I searched and search and didn't find this diaried earlier. If I missed it, forgive me.
A groups of missionaries from Virginia (with close ties to Falwell) has "rescued" 300 orphans, shipped them to Jakarta, and plans to raise them up as good Christians.
This is being reported in today's edition of the
Washington Post.
Some snips:
"A Virginia-based missionary group said this week that it has airlifted 300 "tsunami orphans" from the Muslim province of Banda Aceh to Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, where it plans to raise them in a Christian children's home.
The missionary group, WorldHelp, is one of dozens of Christian, Muslim and Jewish charities providing humanitarian relief to victims of the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami that devastated countries around the Indian Ocean, taking more than 150,000 lives."
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""Normally, 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," WorldHelp said in an appeal for funds on its Web site this week.
The appeal said WorldHelp was working with native-born Christians in Indonesia who want to "plant Christian principles as early as possible" in the 300 Muslim children, all younger than 12, who lost their parents in the tsunami.
"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."
Worldhelp has since altered their site, removing the appeal after the Post called them to ask about it.
This will no doubt help improve the image of our country in that region, eh. Snatching a few hundred kids (during this time of mass confusion and devastation... you know, opportunity knocks and all that!) and ripping them from their religious cultural roots. How truly loving and Christian of them.
Let them eat bibles!