>> today on christian world news, the beginning of the end, the u.s. starts pulling troops out of afghanistan, who's waiting to fill a vacuum and what could it mean more religious freedom, plus a japanese church washed away in a tsunami, washed away, it's all part of god's plan. a korean christian puts down roots in paraguay, he's giving kids a shot at a better life.

and welcome, everyone, to christian world news, i'm wendy griffith, tom is on assignment. some question if the u.s. is pulling out too soon, among them are religious rights groups who say afghanistan still has a long way to go guaranteeing religious freedom, after beans who live islam to follow christ have been jailed and threatened with a death sentence. they're providing medical treatment in afghanistan, in 2007, the group -- murdering two of them before releasing the rest. joining us now is the policy director from the u.s.

commission on international religious freedom, he's just back from afghanistan, joshing sis, it seems like there's hardly any religious freedom in afghanistan today, will it be worse bh the u.s. pulls out? >> that's a great question, i's critical that the u.s. government as it's looking towards 2014 works to establish safeguards, that the after began government will respect for the religious freedoms for all afghans, if the taliban were to ever come back to power, it would have devastating consequence, all afghan nao*ez for every state >> why aren't we seeing that put into practice? >> well t afghan constitution, the way it was drafted has a conflict inside the very articles that make up the text,

while it does have language that commits the afghan government to recognize the u.s. rights, it has provisions that say they can't go against [inaudible] and what is seria law, is it a more moderate progressive -- >> freedom of religion don't mix at all with seria law. >> we've seen examples where very regressive [inaudible] for christians and other minorities but also even for muslims, it prevents muslims to prevent their own faith and how to interpret the ten na*ns of their faith. >> what should they be doing. >> they need to put this on top of the agenda, we're looking to transition authority and

responsibility to the afghan nao*ez, we need to make sure they understand the importance of religious freedom, the importance of creating space in their society for a peaceful society, they also understand the importance of tolerance, a different faith, of different ethnicity, it doesn't mean you're lez valued and you have as many rights as any other afghan citizen. >> what's the big picture here, why is religious freedom crucial to dem -- democracy. er >> it stands upon tofp of other human rights, you have freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, where we don't see freedom of rights, women's rights are abused, if you want to have a flourishing democracy that's moving the country forward, we've got to have fundamental rights like religious freedom respected for

all. >> what's going to happen if the taliban comes back to power? >> it would be horrible, it would be devastating for the afghan citizens of any faith, any foreign policy of the region, the taliban were allowed [inaudible] to resume oil, they would rebuild those liaisons and try to establish those goals, we to ensure that that day doesn't worldling, human rights and religious freedom, putting it at the top of the agenda and the afghan constitution is respected, it will go along way into helping create the safeguards from that day ever coming again. >> and they certainly need our prayers again for that. well, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> libya's mostly muslim nation but there is a small christian

community there, as international gary lane tells us. >> we've had an opportunity to talk to many libyans on the eastern part of the country and they want to defeat ka daffy. >> bhabt the christians, have they been free, yes, there is a small christian community here. there is some muslim background [inaudible] they're too frightened to talk to us on camera, there was a wife of a muslim priest and she told us if she were to have a bible and were in public with that bible, she would certainly be arrested and her husband did not know she was a christian, her children also became christians watching satellite television. the larger number of christians here from libyan from from the

aztecs, most of them are egyptian and we've had the opportunity to meet with some coptic christians, they said they're freer here than they were in egypt. >> in libyan, much better than in egypt. in egypt, in a bad manner now. >> are you worried? >> i'm not worried because if god be with us, no one's going to stop us. >> we'll have many crucial reports for you to see in the days ahead, i'm gary. >> up next -- >> i was not able to reach out to our neighbors and now most of them are gone. >> out of the rubble of the japanese tsunami, a new church is born.

