as a result of alcoholic parents and face extremely poor conditions in orphanages and real hope should be proclaimed to all of them."
Paul says time is running out to help them reach their goals of impacting 50,000 children this year: "The Russian Orthodox Christmas is January 7 so the deadline for people to donate is the first week of December so that throughout the rest of the month arrangements will be made for packing and distributing the shoeboxes.
"Over the next few weeks we will start driving to all the cities and regions of Russia so they can start filling the shoeboxes. 
"We would really appreciate more partners from the West that together with the national churches of Russia we can take 50,000 gifts to the needy kids so we can bring the orphaned and abandoned and abused children the hope of the Gospel who are in real need who are hopeless."
Sergey Rakhuba is urging Western Christians to make small sacrifices to help them reach their ambitious goal: "I encourage people to look forward to share what they have over this Christmas with needy children in Russia.  If we don't give the $2 to provide Bibles for them there will probably be opportunities missed to tell them the story of Jesus.  To give $2 towards this project to provide one Bible, that's a great opportunity.  People could miss a lunch at McDonalds and can probably give $10, which will provide 5 Bible for needy children in Russia.  But if people can give more than that and help Russian Ministries to make those boxes and Bibles available and help with the distribution costs, we would greatly appreciate it." 
For more details go to: www.russian-Ministries.org/how/ProcessDonation.php

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Peter Wooding is a TV, radio and print journalist and media consultant having spent 10 years as news editor with UCB Radio in the UK. He has traveled extensively reporting from countries including Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Dubai, South Korea, Zambia, Gambia, Mozambique, Croatia, Israel and India. He reports regularly for CBN News, KCBI radio, ASSIST News and Sorted Magazine. Peter and wife Sharon live in North Wales, UK with their three children. Passionate to see God's Justice and Mercy impact lives, Peter is director of a new UK ministry Mercy Project International (www.mercyproject.org.uk) to help at-risk young people in Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, Kosovo, the Middle East and beyond. Contact Peter for consultation at woodingpeter@hotmail.com or tel. +44 1244 549167/+44 7500 903067.

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Missionary Akash Rao remains in jail since June 2009. Please help! Please pray!

Akash Rao, a Gospel for Asia-supported pastor, has been in police custody since June.  He was arrested on suspicion of being connected with a political extremist group that dominates his area.  Read the story here:

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Humanly speaking, there seems to be little hope for our brother's release right now, but our God is bigger!  Please fervently lift Akash in prayer today, that he will soon be freed and be able to continue his ministry.  Thankfully, in the midst of this, his church is staying active as another GFA-supported pastor cares for it.

Thank you for standing in the gap for Akash and other laborers like him.

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Enough is Enough - Please help the people of Zimbabwe in any way you can!

Sokwanele - Enough is Enough - Zimbabwe
PROMOTING NON-VIOLENT PRINCIPLES TO ACHIEVE DEMOCRACY

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Zimbabwe Inclusive Government Watch : Issue 10
Sokwanele : 6 November 2009

