TODAY ON "CHRISTIAN WORLD
NEWS." WE ARE HERE IN NEW
ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, WHERE
HURRICANE ISAAC DUMPED MASSIVE
AMOUNTS OF RAIN.
CHRISTIANS HAVE MOVED IN TO HELP
FEED THE VICTIMS AND HELP THEM
TO REBUILD.
NOMINEE, MITT ROMNEY BECOMES
THE FIRST MORMON TO WIN THE
PARTY'S NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES?
WILL EVANGELICALS GIVE HIM THEIR
VOTE?
AND FIGHT FOR FREEDOM.
WE UPDATE YOU ON THE PAKISTANIAN
GIRL ARRESTED FOR BLASPHEMYING
THE KORAN.
HELLO EVERYONE I AM GEORGE
THOMAS.
AND I AM WENDY GRIFFITH.
HURRICANE ISAAC BROUGHT A DELUGE
OF WATER TO THE U.S. GULF COAST.
THE STORM LINGERED OVER NEW
ORLEANSS, PARTS OF THE GULF
COAST FOR MORE THAN A DAY.
ISAAC DROPPED RAIN AND A MILLION
HOUSE HOLDS AND LOUISIANA AND
MISSISSIPPI AS WELL LOST POWER.
NOW THE LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY
BEGINS, CBN'S OPERATION BLESSING
IS ON THE GROWN IN THE HARDEST
HIT AREAS.
REPORTER EFREM GRAHAM WAS THERE,
TOO.
REPORTER: A FLOOD WALL
SEPARATES ST. BERNARDS PARISH
FROM PLAQUEMINES PARISH.
FLOOD WATERS ARE HIGHER THAN
MOST HOMES.
WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE MOVING
IN NEXT MONTH.
MIGHT BE A DELAY NOW.
BECKY AND HUSBAND HAVE SPENT
YEARS FIXING ONE OF THE HOMES.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT THERE WAS
LESS WATER DURING KATRINA THAN
NOW.
I AM STANDING ON TOP OF A
LEVEE EIGHT TO NINE FEET.
THERE IS A BREACH IN THAT LEVEE
RIGHT HERE.
IT RUNS SIX TO SEVEN FEET DEEP.
THE LEVEE AUTHORITY CAUSED
THE BREACH TO DRAIN THE WATER
AND EVENTUALLY OPEN THE FLOOD
WALL, STILL WORKERS ESTIMATE IT
WILL BE ANOTHER TWO WEEKS FOR
THE WATER TO RECEDE.
THEY TAKE COMFORT AS A CARAVAN
OF E RELIEF.
MOST OF US DEVOTE CHRISTIANS,
IT HELPS.
JODIE AND TEAM FROM OPERATION
BLESSING WERE HERE SEVEN YEARS
AGO WHEN KATRINA HIT.
IT WAS HER FIRST DAY ON THE JOB.
WHEN I SAW THE BOATS
FLOATING, THEY CAN'T TAKE THIS
AGAIN.
MY HEART GOES OUT TO THEM.
IF THERE IS ANYTHING I WOULD ASK
PEOPLE TO DO, PRAY FOR THEM.
DISASTER RESPONSE BEGINS WITH
A HOT MEAL.
KATHERINE WHITE AND INFANT
HAVEN'T HAD A HOT MEAL SINCE
MONDAY.
LAWRENCE IS GRATEFUL FOR A
HOT MEAL AND HOME AFTER LIVING
IN A FEMA TRAILER FOR A YEAR
AFTER KATRINA.
WHEN YOU EAT SNACKS, YOU
EXPECTING SOMETHING A LITTLE
MORE NOURISHING.
JAMES SHEPHERD SIMPLY
EXHAUSTED AFTER LIVING THROUGH
KATRINA AND ISAAC.
I THINK THIS IS IT FOR ME.
