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Default In the World's Rural Outposts, A Shortwave Channel to God

dxAce 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...l?hpid=topnews

(via Mike Barraclough, dxldyg)
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dxAce Michigan USA


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

and:
Linkname: VIDEO: Religious Radio Gets Reach
URL:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...o/2007/10/05/V
I2007100501082.html?sid=ST2007100601483


..."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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