"There is nothing in the GPA that has not been done by ZANU PF, nothing at all. We have fulfilled everything that the GPA wanted us to fulfill": Robert Mugabe, 24 October 2009
October has been a month characterised by violence, lawlessness, corruption and the complete abuse of power for partisan and personal objectives. Despite Robert Mugabe’s outrageous claim to the contrary, Sokwanele has logged an incredible 3850 breaches of the GPA by Zanu PF since the start of the ZIG Watch project, making this party responsible for 88.8% of all breaches logged up until the end of October.
October began in the wake of a international public campaign demanding that Nestle stop buying milk from Gushungo Dairy Estate which is owned by Grace Mugabe. Recognising the public’s disgust, Nestle quickly capitulated and in so doing exposed itself to ruthless elements that serve to protect and defend the Zanu PF elite business interests. Nestle bank accounts were frozen by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe who also ordered a forensic audit into its dealings. (The Reserve Bank Governor, Gideon Gono, is staunchly loyal to the Mugabe’s and Zanu PF.) Zanu PF Youths cryptically threatened to “lose it” if the company did not resume buying milk from Gushengo, and the so-called Affirmative Action Group – loyal to the Zanu PF party – threatened to take over Nestle Zimbabwe if the company did not resume its purchases. Actions like these arguably have a far more damaging impact on any prospects for investment in the country than the targeted sanctions Zanu PF is so anxious to have removed.
October will be remembered as the month the MDC-T party disengaged from the Zanu PF party in the power-sharing government, a decision brought about by the vindictive and partisan handling of the Roy Bennett case. In mid-October Roy Bennett’s bail conditions were rendered void when Mutare Provincial Magistrate Lucy Mungwari sent him back to jail pending trial in the High Court. This was despite the fact the State’s papers were not in order, and that they had not furnished the defence with the indictment papers they were required to do so by law. The Attorney General had it in his gift to show leniency and allow bail conditions to remain, but chose not to.
The MDC-T disengagement seemed to remove the last vestiges of Zanu PF restraint brought about by the GPA, and the month of October spiralled into Zanu PF sponsored lawlessness. Reports have emerged this month of hundreds of opposition supporting rural villagers being denied food unless they denounce the MDC parties; Zanu PF militants have been moving around the Mudzi area forcibly recruiting youths to join the ‘green bomber’ militia – Zanu PF MP Newten Kachepa is reportedly playing a lead role in the recruitment. And two Zimbabwe Election Support Network officials were arrested in Hwange’s Dete area, for allegedly conducting a public outreach workshop without police clearance.
Partisan corruption was prevalent in the education sector in October. MDC-T supporting students who were awarded scholarships to study at Fort Hare, in South Africa, have had their funding withdrawn because of their political beliefs. The Presidential Scholarship programme, using taxpayers money, is meant to help disadvantaged students but is widely believed to favour students aligned to the Zanu PF party. The Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) another government fund established to help children from poorer backgrounds has also been contaminated by Zanu PF partisanship. Selection forms for the BEAM programme were being distributed by the Zanu PF local ward chairperson, David Mpala, and MDC supporting parents were having difficulty accessing the forms. The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has reported that teachers in rural schools are being intimidated and forced to pay money to the Zanu PF leadership in their areas – they have been told that this is to go towards funding Zanu PF members who want to attend the party’s December conference.
But it is the upsurge in violence that is the most alarming. The PTUZ reported that youth militia loyal to Zanu PF have once again gone on a rampage against rural school teachers. In Chiweshe, fifty homes of known MDC supporters were burned down by the youth militia, the residents were forced to leave their homes and have sought refuge in neighbouring areas. A losing MDC candidate during last year’s elections was severely assaulted with logs, sticks and stones by youth militia in the Makoni South area. He was left for dead.
Abductions, unlawful arrests and torture have taken place again, a frightening reminder of the State-sanctioned abductions last year. Suspected armed CIO agents tried to abduct Edith Mashayire, the MDC-T’s security administrator, in broad daylight. She fought off her attackers but Pascal Gwezere, the MDC-T Transport Manager was less fortunate: he was abducted outside his home by military intelligence officers, Central Intelligence Organisation operatives, detectives from Law and Order, Police Internal Security Intelligence (PISI) and 15 police officers who were in anti-riot gear. Gwezere was tortured and later denied medical treatment despite clear signs of injuries.
Atrocities in the farming area continue unabated. There is no rule of law. The rural areas are subjected to Zanu PF loyalists, including the political elite, shamelessly scrabbling to grab what they can in an orgy of greed, using whatever means possible. Brigadier General Mujaji has stolen maize from Charles Lock’s farm in Karoi. There was nothing subtle about his theft: the Brigadier used an estimated seven 30 tonne trucks to transport crops he did not own and played no part in growing. Mujaji is also accused of deploying soldiers under his command to forcibly displace workers from their homes: three women were raped and property was looted.
Jacob Chiripanyanga, a self styled ‘war veteran’ used an iron bar to viciously assault three people at Foothills farm in Bindura – he too was using violence in an attempt to forcibly displace all farm workers that he considered loyal to the MDC parties. Pinsi Tauro sustained serious head injuries and was unconscious for one and a half hours.
Five people were shot with rubber bullets on Friedewal Farm, Chinhoyi, leaving two of them hospitalised and seriously injured. Reports also emerged of workers on the farm being blasted with shot-gun pellets and assaulted with wire and sticks by thugs loyal to Edward Mashiringwani, the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank – he is the man ultimately responsible for coordinating the atrocities on the farm in his attempt to take over the remaining piggeries. The police response was a farce: six of the Friedewal farm workers were arrested and charged with inciting public violence.
The last vestiges of pretence that the ‘land reform’ programme is about ‘equity’ and ‘addressing historical wrong doings’ dissolves in the light of the case of Luke Tembani. Rather than showcase Mr Tembani as a pioneering black commercial farmer who started farming in the early 1980s and went on to build a school for people living in the area, elements in the Zanu PF government have ignored a SADC Tribunal ruling protecting Mr Tembani and his family, and evicted him from his farm.
The month of October culminated in a major diplomatic incident, with the deportation of Manfred Nowak, the UN special rapporteur on torture. Mr Nowak, who had been officially invited to come to the country, had his invitation cancelled at the last minute while he was mid-journey in Johannesburg. He was subsequently refused entry into Zimbabwe and deported. He said: “I have never been treated as rudely by any government as the government of Zimbabwe”. This shameful action will only serve to confirm the pariah status of a country still held hostage by lawless corrupt thugs, a perception that yet again undermines investor confidence and with it Zimbabwean citizens’ hope for economic recovery.
These incidents are a small sample of some of the breaches of the GPA that have taken place in October. Robert Mugabe’s declaration that Zanu PF has “fulfilled everything that the GPA wanted us to fulfil” must be called what it is: an outrageous and bare-faced lie.

