the little soul is lovely and wins awards. non economic communities has been of great effect as knowledge with adoptions, dancers, and this in fact, as ended the presence all judge, the and other story. we're close the following today, mo dubin police storm pulling stations overnight on confiscated, ballots in the country. after an opposition comes at one an election in the thomas region of geico. lose. the at footage here shows officers carrying large boxes with ballots, despite resistance from local residents for fort se. the raid was conducted because of a central election conditions, violations, including quote, legal financing of election campaigns. if gimme a good soul, who tim i top in sunday's vote condemn the actions of the police. move tobin

president is going against the people's will, will despite a london slide victory authorities confiscated the ballots in order to seemingly prevent their confirmation in court. the country's prime minister also called for the result to be cancelled with both of us government accusing the opposition of pro russian sympathies. previously, mino at multiple russian language tv channels have been found as well as other culturally significant symbols like face and georgias, written thousands of most opens of flock to the streets of the nation's capital itself. fission to express their frustration, want their calling political persecution against the opposition. this is who they believe is responsible for the instability. 7 they talk about democracy, about human rights, and i'm just comparing to you who actually teaches those democracy. how many native

americans are in the u. s. congress who teaches those democracy and will listen to them without most open, who earns money from worse and for. and so the very same country, the united states of america today, they can been a party and people won't say a thing then tomorrow they'll lock up a purse so, and people will take that to then they will come to your house, accuse you and no one will protect you because there's already a precedent. so if we're talking about the rule of law, that means that the laws above all, and not decisions dictated by resentment. among the most alarming scenes of violence across the globe right now are being witnessed against christians in africa. next, we focus on the rise in killings and countries such as nigeria, but aquino fossil and moves and pig. now it's a tough watch. i have to say, but an important one. the

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shattering the lives of communities, and meetings, pain and day, in a way. what exactly? hello and welcome to this week. african now says, we come to you from midland, south africa. i mean the 1st russian orthodox church to be established in sub saharan africa. it is one of 2 on the continent. the other is in kind of at a time when the russian orthodox church in ukraine is under, was sold this week's program expose the plight of christians and christianity in africa. moscow has accused ukraine of uniquely attacking the ukrainian orthodox church. i know for a fact that the south african council of churches have had extensive conversations with all the parties involved, all the parties. um, but you know, if i decide that you are my enemy and you represent

the devil can be very difficult to shift you. and so i, i want to challenge the church and say that is exactly, we'll ridge and it is the work of opening up dialogue between russia and america. for starters, that does abels beginning of people to the torches. and any item you see on our television screens, both in russia as they even though when is in war. and what has happened way is the voice that says know, what's happening to the greek orthodox and the russian orthodox church is all they just complicit in whichever side or whichever country they are in? oh, is it a perception that in actual fact the church sang?

defies the lines and stunted across africa and they were a number of countries with questions of finding a big stream. the difficult to practice they faced. the most common reason is as long as violence and countries such as nigeria, aquino, festa and sudan in these communities. christians faced serious restrictions on, they were billeted to practice the faith freely, and it is not uncommon for them to be arrested and detained without explanation. the situation is most pressing in nigeria, we please continue to be kidnapped and often killed. young women, stone to death and station lice. it's close now to nigeria. the priest is a little longer because this is, i didn't take it must be shows. i love,

i broke her arm by getting that fast by binding on many of the courses so i can see that exclusive guided by which i just really thought i thought that you know, people faces that is photo wise because they have access to text from teams kristen would seem taxes, but for me you just services. so this is defined what this happens. imagine it today because of the last thinking that yeah, we side, we still got unfortunately get, don't know this got that the side. that is, why minute is it's been i to the most efficient christmas that'd be comfortable. once i get all these forms of attack christians unable, once i get the most peace of mind to pump the priestess depress those are the subject performed a lot of process. that'd be too simply because as long as you guys,

because of getting these in so many mean by so, so how do you list, so these, you know, displays and this is happening on a daily basis on the, on the tables. you know, those top. ready ready with the task on the road and don't pull out all the christians. i love, i love it because that's why i didn't. this is because there's some, it is a places you know that a christmas of weakness attack the packing of coal. going to finish on what do you want to do before you see the business of government? that is the so just so to some extent we can say, you know, government is the best way is possible protecting tenants in the jews. yeah. we've got most think almost have positive if, but if the government is not active or active in utah on side disease, we follow the say that, well me, there is a lot of fun. if this look, people planned to attack the attack before asked that every see has been done 1st

