DAWN Fridayfax 1995 #27

News from Switzerland, Sudan, Canada

Switzerland: not only a healed finger

"Up there on the platform is an older lady who has a stiff finger on her right hand. There you are, you in the white blouse. If that's right, please wave back." And she did. The American evangelist Paul Cain (66) "saw supernaturally" that she had this problem during an evangelistic address in Winterthur on 9. July 1995, without knowing her at all.

Cain is convinced that God is increasingly showing prophetically-gifted Christians other people's illnesses or problems which he wants to heal. After the meeting, the woman came to him and wiggled her finger to demonstrate: "Wonderful! I can move it again."

At the meeting, part of a conference lasting several days, many of the visitors reported physical healings which were confirmed by doctors who were present. One woman reported that her gums were suddenly completely restored. Others reported that they had been healed from severe back problems, or even renewed disks. Another woman, who had come to the meetings on crutches, was not only able to walk without them, but had to go to a local shoe-shop because her special shoes no longer fit.

Source: Stiftung Schleife, Fax (41) 52 - 2336082 Tel 52- 2336080

Sudan: churches remain standing

The Sudanese government is continuing to clear refugee camps which are too close to the expanding capital Khartoum. Normally, the mud huts belonging to millions of homeless people from the south of the country are brutally flattened. In a refugee camp in Wadi Rumla, only the churches remained standing. The man who led the recent clearing of another camp and ordered that the churches also be flattened, despite strong protests, was killed in an accident on the way home. People now think that nobody can destroy churches without being punished by God. "Nobody dares touch the churches any more" according to Sudanese Christians.

Source: Offene Grenzen

Toronto: Stadium record

A large-scale evangelistic crusade took place in early July 1995 in Toronto, Canada, with the American preacher Billy Graham. The organisers rented the city's largest stadium, the famous "Sky Dome."

Billy Graham fell ill and had to be taken to hospital shortly before the meeting. The news travelled quickly. Even though it was clear that the evangelist would be unable to speak on this evening, 45,000 people came to the stadium to hear a recorded message. The evangelist was able to attend the end of the series of meetings, much weakened by heart pains. During the whole evening, two doctors sat behind Graham in case of medical complications, but they could confirm that the longer it went on, the more his voice improved instead of worsening. This crusade achieved what sport could not: on this evening, the stadium was completely sold out with a record 73,500 visitors. Another 10,000 had to be turned away. Around 8,000 people indicated interest in Christianity following Billy Graham's call.

The stadium had to be closed 45 minutes before the final service on Sunday 11 June at 4pm because it was already over-full. According to John Arnott, pastor of the Toronto Airport Vineyard, the so-called "Toronto blessing" has led to an unprecedented unity among the churches, and attributed the public success of the crusade to the better co-ordination among the churches.

Source: Reinhold Scharnowski, Fax (41) 33-377364

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