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The volume of articles detailing breaches of the provisions of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) last month was so great that we cannot do them justice in this short document. For further relevant information, readers are encouraged to visit http://www.sokwanele.com/zigwatch

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Roy Bennett indicted and sent to prison
SW Radio Africa (ZW): 14/12/2009
Once again MDC official Roy Bennett has been placed in the firing line, further testing the validity of the Zimbabwe justice system under the power sharing government. On Wednesday Mutare Provincial Magistrate Lucy Mungwari delivered a judgment against the MDC Deputy Minister for Agriculture designate, committing him to prison pending trial in the High Court. The MDC official’s trial is expected to start in Mutare on Monday where the High Court will be conducting its Circuit Court. The MDC Treasurer General was also committed to prison even though the State’s papers were not in order and the defence team had not been furnis hed with the indictment papers.

• ARTICLE XI : RULE OF LAW, RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND OTHER LAWS
• ARTICLE XIII : STATE ORGANS AND INSTITUTIONS

ZANU PF denies villagers food: report
Zim Online (ZW): 05/10/2009
Hundreds of hungry Zimbabwean villagers are being denied food handouts and forced to denounce their own parties in return for assistance as marauding ZANU PF militants continue to wage war of attrition against perceived political enemies, a leading human rights group has said. The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) said i n its latest report on rights violations in the country that of the 1 335 incidents of political violations recorded during the month of July, about 493 cases or 37 percent were of people who were harassed, intimidated or physically assaulted while trying to access food assistance.

• ARTICLE XVI : HUMANITARIAN AND FOOD ASSISTANCE
• ARTICLE XVIII : SECURITY OF PERSONS AND PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE

Fresh violence rocks Chiweshe in Mashonaland Central
SW Radio Africa (ZW): 23/10/2009
Fresh violence erupted in Chiweshe district this week as 50 homes belonging to known MDC supporters were burnt down by ZANU PF militias. Expressing concern over the situation the MDC MP for Mazowe central, Shepherd Mushonga, told SW Radio Africa that their supporters and activists were being driven o ut by the militias, led by a well known district coordinating committee chairman named as Gatsi.... ‘The situation is grave. Our supporters are being driven out by ZANU PF militias. Through a well-timed brutal assault unleashed over the weekend, many MDC activists have fled their homes and have taken refuge in neighbouring areas. These militias again remind us that they will stop at nothing to maintain their empires of doom,’ Mushonga said.

• ARTICLE XI : RULE OF LAW, RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND OTHER LAWS
• ARTICLE XIII : STATE ORGANS AND INSTITUTIONS
• ARTICLE XV : NATIONAL YOUTH TRAINING PROGRAMME
• ARTICLE XVIII : SECURITY OF PERSONS AND PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE

MDC activist left for dead by ZANU PF war veterans in Makoni
SW Radio Africa (ZW): 20/10/2009
A losing MDC candidate during last year’s rural district council elections is lucky to be alive after he was severely assaulted and left for dead, by a group of ZANU PF militias in Makoni South, Manicaland province.'They stole all his MDC cards and party regalia he had in the house. They also forced him to prepare a meal for the gang after which they started beating him up with logs, stones and sticks. It was so vicious they knocked him unconscious and thought he was dead'. There are fears militias are regrouping to try to enforce the ZANU PF favoured, Kariba draft constitutional document.