A HOT MEAL IS WHERE OPERATION
BLESSING BEGINS THIS MISSION
FROM HERE THE TEAM BEGINS
RESTORING HOPE BY HELPING PEOPLE
TO REBUILD HOMES AND LIVES.
WITH KATRINA, WE GREW SO MUCH
IN CAPACITY AND INEXPERTISE.
THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS
SIMILAR.
WE ARE SEVEN YEARS DOWN THE
ROAD.
WE CAN HELP A LOT MORE PEOPLE IN
A MORE EFFICIENT MANNER.
EFREM GRAHAM, CBN NEWS, ST.
BERNARDS, PARISH, LOUISIANA.
HE WILL TELL US HOW NEW
ORLEANS HAS COME FROM THE
DISASTER, INCLUDING THE MAYOR
WHO FOUND A PLAN FOR RECOVERY IN
THE BIBLE.
ANOTHER BIG EVENT IN THE U.S.
FOR US, MITT ROMNEY, CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES.
ROMNEY, FORMER BUSINESSMAN AND
GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HE IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE
CHURCH OF LADDER DAY SAINTS.
HE IS NOT SO DIFFERENT FROM
OTHER PEOPLE OF OTHER FAITHS.
WE WERE MORMONS.
MY FRIENDS CARED MORE ABOUT WHAT
SPORTS TEAMS WE FOLLOWED THAN
WHAT CHURCH WE WENT TO.
MR. ROMNEY FACES PRESIDENT
BARACK OBAMA IN THE NOVEMBER
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
HE PLEDGED TO CREATE 12 MILLION
NEW JOBS.
HE PROMISED TO PROTECT LIFE,
HONOR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE AND
STAND FIRMLY FOR RELIGIOUS
LIBERTY.
FORMER ARKANSAS MIKE HUCKABEE
RAN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008.
HE TOLD THE CONVENTION THAT
POLICIES COUNT MORE THAN
RELIGION IN ELECTING A
PRESIDENT.
OF THE FOUR PEOPLE ON THE TWO
TICKETS, THE ONLY SELF-PROFESSED
EVANGELICAL IS BARACK OBAMA.
HE SUPPORTS CHANGING THE
DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE, BELIEVES
HUMAN LIFE IS EXPOSEABLE AND
EXPENDABLE AT ANY TIME IN THE
WOMB EVEN BEYOND THE WOMB AND
TELLS PEOPLE OF FAITH THEY HAVE
A BOW THEIR KNEES TO THE GOD OF
GOVERNMENT AND VIOLATE THEIR
FAITH FOR HEALTH CARE.
I CARE FAR LESS AS TO WHERE MITT
ROMNEY TAKES HIS FAMILY TO
CHURCH THAN I DO WHERE HE TAKES
THIS COUNTRY.
HUCKABEE SAID OPPOSITION TO
OBAMA'S POLICIES HAS UNITED
EVANGELICALS, CATHOLICS AND
PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS.
CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS ARE
AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE
REPUBLICAN BASE.
THERE IS A GROWING NUMBER OF
BELIEVERS NOT SUPPORTING
REPUBLICANS OR DEMOCRATS.
THE ONGOING ATTACKS AGAINST
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
PAUL STRAND REPORTS.
POLITICS, THAT IS THE
EMPHASIS OF MOST PEOPLE AT THE
CONVENTION.
IT IS BECOMING SPIRITUAL.
RELIGIOUS GATHERINGS BECOMING
MORE VISIBLE.
WE WANT TO COVER THE
CONVENTIONS, BOTH REPUBLICAN AND
DEMOCRATIC ONE WITH PRAYER.
REVEREND JUSTIN PETERS WANT
TO COMMIT TO PRAYING 15 MINUTES
A DAY FOR THE CONVENTIONS WHILE
THEY ARE IN SESSION.
ONLY THE LORD CAN SOLVE THESE
PROBLEMS.
TAMPA'S WOMEN HAVE BEEN
INTERCEDING SINCE 1999.
