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By Jeremy | October 14, 2005
“In what appears to be the latest consequence of broadcaster Pat Robertson’s August call for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s assassination, Chavez announced plans to expel from the country New Tribes Mission, a church-planting and Bible-translating mission agency. …“Since 1946, New Tribes has served Venezuela’s indigenous communities through translation, church planting, literacy, humanitarian aid, and community development projects, almost entirely in the country’s western-central Amazonas state, which borders Colombia. NTM works with twelve ethnic groups in Venezuela, nine with established churches, and has completed five Bible translations. Four other translations are in progress. Thirty of the 160 NTM missionaries in the country are Venezuelan nationals. Worldwide, 3,200 NTM missionaries minister to indigenous peoples in more than 18 countries in Latin America, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. … “Robertson told CNN on Sunday that Chavez ‘is negotiating with the Iranians to get nuclear material. And he also sent $1.2 million in cash to Osama bin Laden right after 9/11.’ Robertson offered no evidence to support his accusation. “In response to Chavez’s plan to expel NTM, another mission group wrote in a confidential prayer e-mail, ‘While we believe that Chavez has been planning to expel foreign missionaries for some time, statements like those made by Robertson have provided him with an excuse to do so and might actually justify his actions in the eyes of many Venezuelans who otherwise would have been more ambivalent.’†From Christianity Today, 10/14/05. Article.
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