DAWN Fridayfax 1996 #43

The next morning, Graham was called into the prison director's office saw a pile of plastic bags on the table, full of white powder. "I have nothing to do with these drugs!" he said. "Yes, we know," answered the guard, "the prisoner in the cell next to yours called us this morning. He told us you prayed for him last night. He could not sleep at all and saw a white figure standing at the end of his bed all night. This morning, he called us, gave us the drugs and asked to be taken to a rehabilitation centre. We thought that would interest you."

Source: John Campbell, Jesus Army, fax (+44) 1327-349997

In the middle of the meeting, a 65-year-old pastor from Southern Chile stood up and said "In the past, we have talked and discussed a lot, but never done anything. The time has come to show our people that we mean business when we say we want to call our country to follow Christ. When I die, I want to be sure that today's leaders have a vision and an aim: to reach our people with the gospel."

According to Bishop Hedito Espinoza, President of CUPREM, a union of pastors and mission agencies, Chile's churches are now ready to come together in a national evangelistic process based on the DAWN strategy. Pastor Joses Osses was nominated to be national coordinator of the new movement. Current estimates are that between 25 and 30 percent of Chile's population is evangelical.

Source: Berna Salcedo, Dawn Ministries, fax (+1) 719-548-7475

The violence happened after the head of an Islamic sect was sentenced to jail for 5 years for allegedly slandering Islam. After the proclamation of the verdict, emotional Moslems stormed and set fire to the court building and nearby churches. Government officials in Situbondo temporarily opened official buildings in the town for Christian services.

Source: "Suara Pembaruan" (Indon. newspaper); Singapore Press Holdings; via Worldwide Photos, Australia, Fax (+61) 2-9792-2881

He says that Japan currently has the highest number of missionaries of any country in the world, yet the country has one of the lowest percentages of Christians in the population in all of Asia, and estimates that there are around 750,000 evangelical Christians in the country - about as many as in one single church in South Korea, the Yoido Full Gospel Church led by Yonggi Cho.

Cho said that God spoke to him in a vision, saying that there would be more than 10 million Christians in the year 2000. Marschall says that currently, more than 10,000 Christians in Korea get up every morning and turn towards Japan, to pray for spiritual revival in the country which once was their repressor.

Source: Eddie Marschall, Japan, e-mail Eddie.Marschall@iac-online.com