THIS WEEK ON "CHRISTIAN

WORLD NEWS," HORROR IN

FRANCE.

ISIS TERRORISTS KILL A

CATHOLIC PRIEST AT THE

ALTER.

AND PREACH AN ISLAMIC

SERMON OVER HIS BODY.

> PLUS, FOR THE FIRST

TIME IN 80 YEARS, THE

MUSLIM CALL TO PRAYER

SOUNDS FORTH FROM THE

HAGIA SOPHIA IN TURKEY.

WE'LL TELL YOU WHY THAT

ACT IS SETTING OFF ALARM

BELLS IN THE CHRISTIAN

WORLD.

> AND ALSO THE HISTORY

BEHIND THE HAGIA SOPHIA,

HOW A MUSLIM SULTAN

CONQUERED THE

CHRISTIANDOME IN THE

15th CENTURY, AND THE

ISLAMIC PROPHECY THAT

STILL INSPIRES MUSLIMS

TODAY.

WELCOME TO "CHRISTIAN

WORLD NEWS," EVERYONE.

I'M WENDY GRIFFITH.

GEORGE THOMAS IS ON

ASSIGNMENT.

A DEADLY MILESTONE IN THE

WAR ISIS IS WAGING ON THE

WEST.

THE BRUTAL MURDER OF A

FRENCH PRIEST IN A CHURCH.

ISIS HAS URGED HIS

FOLLOWERS TO ATTACK FRENCH

CHURCHES.

AND THIS LATEST TERRORIST

ASSAULT IS BEING CALLED AN

ATTACK ON CHRISTIANITY.

HEATHER SELLS HAS THE

STORY.

Heather: THE ISLAMIC

STATE HAS CROSSED A NEW

THRESHOLD IN ITS WAR

AGAINST THE WEST.

TUESDAY MORNING TWO OF ITS

FOLLOWERS ENTERED A

CATHOLIC CHURCH IN

NORMANDY DURING MASS.

THEY SLIT THE THROAT OF AN

ELDERLY PRIEST AND TOOK

HOSTAGES TO USE AS HUMAN

SHIELD.

ONE NUN NARROWLY ESCAPED.

HE FORCED THEM TO GET ON

THEIR KNEES AND THEY TRIED

TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.

THE REVEREND JACQUES

HAMEL, AN 85-YEAR-OLD

PRIEST CELEBRATING THE

MASS FOR THREE NUNS AND

TWO PARISHNERS, WAS

KILLED, AND ONE WAS

WOUNDED.

WITNESSES SAY THE

ATTACKERS DID A SORT OF

SERMON AROUND THE ALTER IN

ARABIC.

POLICE LATER SHOT AND

KILLED THEM AS THEY RUSHED

FROM THE BUILDING YELLING

"ALLAHU AKBAR."

OUTSIDE THE PRIEST'S HOME,

TOWNS PEOPLE ARE

REMEMBERING HIM.

THIS COUPLE SAID REVEREND

HAMEL HAD JUST BAPTIZED

THEIR BABY ON SATURDAY,

AND THAT THEY COLLAPSED

WHEN THEY HEARD THE NEWS.

SHORTLY AFTER THE ATTACK,

ISIS CLAIMED

RESPONSIBILITY.

AUTHORITIES SAY ONE OF THE

ASSAILANTS WAS 19-YEAR-OLD

ADEL KERMICHE, WHO GREW UP

IN THE TOWN AND TRIED TO

TRAVEL TO SYRIA TWICE LAST

YEAR.

HE WAS UNDER HOUSE ARREST

ON PRELIMINARY TERRORISM

CHARGES.

THE ATTACK MARKS THE FIRST

TIME THAT ISIS HAS

TARGETED A CHURCH IN THE

WEST, AND WORLD LEADERS

HAVE QUICKLY CONDEMNED IT.

THIS WAS REALLY A

BARBARIC KILLING.

AND UNFORTUNATELY IT TOOK

PLACE IN A SA SACRED PLACE.

