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  • >> THIS WEEK ON CHRISTIAN

  • WORLD NEWS, WAR OF

  • EXTINCTION, ISIS IS

  • KIDNAPPING AND KILLING

  • CHRISTIANS.

  • WE'LL TELL YOU HOW THE

  • CHURCH IS ENDURING THIS

  • TRIAL BY FIRE.

  • PLUS, RADICAL ISLAM IS

  • SPREADING BEYOND JUST THE

  • MIDDLE EAST.

  • HOW TERROR GROUPS LIKE BOKO

  • HARAM ARE TAKING OVER WEST

  • AFRICA.

  • IN A FILM-MAKER'S

  • DECADE-LONG JOURNEY TO FIND

  • THE TRUTH BEHIND ONE OF THE

  • BIBLE'S MOST FAMOUS

  • STORIES.

  • ISIS MILITANTS ARE TAKING

  • CHRISTIANS HOSTAGE IN

  • SYRIA.

  • WELCOME TO THIS WEEK'S

  • EDITION OF CHRISTIAN WORLD

  • NEWS.

  • I'M GEORGE THOMAS.

  • MY COLLEAGUE, WENDY

  • GRIFFITH, IS ON ASSIGNMENT.

  • THE JIHADIST ARMY KNOWN AS

  • ISIS HAS RAIDED AT LEAST 33

  • ASSYRIAN VILLAGES, TAKING AS

  • MANY AS 300 HOSTAGE.

  • HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS

  • CONFIRM THAT ISIS HAS BEEN

  • TARGETING ASSYRIAN

  • CHRISTIANS.

  • IT BEGAN AS THE MILITANTS

  • SUFFERED TO MAJOR SETBACKS

  • ON THE BATTLE FIELD.

  • GARY LANE HAS DETAILS.

  • >> Reporter: ISIS FORCES

  • WERE ROUTED FROM

  • AL-BAGHDAD, A CITY WEST OF

  • BAGHDAD THAT THEY'VE HELD

  • SINCE LAST JUNE.

  • BUT al-BAGHDAD WAS NOT THE

  • ONLY TOWN OF DEFEAT.

  • PESHMERGA TROOPS IN

  • NORTHEASTERN SYRIA, KNOWN AS

  • THE Y.P.G., DROVE THEM FROM

  • THE CITY OF TAL TAMER.

  • BUT AS THEY RETREATED, THE

  • ISIS KIDNAPPED ASSYRIAN

  • CHRISTIANS.

  • THE MEN WERE TAKEN TO AN

  • UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, AND

  • WOMEN TO A NEARBY MOUNTAIN.

  • ISIS MAY BEHEAD THE MEN AND

  • USE THE WOMEN AS SEX

  • SLAVES.

  • JULIANNA IS WITH THE

  • ASSYRIAN PROJECT.

  • >> THESE WOMEN ARE SOBBING,

  • SAYING WHY IS THE WEST

  • SILENT.

  • WHY IS THE CHURCH NOT

  • TALKING ABOUT OUR

  • PERSECUTION.

  • THEY'RE ASKING AND

  • QUESTIONING THE FOREIGN

  • POLICY OF AMERICA AND ALSO

  • OTHER WORLD POWERS IN

  • EUROPE, SAYING THAT WHY IS

  • IT THAT THERE IS NOTHING,

  • THERE IS NO AGENDA, THERE IS

  • REALLY NOTHING THAT IS BEING

  • DONE TO HELP THE PERSECUTED

  • IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

  • >> U.S., WAKE UP!

  • >> A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN

  • AMERICAN COPTICS GATHERED

  • NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE ON

  • TUESDAY, DEMANDING THAT THE

  • OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DO MORE

  • TO PROTECT THE CHRISTIAN

  • SYRIAN AND EGYPTIANS.

  • >> THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

  • REFERRED TO THEM IN THEIR

  • WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT AS ñ

  • EGYPTIAN CITIZENS, AND THAT

  • IS VERY DISAPPOINTING TO THE

  • COPTIC COMMUNITY.

  • >> BROTHERHOOD, ISIS, BOKO

  • HARAM, I WANT THEM TO TAKE

  • ACTION AGAINST THEM.

  • >> Reporter: AND EGYPTIAN

  • PRESIDENT EL-SISI IS

  • CALLING FOR A UNITED ARAB

  • MILITARY FORCE TO COMBAT

  • ISIS.

  • AND HE SAYS ALREADY JORDAN

  • AND THE UNITED ARAB EMRIGHTS

  • HAVE OFFERED TO HELP THEM ON

  • THE BATTLE FIELD.

  • >> George: AND GARY STOKE

  • WITH TOM DOYLE, AUTHOR OF

  • THE NEW BOOK "KILLING

  • CHRISTIANS, LIVING THE FAITH

  • WHERE IT IS NOT SAFE TO

  • BELIEVE."

  • GARY ASKED TOM ABOUT THESE

  • AND THE MOST RECENT

  • ATROCITIES.

  • >> Reporter: THIS IS

  • DISTURBING, WHAT HAVE YOU

  • LEARNED ABOUT THE ABDUCTION

  • THIS WEEK OF THOSE

  • CHRISTIANS IN SYRIA?

