kidulur abdi kenging kintunan ti milis sapalih, karunya dulur urang nu diaceh
tos katurug katutuh kahareupna akidahna duka kumaha.....
salam baktos,
ikmal (punten teu disundakeun)
Tadi juga diberitakan di MetroTV kira-kira jam 05:00-an di acara "Jurnal
VOA (Voice of America)".
etika beragama - pemerkosaan
akidah dan pembenaran
Salaam all,
pedihnya penderitaan di Aceh telah memungut 'simpati' sebagian orang
untuk memanfaatkan situasi. Di kemudian hari, Orang tua dan saudara
yang kehilangan anak-anaknya mungkin akan miris ketika mengetahui
bahwa mereka ternyata masih hidup dan telah bertukar aqidah atas
'bantuan' malaikat yang disebut dengan program kristenisasi.
Berikut fakta yang telah dilansir sejak hari pertama tsunami terjadi
di Aceh dan sekitar :
http://www.republika.co.id/koran_detail.asp?id=183900&kat_id=3
dan berikut pembenaran yang mengesahkan tindakan:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7535-2005Jan13.html
http://worldhelp.net/home/featured.asp?documentID=3797
Fakta dan kebohongan .. yang jelas anak-anak Islam telah tercuri hak
nya .. sama seperti saudara-saudaranya di Irak dan Afghanistan .. :(
Kutipan lengkap:
Misionaris AS Bawa 300 Anak Aceh
Satu kelompok misionaris berbasis di Virginia, Amerika Serikat (AS),
mengaku telah membawa 300 anak yatim-piatu Aceh, pekan ini. WorldHelp,
kelompok misionaris itu, menjemput langsung anak-anak Aceh itu dari
Banda Aceh terus dibawa ke Jakarta, dan ditempatkan di
keluarga-keluarga Kristen.
Dalam laporan koran ternama AS, Washington Post, edisi 13 Januari
2004, WorldHelp menyatakan bencana besar di Acehlah yang membuat
mereka membawa anak-anak itu. ''Di masa normal, Banda Aceh tertutup
bagi orang asing dan juga penyebar agama.'' Demikian pernyataan
WorldHelp di situs internetnya. Tapi, lanjut organisasi keagamaan ini,
karena kondisi darurat tak terelakkan, ada gempa tektonik dan tsunami,
para misionaris memiliki hak untuk masuk dan menyebarkan agama mereka.
Menurut Washington Post, WorldHelp bekerja sama dengan kelompok
Kristen di Indonesia yang ingin menanamkan prinsip-prinsip Kristiani
secepat mungkin.
WorldHelp menyebut anak-anak yang dibawanya kehilangan orang tua dan
keluarganya. Rata-rata mereka berusia 12 tahun ke bawah. ''Mereka
trauma, yatim-piatu, tidak punya rumah, tak tahu mau pergi ke mana,
dan tak memiliki sesuatu untuk dimakan,'' kata WorldHelp. Jika
anak-anak itu tinggal bersama keluarga Kristen dan memeluk Kristen,
kata WorldHelp, mereka bisa membawa ajaran itu ke Aceh. ''Kita ingin
menjangkau Aceh lewat anak-anak itu,'' kata WorldHelp.
WorldHelp termasuk organisasi amal dan keagamaan yang terjun ke
Serambi Mekkah begitu tsunami menerjang pada 26 Desember lalu. Berbeda
dengan organisasi sosial-kemanusiaan lainnya yang membantu, WordlHelp,
seperti dikatakan Washington Post, membawa misi untuk mengkristenkan
anak-anak yang mereka bawa. Presiden WorldHelp, Pendeta Vernon Brewer,
mengatakan organisasinya telah mengumpulkan 70 ribu dolar AS untuk
Aceh. Targetnya, kata Vernon, sampai 350 ribu dolar AS. Pemerintah
Indonesia, jelasnya, sudah memberikan izin WorldHelp untuk membawa
anak-anak itu ke Jakarta. ''Pemerintah Indonesia juga sadar bahwa
mereka akan kami Kristenkan,'' kata Vernon kepada Washington Post.
