>> how did they took up with christian students in the u.s.? we'll tell you all about it? >> plus tens thousands of children are waiting adoption in united kingdom. our exclusive report from the uk. >> and welcome everyone to christian world newsi am george thomas. >> and i am wendy griffith.

chrisans in nigeria said their government isn doing enough. thousands killed inrep cent attacks in northern and central nigeria. several human rights groups calling on america and united nations to intervene. gary lane. >> reporter: unlike many previous raids, militant muslims attacked them late at night instead of daylight. >> when you attack nept people unpreparedthat is a massacre. >> many villagers were hacked to death and burned aliv children as i don't think as 5 years old were among those murdered. >> the whole new level completely,

that we haven't seen before. they are nomads who weapon of choice is ma shetty and bows and arrows, we wont to understand thousand they got these weapons. >> they promised to punish the perpetrators. another attack against a christian village came last october again in the middle of the night, again automatic weapons used. >> mark arrived on the scene shortly after the raid. >> i got there around 4:00 a.m. there were 6 people massacred, you know. within a pool of their blood, houses were set ablaze. 21 houses burned down. then there were holes of bullets throughthe doors. >> he talked to many survivors, including a man that explained

what happened to his family. >> he said the family was trying to escaped his wife was hacked and ed massacred. one of the children 5 years old burned alive trying to escape. >> most of the recent attacks in nigh year ya, dr. david carling is a missionary to nigh year ya. he says plateau state is a key battleground. >> it is in the way of this jihadic dere. they are unleashing everythin and it is linked with outside agencies and forces. >> he first came to nigeria in 1958 serving as a medical missionary. he said nigeria is crucial to their plans to spread islam

throughout africa. >> everything is unleashed in a his orrendous way in nigh "what's his legacy to the nigeria. >> no one has been tried or prosecuted in all the years of the crisis. there has to be a point where we say enough is sufficient. we are not going to have this anymore. there must be consequences for taking the lives of pele. >> what should christians around the worldo? >> we can pray, support, understand. obviously there is a huge response needed financial. that is something else the lord needs to lay on people hearts. >> mark liptoe agrees, he says it is to bring forgivess. >> our aim is to enablthe christians in nigeria to learn

to say we are forgivg the perpetrators. if we don't do that, we are hurt twice. apart from the hurts and the killings and lives lost and properti lost, we will also lose the core value of christianity, which is love. >> gary lane cbn news. islamic militants in somali killed a christian woman for refusing to wear a veil. three n shot amina muse ali in her home in october. two weeks before her death she said quote, my life is in danger, warned of dire consequencesif i continue to live without putting on the vaul. veil. china is cracking down to

award a political distend its peace prize. hundreds of people have been detained and inter gaited and arrested. jesus in beijing, many bearing the brunt are christians. >> many of the most hardworking actists on behalf of human rights have become christians over the last few years. for example, the very prompt chinese lawyer, goger shun kidnapped and held for a year until april, 10 when he was momentarily released. now he has been basically taken back into undisclosed captivity some where. >> human right sz advocates outside the country have also

been rgeted. bob fu says his websites were shut down by chinese cyber attackon december 1st. you may recall the story of a florida preacher that wanted to rn krons. korans. >> now he is reaching out to muslims with the love of god. >> call him radical, fearless, whatever you want, ben mathis says ve is the way to reach the muslim world. >> mit cli there is tension between christianand muslims. unless we are willing to step out and meet people of other cultures, nothing is going to change. >> mathis convinced a high ranki hezbollah official to let him partner a christian school in georgia with muslim

students foa class cultural students. >> it was my hope getting young people to talk to young people and finding out the thingthey share common, that is the beginning of building a bridge between the stents. >> they exchanged letters, e-mails, gifts and even yped. friendship starts with hello. >> we are totally different. doesn't mean we can't get along. >> we want peace. between each one of us. >> when they saw each other on skype, they wrote signs and held them up to the camera. that is when i had to walk out of the room. >> if many it was the first

time they had ever met american christians. mathis believethe seeds of love planted by these students will last a liech time and lead them tohrist. >> one day they might ask why are you different? that opens the door for our young people to share the gos elle. gospel. that ismy greatest hope. >> [singing] >> want peace. more information on rivers of the world ministries, check out our website at shug cwnews.org for a link. the law forcing christian adoptionagencies to close their doors.

>> welcome back to the broadcast. in the united kingdom, a new

law designed to protect gay right solar system having an unintended effect on adoption. >> it is leavg some children stranded. >> christian option agencies in the uk say a law designed to protect gay rights is keeping orphan children from havi loving homes. nearly every adoption agency is being forced to close. the legislation's aim is prohibiting -- requiring them as same sex marriagas potential parents. christian agencies belie homosexuality is incompatible with the bible. new however some agencies have managed to remain open including this one. it has been a very challenging

process. >> any rebranding exerciseis difficult and has been a question of convincing our supporters that we were still in much the same way we have done in the terms of the services. >> conner is concerned of the increasing numbers of orphans awaiting adoption. >> i think it is -- statistics have decreased in recent years. there are at any one time over 60,000 children in public care. >> mike judge from the christiainstitute believes this is a clear case of discrimination in seeking what is best for the children. >> this is another example of christians being sidelined from pubc life. it was christians that pioneered the agencies and doing a remarkable job for hard

to placed ki. it is the children that are going to suffer e most. >> it has cost christian doctor shee la matthews her job for makes a stand she says they are best placed with a father and mother in a stable lationship. >> i became increasingly uncomforable about approving same sex cples. i was dismissed from the panel. >> she said it is the children thasuffer. >> they were doing a fantastic job in working with harder to place children. it is a great loss. they are not being able to contin dointhis way.

