CHRISTIAN BROADCAST

NETWORK

THIS WEEK ON CHRISTIAN

WORLD NEWS,

MEET A REMOTE AFRICAN TRIBE

FORCED

FROM THE JUNGLES AND FORCED

TO FACE

THE MODERN WORLD AND HOW THEY

NAVIGATE

THE NEW WORLD.

PLUS, 21 NIGERIAN

SCHOOLGIRLS ARE

SAFELY IN THE ARMS OF THEIR

PARENTS.

WHY DID SO MANY GIRLS REFUSE

TO LEAVE

THE TERRORIST GROUP.

AND THEY ARE GETTING A

BIBLE DEGREE

BEHIND BARS.

SEE HOW THESE PRISON PROGRAMS

ARE

TRANSFORMING LIVES.

AND HELLO, EVERYONE,

WELCOME TO

THIS WEEK EDITION OF

CHRISTIAN WORLD

NEWS. WENDY GRIFFITH IS ON

THE SLOPES

OF MOUNT EVEREST. WE BEGIN

WITH AN

INCREDIBLE STORY OUT OF

AFRICA. THEY

LIVED IN CAGES AND TREES AND

HUNTED IN

THE JUNGLE.

BUT THEY WERE KICKED OUT OF

THE FOREST

LEAVING THEM HOMELESS AND

DESTITUTE.

I HAVE THE INCREDIBLE

PLEASURE OF

SHARING THIS REMARKABLE STORY

OF

UGANDA.

YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE

IMAGES NEVER

CAPTURED ON CAMERA.

UNTIL NOW. FROM DEEP IN THE

LUSH GREEN

JUNGLES OF AFRICA. COMES THE

STORY OF

ONE OF THIS CONTINENT'S

OLDEST LIVING

TRIBES.

WE USED TO LIVE LIKE

ANIMALS IN THE

JUNGLE.

FROM CENTURIES WHERE

PEOPLE WERE

DWELLERS.

WE WERE INTO WITCHCRAFT

AND DEVIL

WORSHIPPERS.

THEY ARE ONLY FOUR 1/2

FEET IN

STANDARDFOOT} --

HEIGHT.

AND ON THE WINDY FOREST OF

SOUTHWEST

UGANDA.

AND ACTUALLY THEY WERE

PRESTONE

AGE. THEY HAD NO STONE

IMPLEMENTS.

THEY WERE KNOWN AS THE

KEEPERS OF

THE FOREST. BUT THAT ALL

DRAMATICALLY

CHANGED BACK IN 1992 WHEN THE

GOVERNMENT HERE OF THE

UGANDAN CITY

DECIDED TO TURN THEIR HABITAT

INTO AN

ENDANGERED SITE FOR GORILLAS.

THERE ARE ABOUT 150

MOUNTAIN

GORILLAS IN THE WORLD AND 350

LIVE IN

THE FOREST.

THEY WERE EVICTED FROM THE

FOREST.

AFTER LIVING IN CAGES AND

TREES,

THEY BECAME REFUGEES WITH NO

TITLE TO

LAND, NO FOOD, NO CLOTHING,

NO SHELTER.

THOUSANDS OF THEM WALKED OUT

OF THE

JUNGLE TO A WORLD THAT TURNED

AGAINST

THEM.

PEOPLE WOULD NOT EVEN TRY

TO DO

BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY

WERE LIKE

ANIMALS.

HE AND HIS WIFE BARBARA

DECIDED TO

HELP THEM. THEY MOVED FROM

THEIR HOME

IN UGANDA'S CAPITAL TO

EQUATORIAL.

I GOT MY MINISTRY.

HUNDREDS HEARD ABOUT JESUS

FOR THE

VERY FIRST TIME. HE WAS ONE

OF THE

FIRST CONVERTS.

IT WAS THE FIRST TIME

ANYONE HAD

TOLD US ABOUT JESUS. WE WERE

OF THE

DEVIL. AND WE WERE TOLD ABOUT

JESUS

AND THAT CHANGED OUR LIVES.

ON THIS DAY,

THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.

37 RESPONDERS OF THE GOSPEL

MESSAGE

AND BAPTIZED IN THE RIVER.

JERALD SAYS MIRACLES ARE ALSO

HAPPENING.

PELE DIAGNOSED WITH

HIV/AIDS ARE

GETTING HEALED AND GIVEN NEW

LIFE.

THEY STARTED PRAYING FOR

THEM. THEY

PRAYED FOR OUR OWN. I

COULDN'T BELIEVE

IT.