the fitness of the items on the passes everywhere. not in many places. uh, what is it that the, when they come to load the attack, don't not the goals keep, you know of that fits that fits what are the targeting $0.03. so that's what i'm best time from the gomez site. you know, and this is happened and not on my duty yet after the fact. so since i want to believe that it is because of these numbers just by essential, allow me to see the government is lot leaving just by patient. government is bias. it's just happening, all of i do want, this is the most of us, the car is like what is basically the sub saharan africa, you know, uh west africa and apply it to come together and see how the accounts jewel, you know, distribute them. they need to come to do that uh see us on any of properties. so if

i pick up as one of the guys, let me look me up. you guys look me how one of the car is going down down, down, down, down. so i listen to the allies that yeah, i think if someone enemy that is a 50 or what are you calling me? i was social economy. what each time on every 6 of our life we live over from the cell into. so i pulled up the phone for me to come to get the i'm like, i'm christian, as to son from the crystal publishing must be shown as much me this that's the biggest padget. even before, just as if continuous entities, those on the east, it's much the same. one of the world's oldest churches in ethiopia, the tower he to church appears to have as old a month long because i'm that spot did natasha's off to arrival final. it was formed, the divisions remain that risk tearing the institution and the country

a poss uh, let me, uh oh, the. in order to explain the reason behind the telling sophie to a fan or photos to a doctor. so there are 3 main points as the 1st one is, you know, as you know, your pin or sort of still have to start keeping the social control of phrase any ciocca and in other, uh, you know, in other countries, in 14 countries also because you know, each your panel sort of still had to charge and is found in different widths turn um, uh, end other off we can country. so this is the one thing or the reason of being the 1st reason behind the trolling in the 2nd bonnie, the territory of boundary as we know that you 2 pan or so those still have to try

to keep us in the if you can 30 stories related with the peoples and are related with the social and the social perspective. so this is the 2nd thing. and the 3rd thing or the mean that the main thing that makes the challenges and um, you know, the, the, the, the, the looked when also. busy literature will feature pan or sort of still have to church as you know, on the western mainly it's not related with the wisdom the culture. so, um the that the disorder telling. so these challenges leads us um the least had a problem uh to each your pan or sort of still had to charge directly or indirectly within the government. and we didn't either, you know, uh, 40 and 14 um, uh, 40 and telling, just so i think these are the 3 main problems they to pin off talks to outdoor church has been experiencing grass suffering, seen the tale. and envision the church is passing systematic,

indestructible laptops deal to its protection of the people of you to appeal from west and the cause. truly vision for the church has been uniting the people and in i believe it's paul or tucson to family for the territorial integrity of the country that didn't try to the charges on it because patient all the pressure on optics. kristen, are the water, let the swap melissa. out of the p. a. d. stop by o. swim the continent in motion beat. the persecution of christians is most of the, in the northern co delgado, of province. about a 100 columbus has a weight on the banks of this. and peasy river is a centuries old church and the roman we travel to the church to meet bishop dean martino police, a community of 3000000 questions in the most. and beacon province of chase. this is the bed room, a church on the bank for the assembly easy river in northern loosened feet and a province called tate. it was both a 158 years ago. and in that time it's one

a hospital, a hospital. it converts the ones at school and has baby en route to services and also in the a by community bishop. and thank you so much to talk to us. please tell me a little bit about yourself. where are you from? and how did you land up here? impact i'm from the weapon to and so being a missionary for 25 years and most indeed wednesday and sunday and a book and several diocese again, this country. yes. as you say is in the north and are in the in the center. i am on in the south with, in my put to have quite the one and 4 years ago and on the 2019 and thought process pointed to the bishop of the dias, a single attach that. and then i arrived as bishop and i am a missionary, says as before, can be increased responsibilities seem to me, said always with a great desire to serve these people and it's trish also with advocacy this. what