IT STARTED WITH PRAYER WITH
FOUR OR FIVE WOMEN.
I STARTED GETTING UP AT 3:00
A.M. I WOULD FIND MYSELF ON MY
FACE BEFORE THE LORD WEEPING AND
CRYING OUT FOR OUR NATION.
THAT SENSE OF URGENCY SWEPT THE
PRAYER CIRCLE AND RESULTING IN
CONVENTIONS PRAYER COVERAGE,
AROUND THE CLOCK, NON-PARTISAN
INTERCESSION FOR POLITICAL
LEADERS FOR BOTH PARTIES.
WE ARE BYPASSING CANDIDATES
AND GOING BACK TO GOD.
HE CAN TURN THE HEARTS OF EITHER
ONE.
SOME 4,000 PEOPLE COMMITTED
TO THE EFFORT.
IT IS ALL THAT WE GET JESUS
AND GOD IN OUR COUNTRY AGAIN.
RESEARCHERS LIKE THE FAMILY
RESEARCH COUNCIL'S GROUP AND
LIBERTY INSTITUTE HAVE PUT OUT A
THICK REPORT DOCUMENTING THE
ATTACKS.
OTHER 600 CASES.
IT IS ALARMING.
OUR FIRST FREEDOM IS IN
JEOPARDY.
THERE IS A REASON THIS
REPORT'S RELEASE CAME ON THE
CUSP OF THIS REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
CONVENTION.
THERE NEEDS TO BE PEOPLE THAT
STAND UP AND DEFEND THE FREEDOM.
SECULARISTS SEEM TO BE
SAYING...
GET IT OUT OF SIGHT.
THEY WANT TO TREAT CHRISTIANS
LIKE SMOKERS, YOU CAN DO IT AT
HOME BUT NOT IN PUBLIC.
WARNING IS ATTACKS ARE ON THE
DECREASE.
WHEN WE STAND UPMOST OF THE TIME
WE PREVAIL.
PAUL STRAND, CBN NEWS,
REPORTING FROM THE GOP
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.
UP NEXT, CRISIS IN PAKISTAN.
A YOUNG GIRL SITS IN JAIL AND
HUNDREDS OF CHRISTIANS HIDING IN
THE WOODS.
WHAT WILL THE COURTS DECIDE?
SIX ARMY SOLDIERS ARE BLAMED
THE BURNING THE KORAN.
IT RESULTED IN DEATHS OF FOUR
U.S. SERVICE MEMBERS.
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT FOUND THE
SOLDIERS DISPLAYED NO MALICIOUS
INTENT TO DISRESPECT KORAN OR
DEFAME ISLAM.
MISCOMMUNICATION AND IGNORANCE
ABOUT THE HANDLING OF KORANS.
IN PAKISTAN, A YOUNG GIRL IS
BEHIND BARS AND ENTIRE CHRISTIAN
COMMUNITY HIDING IN THE WOODS.
SHE IS ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMYING
THE KORAN.
CHRISTIANS DEMAND THAT THIS
YOUNG GIRL BE RELEASED.
SHE WAS ARRESTED ON AUGUST 17TH
WHEN MUSLIM EXTREMIST ACCUSE HER
OF BURNING PAGES OF ISLAM.
WE GATHER TO PROTEST FOR OUR
GIRL WHO IS ONLY 11 AND CAN'T
READ.
HOW COULD SHE BURN A BOOK.
MEANWHILE PAKISTANI
CHRISTIANS PRAY THEY WILL BE
ALLOWED TO RETURN TO THEIR
HOMES.
600 FAMILIES LIVE IN THE PARK
AND WOODS.
THEY WERE FORCED TO FLEE THEIR
HOMES.
THE CHRISTIAN BUILT A MAKESHIFT
CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS.
THEIR NEW PLACE OF WORSHIP AND
PRESENCE UNWELCOMED BY LOCAL
MUSLIMS.