FRANCE AND THE UNITED

STATES SHARE A COMMITMENT

TO PROTECTING RELIGIOUS

LIBERTY, AND TODAY'S

VIOLENCE WILL NOT SHAKE

THAT COMMITMENT.

Heather: IN BRITAIN,

POLICE SAY JIHADISTS COULD

TARGET THEM NEXT.

SOME ANALYSTS SAY THE

ATTACK IN FRANCE WAS A

SHOT DIRECTLY AT

CHRISTIANITY IN THE MODERN

WESTERN WORLD AND IT MAY

NOT BE THE LAST.

HEATHER SELLS, CBN NEWS.

Wendy: CBN'S DALE

HURD IS OUR EUROPE

CORRESPONDENT.

HE HAS REPORTED MANY TIMES

FROM FRANCE AND JOINS US

FROM THE CBN NEWSROOM.

DALE, THE TERROR ATTACKS

IN FRANCE, THEY KEEP

GETTING MORE AND MORE

BRAZEN.

WILL THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT

FINALLY DO WHAT THEY SAY

THEY WILL DO, WHICH IS TO

STOP THIS?

Reporter: E THEY WILL

NOT.

AND THIS ATTACK WILL ONLY

INSPIRE MORE ATTACKS ON

CHURCHES AND CLERGY.

WE LEARNED THAT ONE OF THE

TERROR SUSPECT WAS WORKING

AT AN AIRPORT, WORKING AS

A BAGGAGE CLAIM PERSON.

IF YOU GOOGLE FRANCE

CRACKS DOWN ON MUSLIM

TERRORISM, YOU'LL FIND

ARTICLES FROM THE 1990s.

FRANCE HAS BEEN SHUFFLING

DECK CHAIRS ON THE

TITANIC.

Wendy: THAT'S

DISAPPOINTING.

IN YOUR OPINION, DALE,

WHAT SHOULD THE FRENCH

GOVERNMENT DO TO STOP

THESE AWFUL ATTACKS.

WE'VE SEEN THE AWFUL

ATTACKS IN PARIS, THEN IN

NICE, AND 80 PEOPLE DEAD

AT LEAST, AND NOW THE

PRIEST.

HOW COULD THEY STOP THIS

FROM HAPPENING?

THAT COULD STOP HELPING

ISLAM SPREAD IN FRANCE,

WHICH, INCREDIBLY, MANY

GOVERNMENTS DO WHEN THEY

GIVE MONEY FOR A MOSQUE.

THEY COULD STOP TREATING

THIS AS A PROBLEM

EMANATING FROM THE MIDDLE

EAST, WHICH I THINK IS AN

INCORRECT SMOKE SCREEN.

ISIS HAS INSPIRED MUSLIMS

TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF

MUHAMMAD AND KILL NON

BELIEVERS.

BUT BEFORE THAT, FRANCE

HAD ENOUGH MUSLIMS FOR A

CIVIL WAR.

AND SOME ARE VIOLENT,

ANTI-GOVERNMENT, AND DENY

HUMAN RIGHTS.

Wendy: WITNESSES SAID

THAT THE MURDERS PREACHED

A KIND OF ISLAMIC SERMON

AT THE ALTER AFTER THEY

KILLED THIS PRIEST AND

MURDERED HIM.

WHAT'S THE SIGNIFICANCE OF

THAT ACT?

Reporter: IT SHOWS

WHAT THE DEVOUT ISLAM IS

ALL ABOUT.

THE QURAN HAS NEVER BEEN

ABOUT CO-EXISTENCE.

WHAT IS ON THE FLAG OF

ISIS, THERE IS NO GOD BY

ALLAH, AND MUHAMMAD IS HIS

MESSENGER.

AND THIS IS WHAT

UNBELIEVERS ARE SUPPOSED

TO CONFESS OR TERRORISTS

WILL CUT OFF THEIR HEADS.

Wendy: DALE, THIS

IDEA OF ISLAMIC CON

REQUEST AND DOMINATION IS

A PART OF ISLAMIC

THEOLOGY, AS YOU KNOW, AND

YOU HAVE A STORY ABOUT HOW

THIS IDEA IS STARTING TO

SHOW UP IN A COUNTRY THAT

IS A U.S. ALLY AND PART OF

NATO?

