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

[Joe Buch <josephbuch@xxxxxxxxx>]

Could somebody please jam George Bush's receiver.  All
we need now is another message to tell George to go
invade somebody else.


--- Daniel Say <say@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > 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
> > 
> 	284 lines 
> 
> 
> 	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



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