THIS WOMAN SAID MUSLIMS
BURNED THE CHURCH AND WE WERE
FORCED TO ENTER THE FOREST.
THIS MAN WANTS CHRISTIANS TO
LEAVE THE AREA.
WE LIVE IN THE SURROUNDING AREA
AND HOUSES AFFECTED.
CHAIRMAN SAYS THE CHRISTIANS
ARE STILL AFRAID TO RETURN TO
THEIR HOMES.
WE ARE TRYING OUR BEST TO
SEND THEM HOME SAFELY AND
DEMANDING THEY SHOULD GIVE THEM
THE COMPENSATION OF THE LORD.
CHRISTIANS ARE UNLIKELY TO
RETURN TO VILLAGE AND FREEDOM IS
UNLIKELY FOR REMSHA.
EVEN IF SHE IS CLEARED OF
BLASPHEMY CHARGES, EXTREMISTS
MAY TRY TO KILL HER IF SHE
RETURNS HOME.
MARK MARTIN, CBN NEWS.
COMING UP, THOUSANDS FLEE
THEIR HOMELAND BECAUSE OF CIVIL
WAR.
SEE WHERE THEY ARE GOING AND WHO
IS TAKING THEM IN.
WELCOME BACK, ONGOING CIVIL
WAR IN SYRIA HAS THOUSANDS
RACING TO ESCAPE VIOLENCE.
CHRISTIANS IN THE REGION SEE AN
OPPORTUNITY TO BRING HOPE IN THE
MIDST OF TRAGEDY.
AS GARY LANE REPORTS, THEY
ARE STEPPING IN TO BRING
REFUGEES HOPE AND HELP.
HERE IS THEIR STORY IN JORDAN.
REPORTER: GOVERNMENT WAR
BLAMES BOMB VICTIMS NORTH.
SYRIA IS MARKED BY DEATH,
DESTRUCTION AND DARKNESS.
TENS OF THOUSANDS FLEE FOR THEIR
LIVES.
CBN NEWS, OBTAINED THIS RARE
LOOK INTO THE PLIGHT OF ONE
CHRISTIAN FAMILY.
THEIR HOME DESTROYED, THEY NOW
LIVE WITH FRIENDS IN ANOTHER
CITY.
IT IS SO HARD TO BE OUT OF
THEIR HOME.
I AM SAD WE LEFT ALL OF OUR
MEMORIES MIND.
OUR CHURCH WAS DESTROYED.
MY CHILDREN WITH BAPTIZED THERE
AND MARRIED THERE.
WE HOPE GOD WILL KEEP US SAFE.
MOST CHRISTIANS REMAIN IN
SYRIA.
OTHERS ARE LEAVING.
UNITED NATIONS ESTIMATED THE
REFUGEES AT MORE THAN 170,000.
THEY HAVE SCATTERED ENDED UP IN
TURKEY, LEBANON, IRAQ AND
JORDAN.
THEIR NEEDS ARE OVERWHELMING.
CHURCHES ARE DOING WHAT THEY CAN
TO HELP THEM.
MANY PEOPLE GET TO JORDAN
WITH THE SHIRT ON THEIR BACK.
THEY BRING HELP AND HOPE TO
THE REFUGEES.
MANY OF THE SYRIANS MOVE FROM
BORDER CAMPS TO ARMS.
THEY HAVE NOTHING ON THE
FLOOR.
THEY ARE EMPTY APARTMENTS.
NOT THE BEST PLACES IN TOWN.
WE MET ONE FAMILY HELPED BY
THE EFFORT.
THEIR FACES COVERED TO PROTECT
THEIR IDENTITIES.
THIS MAN IS A SUNNI-MUSLIM WHO
SERVED FOR THE SYRIAN ARMY.
THAT LED GOVERNMENT AGENTS TO
TORTURE AND IMPRISON THEM.