was the situation like here 4 years ago when you came and what has been the most important things for you to focus on? once a year, when i arrived instead of a 2019, the priority i had to face is placing missionaries in various stations. that event is being taught missionaries for many years. so i just have some, and as i'm more than 50 is a home, is that during the colonial war between portuguese uh and the resistance to, for the colonial governments, all of the missionaries had to leave the emissions of the independence fairly political regime, which was not very fond of the church. rather, on the contrary, they saw in the church a competition and an opposition. so the missionaries could not return on to that. i was here at the church a year ago and in from day to now so much has changed. what are you doing to the church and is the community growing more towards the values and as long as you're reading this 3, this bill uh, i found several missions,

enrolling school district by abandon, minutes, again, neglect and also by will the and this per, i'm a mission as a historic mission. it is the oldest of the diocese with tags of the say and one of the oldest and most important in mozambique cents for its history. or the contribution that has made to evangelization. and above all this house to the promotion of the mos in beacon man. you don't sense? yeah, it was very important educational center, the switches from generations and generations of young people from 1884 to the present. it is train young people from all over central mozambique not only from the province of tests, but also from the province of monica in the province of safari, holla, and then b, z as you it steals to some extent that we are in the middle of nowhere so why was this place chosen as the place to build a church? and why is it important to have a community, particularly at this point as of the school year?

the reason for the choice to build this ignition sound is because google visa, the, now the design was problem gateway to the content that's coming through dollars. and even if they went to the coast of the indian ocean to the interior of the battery, this river runs to some bub with them out of it and go to it. so it was a phase have message and i called and facilitated. at that time, there was no controls or looks the volt, the transport. okay. it was across the river by but phone could he has the scale is good 1000. rubbish me tonight this mission was bought from children who are rescued . the missionaries themselves, both children edwards to be sold during that time and it is involved with them and becky rescued the children and brought them here for the educated them, you know, from nurtured and they started families ortho, mr. dice. but it's kind of a daughter. this was an issue of the missionaries to combat slavery, to promote the in google population, to literature around say it, and then be 0. that is the reason bath is where it for forever. so they should.

how do you feel about the future of christianity in africa? we receive reports almost on a daily basis of christian communities being attacked in nigeria and in other countries in africa. are you worried about the future of christianity in africa? and let me say so straight to the 19th and challenges. okay, that's fine. yeah. with this thing in sub saharan with me, i think just because i advance of islam too, which has greatly affected christian communities and cut of love with them and looking across. so molly, i was bench area and the central african republic area and also in cameron. so in fact and in recent years, islamic offensive rep who requests the cold islamic towards the stillness. lama communities has been of great aggressiveness lead to in fact, in recent years. 50 is lot make a sense will so told islamic and went towards non economic communities as being of

great effective knowledge with adoptions, dancers, and this in fact, as ended the prisons all judge from east africa. i was just seeing the same thing. cool little those phenomenon didn't perhaps not so serious viewed from some all in kenya and tanzania. mozambie. yeah, there is being ready to live that you ask for i'm however, i think that whether it came in boats engineer, the government has been able to mobilize, you have to confront that. this is not making vaughn school. he had thoughts of this. i'm in front of me, it's elizabeth got a quote in and what about here with how do you see the future of christianity in us? is that something that was easy? i don't think i would all but besides the church and you will be more and more because the minority church on it will not be of the mass of the loss as of the cost of tradition of the so it will be a church today's or could it's purify and, and minority patty, i'm a spirit, i think, of people know, consulted on faith and who will be witnesses of the gospel. kids in

a very difficult concepts that are due to secularization, the, the end of the whole culture, which often goes against the values of gospel, nowhere while in africa. and in fact, the tendency, what's really good factor. we have a young church is that we know that the winds of secularism and other ideology in schools really arrive via video. we must also prepare new generations and we do have people who and lots and lots of my knowledge of the size you mentioned earlier is what makes fundamental us and do you think we're looking at a clash of sites, or is it more about politics? a list quite suspicious, a good in the presence of by the these lovely presence, a small, not very significant. so that's the last year out, which is yours. we see mosques popping up everywhere. it was going to be, as long as the strongest on the coast is mostly the engine level of the my with team i watch with concern because at the moment is wrong with losing because facing