I WAS THERE MYSELF.

IT ALL LED TO THIS.

HALLELUJAH!

THE FIRST EVER CHURCH IN

THE

REGION.

WE COME TO THIS CHURCH.

THEY ALSO RUN A SCHOOL AND

ONCE

HUNTERS ARE LEARNING TO BE

FARMERS.

BUT THE NEED HERE IS

ENORMOUS.

IF YOU CAN IMAGINE

POVERTY, THESE

ARE THE POOREST OF THE POOR.

AFTER MAKING SEVERAL TRIPS

OUT

HERE, A DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER

AND

RECENT UNIVERSITY GRADUATE,

DECIDED TO

GET INVOLVED. HE GOT HANDFUL

OF

CHURCHES IN SWEDEN TO HELP.

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS

MINISTRY IS

IT'S RUN BY THEMSELVES, THEY

ARE PART

OF A BOARD AND THEY CARE FOR

THEIR OWN

PEOPLE. WE JUST WANT TO

EMPOWER THEM

AND HELP THEM STAND ON THEIR

OWN 2

FEET.

THERE ARE THOUSANDS WHO

HAVE YET

TO HEAR THE NAME OF JESUS

CHRIST.

JUST AS CHRIST HAS DONE

FOR ME, I

BELIEVE THE MESSAGE OF

SALVATION IS

GOING TO CHANGE THE LIFE OF

MY TRIBE.

IN THE MEANTIME, HE

WELCOMES FROM

AROUND THE WORLD TO JOIN THEM

AND HIS

PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

WE WANT TO REACH AS MANY.

YOU KNOW, DOING THIS

STORY, REMINDS

ME OF THE WORDS OF JESUS WHEN

HE SAID,

THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM

SHALL BE

PREACHED TO THE WHOLE WORLD

AS A

TESTAMENT TO ALL THE NATIONS

AND THEN

THE END WILL COME.

COMING UP, 21 GIRLS ARE AT

HOME FOR

THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS.

AND WHY MANY CHOSE TO STAY.

WELCOME BACK TO CHRISTIAN

WORLD

NEWS.

HUNDREDS OF GIRLS WERE

KIDNAPPED IN

NIGERIA REPORTEDLY ARE

RADICALIZED AND

THEY DON'T WANT TO LEAVE.

MANY OF THE GIRLS ARE STILL

IN

CAPTIVITY AND MANY OF THEM

THEY DON'T

WANT TO LEAVE.

21 GIRLS WERE RELEASED TO

THEIR

FAMILIES AND THEY HOPE THEY

HEAL AND

GET AN EDUCATION.

WE WANT TO TAKE CARE OF

THAT

EDUCATION. THE EDUCATION THAT

THESE

MILITANTS, THIS STOPPED FOR 2

YEARS

AND 6 MONTHS. WE WANT THEM TO

CONTINUE

WITH THEIR EDUCATION BECAUSE

OUR PRIDE

IN THIS AREA IS EDUCATION. WE

RELY ON

EDUCATION.

MANY GIRLS WHO REMAINED

WERE FORCED

TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE

BABIES WITH

THEIR TERRORIST CAPTORS ALL

CONVERTED

TO ISLAM.

> A CAR BOMB USED AS A

WEAPON OF WAR.

WE HAVE SEEN FIRSTHAND THIS

TYPE OF

ABUSE. SHE HAS MINISTERED TO

MANY

VICTIMS. KIMBERLY, GREAT TO

HAVE YOU

ON THE BROADCAST. SOME CHOSE

NOT TO

LEAVE THEIR CAPTORS EVEN

THOUGH THEY

COULD HAVE.

DOES THAT SURPRISE YOU?

NO, NOT AT ALL. THE

REASONS FOR

THAT IS THE AMBIVALENCE OF

WANTING TO

BE HOME, BUT WHAT WILL BE

WAITING FOR

THEM WHEN THEY GET HOME.

WHAT KIND OF MENTAL AND

EMOTIONAL

AND EVEN SPIRITUAL ISSUES ARE

THESE

GIRLS DEALING WITH?

THAT'S EXACTLY IT.

MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND

SPIRITUAL

ISSUES. WE JUST 2 WEEKS AGO

RESCUED

ANOTHER WOMAN FROM A

GOVERNMENT

SANCTIONED RAPE CAMP IN SOUTH

SUDAN.

IN HER OWN WORDS SHE SAYS IF

I GO

BACK, I WOULD BE REMEMBERED

AS THE

GIRL TAKEN.