>> bh the tsunami hit japan, it

swept away entire towns including a number of church, however, some are finding a new location and a new ministry in the wake of the disaster, act correspondent reports from sen dye, japan. >> the tsunami flattened -- thousands of residents were swept into the sea. >> this area still needs a lot of loping, there's a stench of dead bodies, i cannot imagine how the parents tried to save their children, here you see a full supply of children, as much as as the family would want to come back here to live again, the residents are rethinking whether they should come back and rebuild their houses in this place. >> the deep side bible chapel was not scare from the

tsunami's powerful sage. buried in the rubble, they found a family through a church sign. >> i spent five years of my life in this place, i lost everything in the tsunami but i realized the things i concentrated on were worthless. i regret i was not able to reach out to my neighbors and now most of them are gone. >> the church only had 13 members but small churches are typical for japan and this is because most people are buddhists and chin taou wises, plus, japanese are very private people, they are not fond of joining large communities like christian church, however, the disasters on march 11 are giving christians an opportunity to share god's love with them. >> japan has always been a difficult place to share the gospel, the japanese have everything, but what they've always lacked is the knowledge of jesus christ.

>> jonathan wilson is the director of christian relief assistance, support and hope in japan, crass japan is a network of japanese and internet christian groups. >> we're finding as we send teams into shelters, they massage their hands and listen to their stories and listen to them. >> crash sights work alongside the government to see the value of their efforts. >> i thank the organization for helping our town, they bring unity for the community and hope for our people. >> crash also helps churches like east side bible chapel rise again, the congregation meets in a coffee shop. . er before the tsunami, our church was located 700 meters from the coastline, and it was quite an empty place, but now we are in a good place where a lot of people go and so there's

a better chance to share the gospel lord, i's all part of god's plan. >> across the ruins is now erected where the seaside bible chapel used to stand. as a symbol of hope and a reminder where when everything else is gone, only one thing prevails. >> we don't need anything except god. >> lou see ta louis sa, cbn news, yag g*i, japan. >> turning now to south america, thousands of tribal people in paraguay from their traditional homeland are living in deep poverty, their fight is made worse because they don't speak a language. our ko*r spont care lina martinez reports. >> the indigenous people of

paraguay, 2011, they hope to build over 90 more schools in the next ten years, it all began in a conversation of a pastor in paraguay and an revisionist team. >> san francisco said to me as i was living the community, i must get you to please come here and teach the gospel to our community, if you come and preach the gospel, then our children's future will change. >> his congregation have over 20 years of experience in the education field, they have a school with over 300 students, many of them learn of the christian faith for the first time at the school. the school's christian teaching has transformed the lives of hundreds of families so far and now thanks to the nations from a prez betairn church in korea and the other hope help of orgazations, ey're helping paraguay. >> i'm looking for several

christian programs, not just building a classroom, that's only a part of the project because infrastructure does not change the person, we're looking for teams. >> according to the latest senses, they're 108 thousand indigenous people in paraguay, so far, the ministry of education has 310 rural schools for the indigenous people but they are very small and have peer resources, only 50% of all indigenous children attend primary school and only 1% go on to college, owe nearby yeah is part of that 1%, he's not an agent of change in his community. >> after you convert or are born again and become a christian, you change so much, we got to know god, we started the bible, my family, my community, after knowing god, we completely changed. >> this ministry also has the permanent support of dozens of

young volunteers who come from different parts of the world. >> when you come to paraguay and they keep working with children and young people and do all this social work that you would never imagine you would do in your life. you can really feel that lesson and that sense that god is at work fm >> the embrace the future project will not only build schools and provide education to children, it will also work hand in hand to another project of young in hand, it's teaching indigenous teens across the world, they also learn the world of god in their own language. cbn news. >> when christian world news returns, touching the untouchables, how this writer made a trip to india and got a novel idea.

