TODAY ON "CHRISTIAN WORLD
NEWS" THE NEW POPE COMES FROM
THE NEW WORLD.
WHAT THE SELECTION OF A
ARGENTINAIAN POPE MEANS.
CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS SUFFER
UNDER THE RULE OF RADICAL
ISLAMISTS.
HOW ONE CHURCH CRIED FOR HELP.
IS THERE A RIGHT TO HOME SCHOOL.
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SAYS
NO.
HOW THAT STAND COULD AFFECT THIS
FAMILY AND YOURS.
SOUTH AMERICA CELEBRATES
SELECTION OF ARGENTINA'S JORGE
BERGOGLIO TO LEAD THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
WELCOME TO "CHRISTIAN WORLD
NEWS." GEORGE THOMAS AND WENDY
GRIFFITH ARE ON ASSIGNMENT.
NOW THAT THE SHOCK IS OVER,
THERE IS A FEELING POPE FRANCIS
WILL PUT HIS UNIQUE STAMP ON THE
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
CHRIS MITCHELL HAS OUR REPORT
FROM ROME
REPORTER: CEREMONY WAS SIMPLE
AND BRIEF WHEN POPE FRANCIS MET
THE THOUSANDS GATHERED IN ST.
PETER'S SQUARE AND THE REST OF
THE WORLD.
MOST OF THE PEOPLE HAVE LEFT ST.
PETER'S SQUARE.
FOR THE MANY WHO RUSHED HERE
AFTER SEEING THE WHITE SMOKE
COMING FROM THE SISTINE CHAPEL,
IT WAS UNFORGETABLE.
IT WAS FANTASTIC.
PEOPLE FLOCKED TO THE PIAZZA.
IT WAS AMAZING.
I WAS ABSOLUTELY THRILLED,
EXCITED.
JUMPING FOR JOY.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, FOR ME, I
AM HERE FOR THE MOMENT.
TO LIVE IN THE MOMENT.
THERE WERE PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER
THE WORLD.
SOMETHING I COULDN'T MISS.
REPORTER: IT WAS THE CHOICE
OF THE NAME FRANCIS THAT STRUCK
MANY CATHOLICS.
ASHLEY MCGUIRE WITH THE CATHOLIC
ASSOCIATION.
IT COULDN'T SEND A MORE CLEAR
SIGNAL, FRANCE IS KNOWN FOR
REFORMING THE CHURCH AND A
SIMPLE MAN OF HUMILITY.
TWO IMMEDIATE CLEAR SIGNALS
ABOUT WHAT KIND OF PAPACY POPE
FRANCIS WANTS TO HAVE
REPORTER: HE HAS ESTABLISHED
A SIMPLE LIFE.
WHEN HE WAS ELEVATED TO
CARDINAL, OPTED NOT TO LIVE IN
CARDINAL'S PALACE, BUT A HUMBLE
APARTMENT.
COOKS HIS OWN MEALS.
THERE WAS A PICTURE OF HIM
TENDING RIDING A BUS TO WORK
CRAMMED IN WITH ALL THE PEOPLE.
NEW
REPORTER: ONE THOUGHT ABOUT
THE STORY OF FRANCES OF ASSISI.
CHRIST SAID FRANCIS, GO AND
REBUILD MY CHURCH.
I THOUGHT OF THAT YESTERDAY WHEN
THEY SAID HIS NAME IS FRANCIS,
HE IS HERE TO RENEW THE CHURCH.
REPORTER: ANOTHER THOUGHT
ABOUT THE MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL.
THINK ABOUT IT, JESUS WALKED
AMONG THE PEOPLE AND CAME TO DIE
FOR ALL OF US INCLUDING
EVERYBODY, RICH TO POOR.
ALL.
POPE FRANCIS WANTS TO
COMMUNICATE AND WANTS US TO
SHARE WITH THE NEWS.
REPORTER: VATICAN CITY, ROME.
JOINING US IS DR. CORNELIUS
BECKER.
A PROFESSOR AT REGENT
UNIVERSITY.
DR. BECKER THIS IS SOMEONE WOUT
SIDE EUROPE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
THE CHURCH IS GROWING THE
FASTEST, DANGER DO YOU THINK
THAT PLAYED A ROLE?
IT WAS QUITE A SURPRISE.
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS
TO REMEMBER, THEY THOSE SOMEBODY
NOT LIVING IN THE VATICAN.
THEY CHOSE AN OUTSIDER.
THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO
REENERGIZE THE FAITHFUL IN
EUROPE AND SOUTH AMERICA.