TAKEN MEANS VIOLATED. IN FACT

THE

WOMEN OF HER VILLAGE WILL BE

THE

HARDEST UPON HER.

WHAT ABOUT THE GIRLS WHO

RETURN,

KIMBERLY, WHAT KIND OF

STRUGGLES WILL

THEY FACE BECAUSE OF THEIR

EXPERIENCE?

WELL, COMMONLY NO MAN WILL

WANT

THEM. THEY ARE YOUNG AND

BEAUTIFUL

YOUNG GIRLS, BUT AS YOU CAN

SEE THEY

ARE EMACIATED AND THEY HAVE

NOT BEEN

TAKEN CARE OF.

THEY ARE YOUNG AND BECAUSE OF

THIS

STIGMA, THIS INTERNATIONAL

ATTENTION,

ALL THE MORE EVERYONE KNOWS

WHO THEY

ARE AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM.

SO NO MAN WILL TAKE THEM AS A

WIFE. SO

WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT IS

COMMONLY THE

WOMAN IS OSTRACIZED AND

FORCED TO LIVE

ALONE. TO BE MARRIED IN

AFRICA IS

CONSTANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH

SURVIVAL.

YOU HAVE SEEN THE LOVE OF

JESUS

CHRIST RESTORE THESE VICTIMS,

RIGHT?

THERE IS HOPE FOR THESE FOLKS

IN SPITE

OF THE HORRIFIC TRAUMA THAT

THEY HAVE

EXPERIENCED?

THERE DEFINITELY IS.

HAVING WORKED

IN THIS CULTURE NOW FOR

ALMOST 15

YEARS, WE HAVE SO MANY

STORIES OF

REDEMPTION. THEY ARE PAINFUL

STORIES.

YOU HAVE TO ENTER THAT

DARKNESS WITH

THEM, BUT WE DO SEE WHERE

DAILY AND

CONSISTENT CARE IN THE LOVE

OF CHRIST

DOES TRANSFORM HEARTS.

IT TAKES A PRESENCE,

PARTICIPATING IN

WITH COMPASSION IN THIS

SUFFERING WILL

ONLY HAPPEN BY THE BODY OF

CHRIST

STEPPING FORWARD AND BEING

THAT.

WHEN WE THINK ABOUT IT IN

TRADITIONAL

FORMS OF COUNSELING AND

PRAYING ON

WHAT PARTICIPATING IN THIS

SUFFERING

MAYBE AND THE SPIRITUAL

TRAUMA WILL BE

VITALLY IMPORTANT.

YEAH, VERY VERY IMPORTANT.

BY THE

WAY, MAKE WAY PARTNERS IS

WORKING WITH

VICTIMS OF THESE ATROCITIES.

TO LEARN

MORE, GO TO OUR WEBSITE,

CBNNEWS.COM.

AN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN AID

WORKER

WAS KIDNAPPED.

THE KIDNAPERS WERE CONTROLLED

BY

AL-QAIDA GROUP.

THEY ARE ASKING MILLIONS FOR

THEIR

RELEASE.

SEE HOW THESE INMATES ARE

BECOMING

BIBLE EXPERTS. WHEN YOU

GIVE, SMILES

GROW BIGGER.

WHEN YOU CARE, HOMES ARE

HAPPIER.

WHEN YOU COMFORT, THE HURT

GOES AWAY.

WHEN WE ALL COME TOGETHER TO

LOVE,

MIRACLES HAPPEN.

WELCOME BACK TO CHRISTIAN

WORLD NEWS.

THEY ARE MAXIMUM SECURITY

INMATES AND

THEY ARE EARNING BIBLE

DEGREES BEHIND

BARS.

THAT'S THE RESULT OF A UNIQUE

PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN TEXAS

PRISONS AND

SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST

THEOLOGICAL

SEMINARY.

THE GOAL IS TO REFORM THE

NATION'S

BIGGEST PRISON SYSTEMS BY

SOFTENING

THE HEARTS OF HARDENED

CRIMINALS ONE

HEART AT A TIME.

HOUSING THE MOST VIOLENT

OFFENDERS.

THIS IS THE HIGHEST

MAXIMUM

SECURITY PRISON. WE HAVE ALL

CUSTODY

LEVELS.

BEHIND THESE WALLS, HARD

CORD

CRIMINALS ARE TRANSFORMING

THANKS TO

THE SOUTHWESTERN THEOLOGICAL

SEMINARY.

THEY ARE RECEIVING A BIBLE

COLLEGE

DEGREE TO PREPARE THEM FOR

PASTORAL

MINISTRY.

