OCTOBER 2016 • Vol. 3, No. 10
He’s Alive! BRADENTON FLORIDA | FREE - Donations Welcome!
WHAT’S INSIDE?
*Party Platforms Page 2
*Migrant Crises Page 7
*Judge Roy Moore Suspended Page 6
By Mark Ellis
“I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen.” -Revelation 1:18a
Planning Violence but instead He was Saved...
SOUTH ASIA (ANS - September, 2016) He was the son of an Islamic scholar and part of an ancient, prominent Muslim family in South Asia. “My grandfather is the founder of the present mosque and my ancestral home is very close to the mosque,” says Paul Ciniraj, founder of Bibles4Mideast. “There was not even a single Christian in the schools where I studied.” Ciniraj was brought up with a high regard and love for Islamic teachings and practices. He even wrote and published a book about the Qur’an.
Beat his wife, Learned it is better to enter heaven with one eye than hell with two
LOCAL POSTAL CUSTOMER
By Mark Ellis
HE’S ALIVE NEWS PO BOX 14931, BRADENTON, FL. 34280
Ironically, he attended a Christian college, and found iraj y Cin c himself in r e M the minority & l Damaging reu Pa as a Muslim. ports and embarrassing “I had difficulphotos made their way ty to mingle with my classinto the newspaper, which mates in the beginning. disturbed his family. He But gradually I became considered dropping out close and intimate with of school. them.” Ciniraj found himself adAt the college he devel- dicted to drugs and alcooped some “wretched” hol to such an extent that habits. “I started smoking, if he didn’t use them conbegan to use drugs and sistently, he got very tense alcohol, streaking, and be- and his body would start ing known as rowdy,” he to shake. recalls. ed God to give my life back as a new creation,” Sapru recounts.
SOUTH ASIA (ANS -- September 14, 2016) Sapru, 48, was brought up in South Asia and became an atheist and ardent communist. “I never believed in Jesus Christ or the Christian religion,” he says. He drove a taxi to support himself and his wife, Blessey. Most of his friends were alcoholics and he became addicted to alcohol as well. His wife, however, was a strong Christian, a woman of prayer who meditated on the Bible every day — without Sapru’s knowledge. “If I would have seen her praying or reading the Bible, I would not allow it,” he says. Despite her husband’s lost condition, Blessey held on to the promises of God and prayed regularly for his repentance. Once night Sapru got
While doctors performed surgery to save his life, Supra had a near-death experience. “My soul was wandering to get a seat in heaven,” he recounts. “The angels would not allow me to enter into heaven but pushed me toward hell.”
“I was on the watch-list of the police. My parents cut off the money which they were giving me regularly,” he recalls. The friends he enjoyed when he had money seemed to vanish after his money wasted away. He completely lost his peace of mind.
dead. “You can only reach heaven by believing in Islam, which is the true religion,” he told them. He had heated arguments with his classmates on many occasions.
One day they brought some gospel tracts to Ciniraj. Because they were Unexpectedly, some mis- based on the Bible, which sion-minded students he considered forbidden, felt compassion for him he flew into a rage. and were led to share with Ciniraj about God. Ciniraj tore the tracts into pieces and threw them “They claimed that Jesus into the Christians’ faces. is the Son of God who “I will destroy you if you was crucified for mancontinue misleading othkind. They said He rose ers,” he warned. from the dead and He is Because he was in a Christhe King of Peace. They tian institution, he thought further claimed that if his response might proone believes in Him and voke a reaction from auconfesses all sins he will thorities at the school. become a new person.” The next day he went to Ciniraj was repulsed by the college armed with their claims. He couldn’t weapons, intending to cause violence. “When begin to imagine that Jesus is the Son of God Continuation on Page:4 or that he rose from the
Pastor attacked but wife shoots suspect
PHILADELPHIA, PA (ANS – September 22, 2016) -Nearly two days after Pastor Rob Cook’s 38-year-old wife shot a man fighting for her husband’s wallet with an enhanced nail gun outside their Philadelphia drunk, home, the bruised pastor quarrelwas able to turn around ed with what the devil meant for his wife, But be evil, by showing that God and sevcause of had turned it to good, by erely be- Sapru, missing his Bless preaching three weekend left eye at her. ey’s sermons on “spiritual warHe left the house, got into fervent in- fare” and “forgiveness” at a his taxi and sped off into tercession in prayer, Sapru church youth retreat. the night. believes Jesus extended his grace and mercy to him. Cook, senior pastor of In his impaired condition, St. James Evangelical Luhis taxi collided with a “Jesus did not allow me to theran Church in Philatruck and he was serious- fall into hell, but held me delphia, PA., while still ly injured. “My left eye safely in His mighty nail- recovering from a blow came out and was totally pierced hands because of to the head, last Saturday destroyed,” he says. “I saw my wife’s intercession.” traveled with wife Stephdeath face to face.” The Lord showed him his anie and 12-year-old son When Blessey heard the wife and the prayer team Christian to Delaware, news of the accident, she kneeling and praying for where 40 teenagers from a peaceful Amish comrushed to the hospital with him with tears. some missionaries, led by Pastor Paul of Bibles for When Sapru saw them he was cut to the heart. Then Robert Cook, senior Mideast. Jesus turned to him and pastor at St. James They knelt down before said: Go, be saved and be Evangelical Lutheran God in the hospital chap- baptized and live for me Church, pictured outside his Philadelphia el. Blessey read the Bible with your family. home, where the vioaloud and cried out to the Lord for healing. “She ask- Continuation on Page:4 lent attack took place.
By Steve Rees
munity church were waiting with great anticipation for him after seeing and reading news reports from Philadelphia about the shooting and injuries to the pastor, who was to be their guest speaker. Also, along with their pastor, the youth from rural Pennsylvania began to wage “spiritual warfare” -- a common theme for the Philadelphia pastor -by interceding for Cook, whose head was bloodied and bruised by his assailant’s nail gun on Thursday (September 15, 2016). However, with his head still pounding on the Friday night -- the opening of the youth retreat -- Cook was a no show. So, once they heard about this, the youth persevered
Continuation on Page: 5