Juru bicara Departemen Luar Negeri RI, Marty Natalegawa, menyatakan
tidak memiliki informasi soal itu. Jika memang benar, kata Marty, itu
merupakan pelanggaran berat terhadap undang-undang. Apalagi, kata
Marty, pemerintah sudah melarang pengambilan/adopsi anak-anak Aceh
oleh kelompok manapun. Marty mengaku tidak percaya ada pejabat
Indonesia yang telah menyetujui pengiriman anak-anak itu. Vernon, yang
juga pembaptis, adalah orang pertama yang lulus sekolah baptis dari
Universitas Liberty Jerry Falwell di Lynhburg pada 1971.
Ia sempat menjabat wakil presiden di Christian University sebelum
mendirikan WorldHelp pada 1991. Kini, WorldHelp memiliki 100 tenaga
kerja penuh waktu di AS dengan aktivitas misionaris di 50 negara di
seluruh dunia. Partner lokal utama WorldHelp di Indonesia, kata
Vernon, adalah Henry dan Roy Lanting. Keduanya menyelenggarakan
sekolah bagi anak-anak yatim di dekat Jakarta. Roy juga lulusan
Universitas Liberty. Di mata Arthur B Keys Jr, presiden International
Relief and Development AS, kegiatan Worldhelp membawa keluar anak-anak
Aceh sangat mengganggu. Bisa-bisa, kata Arthur, yang mendapat kerja
untuk memperbaiki Aceh, organisasi-organisasi asing seperti dia, akan
ditekan dan tidak boleh masuk Aceh.
WorldHelp bukan satu-satunya organisasi agama dari luar Indonesia yang
masuk Aceh dan negara korban tsunami lainnya. Ada juga WorldVision,
Catholic Relief Services and Church World Service, Advancing Native
Missions (Charlottesville, AS), dan lainnya. Advancing Native Missions
mengaku telah mengumpulkan dana 100 ribu dolar AS (Rp 900 miliar)
untuk mendistribusikan makanan, minuman, dan alat-alat masak ke Aceh.
Mereka juga memberikan Injil di tengah bantuan yang diberikan.
''Kita memberikan Injil karena korban bencana selalu mempertanyakan
keberadaan Tuhan,'' kata Oliver Asher, juru bicara Advancing Native
Missions. Bisa dibayangkan, sambungnya, ada gelompang setinggi 15
meter dan banyak korban jatuh, tentu mereka bertanya-tanya soal Tuhan.
Operation Mobilization, organisasi keagamaan berbasis di Tyrone, AS,
juga telah mengumpulkan 60 ribu dolar AS. Douglas R Barclay, wakil
presiden organisasi itu, mengatakan pihaknya mendukung kegiatan 3.700
misionaris di 110 negara.
Satu lagi, Samaritan's Purse of Boone, kelompok Evangelis terkenal di
AS, mengatakan pihaknya sudah masuk ke Aceh. Pendeta Franklin Graham
mengatakan Aceh memang terlalu sensitif, tetapi mereka sudah melakukan
upaya-upaya besar di sana. Samaritan juga menyebarkan Kristen di Irak
begitu AS menjajah negeri itu.
( erd/washingtonpost )
Mission Group Changes Plans for 'Tsunami Orphans'
By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 13, 2005; 7:45 PM
The Virginia-based missionary group WorldHelp has dropped its plans to
place 300 Muslim "tsunami orphans" in a Christian children's home, the
group's president, the Rev. Vernon Brewer, told news agencies
Thursday.
The children were still in the Muslim province of Aceh and had not
been airlifted to Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, according to an
electronic mail message under Brewer's name circulating among his
supporters.
In an interview Tuesday for an article published in Thursday's
editions of The Washington Post , Brewer said that the children
already had been airlifted to Jakarta and that the Indonesian
government had given permission for them to be placed in a Christian
children's home. He said then that the government had been told
"explicitly" that the orphans would be raised in a Christian
environment.
Brewer did not return calls from The Post Thursday to his home, office
and cell phone.