>> randy singer is the

practicing trial lawyer who also pastors a church on the week en, but in his spare time, he writes legal thrillers, his latest novel is called false witness, he told us about some of his experience to a mission trip in india, he spoke about what he saw there. >> i went to ipd ya and i was blown with my experience there, i felt like i stepped back into the book of axe, there were miracles happening, massive numbers of conversions, people coming into christ, there is various nieds, just being touched by that experience, i thought i need to weave that into some of my stories because i think a lot of folks in america don't know about some of the incredible challenges that the church is facing there. >> there's a particular group of people, they're called the untouchablest, in essence, they are the lowest of the lowest in the indian culture, your visit

to india had an impact on your life as it relates to this particular group of people, tell us about it. >> as a lawyer, i'm looking for places where the gospel and human rights converge and the dallas and india, there's more than 165 million of them, most of them live in poverty, only 2 or 3 percent of doughiest know how to read and right. they now have equality, the leader told us it takes two generations to get out of oppression or slavery, the first generation changes the laws but the second generation changes the mind set. when you go to these schools for dal l*et and you see these children and their big smiles and bright eyes, you think, what ki do to help them have

opportunity in life, to recognize there is freedom in christ, that people care about them and they are worthy of christ dying for them >> as you know, there is something called the cast system in india that has held many of indians in bondage as a result of this system. there is numerous organizations out there helping the doughiest but there is the dal l*et freedom network, part of the vital society, reaching out and administering the dal l*et to their society. >> in fact, all the proceeds from false witness, my latest legal thriller or going to that network. i told them, i never ask you for readers to do anything, but i'm asking you now, go to the dal l*et freedom network and for 28 dollars a month, you can support a child for their health and school needs. the dal l*et freedom network works with this issue of human trafficking which is huge in india, it is the number one

source and destination nation, there are millions of young indian girls that get caught up in this, there are 12 million children that are in child bonded labor that the indian government has done a study that shows most of the girls in human trafficking are between the ages of 11 and 14. there's a concept, you mentioned the hindu religion has 100 thousand d*if doses which you marry the temple, but this family in the community says, our oldest daughter, we're going to dedicate to the temple and they become temple prostitutes, when they are in their 30's, the priests put them on to the streets. >> as you point out rightly so to point out the travesties that these folks endure and the incredible stories that we have seen is the revive of how god is touching the lives of the dal l*et people and especially on the concept of freedom, they

have freedom in this man, christjesus, and this has changed people's lives. >> when you go to india, you see mass baptisms, under anticonversion laws, radical hindu groups especially, when i talk to pastors over there and help train pastors, i would ask them, how many of you have been prosecuted for the faith, many of them would raise their hand, they would say how god worked through persecution to spread the gospel, not that yo you step back into the primitive cull khu, but you're sting back in time to the book of ash when it was alive and organic and opening people's eyes and you see miracles there, it's an amazing thing. >> for more about the dal l*et freedom network, check out our

website, we'll be back.

>> well, have you ever wanted to step back 3 thousand years and into the pages of the bible? well, now visited tersest as a new archaeological site in jerusalem can do that, chris gabriel explains from israel. >> beginning today, people will be able to walk through first pyramid domains, touch the stones, enjoy and study about yet another period of the archaeology of the city of injure raous lum. >> 3 thousand years ago, stone masons built these walls to predict the city of injure raous lum, archaeological -- with king solomon. >> the high skilled preservation and sophisticated certification was built by king solomon, and we're proud of it,

and you saw this wall, huge stones, and it continues. >> archaeologists uncovered the site called the ophel just below its mount, restored it and told her story in the book sdis covering the solomon i can wall in jerusalem. it said, until he, king solomon ended up building his own house and the house of the lord, the wall of jerusalem round about. >> it really can be seen and can be touched. really go directly into the biblical forces. >> other tangible examples include this form that bizarre believed was part of a real building when the babylonians conquered jerusalem, the excavation exposed the structure called the gate house that would have looked like this 3 thousand years ago.

jerusalem major nailer va cat seized it as history but to share the magic of the best city. >> that's exposing our past, it enables people to come and see that it's real, come and visit and go back home as am baz doors, it shows that the bible's real, it shows that two and three thousand years ago, jerusalem was the centre of the world. >> chris mitchell, cbn news, jerusalem. >> chris, you get all the good assignments, that's our report for this week, from all of all here from christian world news, good-bye and god bless you.

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