>> christians likedr. matthews will continue to make a stand as they fear the long term consuences. peter wooding, cbn news, london england. ird installment of the narnia chronicle series is released worldwide. the voi voi come to life. >> i have returned for a reason, you have come far, now your journey lies beyond. >> how do you transport today audience of c. s. louies narnia, the voyage of the dawn treader, one of the key sces

surrounds that transports lucy, edmund and ustus back to the land of narnia. >> when i saw this film i was amazed at the scene you were just talking about. can you tell us how they pulled that off. it is remarkable. >> water starts to gh out of the painting. the whole room fills the house. well built the room in a box and lowered it into a tank with a frame. it looksso amazingly effective. >> digital effects used to create a dragon, mor follow k, a worrier mouse. the massiveship. >> it was an amazing piece of engineering to start with.

as a set it is one of the most beautiful sets ever built flt they built 150 tons of construction and built the rest of the ship on top of it. we could rock and roll and turn around and whatnot. whatever movement we wanted it e to do it could do. >> this control christmas season, don't miss the voyage of the dawn treade coming up, how bible translators are working to bring a bible to every man, woman and child on earth.

>> in after ri riqiyah africa, there are millions of people with no bible. since 2008, wycliffe bible translors launched its last languages campaign to translate the bible into 2,000 languages representing 200 million people

around the world. wycliffe bible translators are helping share the gospel and prepare the people for the day they have theiown bible. >> so many people around the world have their bible in their native tongue, now it is our turn. >> joining us now is a good old friend from wycliffe, bob, great tohave you back on the broadcast. therare 6800 languas that are spoken today in the world. 2,000 plus that don't have the scriptures in their own language. this is such a significant number. >> george, we are the first generation that has seen this number drop. it is very exciting for us, in this generation, we are going to see the remaining bible translatn started. >> you have kicked off an

ambitious project trying to raise a billion dollars to tackle these last remainin languages, how is that campaign going so far? >> it is going well, george. it is not jusabout money. it is about the vision. a lot of people need money. because we are able to focus and bring attention to these next 15 years, people are praying, giving and ing. the campaign is going well, 2 years into it, at 231 million dollars given so far. well over 20 percent of the way there. god ha been great showing favor in this campaign. >> you are not just translating the scripture. they are creating a language for them, isn't that right? >> that's right. because you have been out, you know how iworks, it is a privilege for us to be able to help people develop alphabets for their languas, reduce thingto writing and help

people to learn to read and write. it is a privilege to bridge people from their mother tongue. it makes a huge difference in people's lives here and now. >> the kind of impact that has on a community when you bring them, letters of the alphabet, you are able to create an original language. what es it mean for the society? >> one is access to scripture, other is access to educati. in doing bilingual education. we are able to help these young people learn how to read and write mother tongue first, they can learn to read and write language of write communication, mandar, french, portuguese. you know, too, george if you

can teach a motherto read and write, provi her information shg she is more effectivin changing the community than placing a doctor there. >> you have hundreds of folks on the front lines doing it day in and day out. it is a laboris task coming up with alphabets for people that havenever had a language. >> it is a tough b. more and more national colleagues becoming involved in this as well. we need a lot of north americans, we have a privilege of working with national colleagues from asia, africa, pacific islands, it is a great privilege to be involved with it greatest bible translation the church has ever witnessed. >> for our viewers that don't understand thi, it is a long process.

technology has helped you accelerate the process, talk about that. >> we are using satellite technology, so that someone can sit at a table in arlington, texasand check transcptions out in another locaon. >> once the community gets a hold of the word of god, what does it mean for them? >> it is transformional, george, those of us that have experiend this power of god's word. it changes hearts, minds and direction for eternity. it has huge impact in the lives of people so they understand they can have this relationship with jesus chri. thags the that is the most important thing in the wor. >> thank you for joining us on the oadcast. >> it is a privilege.

>> finay this week, every

year christians tral to the holy land to see the bible come to life. >> deed, charlene israel introduces us tsome that are going so they can live out bible prophecies. >> volunteers from the united states ancanada have local jewish vent nors wandering if not just the grapes but the times e ripening. close to the times of comi, the sons of foreigners would be their vine dressers. >> during the times of the final they will fulfill the other prof fis. >> what started out as a 1-time family project has grown into ministrieswith 150 north

american volunteers. >> word of god is true and people need to connect and come to the land to experience the harvest. >> we want to come out here and fulfill prophecy. we read the bible with jeremiah and isaiah. >> this year 100 miles of acres. 400,000 bottles of wine. >> the israelis say if you don't come, these vines don't get harvested. >> why it is difficult to attract israeli labo it makes jewish vintners cautious of arab workers. the harvesters come to play worship music while the grapes are gatherd. it could be the final redemption and christians are giv the ones to harvest. >> tt bible is written, when he

comes people from all the world will come to help israel. we believe in it. >> charlene israel cbn news. >> so butiful. >> good experience. >> thanks for joining us for this week's edition of christian world news. >> until next week good-bye and god bless you (speakinin international language) d he said unto them go ye into a of the world

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