Reporter: THAT'S

RIGHT, WENDY.

THE NATION OF TURKEY IS

PROGRESSIVELY BECOMING

MORE ISLAMIC.

AND NOW THERE ARE CONCERNS

THAT THE HAGIA SOPHIA

COULD AGAIN BE MADE INTO A

MOSQUE.

TAKE A LOOK.

[CHANTING]

Reporter: ON

JULY 1st, THE LAST

FRIDAY OF RAMADAN, THE

MUSLIM CALL TO PRAYER WAS

SUNG IN THE MAIN SANCTUARY

OF THE HAGIA SOPHIA IN

ISTANBUL.

IT SET UP ALARM BELLS IN

THE CHRISTIAN WORLD.

THIS HASN'T HAPPENED IN

MORE THAN 80 YEARS.

THE GREAT CHRISTIAN

BASILICA BUILT BY THE

BIZANTINES IN THE SIXTH

CENTURY WAS CONVERTED INTO

A MOSQUE IN THE 15th

CENTURY, AFTER

CONSTANTINOPLE WAS

CONQUERED BY THE OTTOMAN

ARMY.

THE FIRST THING HE DID,

BY THE WAY, AFTER

CONQUERING CONSTANTINOPLE

WAS TO GO TO HAGIA SOPHIA

AND TO TAKE AN AX AND

BREAK DOWN THE CHRISTIAN

ALTER THERE, TO PROVE THAT

ANOTHER FAITH HAD NOW

TAKEN OVER.

Reporter: THIS IS A

DEPICTION OF WHAT THE

HAGIA SOPHIA LOOKED LIKE

BEFORE IT WAS TURNED INTO

A MOSQUE.

IT WOULD REMAIN A MOSQUE

FOR MORE THAN 450 YEARS

UNDER OTTOMAN RULE.

BUT BY THE EARLY 1900s,

THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE WAS

DEAD.

AND IN 1935, MUSTT MUSTTAFA

CAMAL CHANGED IT INTO A

MUSEUM.

HE WANTED TO SECULARIZE

THE STATE.

Reporter: BUT NOW

TURKEY IS GOING IN THE

OPPOSITE DIRECTION.

PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP

ERDOGAN'S PARTY HAS CALLED

FOR A NEW ISLAMIC

CONSTITUTION.

IN MAY, SOME OF HIS

FOLLOWERS DEMANDED THAT

THE HAGIA SOPHIA BE MADE

INTO A MOSQUE AGAIN.

THE COUP ATTEMPT THIS

MONTH AGAINST ERDOGAN HAS

NOT ONLY ALLOWED HIM TO

CONSOLIDATE HIS POWER, IT

HAS ENERGIZED HIS MUSLIM

BASE.

THIS COUP HAS EMPOWERED

PRESIDENT ERDOGAN MORE

THAN EVER.

HE WAS ALREADY THE MOST

POWERFUL POLITICAL LEADER

IN TURKEY SINCE ADENGER,

BUT IT CAN BRING A

PROVINCIAL SYSTEM ALMOST

TAILER-MADE FOR HIMSELF.

Reporter: H ERDOGAN HAS

LONG BE ACCUSED OF TRYING

TO REDO THE OTTOMAN

EMPIRE.

DALE HURD, CBN NEWS.

Wendy: COMING UP, THE

HISTORY OF THE HAGIA

SOPHIA AND THE CRITICAL

ROLE IT PLAYED IN THE

COLLAPSE OF A POWERFUL

CHRISTIAN EMPIRE.

Wendy: AN ISLAMIC

PROPHECY PROCLAIMS THAT

ISLAM WILL CAPTURE THE

WORLD'S TWO CHRISTIAN

CAPITALS.

FIRST CONSTANTINOPLE AND

THEN ROME.

