Friends, here is an update on one of the Indonesian girls who was so violently attacked back in October.  Please write her name down and pray for her complete recovery - emotional, spiritual and physical.

This is from VOM Media sources...

Noviana Malewa, the only girl to escape the malicious beheadings that took place in Indonesia on October 29, 2005 in Central Sulawesi, will receive treatment from VOMedical. The surgery is to alleviate the constant pain she still endures from a sword slash to her face and neck by militant Muslims. Walking through a cocoa plantation on the way to her private Christian high school in Poso Kota subdistrict, 15-year-old Noviana and three fellow students were ambushed by six masked Islamic terrorists. Theresia Morangke, 15, Yarni Sambue, 15, and Alfita Poliwo, 17, were all decapitated and their heads found in bags on the steps of a church and along the road to a police station with the message, “We will murder 100 more Christian teenagers and their heads will be presented as presents.” Their bodies were discarded at different locations.

Unable to get a clean shot on Noviana, the attackers managed to slash the right side of her head from neck to cheek. The blow damaged nerves, resulting in the dislocation of Noviana’s lower jaw. She still suffers from severe pain in her head and jaw, and because of her loosened teeth, she cannot chew well. Noviana is having an examination and continued treatment this month through VOMedical.

Noviana is still under the 24-hour protection of four policemen far from the scene. Because she is a key witness of the murders, with radical Muslims reportedly searching for her, the Christian survivor has been kept in a safe area. Witnesses of similar Muslim attacks on Christians in Indonesia have been shot.

On May 10th, the Associated Press stated that all seven of the terrorists believed connected to the beheadings confessed their involvement.

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I thought you would be intereted in the following article that was published today in The Washington Times. Notice that there is nothing in the report about persecution of Christians in Indonesia. It would behoove your organization to write a letter to the Washington Times to remind Mr. Pascoe of the horrors that exist in Indonesia, much of it under his watch. Now he is heading to the U.N. where he will be even more influencial. You can write letters to:

letters@washingtontimes.com.

The Washington Times
Embassy Row
By James Morrison
February 19, 2007

Packing for U.N.
Lynn Pascoe, in his last days as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, praised the world's most populous Muslim nation for its fight against Islamic terrorism, while assessing the challenges that await him as the first American to serve as the top political official at the United Nations.
"They have been making good progress on the counterterrorism side," he told reporters in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. "There's no question about the political will and that the police are capable of doing a good job on this subject."
Indonesia has been attacked several times by terrorists who hit hotels in Jakarta and resorts on the island of Bali.
In his new position as U.N. secretary-general for political affairs, Mr. Pascoe will deal with political developments and crises around the world.
"There are incredible numbers of problems out there in the world that we have to solve," he said in a press conference last week. "All of them have their complexities, and you have to solve each one as it comes up."
Nevertheless, Mr. Pascoe insisted he is up to the challenge.
"I look very much forward to the job. I look very much forward to the challenge, and I look forward to meeting with the people that are there and trying to make the world a better place," he said.
Mr. Pascoe dismissed questions about whether an American can serve in the position, saying he will be judged on his performance, not his nationality.
"With the U.N., the real question is the results," he said. "How good are they? How good will we be at doing what the U.N. is supposed to be doing, solving problems, keeping down tension, solving conflicts when they occur?"
Mr. Pascoe, a career foreign service officer, knew the new U.N. secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, when both of them served in Washington. Mr. Ban was a top diplomat at the South Korean Embassy, while Mr. Pascoe held top positions at the State Department in the early 1990s.
"He really was a standout, one of the best diplomats in Washington at the time, and people knew that. Everybody thought he was excellent," Mr. Pascoe said of Mr. Ban.

"He's the kind of guy that is fairly quiet about the way he does things, but he really gets things done, and he moves them forward, and I think that's going to be my thing, too."

Posted by: Stella L. Jatras at Feb 19, 2007 4:15:21 AM

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