In the e-mail Thursday, as well as in statements given to Reuters and
Agence France Presse, Brewer said WorldHelp had raised $70,000 to
place the first 50 of the children in a Christian orphanage before the
Indonesian government stepped in.
"Once we became aware that the government had refused to let these
children be placed in a Christian home, we immediately stopped all
fundraising efforts for the remaining 250 Indonesian orphaned children
and appeals were removed from our website," the e-mail said.
Reuters and AFP quoted Brewer as saying WorldHelp had learned of the
Indonesian government's refusal Wednesday.
In the e-mail circulating Thursday, which was forwarded to The Post by
a WorldHelp supporter, Brewer explained that on Jan. 3, WorldHelp
received a message from its Indonesian Christian partners, Henry and
Roy Lantang. It said the Lantangs had "just received news that
approximately 300 children under the age of 12 who had become orphans
are at the airport in Banda Aceh and Medan waiting to be transported
to Jakarta. The rescuers of these children had issued (an) invitation
to any organization or family willing to adopt or take care of these
children . . . (we) are anticipating to help 50 children of the Aceh
refugees for the period of 3 (three) years." The parentheses and
ellipses were in the e-mail.
On the basis of the Lantangs' message, the e-mail said, "it was our
understanding that this was done with the permission of the Indonesian
government." But because of "a huge backlash from the Islamic
community in Aceh, the government of Indonesia is now refusing to
allow the orphaned children to be placed in any non-Muslim homes," the
e-mail said.
Before WorldHelp changed its Web site on Wednesday, it contained an
appeal for funds that described the Aceh people as "strict Sunni
Muslims" who "have been very instrumental in spreading Islam
throughout Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia." Normally, it
said, "Banda Aceh is closed to foreigners and closed to the gospel.
But, because of this catastrophe, our partners there are earning the
right to be heard and providing entrance for the gospel."
The fundraising appeal went on to say that WorldHelp was working with
Christian partners in Indonesia who want to "plant Christian
principles as early as possible" in the 300 Muslim children.
"These children are homeless, destitute, traumatized, orphaned, with
nowhere to go, nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat. If we can place
them in a Christian children's home, their faith in Christ could
become the foothold to reach the Aceh people," it said.
In the message Thursday, Brewer said he makes "no apologies for the
fact that World Help is a Christian organization." He said the
organization was now seeking other orphaned children in need of a home
and was making every effort to ensure that all funds raised for
tsunami children are used as designated.
"We're really not trying to proselytize," Brewer said in an interview
with Reuters. "It's no different than what Mother Teresa did by taking
Hindu orphan children and placing them in a Roman Catholic children's
home in Calcutta, and she won the Nobel Peace Prize for doing that."
...
http://worldhelp.net/home/featured.asp?documentID=3797
Time is of the essence and I have great news!
I just returned from Jordan where I met with 20 pastors and partners
who are helping with the distribution of our New Testaments in Iraq.
I had wanted to go into Iraq on this trip, but the U.S. Military and
State Department do not want American civilians in the country right
now, except for civilian personnel essential to the Coalition's
mission.
It's just too dangerous, with western relief workers and other
civilians being kidnapped and killed by terrorists nearly every day.
So I met with our "Bibles for Iraq" team in Jordan and Egypt. They
told me that they are now completely out of Arabic New Testaments.
And, they are asking WORLD HELP to provide more.
But, the good news is we can now provide the entire Bible at the same
cost as the New Testament.
One of the Iraqi pastors told me that they have found a printer in
another Arabic country where Bibles are being secretly printed.
Because the labor and paper costs are much cheaper there, we can now
provide a complete Bible instead of the New Testament.
We can now give the Iraqi Christians the entire Word of God!
In the beginning of this project, the New Testament was the key. But
now, with so many new converts and seekers, they are ready for more
intense study of the Word of God.
However, our timing is critical.
As I'm sure you know from reading the news, elections in Iraq are
coming up at the end of January. Having a true election in Iraq is an
extraordinary achievement, after 30 years of Saddam Hussein's brutal
tyranny.