• ARTICLE XI : RULE OF LAW, RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND OTHER LAWS
• ARTICLE XIII : STATE ORGANS AND INSTITUTIONS
• ARTICLE XV : NATIONAL YOUTH TRAINING PROGRAMME
• ARTICLE XVIII : SECURITY OF PERSONS AND PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE

Soldiers rape women, loot property at Karori Farm
Zimbabwean, The (ZW): 17/10/2009
Soldiers dep loyed by Brigadier Justin Mujaji at Karori farm, have allegedly raped three women and looted property at the farm in a bid to scare away workers. Armed soldiers stationed at the farm since 2004, have reportedly raped Vongai, Rhoda and Regina. An army sergeant identified as Moyo, is set to appear in court facing rape charges. "In a bid to displace the rape victims so that they fail to stand as state witnesses in court, the soldiers evicted workers from the farm end of last month on October 27. Helpless workers and their families were driven off the farm on tractors driven by the gunmen. Some were dumped in bushes while others were abandoned along the Harare-Mutare road. Houses of management staff were crashed down leaving property trapped in side," said a displaced farm worker. Karori farm resembled a war zone as sergeant Makono fired live bullets at fleeing defenseless workers and their dependence.

• ARTICLE XI : RULE OF LAW, RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND OTHER LAWS
• ARTICLE XIII : STATE ORGANS AND INSTITUTIONS
• ARTICLE XVIII : SECURITY OF PERSONS AND PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE

ZANU PF begins forced militia recruitment in Mudzi
SW Radio Africa (ZW): 19/10/2009
A squad of ZANU PF militants, who were behind last year’s election violence, is moving around the Mudzi district forcibly recruiting innocent youth s to join the notorious ‘green bomber’ militia. Our correspondent Lionel Saungweme reports that between the 12th and 14th of October dozens of villagers below the age of 35 were rounded up in the Chinake, Chatima, Murenyi and Denga areas of Mudzi. They were taken to Nyamapanda near the border with Mozambique and told they would undergo ‘unspecified’ training. ... The local ZANU PF MP for Mudzi North, Newten Kachepa, is also said to be playing a leading role in the recruitment. Kachepa has been implicated in various cases of election related violence and murder but has never once been arrested or prosecuted.

• ARTICLE XV : NATIONAL YOUTH TRAINING PROGRAMME
• ARTICLE XVIII : SECURITY OF PERSONS AND PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE

Abducted this evening: MDC employee Pascal Gwezere
Sokwanele.com: 27/10/2009
We’ve just received information that MDC employee Pascal Gwezere was abducted today by armed men driving an Isuzu twin-cab in the Mufakose area of Harare at 6.45 pm tonight. We have confirmed that this is true, but apart from those details this is all the information we have at this point.

• ARTICLE XI : RULE OF LAW, RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND OTHER LAWS
• ARTICLE XVIII : SECURITY OF PERSONS AND PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE

Zanu-PF thugs on rampage in Mutoko
Zim Net Radio: 18/10/2009
An MDC Mutoko councillor, Chamunorwa Mundete, has fled his home in Nyamuzizi after more than 10 armed Zanu PF supporters besieged his home in the middle of the night and threatened to kill him. Mundete, who is the councillor for Ward 28, had to sneak out through his bedroom window after armed Zanu PF th ugs stormed his home and said they were going to kill him if he continued to support the MDC. “I was saved by the darkness as it was around 3 A.M when the thugs came. I left with only the clothes that I am wearing and I am staying with some relatives here in Harare,” said Mundete.

• ARTICLE X : FREE POLITICAL ACTIVITY
• ARTICLE XVIII : SECURITY OF PERSONS AND PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE

Zimbabwe Election Support Network officers arrested
SW Radio Africa (ZW): 29/10/2009
Two more members of civil society were arrested this week as the crackdown on perceived ‘opponents’ of the State continues. The Zimbabwe Election Support Network staff members, Thulani Ndhlovu and Ndodhana Ndhlovu, were arrested on Wednesday evening in Hwange’s Dete area, for conducting a public outreach workshop allegedly without police clearance. ZESN Board Chairman Tinoziva Bere denied they had conducted an illegal meeting, saying the group had received permission from the local traditional leadership and the district administrator’s office. He said Ndodhana was subsequently released but Thulani is still in police custody and is being charged with contravening a section of the Public Order and Security Act (POSA).