THE FIRST PART OF THAT

PROPHECY CAME TO PASS BACK

IN 1453, WHEN THE OTTOMAN

TURKS CAPTURED

CONSTANTINOPLE, THE

CAPITAL OF THE BIZANTINE

EMPIRE.

GORDON ROBERTSON LOOKS AT

THE EVENTS THAT LED TO THE

CITY'S FALL.

[CHANTING]

Gordon: IN A.D.330,

HE MOVED THE CAPITAL OF

THE EMPIRE FROM ROME.

THEIFOR MORE THAN 1,000 YEARS,

THE CITY WAS THE CAPITAL

OF THE BIZANTINE EMPIRE,

AND THE CENTER OF EASTERN

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY.

IN CONSTANTINOPLE,

CHRISTIANITY PERMEATEDO

EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE.

EVEN THE CHA CHARIOT RACES

HELD HERE BEGAN WITH THE

SING OF THE HYMNS.

THE CENTER OF WORSHIP WAS

HERE IN THE HAGIA SOPHIA,

THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY

WISDOM.

THE EMPEROR, JUSTINIAN,

COMMISSIONED THE BUILDING

IN 8532.

ON DEDICATION DAY, THEY

MADE THE REMARK, O

SOLOMON, I HAVE OUTDONE

THEE.

IN MANY WAYS HE HAD.

HE PROVIDED A STRUCTURE

WHICH IS A MAJOR LANDMARK

IN THE HISTORY OF

ARCHITECTURE EVER SINCE.

Gordon: THEN LIKE

ROME BEFORE IT, THE EMPIRE

COLLAPSED SLOWLY FROM

WITHIN.

IN 1204, CRUSADERS FROM

WESTERN EUROPE INVADED AND

LEFT CONSTANTINOPLE IN

RUIN.

IN 1387, THE BLACK PLAGUE

KILLED A THIRD OF THE

POPULATION.

THE CITY WAS IN DEBT AND

DISREPAIR, AND THE

BIZANTINES OVERLOOKED A

GROWING THREAT RISING IN

THE EAST.

FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY,

THE OTTOMAN TURKS HAVE

BEEN GAINING POWER AND

TAKING LAND FROM THE

BIZANTINES.

IN 1451, A NEW SULTAN TOOK

THE OTTOMAN THROWN.

MEMET THE SECOND WAS ONLY

19 YEARS OLD, A DEVOUT

MUSLIM, DETERMINED TO

PROVE HIMSELF.

HIS GOAL WAS TO CONQUER

THE STRATEGIC BRIDGE

BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA,

AND MAKE CONSTANTINOPLE

HIS NEW CAPITAL.

HE WAS A FOLLOWER OF

SHAR'IA LAW, VERY

DEFINITELY.

IT WAS ULTIMATELY A

RELIGIOUS DRIVE, WHICH

URGED HIM ON TO CONQUER

THE CITY.

Gordon: IN THE SPRING

OF 1453, MEMET WROTE TO

HIS RIVAL, THE BIZANTINE

EMPEROR, CON CONSTANTEIN THE

11th.

HE REFIEWSTLED.

REFUSED.

IT IS CLEAR YOU DESIRE WAR

MORE THAN PEACE, I TURN

NOW TO GOD.

CLOSING THE GATES OF MY

CAPITAL, I WILL DEFEND MY

PEOPLE TO THE LAST DROP OF

BLOOD.

ON APRIL 6th, THE THE

OTTOMANS BEGAN TO

BOMBARDIER THE CITY WALLS.

THE BIZANTINE ARMY WAS

OUTNUMBERED 10 TO ONE.

WITH EACH PASSING DAY,

PANIC GREW IN THE CITY.

THE SEED OF CONSTANTINOPLE

HAD BEGUN.

IN SPIED SPITIN SPITE OF THE CONSTANT

ATTACK, THE BIZANTINES

STILL THOUGHT THEY WOULD

WIN, UNTIL THEY SAW A

SERIES OF BAD OMENS.

AN OLD BIZANTINE PROPHECY

SAID AS LONG AS THE MOON

WAS IN THE SKY, THE CITY

WOULD NOT FALL.

