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- [George] This weekon Christian World News
all across Indiathousands of former Hindus
are turning to Christ.
See what's sparkling this amazing revival.
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- [Wendy] Plus, the place in Europe
where Christianity is making a comeback,
but not everyone is thrilledwith this new development.
- And the incrediblestory of the running man
who knocks out worldrecords at the age of 101
and his lifetime service to God.
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Hello, everyone, welcometo this week's edition
of Christian WorldNews, I'm George Thomas.
- And I'm Wendy Griffith.
Well, India is undergoingpolitical changes this month,
but is experiencing socialand religious change as well.
- That's right, manyIndians live in tribes
and traditionally they are Hindus.
In recent years, a majorshift has been taking place
in the highlands of Central India.
Hundreds of men, women, and children
are now being baptized as Christians.
(speaking in a foreign language)
Ask Dinesh Shur why so many tribal people
are accepting Jesus Christ,and he gets teary-eyed.
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(speaking in a foreign language)
- [Translator] When youdo God's work for years
and begin to see the fruits of your labor,
it is overwhelming.
You see the changed lives.
You see the eternal happinesson the faces of people.
And how can it not move me?
- [George] Here, in a corner of Rajasthan
where the majority follow Hinduism,
(people singing and clapping)
a Christian chorus is rising.
- [Translator] The transformationis almost immediate.
Families stop praying to their ancestors.
They stop drinking.
They stop their witchcraft.
Their entire life is turned upside down
when they accept Jesus.
- And Dinesh Shur is part of the reason
why so many are turning to Christ.
For 10 years, Pastor Dineshserved in a big city,
very much like this one, butthen God tugged on his heart
and told him he had togo back to his village,
go back to his roots, goback to his own people,
and share the good news of Jesus Christ.
(speaking in a foreign language)
- [Translator] I waslike Jonah in the Bible.
I didn't want to live in my village.
I wanted to serve God in thecity where things are easier.
I wanted to reach others with the gospel,
not my own people.
- [George] Shur points to Sohan Lal's life
as fruit of his decision to return.
- [Translator] One day,Pastor Dinesh told me
about Jesus Christ.
He told me that if I put my trust in him,
I would be healed, that mylife would be different.
I did.- Sohan Lal joined 178
of his tribe's people recentlyat the edge of this river
not too far from their village.
Here they were baptized by Pastor Dinesh.
- [Translator] I know allthese men and women personally.
I know what their lives werelike before they met Christ.
And now to be part ofthis spiritual milestone
in their lives is an enormous privilege.
- [George] Theru Bhai hasbeen waiting for this day
with great excitement.
- [Translator] After I acceptedChrist I stopped drinking,
I stopped smoking, and Istopped getting into fights.
Getting baptized was myway to show the community
that I'm a changed man.
Today Jesus Christ is my Savior.
- [George] Mannu wasamong the dozens of women
who also got dunked in the river that day.
- [Translator] I feel veryhappy after my baptism
and thankful I receivedChrist in my heart.
I will now follow him the rest of my life.
- [George] And not just her,her husband and children
also decided to follow Christ
after Pastor Dinesh spentseveral occasions with them.
- [Translator] My family'sblessed because of Christ
and because someone was willing
to come and share the gospel with us.
- [George] Pastor Dinesh is amember of the Bhil community,
one of the largest tribes found
in the central states of India.
Dinesh says foreign missionarieshave been ministering
in this area for over 135 years
and have never seen theresults he's witnessing today.
Christians are still aminority within a minority
in these parts.
However, reports claimthat as many as 300,000
have become believers injust the last 10 years,
many of them from among the Bhil tribe.
- 42...- [Translator] We have 42
house prayer groups meetingin about 22 villages.
We also have 32 workers from our church
going from village to village
as evangelists sharing the gospel.
In the coming year, my goalis to send out missionaries
to neighboring states toreach other Bhil villages.
- [George] Jeevani Karadi is one of those
who travel from village to village.
When she's not on the road,
you'll find this spry 65-year-old
also co-leading a housegroup with Pastor Dinesh.
On the day CBN News met her,
she and dozens of believerswere having church
under this tree.
- [Translator] Our groupis getting so large
we don't have enough space in my house.
- Karadi's testimony isthe reason this meeting
is even happening.
About six years ago, sheused to roam the streets
of this remote village, inessence, as a mad woman.
She used to walk around naked.
But then she had an encounterwith this man Jesus Christ.
And today she leads a thrivingchurch here in Rajasthan.
- [Translator] The villagersused to make fun of me.
People said I was cursed.
Then I met Pastor Dinesh,and he prayed for me,
and I was healed, I was delivered.
