Re: [Swprograms] In the World's Rural Outposts, A Shortwave Channel to God

[Daniel Say <say@xxxxxx>]

> In the World's Rural Outposts, A Shortwave Channel to
> God
> By Kevin Sullivan
> Washington Post Foreign Service
> Sunday, October 7, 2007
> 
> As dusk fell deep in a forest of mango and palm trees,
> Jaime Jeremias Matsimbe sat on the rose-colored dirt
> and hand-cranked a shortwave radio, looking for the
> word of God.
> 
> He wound the little plastic handle round and round,
> charging the radio like winding a watch, and soon a
> preacher's voice boomed across a courtyard filled with
> goats and turkeys. Twenty miles from the nearest paved
> road, Matsimbe smiled as he listened to a Texas
> preacher's sermons about Jesus and Saint Paul,
> translated into a local language spoken only in the
> southern African backcountry. 
> 
> Long article in today's Washington Post:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/06/AR2007100601253.html?hpid=topnews
> 
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	and the Mozambican video and photos from the WaPo site

  Linkname: VIDEO: Religious Radio Gets Reach
        URL:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2007/10/05/VI2007100501082.html?sid=ST2007100601483

  Linkname: PHOTOS: Broadcasting the Message
        URL:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2007/10/06/GA2007100601152.html?sid=ST2007100601483

	if you have the Flash plug in to view such stuff



...."The program, "Thru the Bible," each day interprets a Bible verse in an
   old-fashioned, folksy manner. It has been translated into 108
   languages. Hundreds of hours of McGee's recorded sermons are heard by
   millions of radio listeners every day in 219 countries.

   McGee's reach is unmatched, even though he has been dead since 1988."


 
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