BUT ON MAY 22nd, A LUNAR

ECLIPSE DARKENED THE MOON

OVER CONSTANTINOPLE.

THE NEXT NIGHT BROUGHT A

FURIOUS STORM, WITH

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING.

AND THEN A CHANGE GHOSTLY

LIGHT SURROUNDED THE DOME

OF THE HAGIA SOPHIA.

SOME WITNESSES SAID IT WAS

A SIGN OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

DEPARTING FROM THE

CATHEDRAL.

AS THE TURKS CLOSED IN ON

THE CITY, HUNDREDS OF

REFUGEES FLED TO THE

CHURCH FOR SAFETY.

ON MAY 28, PRIESTS BEGAN

THE LAST CHRISTIAN SERVICE

THAT WOULD EVER BE HELD

THERE.

JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT,

EMPEROR CONSTANTEIN

ARRIVED AND SAID HIS FINAL

PRAYER AND RETURNED TO HIS

POST.

WHILE THE EMPEROR PRAYED,

THE SULTAN ORDERED THE

FINAL ATTACK.

AND BY SUNRISE, THE CITY'S

FAMOUS DOUBLE WALLS HAD

BEEN BREESMED.

BREACHED.

ADVISORS URGED THE EMPEROR

TO ESCAPE, BUT CONSTANTIEN

REFUSED.

I CANNOT LEAVE THE

CHURCHES IN SUCH A PLIGHT.

WHAT WOULD THE WORLD SAY

ABOUT ME.

I AM RESOLVED TO DIE HER

WITH YOU.

HHEREWITH YOU.

HE LED HIS TEAM IN A FINAL

ASSAULT, AND HE WAS NEVER

SEEN AGAIN.

BY THE END OF THE DAY,

THEY HAD TAKEN

CONSTANTINOPLE, AND AS A

REWARD, MEMET GAVE HIS

SOLDIERS THE RUN OF THE

CITY.

Wendy: UP NEXT, HOW

THE MUSLIM ARMY SACKED

CONSTANTINOPLE AND

DESTROYED ITS CHRISTIAN

HISTORY.

Wendy: WELCOME BACK.

THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE

MARKED THE END OF THE

ARMY.

BUT THEY THOUGHT TO ERASE

EVERY TRACE OF THE FAITH.

AND AS GORDON ROBERTSON

TELLS US, THERE IS A

MUSLIM PROPHECY THAT

PREDICTS IT WILL HAPPEN

AGAIN.

MEMET LIMITED THE

LOOTING OF HIS MEN TO ONLY

THREE DAYS.

SO THEY HAD TO WORK HARD

IN TERMS OF THEIR PILLAGE,

AND THEY DID.

Gordon: HERE IN THE

HAGIA SOPHIA, HUNDREDS OF

CHRISTIANS WERE HIDING.

AND THE CHURCH, WHICH WAS

ONCE A PLACE OF

RESEARCHINGREFUGE WASNOW A SEEN OF UNSPEAK ABLE

HORROR.

MOST WERE TIED TOGETHER,

WHILE SOLDIERS RAPED THE

YOUNG WOMEN AND MEN.

SOME OF THE NUNS RAN AWAY,

PREFERRING MARTYRDOME TO

RAPE.

THEN WITHOUT WARNING,

MEMET CALLED AN EARLY END

TO THE LOOTING AND ENTERED

THE CITY.

THE SULTAN ROAD INTO

SCONCCONSTANTINOPLE THROUGH

THIS GATE, AND PROCLAIMED

HIMSELF THE NEW CAESAR.

HE CHANGED THE NAME TO

CONSTANTINOPLE.

THE FIRST THING HE DID

AFTER

CONQUERING

CONSTANTINOPLE WAS TO GO

TO HAGIA SOPHIA AND TO

TAKE AN AX AND BREAK DOWN

THE CHRISTIAN ALTER THERE,

TO PROVE THAT ANOTHER

FAITH HAD

NOW TAKEN OVER.