- [George] Pastor Dineshsays these testimonies
are just another reminder for him
how important it is to obey and trust God.
- [Translator] I am livingthe fruits of my decision
to come back to my village.
Is it easy?
No, do we face challenges?
Yes, but we have Christ to lean on.
He's all we need to seechange among my people.
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- Well, George, India'shistoric election process
comes to an end next week.- That's correct, yes.
- Any predictions on the winner?
- In all likelihood, if Iwere to make a prediction,
BJP is probably going to win.
The Congress Party is really very divided
and hasn't had its sortof chance to bring all
of the various parties together.
So if I were to make aprediction, I would say,
probably the BJP, but it alsodepends on the Parliament
and who controls the Parliament.
In all likelihood, the BJP maylose some significant seats,
and they will have to reachout to create a coalition
for the next government.
- So the BJP, of course,
is the Hindu Party.- Correct.
- What does this mean for the Christians
in India?- Yeah, not good,
because they have suffered quite a bit
since the BJP came to power.
The number of persecution incidents
against Christians has skyrocketed.
Christians in India arevery, very concerned
about their future underthis particular party,
so we will need to continue to pray
for the Christians of India.
- Absolutely, thank you, George.
- You're welcome.- Well coming up,
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In Europe, one nation hasrediscovered its Christian roots
and rewritten its constitutionto protect the family
and the unborn.
- This is amazing, DaleHurd reports from Budapest
on a renaissance ofChristianity in Eastern Europe.
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- In a time when most of Europe
is in the grips ofatheism, there is a nation
where Christianity seems tonot only be holding its own,
but some say is thriving.
Imagine a government thatis unabashedly Christian,
that thinks Christianvalues are worth defending,
that wants to protect, andeven nourish, the family.
Welcome to Hungary.
Hungary's constitutionis explicitly Christian.
It says that marriage isbetween one man and one woman
and that life begins at conception.
It even includes the phrase,"God bless the Hungarians."
Hungary's Faith Churchwith 300 hundred branches
is one of the largestPentecostal churches in Europe
with 70,000 attenders.
And the Hungarian governmenthas taken on the role
of protecting Christianity.
It's even set up an office
to help persecuted Christians worldwide.
When CBN News broughtto the world the story
of Sweden's threat todeport Iranian actress
Aideen Strandsson back to Islamic Iran,
only one nation stepped up andoffered her asylum, Hungary.
The Hungarian government says,
"Taking in persecutedChristians is our moral
"and constitutional duty."
- Hungary wants to protectthe European values,
the European Christian and Jewish values.
- [Dale] Hungarian policyanalyst Istvan Pocza
says Hungary has onlyreturned to its roots
as a historic bastion of Christianity
dating back over 1,000 years
and despite almost 200years of Muslim Ottoman rule
and after World War II'sSoviet communist domination.
Secretary of State Zoltan Kovacs.
- You have to stick to yourtraditions and legacies.
Europe's legacy is a Christian legacy,
not necessarily in a religious form,
but most definitely in a cultural form.
- And it's this beliefthat has Hungary locked
in a battle with theEuropean Union over migrants.
Mister Orban has accused the EU of trying
to Islamize Europe.
And Hungary has infuriatedBrussels by building a fence
to keep illegal migrants out.
The European Union isticked because Viktor Orban
has told Brussels toessentially take a hike
when it comes to open borders.
Hungary has seen the terrorism and chaos
caused by migration in Western Europe
and has said, "Not here."
The European Union has even gone to court
to force Hungary, Poland,and the Czech Republic
to take in migrants.
Mister Orban has accusedBrussels of blackmail.
- Securing the bordersto stop illegal migration
is indeed a solution, andit's the only way, actually,
to reinstate law and order at the borders
of the European Union, andnot the other way around.
- [Dale] Kovacs says it matters that most
of the migrants trying toenter Hungary are Muslim.
And he says Western European nations
are paying a heavy price by pretending
that Islam doesn't matter.
- We've been living together,or living close to Islam,
for centuries in the past,and we all know about it.
So that's why it doesmatter who has come in
and in what manner people are coming.
- Orban is often portrayedin the Western media
as sort of a version of Vladimir Putin,
an undemocratic strongman.
In fact, at an EU summit a few years ago,
the European Commission presidentreportedly greeted Orban
with the words, "Hello, dictator."
Hungary is certainly not a dictatorship.
But Orban's criticsaccuse him of corruption
and using the instruments of government
against his political opponents,
including the recent billboard campaign
against billionaire George Soros.
- What we see today inHungary is the shameless use
of public money, of tax money,
to formulate pro-government messages.
- Since 2010, the Hungarian government
has been continuously weakening the system
of checks and balances in Hungary
and weakening democratic institutions.