• ARTICLE XII : FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY AND ASSOCIATION
• ARTICLE XIII : STATE ORGANS AND INSTITUTIONS

Renewed Violence Against Rural Teachers Amid Zimbabwe Political Crisis - Union
VOANews (USA): 23/10/2009
With political tension currently running high in Zimbabwe, intimidation and violence are rising in the country's rural schools, the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe said Friday. The PTUZ says youth militia associated with the ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe have gone on the offensiv e against rural teachers in the wake of the disengagement by the Movement for Democratic Change formation of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai from its ZANU-PF partner in the unity government over alleged power-sharing violations.

• ARTICLE XI : RULE OF LAW, RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND OTHER LAWS
• ARTICLE XIII : STATE ORGANS AND INSTITUTIONS
• ARTICLE XVIII : SECURITY OF PERSONS AND PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE

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Christian Woman Killed

• Date: November 11, 2009
• Country: Somalia

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Three masked members of a militant Islamic group shot to death a Somali Christian who declined to wear a veil as prescribed by Muslim custom, according to a Compass News Direct source in Somalia.
Members of the Suna Waljameca group killed Amina Muse Ali, 45, on Oct. 19 at 9:30 p.m. in her home in Somalia's autonomous Puntland region, according to the source.
Ali had told Christian leaders she had received several threats from members of Suna Waljameca for not wearing a veil, symbolic of adherence to Islam. She said members of the group had long monitored her movements because they suspected she was a Christian.
The source said Ali called him on Oct. 4 saying, "My life is in danger. I am warned of dire consequences if I continue to live without putting on the veil. I need prayers from the fellowship."
"I was shocked beyond words when I received the news that she had been shot dead," the source in Somalia told Compass by telephone.

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The slaying of Amina Muse Ali adds one more name to the list of Christians murdered in Somalia at the hands of Islamic extremists in recent months. Pray God will comfort their grieving families and bring them peace that passes understanding.
Pray the Holy Spirit will touch the hearts and minds of Muslims in Somalia to bring them to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

It is unknown how many secret Christians there are in Somalia. Compass sources indicate there are no more than 75, while The Economist magazine hedges its estimate at "no more than" 1,000. What is certain is that they are in danger from both extremist groups and Somali law. While proclaiming himself a moderate, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has embraced a version of Shariah that mandates the death penalty for those who leave Islam.

Update:
Monday, November 16, 2009

Islamic Extremists Kill Somali Church Leader
Thirteenth Christian Assassinated This Year

By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service WASHINGTON, D.C. (ANS) -- A human rights group has learned that members of al-Shabab (a Somali Islamic extremist group) have killed yet another leader of an underground church in the Somalia capital of Mogadishu.

Washington-based International Christian Concern (ICC), reported that on Oct. 10, Pastor Ali Hussein Weheliye was returning home from a worship service when two masked members of al-Shabab ambushed and shot him. He was later taken to Darful Shifa Hospital where he died of bullet wounds on Oct. 20.
According to ICC, Ali converted from Islam to Christianity in 1999 while working in Somalia's capital as a linguist. In 2002, he started pastoring an underground house church. He is survived by his wife and a daughter who are now in hiding fearing for their lives.
ICC reported that Al-Shabab has previously declared Somalia as an Islamic state, vowing to eradicate Christians. Just this year, the group has killed a dozen Somali Christians. Several Christians have also left the country due to the intense persecution. Despite the killings by al-Shabab, the Somali church is growing rapidly.
ICC's Regional Manager for Africa and South Asia, Jonathan Racho, said in a news release, "The underground church in Somalia is enduring untold suffering. Al-Shabab and other Islamic extremist groups are hunting down and killing Christians. By killing Christians, the Islamic extremists have repeatedly demonstrated utter disregard to human life and freedom of religion."
ICC asked that readers pray the Lord would comfort and strengthen Ali's wife and daughter. In addition, ICC requested prayer for courage and wisdom for the underground churches in Somalia.
ICC exists to help persecuted Christians worldwide. For more information, go to www.persecution.org.