REPORTER: AS CHRIS MITCHELL
POINTED OUT, THEY CHOSE A MAN
THAT HAS A SIMPLE LIFE STYLE.
WE ASKED LUIS PALOU FOR HIS
IMPRESSION?
HE IS A GREAT FRIEND OF THE
EVANGELICALS.
TREMENDOUS FRIEND OF THE
EVANGELICALS.
JESUS CHRIST THE LORD OF SAVIOR,
I SAY THAT BECAUSE THE WAY HE
PRAYED IS THE PRAYER OF A CHILD
OF GOD SPEAKING TO HIS HEAVENLY
FATHER.
DR. BECKER, ARE YOU SURPRISED
TO HEAR THOSE COMMENTS?
SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THE VAST
DIFFERENCE WHEN IT COMES TO THE
ISSUE OF JUSTIFICATION OF FAITH
ALONE, CHRIST ALONE?
IN THE LAST NUMBER OF YEARS
RESURGENCE INTO THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH, SALVATION ONLY COMES BY
FAITH.
THE FOLKS I HAVE SPOKEN TO SAID
IN DEED THIS IS WHAT HE
BELIEVES.
DO YOU SENSE THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH MAY MAKE THAT
CHANGE OFFICIALLY?
POSSIBLY.
IT MIGHT INDICATE THIS IS
SOMETHING WE MIGHT SEE DOWN THE
LINE.
THERE HAVE BEEN OTHER FOLKS
WONDERING ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS
WITH REGARDS TO THE CONTROVERSY
THAT HAS ENVELOPED THE CHURCH,
WITH REGARDS TO SEXUAL ABUSE.
I HAVE HIGH HOPES.
I THOUGHT THE NEW POPE WOULD BE
SOMEBODY WITH A MANAGING
BACKGROUND.
THEY CHOSE A MINISTER.
YOU SORT THIS OUT THROUGH HOLY
LOVING, THROUGH AN EXAMPLE.
THIS MIGHT BE A WAY HE CLEANS
THE HOUSE.
A LOT OF FOLKS THOUGHT THE
CARDINALS WILL SELECT A YOUNGER
POPE.
HE IS 76 YEARS OLD.
ONLY HAS ONE LUNG WE ARE TOLD.
DOES THAT SURPRISE YOU?
IT DID SURPRISE ME.
IN THE CONCLAVE AND MIND OF THE
CARDINALS.
MAYBE THEY ARE PREFERRING A
SHORTER TENURE.
WE MIGHT SEE A SHORTER RULE
HERE.
WOMEN IN THE CHURCH ARE
CALLING FOR A GREATER ROLE FOR
WOMEN.
DO YOU SENSE ROMAN CATHOLICS
WILL REVISIT THAT ISSUE?
I DON'T THINK SO.
CURRENTLY ALL THE CARDINALS IN
THE CONCLAVE WERE CLEAR ABOUT
THE CONSERVATIVE STANCE.
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE
ASIDE HOW DO YOU LOOK FOR
EVANGELICALS AND CATHOLICS TO
WORK TOGETHER?
IN A WORLD OF INCREASING
SECULARIZING, WE NEED TO STAND
UP AND BE CLEAR ABOUT THE
MESSAGE OF THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST.
I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS
FRANCIS WAS A REFORMER OF SORTS.
TRUTH FAITH IN CHRIST.
WHAT SIGNIFICANCE DO YOU
PLACE ON HIM SELECTING FRANCIS
AS A NAME.
FIRST JESUIT AS WELL.
WE WERE SURPRISED HE CHOSE
FRANCIS.
THAT LITTLE CLIP WE SAW, THIS IS
A REFORM.
GO REBIRTH MY CHURCH.
WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM
YOUR HOME COUNTRY IN SOUTH
AFRICA?
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS NOT
THAT LARGE.
THE FACT IT IS FROM THE SOUTHERN
HEMISPHERE MIGHT REENERGIZE.
DR. BECKER, THANK YOU FOR
PROVIDING YOUR INSIGHTS.
IT IS A JOY.
COMING UP, CHRISTIANS CRY OUT
FOR HELP IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAR.
HEAR HOW GOD ANSWERED THEIR
PRAYER.
AN EGYPTIAN CHRISTIAN HELD IN
A LIBYAN JAIL HAS DIED.
VOICE OF THE MARTYRS REPORTS HE
WAS DETAINED SIMPLY FOR
SPREADING THE GOSPEL.
AKEEM SUFFERED FROM ASTHMA AND
OTHER AILMENTS.
