Mission Network News

Headlining today's news violence against Christians continues in Indonesia and it has at least one missionary broadcaster concerned. President of Far East Broadcasting Company Jim Bowman says it has had a direct impact on their ministry. "A number of our broadcasts, one in particular the Acahnese broadcast, we've had to suspend that because of the extreme tension. There's what we consider at least five hot spots in Indonesia right now. One is Aceh, up in Sumatra. The others are Jakarta, Timor, Irian Jaya and Ambon because there's a lot of threats against Christians right now." Bowman says despite the threats, they don't have any plans to stop communicating the Gospel there. "We're broadcasting in 14 languages from Manila on short-wave, then locally things are going ahead quite fine right there in Jakarta even though a little more than 30 days ago there was a major burning of a Christian institution there. This is so often the case - where there's the most upset, people are very often the most open to the Gospel."