is get outage and see. and they're also in the province of cobbler delgado, which also affects the neighboring provinces. this isn't comic act down or says the cause of the interest from a couple nights ago because they cannot make and socially points of view. of course you may have to take advantage of into the religious matrix into defense, local interests, the office of mozambique instead of people. yeah. okay. and to decrease the and also you may want to use a heal politic and will be out all this stuff that kind of looking was on. but i think there is an interest by the church, up to dialogues with them. loans from the point of view of religious need is somebody there is an open condemnation of the insurgency in mozambique as an appeal that there is an understanding that this will. and i think there is fact that there is no uniform, it's usually catherine churchman and christianity of africa. because this is the fluids that we've naturalization of africa. i almost have to eventually ization was done by different faced and different regions of the church. and that's what the

differences of expression between the church of the english speaking world of east africa, the catholic church, for example, the sound, the complete and spoken ties advocacy. mantle is complimentary of that. would you agree with the statement that the future of christianity is in africa? the african? but i think that africa will make an even greater than contribution to the church, but not only from the numerical forwarded views in the matter in the number of catholics, but also in the way of living the faith, them communicating while there's going consist that is sold by islamic extremist and northern mozambique would expand, and then this will prevent the community. a group of nuns are working hard with locals to restore, not only the church, but also the faith. the

. so i doing the community 2018 for us about to co ear that it's a of biblical formation and mission. and then i received this calling to join the religion live and the missionary lives. so i've been in the community seems today, so he's been 5 years now, but i just made my 1st browse, so i am a none of a really new none for 3 months. and she said, mary, sarah, i'm from the seeds of the word communities. the castle, we couldn't community that he's the was invited to buy or bishop a mozambie teen tech to,

to make this beautiful place be born again. all the beauty, all these amazing new dean. i'm in the middle of nowhere. how can i say, but at the same time, i think the people because this is, this is there's so i think it's fair for us as the church to give them back all these beauty and all of the dignity because when it was 1st built um there was no cameras, no pictures, no social media. so people call on monday and, and, and process. so it was built for them. this is a wonderful sanctuary. dedicated to 10 joseph. and it was built in 1985 by judges. it's the biggest center, wary of africa, it's very important as present. and since the 50 s

that was a little bit well, take care. and now we, we are rebuilding everything. first the, the walls and then the sol. when we, we arrived, we saw the was very, very how can you say with names on it. so the 1st thing we, we did was to cover it. um, so i think it was for sake and the missionaries that, that, that have to, to run out because of, of most of the history of a fi teen or resolution. so it, it was for safe and i think it was because of that that was destroyed we, we are helping to restore the, the beauty and the images. so when we 1st arrived, we took all the image down to restore them. they were very dirty. they were

broken, so we've started with, with, with the images. so these tattoos, so we're, we're painting on restoring basically, painting as it was before. we have no intention to change the, the history of this place. but we have to and to, to give back what as it was before every day mess and you have now o celebrations. morning prayers and evening prayers. and we have, we are a community concert created live community with brothers and sisters. that if you pray and we were to rebuild the oldest things in it to me, to make it beautiful again, this belongs to the minutes, not only a place to 30, but she's

a sanctuary dedicated to send chose if everybody can help us to rebuild. since it's such a huge a tend to every we need help for sure. this communication is very young lives, so we have on sundays before are here always. they come to our house. they talk to was so um and also there are lots of local people working on that. so we're not alone doing this work, but it's been defeated. we're already started before we arrive. our 1st mission is to make the word of god accessible to every one. and we do this in many ways, for example, to be subject to career. that is this period of 9 months that people come and study with the leave or life with us just to take a missionary life does work of beauty. it is one way because

making this accessible again, the word of god is a spread. so it's part of, of, of our carriers and to make the word of god accessible to all of the old people from the kids to the adults, to the young people. every, the church's has a vital role to play in healing, lose, and promotion. a just piece for the world. well, that brings us to the end of this week shows. next week we will be visiting 90 would show you what we heard of hollywood and bollywood. well, we go to normally would in nigeria and ask with an african also saw being hard done by the international stage until then catch on any of the social media networks that you see on the screen for myself and the team until next week. goodbye the

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