HE HAD BEEN SENT TO THE HOSPITAL
WITH CHEST PAINS AND BREATHING
PROBLEMS.
HE RETURNED TO PRISON AND
EXPERIENCED SHORTNESS OF BREATH,
FELL DOWN, HIT HIS HEAD AND
DIED.
MORE BAD NEWS FOR CHRISTIANS IN
LIBYA.
WITNESSES SAY UNIDENTIFIED
ATTACKERS SET A BENGHAZI CHURCH
ON FIRE.
SECURITY OFFICIAL SAYS FORCES
STOPPED THE ATTACKERS BEFORE
THEY COULD DO MORE DAMAGE.
ONLY WEEK AFTER THEY ABUSED
CHRISTIANS FOR SPREAD THING
GOSPEL.
AL-QAEDA IS ON THE RISE IN NORTH
AFRICA.
IN THE BULL'S EYE IS COUNTRY OF
MALI.
GARY LANE TRAVELED TO THE TOWN
OF DIABOLI.
REPORTER: FOR MORE THAN A
YEAR GOVERNMENT TROOPS HAVE
FIGHT IN MALI.
75-YEAR-OLD VILLAGER DESCRIBES
HOW REBEL GUN FIRE FRIGHTENED
HIM.
HE HAS NEVER SXEERNS EE EE EED
EXPERIENCED SUCH TERROR.
THEY STARTED SELLING DRUGS.
AND TRAIN THEM TO BE GOOD
DRUG DEALERS.
DO YOU LIKE SHARIA LAW?
DO YOU WANT THEM TO CUT OFF
HANDS WHEN SOMEBODY TAKES
SOMETHING?
CUT OFF THEIR HANDS, NO.
THAT IS NOT KORANIC LAW
REPORTER: WHEN THE FRENCH
LIBERATED THEM, THEY WERE
THANKFUL.
THEY HAVE TRAUMATIC STORIES TO
TELL.
THIS MAN SAYS THEY BEAT HIM AND
CARRIED HIM AWAY ON STICKS LIKE
THEY WERE GOING TO BARBECUE
MEAT.
REBELS SHOT AND KILLED HIS
YOUNGER BROTHER.
THEY SHOWED US THE STORAGE ROOM
WHERE HE BURIED HIM.
HIS FAMILY STILL MOURNS
INCLUDING THE YOUNG CHILDREN
WILL NOT GROW UP WITHOUT A
FATHER.
THESE TWO GIRLS REMEMBER YOUNGER
BROTHER AMADU.
FAMILY MEMBERS TELL US WHAT
HAPPENED.
[ FOREIGN SPEAKING ] AT 6:30
A.M. AFTER BREAKFAST, GUN FIRE,
THEN GRENADES SMASHED THROUGH
OUR FENCE SHATTERED THE BATHROOM
DOOR.
AMADU WAS SLEEPING.
THIS IS WHAT IS LEFT OF THE
ROCKET.
IT CAME THROUGH AND SHRAPNEL
KILLED THE LITTLE BOY.
THE AUNT SAYS GOLD OR
DIAMONDS CAN'T REPLACE HIS LIFE.
HE WAS A LOVELY BOY, QUIET
AND RESPECTFUL.
HE WOULD COME TO ME EVERY
MORNING AND SAY GOOD MORNING
AUNTIE.
IN MY MIND I STILL SEE HIM
PLAYING SOCCER WITH FRIENDS.
I WILL NEVER FORGET HIM.
REPORTER: HELP HAS COME AS
THEY STRUGGLED TO OVERCOME
AFFECTS OF CIVIL WAR.
CBN'S ORPHAN'S PROMISE BROUGHT
RICE AND MOSQUITO NETS FOR THOSE
WITH DAMAGED HOMES.
ALL OF THEM EXPRESS THEIR
GRATITU
GRATITUDE.
WHEN I HEARD YOU CAME TO HELP
US, I CRIED.
MANY PEOPLE HAVE COME TO HEAR
ABOUT OUR LOSS.
YOU ARE THE FIRST TO BRING FOOD
TO HELP
REPORTER: GOD HAS ALSO
ANSWERED CRIES OF DESPERATION.
PASTOR JOHN SAID THEY STARTED
PRAYING NON STOP WHEN THE REBELS
FIRST ARRIVED.
THEY KNEW THE ISLAMIST TARGETED
CHRISTIANS IN CITIES.
ALL THE MEMBERS OF THIS
CHURCH WERE SPARED AND NOTHING
HAPPENED TO THEM.
GOD CARES FOR HIS CHILDREN.
NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, WE WILL
TRUST IN HIM.