THE FIRST 2 YEARS THEY

TAKE GENERAL

EDUCATION COURSE INCLUDING

ENGLISH,

MATH AND SCIENCE AND

THEOLOGICAL

TRAINING IN PASTORAL STUDIES.

THE IDEA

CAME IN 2010 WHEN LIEUTENANT

GOVERNMENT PATRICK AND JOHN

WHEN --

WHIT , THIS BIBLE COLLEGE HAS

COME

THERE.

THEY HAVE REDUCED THEIR CRIME

INSIDE

THE PRISON BY 72%.

SO THE IDEA IS BASICALLY TO

CHANGE THE

CULTURE BY CHANGING THE HEART

WITH THE

MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL.

SERVING A LIFE SENTENCE,

54-YEAR-OLD FOSTER FOUND HIS

LIFE

RADICALLY TRANSFORMED AFTER A

TIME IN

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.

I WAS THINKING ABOUT

SUICIDE BUT I

REMEMBERED MY CHILDHOOD AND I

GOT ON

MY KNEES AND PRAYED TO GOD

AND HE

REVEALED HIMSELF TO ME.

HE BECAME ONE OF THE

SEMINARY'S

FIRST GRADUATES. HE NOW

MINISTERS TO

OTHER HARDENED GANG MEMBERS.

I WAS JUST SHARING MY

TESTIMONY

WITH THE MEN BACK THERE.

SOME OF THEM WERE REAL

STANDOFFISH AT

FIRST. WHEN I EXPLAINED TO

THEM, LOOK,

BROTHER, I HAVE BEEN IN THAT

CAGE AND

SPENT YEARS WHERE YOU ARE AT

AND I DO

IT IN LOVE.

I HAVE MANY THAT HAVE COME TO

JESUS

CHRIST.

THE DEMOGRAPHICS THAT WE

HAVE, SOME

OF THESE GUYS, IT'S BEEN 20

YEARS WHEN

THEY WERE IN SCHOOL. WHEN

THEY WERE IN

SCHOOL, IT WASN'T THAT GREAT.

THEY HAD TO LEARN HOW TO

WRITE AND

MEMORIZATION SKILLS AND STUDY

HABIT.

WE HAD TO BRIDGE THAT GAP.

NEARLY 60 INMATES HAVE

COMPLETED

THIS EDUCATION. IT'S THE

SPIRITUAL

TRANSFORMATION THAT MAKES A

DIFFERENCE. IT'S TO PASS TO

OUR

STUDENTS, OUR HEART AND LOVE

FOR THE

MINISTRY AND THE LOVE OF

INMATES.

HE'S SERVING A 45-YEAR

SENTENCE.

DESPITE NOT BEING VERY

RELIGIOUS, HE

FELT DRAWN TO THE PROGRAM.

I HAD DOUBTS ABOUT

CHRISTIANITY

BEFORE I CAME TO THE PROGRAM.

I HAD

DOUBTS ABOUT RELIGION PERIOD.

WHEN I

CAME TO THE PROGRAM, THE LOVE

THAT THE

PROFESSORS CARED FOR ME AND

THE FAITH

THEY SHOWED IN ME, THAT LED

TO MORE

STUDIES.

AS A GRADUATE OF THE BIBLE

COLLEGE,

HE NOW SPEAKS TO OTHERS.

NOW THAT I TALK WITH THEM

IN BIBLE

STUDIES AND CIRCLES, THAT IS

REWARDING

IN ITSELF.

WARREN WHO SERVED TIME, HE

SAYS THE

PROGRAM IS REACHING THEM.

PEOPLE ASK ME TO COME TO

THEM ABOUT

SOME BIBLICAL QUESTION THEY

HAVE ABOUT

THE BIBLE OR SCRIPTURE. THAT

SORT OF

THING HAS HAPPENED FROM THE

BEGINNING.

WARDEN MARK JONES ALSO

SEE'S THE

DIFFERENCE.

IT HELPS CALM DOWN WHAT'S

GOING ON

HERE AT THIS FACILITY.

EVEN WHEN THEY GRADUATE AND

GO TO

OTHER FACILITIES, IT HELPS

OUT A LOT.

GRADUATES ARE DISPATCHED

TO PRISONS

ACROSS TEXAS AND LIVE AMONG

THE

POPULATION WHERE THEY

ENCOURAGE OTHERS

TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS.

FOSTER WHO WILL BE ALMOST

80 WHEN

HE'S ON PAROLE, HE SAYS IT'S

A

PLEASURE TO SERVE TO MANY

INSIDE THESE

WALLS.