- [Dale] But Orban, a manwho, even his critics concede,
is a skilled politician,
doesn't have a serious political rival.
He will probably remain in power,
meaning Hungary's standoffwith the European Union
over migrants is likely to escalate.
But it also means thatHungary will continue
to have a governmentthat thinks Christianity
is worth protecting.
Dale Hurd, CBN News, Budapest.
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- [Wendy] Thanks, Dale, up next, he's more
than 100 years old andstill running his race.
Meet a tireless servantof God when we come back.
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- Over the course of his101 years on this earth,
Orville Rogers has logged countless miles
both on land and high above it.
- But whether he was pounding the pavement
in his shoes, or pilotingan aircraft across the seas,
one thing has remained constant.
He has done it for the glory of the Lord.
- [Narrator] At 101 yearsyoung, Orville Rogers
still has a spring in hisstep and shows no signs
of slowing down.
The former airline pilotstill remembers the day
he fell in love with flying.
- I was a young boy, about ten years old,
and Lindbergh circled my school house 1927
after his transatlantic solo flight.
That cemented my desire to be a pilot.
- [Narrator] Around that same time,
Orville felt another call.
He came to faith in Christand has never looked back.
- In this little townof Sulphur, Oklahoma,
my mother took my sisterand me across the street
to a Southern Baptist small church.
And one Sunday night Ijust felt God calling
to repent of my sins and trust him
as my Lord and Savior.
It is a decision I have never regretted.
- [Narrator] Orville receivedhis bachelor's degree
from the University of Oklahomaand was enrolled in seminary
in 1940 when World War II broke out.
- I asked them if I couldenlist in the Army Air Corps
in order to fly instead ofbeing in the walking Army,
and they said, "Sure."
So that was God's way of turning me around
from what I perceived to be a career
in vocational Christian service
to one of every bit as important,
a layman in God's servicedoing his work for his glory.
- [Narrator] That workincluded a 30-year career
as a commercial pilot, as wellas flying missionary trips
to South America and Africa.
- In 1965, I met the founderof Wycliffe Bible Translators,
William Cameron Townsend, andsaid, "I'm a airline pilot.
"Is there any way I couldplug into your program?"
He said, "Well we havean airplane in Miami."
And then they asked meto fly it to Bogota,
which was my first ferry flight experience
with Wycliffe or Southern Baptists.
I eventually ended up ferrying46 missionary airplanes,
20 of them inside the United States,
26 of them were in South America
or over the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans.
And that was quite a challengeto fly across an ocean
in a single engine airplane.
- [Narrator] Orville andhis wife moved to Dallas
where Orville began flyingfor Braniff Airlines.
- Most of my flying forBraniff was domestic,
inside the United States.
But the last 15 or 16 months,I flew to South America
flying the stretchedDC-8, which at that time
was one of the largest airplanesin the airline service.
We had one flight that flewfrom New York to Buenos Aires,
10 hours and 40 minutes.
But at that time, I thinkwe had the longest flight
in the airline industry.
- [Narrator] Along theway, Orville and his wife
also began investing in real estate
and the oil and gasindustries, which enabled them
to, later, support many ministries.
- My wife and I determined that we had
to increase our giving, which we did.
And God blessed our investments.
In the course of my wife and I,
our marriage together,and since her death,
she and I have given away
over $35 million to God's work.
Now to put that in perspective,
you need to realize that my total earnings
from Braniff and the AirCorps and the Air Force
were about $1,600,000.
So God was able to multiply that, I think,
because of our faithfulness.
- [Narrator] One missionstrip to Russia in 2004
brought Orville full circle.
- In 1952, I was flying a B-36,
the largest airplane in the world.
And our primary retaliatorystrike force against Russia,
if war had broken out, my target
was located just on thenorth side of Moscow.
52 years later, in 2004, my wife and I
were on a missionary team.
We docked on the northwest side of Moscow.
We had our medical clinicsand did street witnessing,
all within about five milesof where my target was
to drop an atom bomb.
Instead of death anddestruction from above,
we were carrying in God'sword, the word of life,
to the Russian people.
- [Narrator] He also becamea long-distance runner
after reading several studieson longevity and exercise.
- Doctor I-Min Lee, fromBrigham and Women's Hospital,
she complied a study.
Her conclusion was that peoplewho exercise very vigorously
for long periods of time,could expect to get back
in added lifespan nine hours of added life
for every one hour of physical exercise.
That is phenomenal!
- [Narrator] Orville not onlyran a number of marathons,
he holds two world records inthe 90 to 100 age category.
- I entered two racesin Boston, Massachusetts
March the 23rd, 2008, the 800-meter
and the one-mile run.