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Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and CEO of Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter, http://www.joyjunction.org He has a master's degree in communication from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in intercultural education from Biola University in Los Angeles. His newest book is "Now You See Me." Additional details on some of Reynalds' previous books are available at http://www.HomelessBook.com. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information contact: Jeremy Reynalds at jeremyreynalds@comcast.net. Tel: (505) 400-7145.

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Help El Salvador in Wake of Hurricane Ida

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Compassion International Sending Help to El Salvador in Wake of Hurricane Ida

By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. (ANS) -- Mudslides and severe flooding in the destructive wake of Hurricane Ida continue to devastate churches and homes in El Salvador.
According to a news release, Compassion International has committed $20,000 in immediate relief to aid victims of this disaster. Compassion staff are currently traveling to the affected areas to assess the damage, and determine what additional funds are needed to help those in need.
The news release stated that 21 of Compassion's child development centers have currently been affected in the region surrounding San Salvador, Cuscatlán and San Vicente in the central part of the country.
Compassion staff and the organization's church partners are trying to ensure the safety of Compassion-sponsored children, determine the extent of damage to their homes and provide immediate relief.
"My heart and the heart of Compassion go out to the people of El Salvador during this tragic time of loss," said Mark Hanlon, senior vice president of Compassion International, USA, speaking in a news release.
He added, "My prayers are with the children and families we serve there, as well as Compassion's El Salvador staff who are working tirelessly to bring much-needed food and supplies to those who need it."
Compassion began its work in El Salvador in 1977, and today serves more than 35,000 children at 157 child development centers across Central America's most densely populated nation. Compassion's work in El Salvador is part of its global effort to tackle the unforeseen barriers to a child's healthy development.
Addressing issues of poverty, malnutrition, lack of education, the ravages of natural disasters and more, Compassion works to bring help and hope to more than 1 million sponsored children and their families.
Compassion International is a Christian child development organization that works to permanently releases children from poverty.
For more information, go to www.compassion.com  

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Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and CEO of Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter, http://www.joyjunction.org He has a master's degree in communication from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in intercultural education from Biola University in Los Angeles. His newest book is "Now You See Me." Additional details on some of Reynalds' previous books are available at http://www.HomelessBook.com. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information contact: Jeremy Reynalds at jeremyreynalds@comcast.net. Tel: (505) 400-7145.

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Persecuted for Christ

Location: Pakistan Arrested: June 2009 Print Fact Sheet Asia Bibi, a 37-year-old Pakistani woman from the village of Ittanwali, was arrested by police on Friday, June 19, and faces possible blasphemy charges. Asia is the wife of 50-year-old Ashiq Masih, and their family is one of only three Christian families in a village of more than 1,500 families. Many of the local women work on the farm of Muslim landowner Muhammad Idrees, including Asia. During their work many of the Muslim women have pressured Asia to renounce Christianity and accept Islam. In June, the pressure became especially strong. On Friday, June 19, there was an intense discussion among the women about their faith, with the Muslim women telling Asia about Islam. Asia responded by telling them about her faith in Christ. Asia told the Muslim women Christ had died on the cross for our sins, then asked them what Mohammed had done for them, according to VOM sources. She told them Jesus is alive, but Mohammed is dead. “Our Christ is the true prophet of God,” she reportedly told them, “and yours is not true.” Upon hearing this response the Muslim women became angry and began to beat Asia Bibi. Then some men came and took her and locked her in a room. They announced from mosque loudspeakers that she would be punished by having her face blackened and being paraded through the village on a donkey. Local Christians informed the police, who took Asia into custody before the Muslims could carry out their plan. She is currently being held at the police station in Nankana city. Christians there urged the police not to file blasphemy charges, but police claimed that they must go forward due to pressure from local Muslim leaders. The Voice of the Martyrs urges Christians around the world to pray for Asia Bibi and her family. Further, we call on the Pakistani government to insure that the rights of Christians like Asia are protected. You can pray for and write to Asia Bibi in prison: Asia Bibi District Jail Sheikhupura Punjab Pakistan (to write to Bibi in her own language, you can select a message for translation) - you can also tell the world about Asia Bibi. Just go to this link. (http://www.be-a-voice.net/)

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