SOME GO TO NORTH AFRICA

AND

CZECHOSLOVAKIA.

THIS IS MY MISSION AND I KNOW

THE

LANGUAGE AND GOD HAS CALLED

ME HERE.

CHARLENE AARON, CBN NEWS,

TEXAS.

AMAZING, YOU KNOW, SECOND

CORINTHIANS SAYS WHERE THE

SPIRIT OF

THE LORD IS, THERE IS FREEDOM

EVEN IF

THAT MEANS BEHIND PRISON.

THANK YOU

FOR THAT AMAZING STORY. BY

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YOU CAN SHARE STORIES LIKE

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AFTER THIS.

THE UNITED NATIONS

EDUCATIONAL

SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL

ORGANIZATION

HAS APPROVED A RESOLUTION

THAT DENIES

THE JEWISH PEOPLE HISTORIC

CONTENTION

TO HOLY SITES IN JERUSALEM.

THE

RESOLUTION TITLED OCCUPIED

PALESTINE,

IT'S SITES LIKE THE TEMPLE

MOUNT AND

WIPES OUT ANY BIBLICAL

CONNECTION BY

REFERRING TO THEIR SITES AS

AN ISLAMIC

NAME. THAT ISRAELI SEE IT AS

A BIND.

THEY CALL IT ABSURD.

EVEN IF THEY DON'T READ

THE BIBLE,

I WOULD SUGGEST THAT UNESCO

MEMBERS

READ THE TITLE IN ROME. WHEN

THEY

BROUGHT IT BACK TO ROME ON

THE TEMPLE

MOUNT 2,000 YEARS AGO. THEY

ARE

ENGRAVED ON THE ARCH OF TITUS

THE

MENORAH OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE

AND I

REMIND YOU IT IS ALSO THE

SYMBOL OF

THE JEWISH STATE TODAY. SOON

UNESCO

WILL SAY THEY ENGAGED IN

PROPAGANDA.

THEY SAY IT WILL BE LIKE

SAYING

CHINA WASN'T CONNECTED TO THE

GREAT

WALL OR EGYPT TO THE PYRAMIDS.

THEY ARE THE FIRST THAT VOTED

AGAINST

THE RESOLUTION.

MANY ARE IN JERUSALEM

CELEBRATING

THE BIBLICAL FEAST OF THE

TABERNACLES.

IT'S ONE WAY OF SHOWING THEIR

SUPPORT

FOR ISRAEL.

THEY CAME FROM ASIA.

THEN FROM THE PACIFIC OCEAN.

DURING THE FEAST OF

TABERNACLE

THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS COME

TO

CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF

TABERNACLES AND

MAINLY FROM CHINA.

THEY CAME TO SUPPORT

ISRAEL.

WE LOVE ISRAEL. WE STAND

WITH

ISRAEL AND WE WANT TO BE

HERE. EVERY

YEAR WE MAKE IT A PLAN TO BE

HERE AN

EVERY YEAR WE SHOW THAT THEY

ARE OUR

FRIENDS FOR ISRAEL.

ISRAEL HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN

ALLY OF

THE SINGAPORE.

ISRAEL IS THE ONE THAT HELPED

US.

I'M HONORED TO BE HERE ON

BEHALF OF MY

COUNTRY.

WHILE MANY NATIONS ARE

TURNING

AGAINST ISRAEL, IT'S A MORALE

BOOSTER.

WE COME HERE WITH ALL THE

PROBLEMS

THAT THEY HAVE IN THEIR

COUNTRY NOT

ACKNOWLEDGING THE STATE OF

ISRAEL BUT

MANY COME HERE TO SUPPORT IT.

MANY BELIEVE THIS FEAST IS

PROPHETIC.

THAT 1 DAY ALL THE NATIONS

WOULD

COME TO WORSHIP THE LORD AND

KEEP THE

FEAST OF TABERNACLES IN

JERUSALEM AND

LOOKING FORWARD TO THE

MESSIANIC

KINGDOM.

WHEN THE LORD ARRIVES TO TAKE

UP THE

THRONE OF DAVID IN JERUSALEM.

WELL, FOLKS, I HAVE BEEN

YOU HAVE

BEEN INSPIRED FROM THE REMOTE

PARTS OF

AFRICA TO TRANSFORMATION

BEHIND PRISON

BARS AND NOT JUST IN THE

U.S., BUT

LITERALLY AROUND THE WORLD.

FROM ALL

OF US HERE IN THE STUDIO,

THANK YOU

VERY MUCH FOR JOINING US.

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