THEY MADE IT WORSE FOR US
MEDICS THEY WERE SEEKING
INFORMATION ABOUT MY FRIENDS AND
THEIR MOVEMENTS.
I REFUSED TO TELL THEM ANYTHING.
IT WAS TERRIBLE.
THEY BEAT ME SO BADLY, I
COULDN'T LIE DOWN FOR ONE WEEK.
HE SAYS THEIR CAPTIVES LET
THEM GO.
THEY LATER FLED TO JORDAN AND
NOW LIVE IN THIS APARTMENT.
HE IS UNEMPLOYED BUT IT IS FOOD
DELIVERIES FROM CARING
CHRISTIANS THAT HAVE MADE A
LASTING IMPACT TO HIS FAMILY.
THEY HAVE BEEN A GREAT HELP
TO US.
I SEE THEM AS BROTHERS.
I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THEM
BEING FROM A DIFFERENT FAITH.
SOME OF THE REFUGEES ATTEND
CHURCH SERVICES LIKE THIS ONE.
MOST OF THE OTHER
ORGANIZATIONS ARE NOT PROVIDING
HELP.
BIGGEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE
CHURCH AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
IS THE LOVE AND FEELING
CHRISTIANS HAVE FOR US.
AS BELIEVES GET A CHANCE TO
FEED THEM AND THEY ARE TRUSTED
AS SAFE PEOPLE, THEY HAVE HAD
MANY OPPORTUNITYS TO SHARE THE
GOSPEL WITH THESE REFUGEES.
THEY HAVE STARTED HOUSE
CHURCHES.
GOD IS GLORIFIED IN THE MIDST OF
THIS MESS.
DOYLE TOLD US HOW HE SAW IT
EFFECT THE LIFE OF THE REFUGEE.
SOME OF THE PEOPLE WERE
PUSHING THEM AROUND.
THIS WOMAN SAID IT WAS THE BIBLE
PEOPLE THAT CAME AND GAVE US
FOOD AND CLOTHES AND LOVED US
AND PLAYED WITH OUR CHILDREN.
IT WAS THE BIBLE PEOPLE THERE
FOR US.
WHEN SHE GOT DONE SHARING HER
STORY, SHE LOOKED AT ME AND SAID
I WANT YOU TO KNOW, I LOVE JESUS
NOW.
THE BIBLE PEOPLE, CHRISTIANS
SHARING THE LOVE OF CHRIST WITH
PEOPLE EXPERIENCES CHRONIC
DARKNESS.
GARY LANE, CBN NEWS, JORDAN.
THIS ENTIRE PART OF THE WORLD
IS BUBBLING.
THANK GOD FOR MINISTRIES LIKE
THOSE GUYS HELPING.
ABSOLUTELY.
AMAZING.
OKAY.
WE'LL BE BACK RIGHT AFTER THIS.
WELCOME BACK AS WE REPORTED
EARLIER, HURRICANE HIT NEW
ORLEANS ON THE SAME DAY
HURRICANE KATRINA LANDED SEVEN
YEARS AGO.
COULD THAT BE A COINCIDENCE.
IT FORCED THOUSANDS TO FLEE.
SINCE THEN THE CITY HAS MOSTLY
RECOVERED AND TOURISM BOOMING.
EFREM GRAHAM TAKES A LOOK AT THE
RENEWAL THAT HAS BEEN SEVEN
YEARS IN THE MAKING.
MUSIC, ART, AND PEOPLE FILL
EACH CORNER OF THE SAME FRENCH
QUARTER, THAT MAKES THIS THE
PERFECT PLACE TO START OUR TOUR
OF NEW ORLEANS REBIRTH.
I THINK THE CITY HAS COME A
LONG WAY.
AND FORMER MAYOR RAY NAGGIN
IS THE TOUR GUIDE.
LAST REPORT, 87 PERCENT OF
THE PEOPLE BACK, UNEMPLOYMENT AT
HISTORIC LOWS.