But the danger is that we have no idea what kind of government will
emerge from this election. It could easily be a radical Islamic
government that might decide to close Iraq to the Gospel and outlaw
our "Bibles for Iraq" distribution project.
The bottom line is: we desperately need to provide more Arabic Bibles
and we must get them into Iraq quickly, before the elections at the
end of January - and before a new government emerges that could very
well outlaw Christianity.
The situation in Iraq is becoming even more desperate and dangerous.
The terrorists are determined to make sure the elections in January
don't happen.
And they have focused their attention on all the new Christian
churches that are springing up across Iraq and on the distribution of
Bibles - which they see as an even greater threat to their radical
Islamic vision for Iraq than the U.S. Military.
These terrorist know that the U.S. Military's presence in Iraq is
temporary, but that if the Gospel takes root, and if more churches are
planted, Christ's presence in Iraq will be permanent and that nation
will be truly transformed.
These Islamic terrorists know they can outlast the U.S. Military. But
they can't outlast the Gospel! And they can't outlast the Spirit of
Jesus Christ that's now starting to sweep across Iraq!
That's why these Islamic terrorists have made a deliberate decision to
target churches and Christians in Iraq with their car bombs, rocket
propelled grenades, kidnappings and gruesome beheadings.
Every Iraqi pastor I spoke with told me that they must sleep at their
churches at night and stand guard 24 hours a day. And even then, that
won't protect the church from a car bomb or rocket propelled grenade.
One pastor told me that every time a car passes by they hold their
breath, and once it passes, they thank God for giving them their lives
back again. He also said that every morning before their children
leave for school, they pray that they will be able to see them again
that afternoon.
I am more and more amazed by the courage of these Iraqi pastors and
their newly formed congregations.
Another Iraqi pastor told me that the persecution against Christians
is increasing. Recently, two young Christian girls were kidnapped,
raped, and murdered and their mutilated bodies were dumped on the
steps of his church.
When a church rings its church bells, the terrorists target that
church for a bomb attack. The extremists are telling the Iraqi people
not to buy anything from the Christians. Their goal is to kill as many
Christians as they can and to drive all Christians out of Iraq.
One pastor told me that the insurgents painted a sign on the side of
his church that said "Convert to Islam or be killed."
When we first launched our "Bibles for Iraq" Project in February of
this year, the terrorists, for the most part, left us alone. Their
focus was the U.S. Military and killing American soldiers.
Today, the #1 goal of these terrorists is to kill as many Christians
as possible, in as gruesome a way as possible.
Mostly, they like to kidnap Christian relief workers and missionaries
and behead them on video tape, which they then post on the internet.
They hope these beheadings will discourage Christians and cause them
to abandon Iraq.
It's so clear to me that this conflict in Iraq is a spiritual war ...
between Satan and Jesus Christ. And, the key battlefield in this
spiritual war is Iraq.
More and more Iraqis are openly searching and asking questions about
Jesus Christ. When they receive a copy of God's Word, they are most
eager to read it.
Thanks to your support and that of so many others over the last 10
months, we have provided thousands of Bibles and New Testaments. And,
thousand upon thousands of Iraqis have accepted Jesus Christ as a
result of receiving these Bibles and follow-up discipleship.
Many of these new Iraqi Christians are also helping WORLD HELP
distribute Bibles to spiritually starved Iraqis.
We don't know what will happen in the elections in January. But, we
must work fast to provide as many Bibles to Iraq as we possibly can.
I hope and pray you will support WORLD HELP's "Bibles for Iraq" Project.
Remember, for every $5 gift you are able to send, we can provide one
Arabic Bible to an Iraqi citizen.
God is giving us a tremendous opportunity to do something that will
outlive us and last for eternity!
Christianity is just starting to spread throughout Iraq. But it could
be choked off at any moment if the wrong people come into power in
Iraq in the elections at the end of January.
We only have a few more weeks, but I am determined, with your help, to
provide as many Bibles as we possibly can before the January
elections.
Please help me today!
What we do for Iraq, we must do now!
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