Gordon: MEMET

DECLARED THAT THE BUILDING

WAS NOW A MOSQUE, AND HIS

IMAM CITED AN ISLAMIC OATH

CALLED THE "SHIHATAH."

AND THERE IS NO GOD BY

ALLAH, AND MUHAMMAD IS HIS

PROPHET.

THEY COVERED THE PRICELESS

MOSAICS WITH PLASTER,

ERASING NEARLY A THOUSAND

YEARS OF CHRISTIAN

HISTORY.

THE HAGIA SOPHIA REMAINED

THE RELIGIOUS CENTER OF

ISTANBUL, UNTIL THE

OTTOMAN EMPIRE WAS

REPLACED BY THE NEW

REPUBLIC OF TURKEY.

IN 1935, THE MOSQUE WAS

TURNED INTO A MUSICIAN.

AN ORDER FROM TURKEY'S

FIRST PRESIDENT, MUSTAFA

GUMAL.

HE WANTED TO BRING

TURKEY, KICKING AND

SCREAMING, INTO THE 20th

CENTURY.

AND FOR THAT, HE WANTED TO

SECULARIZE THE STATE.

NEW RENOVATIONS

REVEALED THE HIDDEN

MOSAICS UNDER THE PLASTER,

THE VIRGIN AND CHILD.

THE ARC ANGEL, GABRIEL,

AND THE FAMOUS IMAGE OF

CHRIST, DESIGNED TO SHOW

HIS COMPASSION FOR

HUMANITY.

IN 2009, THE FACE OF ONE

OF THE CATHEDRAL'S FOUR

SERAFIMS WAS UNVEILED TO

THE PUBLIC, FOR THE FIRST

TIME IN HUNDREDS OF YEARS.

BU

T

DOZENS

OF CHRISTIAN

MOSAICS ARE STILL HIDDEN

BY ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY.

LOOK WHAT HAPPENED WHEN

CONSTANTINOPLE FELL?

THIS WAS THE CORK IN THE

BOTTLE OF ISLAMIC

EXPANSION.

THEY WANTED TO REMOVE THE

CORK BECAUSE, HEY, THEY'RE

AFTER CONQUERING EUROPE.

Gordon: 500 YEARS

LATER, THE ISLAMIC GOAL OF

CONQUERING EUROPE IS STILL

ALIVE, THANKS TO A

WELL-KNOWN MUSLIM

PROPHECY.

THERE IS A PASSAGE IN

THE HOLY QURAN THAT HAS

MUHAMMAD CLAIMING INDEED

WILL BE AN ATTACK ON THE

TWO CHRISTIAN CAPITALS.

CONSTANTINOPLE WILL FALL

FIRST, AND HE HOPES THAT

ROME IN THE WEST WILL ALSO

FALL.

Gordon:

CONSTANTINOPLE FELL IN

1453, AND TODAY SOME

MUSLIMS SAY IT IS TIME TO

FULFILL THE SECOND HALF OF

THE PROPHECY AND CONQUER

ROME.

NOT WITH THE SWORD, BUT

WITH CON QERGS.

CONVERSION.

EXPANSIONISM HAS ALWAYS

BEEN PART OF ISLAM.

THEY WANT TO CONQUER THE

WORLD, AS WITNESSED BY SO

MANY OF THEIR FLAGS, NOT

JUST THE TURKISH FLAG WITH

THE CRESCENT AND MOON AND

THE STARS, SYMBOLIZING THE

UNIVERSE, MEANING ISLAM

WILL CONQUER THE UNIVERSE.

THERE YOU HAVE IT

ADVERTISED.

THAT IS THEIR GOAL.

Wendy: INTERESTING,

BUT AS CHRISTIANS, WE KNOW

WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS AND

WHO WINS IN THE END.

YOU CAN HELP YOUR FAMILY

AND FRIENDS LEARN ABOUT

THIS IMPORTANT STORY IN

HISTORY.

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WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.

Wendy: CBN'S

"SUPERBOOK" IS GAINING IN

POPULARITY THROUGHOUT

ASIA.