And three weeks beforethe race my wife died.
And I talked to my children about it,
and we agreed she'd wantme to continue to compete,
so I did, and I won the 800meters, set a new world record.
The mile record, I really slaughtered.
I ran it in 9:57.
- [Narrator] Two years ago,Orville wrote his life story
in his book, "The Running Man."
- It tells of my experiences in life:
my flying, my running, mygiving, and my family life.
And I hope it's of abenefit and a help to people
who may be questioning how they need
to serve the Lord better.
- [Narrator] Orville sayshis desire has always been
to run the race well, as theapostle Paul encourages us,
and to finish well.
- I never asked God forfame, riches, or long life,
and he's given me all three.
I don't want to fail my Lordin the last days of my life.
I have seen too many people,too many examples of people,
in public life who failed somehow or other
in their later years to keeptheir high moral standards.
That's the primary prayerof my life these days,
that I would live well for Jesus
as long as he gives me life and breath.
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- Wow, what a story!
Well, you can see moregreat stories like this
on our website, cbnnews.com.
We'll be right back.
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- [Narrator] The worldwatches from the outside.
- It's a big diplomatic tug ofwar here in the Middle East.
- [Narrator] Go inside thestory with Jerusalem Dateline.
- Israeli archeologists aretalking about a discovery
that could change the thinkingabout the Temple Mount.
- [Narrator] Join CBN JerusalemBureau Chief Chris Mitchell
and get the biblical perspective
on the events shaping the world.
- What starts in Israel thenends up going to other places.
- [Narrator] Watch Jerusalem Dateline
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- Welcome back to Christian World News.
The world's most populous nation
is facing an abandoned baby crisis.
More parents in China arewalking away from children born
with physical disabilities.
- Mm, so sad, Gary Lane shares the story
of one Chinese couple that saved a child
and called on God to do a miracle.
(child laughing)
- [Gary] For seven years, Fu Chun Zhi
and his wife, Xiao Li,tried to conceive a child.
Finally, in 2011, they decided
to adopt an abandoned baby.
The Christian couple was thrilled
when they found the perfectbaby at a local orphanage.
(speaking in a foreign language)
- [Translator] As soonas we got the phone call,
we were so happy.
My wife and I couldn'twait to see this baby.
We have been waiting for this day forever!
- [Gary] In the midst of their happiness,
they received disappointing news.
The baby that theythought has been perfectly
and wonderfully made wasborn with a small tumor
in his mouth and was notable to eat and drink.
- [Translator] We didn't know what to do.
We wanted to keep the baby.
Meanwhile, the cost for thesurgery was so expensive.
We were heartbroken.
We lost hope and direction.
- [Translator] These church members
went through a through time.
They didn't ask for anything
except for prayers and guidance.
So I invited all Christiansto pray for a miracle.
- Half a world away,Americans Audrey and Rob Post
heard about the Chinese family's struggle.
A church member shared the story
and then asked them to pray.
They did so and remainedfaithful, believing
that God would answer their prayers.
(speaking in a foreign language)
- [Translator] My husbandand I always know the Lord
can do miracles.
Jesus answered prayersmany times in our life.
And we believe that nothingis too difficult for the Lord.
(people singing)
- [Gary] Other Christians also prayed
for the Chinese couple and their baby.
As time went by, although nothing changed,
they still believed thatGod could work a miracle.
- [Translator] God's favor will show up
when we are down to nothing.
Just because they didn't see a way,
it certainly didn'tmean God was not working
behind the scenes.
I told the couple to remainfaithful and patient.
(couple speaking in foreign language)
- [Gary] Amazingly oneday, Zhi and Xiao Li
saw the baby just spitsomething out of his mouth.
They gave it a closer look
and discovered it was the tumor
that had been lodged in his mouth.
The couple was brought to tears.
- [Translator] It's a miracle!
Only Jesus could do suchan unthinkable miracle.
When all Christianscome and pray together,
we can move mountains.
- [Gary] Not only did God
give an abandoned child a new home,
but he also performeda life-changing miracle
for an entire Chinese family.
(woman speaking in foreign language)
Gary Lane, CBN News.(child laughing)
- [George] Adorable!
- That's a cute little baby- Wow, that is so cute!
- right there.- God bless them!
That's a awesome story.- I love it.
- Well, folks, that is it.
That is it for this week's edition
- It went by fast.- of Christian World News.
It went by (snappingfingers) bop, bop, bop, bop,
like that.- You know what they say?
- What?- Well, if you're having fun,
it goes by fast.- That's right.
And we have a lot of fun.(Wendy laughing)
Thanks for joining us, folks.
- Until next week, from all of us here
at Christian World News,goodbye and God bless you.
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