MALIANS ARE IN DESPERATE NEED
OF HELP BUT TRUSTING GOD FOR
PROTECTION AND PROVISION AS THEY
REBUILD THEIR LIVES.
GARY LANE, CBN NEWS, MALI.
WE PRAY FOR THEM AS THEY
REBUILD LIVES.
WIFE'S PASSIONATE PLEA FOR
SAFETY BRINGS TEARS TO A PACKED
HEARING IN THE CAPITOL.
NEGHMEH ABEDINI IS ASKING
CONGRESS TO PLACE PRESSURE ON
THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION TO HELP RELEASE
HER HUSBAND CHRISTIAN PASTOR
SAEED ABEDINI.
HE WAS ARRESTED LAST JULY DURING
A TRIP TO BUILD AN ORPHAN AGE.
SHE SAID HE WAS SKYPING WITH HER
AND TWO KIDS DAILY.
THAT ALL CHANGED WHEN HE WAS
TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.
WE DIDN'T KNOW WHERE HE WAS
FOR A WEEK.
THEY KEPT SAYING MOMMY, CAN WE
HEAR HIS VOICE.
I COULDN'T EXPLAIN WHY THAT HE
WAS PHYSICALLY TAKEN TO PRISON.
THEY KEPT SAYING DOES DADDY NOT
LOVE US ANYMORE.
DOES DADDY NOT WANT TO HEAR OUR
VOICE ANYMORE?
I HAD TO TELL THEM DADDY WAS
IMPRISONED BECAUSE HE LOVES
JESUS.
REPORTER: PASTOR SAEED
ABEDINI IS A U.S. CITIZEN,
BEATEN IN PRISON AND INTERNAL
BLEEDING.
AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND
JUSTICE REPRESENTS THE ABEDINI
FAMILY AND COLLECTED A PETITION
WITH A HALF MILLION SIGNATURES
CALLING FOR HIS RELEASE.
CBN IS SENDING AID TO PEOPLE
THAT LOST THEIR HOMES.
THIS WAS THE SCENE AFTER
HUNDREDS OF RAMPAGING MUSLIMS
TORE THROUGHOUT CHRISTIAN
COMMUNITY DESTROYING 170 HOMES.
THE MOB WAS FUELLED BY THE
ARREST OF A CHRISTIAN MAN
ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMY ISLAM'S
PROPHET MOHAMMED.
MOST CHRISTIANS FLED THE HOME
BEFORE THE ATTACK.
THEY MARCHED IN THE STREETS OF
ISLAMA BAD.
IN PAKISTAN BLASPHEMY AGAINST
MOHAMMED CARRIES THE DEATH
PENALTY.
COMING UP, THIS FAMILY FLED
GERMANY TO THE U.S. SEEKING
FREEDOM TO HOME SCHOOL THEIR
CHILDREN.
NOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
SAYS THERE IS NO RIGHT TO HOME
SCHOOL.
WELCOME BACK, FIVE YEARS AGO
THE ROMIKA FAMILY FLED GERMANY
AND SOUGHT ASYLUM IN THE UNITED
STATES.
REASON, GERMANY DOESN'T ALLOW
FAMILYS TO HOME SCHOOL.
THEY WERE GRANTED ASYLUM BUT A
U.S. JUDGE.
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO
DEPORT THEM BACK TO GERMANY AND
PERSECUTION.
DALE HURD REPORTERS
REPORTER: THIS FAMILY BEGAN
HOME SCHOOLING IN GERMANY
BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT THEIR
CHILDREN EXPOSED TO WITCHCRAFT
AND SEX EDUCATION, BOTH TAUGHT
IN SCHOOLS.
THEY WERE ENCOURAGED TO ASK
THE DEVIL TO HELP.
WE FOUND OUT WHAT IS IN THE
TEXTBOOKS.
EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE
BIBLE TELLS US AND TEACHES US.
WE WANTED TO PROTECT THEM.
REPORTER: HOME SCHOOLING
ILLEGAL IN GERMANY.
MANY HOME SCHOOLING PARENTS
PERSECUTED, FINES, JAIL OR LOSS
OF THEIR CHILDREN.
MOST HOME SCHOOLERS ARE LEFT
ALONE BY THE GOVERNMENT.
WHAT IF STATE AND FEDERAL
OFFICIALS STARTED TO MOVE
AGAINST HOME SCHOOLING.
IN THOSE NATIONS WHERE IT IS
ILLEGAL, HOME SCHOOLERS RISK
LOSING THEIR CHILDREN.