THE ANIMATED BIBLE SERIES

RECENTLY WAS PRESENTED AT

A POPULAR CHINESE BOOK

FAIR IN HONG KONG.

OUR LUCILLE TALUSAN HAS

THE STORY.

Reporter: EACH YEAR

NEARLY A MILLION PEOPLE

FLOCK TO THE HONG KONG

BOOK FAIR.

HERE BOOK-LOVERS LINE UP

TO GET DISCOUNTS IN THE

PACKED CONVENTION CENTER.

IT IS ALSO A VENUE WHERE

NEW PRODUCTS ARE BEING

PROMOTED.

LIKE THESE D.V.D.s OF

THE ANIMATED BIBLE STORIES

OF "SUPERBOOK."

THEY'RE NOW AVAILABLE IN

THE CANTONESE AND MANDARIN

LANGUAGES.

ALTHOUGH "SUPERBOOK" ONLY

HAD A SHORT TINT ON HONG

KONG TELEVISION LAST YEAR,

IT HAS GAINED FANS.

THE MANAGER SAYS SOME

SUPER FANS WERE DELIGHTED

TO SEE "SUPERBOOK" IN THE

BOOK FAIR.

THE PARENTS SAY IT HAS

A MESSAGE.

THEY SAY, I FOUND

"SUPERBOOK" HERE.

THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT

IS WE HAVE IT HERE.

IT IS A GROUP MORAL

EDUCATION.

Reporter: THERE IS A

MAGNET HERE IN THE BIGGEST

BOOK FAIR IN HONG KONG.

MORE AND MORE OF THEIR

CHILDREN AND PARENTS ARE

GETTING ATTRACTED TO THE

ANIMATED SHOW.

THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR

"SUPERBOOK" TO BE MORE

POPULAR AND FOR THE

CHILDREN TO LEARN MORE

BIBLE STORIES.

HOPEFULLY MY DAUGHTER

WILL GO TO CHURCH, BE A

CHRISTIAN, TOO, BUT I

CANNOT CONTROL HER.

THEN I WANT HER TO SEE AND

HAVE IN HER MIND CAN HAVE

SOME MINDSET FOR THE

BIBLE.

Reporter: THIS

COUNSELLOR USED

"SUPERBOOK" IN AN ACADEMIC

EXPERIMENT AMONG HER

STUDENTS WHO LACKED

SELF-CONFIDENCE.

SHE LET HER STUDENTS WATCH

"SUPERBOOK" DURING LUNCH

TIME.

THEY FINISHED ALL OF

THEIR ASSIGNMENTS.

Reporter: FONG

BELIEVES BIBLICAL

MATERIALS LIKE "SUPERBOOK"

ARE PACK OKAYED IN A WAY

THAT ATTRACTS KIDS AND

HELPS THEM TO MAKE

POSITIVE CHOICES WHEN THEY

GROW UP.

HONG KONG IS TOO MUCH

FOCUSED ON MONEY.

THE FUTURE, FOR MOST OF

THE PARENTS, ARE LOOKING

FOR WHEN THEIR CHILDREN

GROW UP.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT.

I THINK THIS ANIMATION CAN

HELP SHOW THEM THERE IS A

BETTER WAY, THAT YOU CAN

LOOK FORWARD TO.

Reporter: LUCILLE

TALUSAN, CBN NEWS, HONG

KONG.

Wendy: THANKS,

LUCILLE.

SOME SAD NEWS TO REPORT,

TIM LAHAYE, PASTOR AND

CO-AUTHOR OF THE FAMOUS

"LEFT BEHIND" BOOK SERIES

HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 90.

HE PASSED AWAY IN SAN

DIEGO JUST DAYS AFTER

SUFFERING A STROKE.

LAHAYE MINISTERED IN THE

PULPIT, IN BOOKS, AND IN

THE POLITICAL SPHERE FOR

70 YEARS.

"TIME MAGAZINE" NAMED HIM

ONE OF THE TOP 25 MOST

INFLUENTIAL EVANGELICALS

IN AMERICA IN 2005.

THANKS FOR JOINING US THIS

WEEK.

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