CONSTRUCTION EVERYWHERE.
FLASH BACK TO AUGUST 29TH,
2005 DESTRUCTION EVERYWHERE,
HURRICANE KATRINA HIT, LEAVING
FAILED LEVEES AND FLOOD WATERS
IN HER WAKE.
THIS HURRICANE HIS PLAQUE
PLAQUEMINES PARISH.
THIS BOAT WAS HERE AND WOUND
UP A MILE AT THE FRONT LEVEE
CLOSE TO A RIVER IN THE TREES.
LEVEES FULL OF BOATS TURNED
UPSIDE DOWN, BROKEN UP.
MAYOR NAGGIN ORDERED
EVACUATION, IN THE END,
ESTIMATED 700 RESIDENTS DIED.
I DIDN'T SLEEP MUCH FOR A
LONG TIME.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, I HAVE BEEN
OUT OF OFFICE TWO YEARS AND NOW
SLEEPING DECENTLY.
IT WAS QUITE A TOLL.
NAGGIN SHARES HIS STORY IN
"KATRINA'S SECRETS STORMS AFTER
THE STORM."
ONE SECRET, WHERE HE LOOKED FOR
GUY DENSE GUIDE DENSE.
GUESS WHERE I FIND THE
ANSWER?
NEHEMIA.
JERUSALEM WAS DESTROYED.
I START READING NEHEMIA.
IT GAVE ME A ROAD MAP FOR HOW TO
APPROACH THE REBUILDING OF THIS
CITY.
FOR ME GOD WAS DEFINITELY
INVOLVED EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.
THERE WAS NO WAY WE COULD HAVE
RECOVERED THE CITY WITHOUT HIS
HAND BEING INVOLVED IN IT.
THE STORY OF NEW ORLEANS'S
RECOVERY STILL BEING WRITTEN.
A NEW REPORT ESTIMATED 8,000
PROPERTIES REPAIRED OR REBUILT
FROM SEPTEMBER 2010-MARCH 2011.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SEVEN
YEARS, THE CITY NO LONGER TOPS
THE LIST OF THE MOST BLIGHTED IN
AMERICA.
WE ARE STILL DEALING WITH OUR
STRUGGLES.
FOR THE MOST PART, WE ARE PRETTY
MUCH BACK.
MANY BRIGHT SPOTS TO NEW
ORLEANS RECOVERY, THERE ARE
STILL DARK SPOTS, AND THE
REBUILDING IN THE LOWER NINTH
WARD.
FRED LOOTER IS THE PREACHER AT
THIS CHURCH.
IT TOOK TWO YEARS TO REBUILD HIS
CHURCH HOME.
HOWEVER BACK IN THE LOWER NINTH
WARD, OVERGROWN TREES COVER THE
LOT WHERE LOOTER'S CHILDHOOD
HOME ONCE STOOD.
NAGGIN STAYS AWAY FROM THE CITY.
HE IS GREATFUL FOR ITS MOST
UNALMOSTED VISITOR, HURRICANE
KATRINA.
IT STRENGTHENED ME IN MY
FAITH.
I PRAYED EVEN MORE DURING
KATRINA AND THE AFTERMATH.
IT SUSTAINED ME TO THIS DAY.
EFREM GRAHAM, CBN NEWS, NEW
ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.
INCREDIBLE STORY OF HOW HE
USED NEHEMIA.
HE WAS LOOKING EVERYWHERE
ELSE AND TAUBLGING TO THE
EXPERTS.
RIGHT BACK TO THE WORD OF GOD.
I WAS IN NEW ORLEANS.
WE DID PRAYING.
GOD HAS BEEN AMAZING AND
FAITHFUL.
WE ARE SEVEN YEARS DOWN THE
ROAD, THANKS FOR THAT.
THANKS FOR JOINING US THIS WEEK.
UNTIL NEXT WEEK, GOOD-BYE,
AND GOD BLESS YOU.