TWO OF THE WORST NATIONS ARE
GERMANY AND SWEDEN.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT IT
WOULD BE LIKE IF IT WAS BANNED
IN AMERICA IF IT WAS BANNED,
COME TO SWEDEN.
THIS FAMILY HAD TO TAKE THEIR
FAMILY TO FINLAND IN EXILE.
WE WERE FORCED OUT OF OUR
COUNTRY.
THAT MAKE AS STRONGER IMPACT
THAN I CAN IMAGINE.
THIS IS OUR COUNTRY.
NOW WE ARE PUSHED AWAY FROM IT.
SWEDEN IS THE TOUGHEST PLACES
TO HOME SCHOOL.
MICHAEL DONNELLY OF THE HOME
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION.
PRESIDENT OF THE NORDIC
COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CALLS
IT A DICTATORSHIP WHERE SOCIAL
WORKERS TELL PARENTS WHAT TO DO.
THEY CLAIM TO BE A DEMOCRACY,
FAR FROM IT.
IT IS A DICTATORSHIP.
SOCIAL WORKERS DICTATING HOW YOU
LIVE.
EVERYONE IS TO BE UNIFORMED.
THEY WANT THE COOKIE CUTTER
CHILDREN.
THIS FAMILY LOST CUSTODY OF
SON DOMINIC BECAUSE OF HOME
SCHOOLING AND HIS HEALTH IS
FAMILY AND IT IS KILLING HIS
WIFE.
IF WE CAN'T FIX THIS SOON,
DOMINIC WILL NOT HAVE A MOTHER
ANYMORE.
RUSSIA IS ONE OF THE FREEST
NATIONS IN WHICH TO HOME SCHOOL.
FAMILY POLICY EXPERT.
WE HAVE COMPLETE FREEDOM OF
HOME EDUCATION.
THEY ARE CHAMPIONED OF HUMAN
RIGHTS IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA.
IT IS A GOOD EXAMPLE BUT FOR
GERMANY AND SWEDEN WHERE HOME
EDUCATORS ARE PERSECUTED.
GERMAN HOME SCHOOLER HAS BEEN
TAKEN TO COURT EVERY YEAR BY THE
YOUTH OFFICE.
THE YOUTH OFFICE AS SOON AS
THEY STEP IN, AS SOON AS THEY
GET HOLD OF YOU, YOU HAVE
PROBLEMS.
GERMAN HOME SCHOOLERS FAMILY
LOST CUSTODY OF THEIR CHILDREN.
ALTHOUGH THEY ARE STILL ALLOWED
TO LIVE WITH THEM.
HE EXPECTED TO GO TO JAIL.
HE WILL NEVER STOP HOME
SCHOOLING.
I AM NOT AFRAID.
IT IS ONLY SAD FOR MY FAMILY.
GO LAUGHING.
YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU WANT, MY
CHILDREN DON'T GO TO SCHOOL.
IN AMERICA, A RED FLAG WENT
UP WHEN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
ARGUED HOME SCHOOL IS NOT A
FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT.
THE WHITE HOUSE CARES MORE ABOUT
RELATIONS WITH GERMANY THAN THE
RIGHTS OF A FAMILY AND ASYLUM
MIGHT OPEN A FLOOD GAIT OF
REFUGEES FROM GERMANY FURTHER
EMBARRASSING THE GERMAN
GOVERNMENT.
FIRST THEY WOULD FINE US WITH
INCREASINGLY HIGH FINES.
THEY WILL THREATEN US TO TAKE
AWAY CUSTODY.
THE MAIN THREAT, I THINK, IS
CUSTODY.
THEN CHILDREN ARE TAKEN AWAY
FROM YOU COMPLETELY.
I MEAN THAT IS NOT WHAT A FAMILY
WANTS.
THE FACT THAT THE WHITE HOUSE
WOULD BE WILLING TO DENY HOME
SCHOOLING TO HIS FAMILY SHOULD
MAKE AMERICAN HOME SCHOOLERS
CONCERNED.
DALE HURD, CBN NEWS.
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THIS WEEK MARKS TWO YEARS
AFTER A EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI
DEVASTATED JAPAN.
CBN'S OPERATION BLESS IING GAVE
SIX CUSTOM MADE BOATS.
OB PROVIDED NEARLY 100 VESSELS
TO FISHERMAN AND MORE THAN
$600,000 WORTH OF SEAWEED AND
OYSTER CULTIVATION EQUIPMENT TO
HELP COMMUNITIES RECOVER.
THANKS FOR JOINING US THIS WEEK.
UNTIL NEXT WEEK, GOOD-BYE AND
GOD BLESS YOU.