  • >> SOME OF OUR LEADERS IN

  • SYRIA HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS

  • THAT WERE TAKEN, AND THE

  • NEWS WE RECEIVED THIS

  • MORNING IS THAT ISIS HAS

  • ANNOUNCED THEY'RE GOING TO

  • BURN 30 CHURCHES TO THE

  • GROUND.

  • WE ALREADY KNOW OF SOME

  • KILLINGS HAPPENING.

  • BUT WE'RE PRAYING THAT THE

  • CHURCH AND THE WORLD CRIES

  • OUT FOR THESE LIVES.

  • IT IS 100 TO 200 THAT ARE

  • TAKEN.

  • IT IS A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

  • >> Reporter: AND WHEN YOU

  • SAY "WE KNOW OF SOME

  • KILLINGS," ARE YOU TALKING

  • ABOUT THE CHRISTIANS THAT

  • HAVE BEEN KILLED THAT WE CAN

  • CONFIRM, OR OTHERS IN THE

  • AREA?

  • >> THAT'S ONE WHAT ONE OF

  • OUR LEADERS IN SYRIA SAID.

  • THEY HAVE TROUBLE GETTING

  • THE NEWS SOMETIMES.

  • HE MENTIONED THEY KNEW OF

  • SEVEN THAT WERE KILLED.

  • IT HASN'T BEEN CONFIRMED

  • INTERNATIONALLY YET.

  • AND HE IS RIGHT IN THE

  • MIDDLE OF THOSE VILLAGES AND

  • HEARING THINGS JUST ON THE

  • GROUND.

  • >> Reporter: WHY DID YOU

  • WRITE YOUR LATEST BOOK

  • "KILLING CHRISTIANS?"

  • ?

  • IT IS REALLY ABOUT THE

  • SITUATION, GARY, THAT

  • THEY'RE KILLING CHRISTIANS

  • IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

  • IT IS A GLOBAL EPIDEMIC.

  • IT IS A PANDEMIC, ALL AROUND

  • US.

  • BUT I WANTED TO TELL THE

  • STORIES ABOUT THOSE FOLKS

  • WHO ARE LIVING IN THE MIDST

  • OF THIS DANGER.

  • I REALLY DO THINK, GARY,

  • SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS

  • BOOK -- IF HEBREWS 11 WAS

  • WRITTEN TODAY, THEY MIGHT BE

  • CONTAINED IN IT, STANDING,

  • SERVING CHRIST, SHARING THE

  • GOSPEL IN THE MIDST OF

  • ISIS.

  • I WAS JUST PRAYING FOR ONE

  • OF OUR LEADERS THE OTHER DAY

  • IN SYRIA, WHO WAS SHARING

  • THE GOSPEL WITH AN ISIS MAN,

  • WHO IS PRIVATELY FRUSTRATED

  • WITH WHAT HE IS DOING.

  • IT IS JUST A JOB FOR HIM.

  • AND HE IS OPEN TO THE

  • GOSPEL.

  • WE KNOW NONE ARE

  • UNREACHABLE.

  • AND THEIR LIVES WILL INSPIRE

  • YOU.

  • >> Reporter: TOM, I'M SURE

  • YOU MET A NUMBER OF THE

  • YAZIDIS, AS I HAVE, AND

  • THEY'RE REALLY OPEN TO THE

  • GOSPEL THERE, AS IS MANY OF

  • THE KURDS.

  • AND HOW SHOULD WE BE PRAYING

  • FOR THEM, AND NOT ONLY FOR

  • THEM, BUT FOR ISIS AND THE

  • SAVED AND UNSAVED.

  • >> I THINK SATAN IS NOT

  • STUPID.

  • HE KNOWS IN THE LAST 10

  • YEARS MORE MUSLIMS HAVE COME

  • TO FAITH THAN IN THE LAST 14

  • CENTURIES OF ISLAM.

  • SO IF HE CAN KEEP CHRISTIANS

  • IN FEAR OF MUSLIMS OR ANGRY

  • AT THEM, OR HATEFUL,

  • THINKING THAT EVERY ONE OF

  • THEM SERVES FOR ISIS, OR

  • WORKS WITH ISIS, THIS

  • HORRIBLE TERRORIST GROUP,

  • THEN WE'LL STAY AWAY.

  • SO HE IS NOT ONLY TRYING TO

  • CAUSE GLOBAL CHAOS, BUT HE

  • IS TRYING TO KEEP THE

  • CHURCH, THE BELIEVERS, FROM

  • BRINGING THE LIGHT INTO THIS

  • DARKNESS.

  • SO WE ASK FIRST THAT

  • BELIEVERS WOULD START

  • PRAYING.

  • ONCE WE START PRAYING, WE

  • HAVE HEART SURGERY.

  • WE HAVE A CHANGE AND GOD

  • STARTS TO DO THINGS IN OUR

  • MIND AND HEARTS FOR THE

  • BELIEVERS OUT THERE, AND FOR

  • THOSE WHO ARE EVEN UNSAVED.

  • >> Reporter: TOM, BILL

  • O'REILLY HAS "KILLING

  • KENNEDY," AND YOU HAVE

  • "KILLING CHRISTIANS."

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

  • WRITING THAT BOOK AND THANKS

  • FOR JOINING US.

  • >> THANK YOU, GARY.

  • >> George: TOM DOYLE HAD

  • MUCH MORE TO SAY ABOUT THE

  • STATE OF CHRISTIANS IN SYRIA

  • AND IRAQ.

  • YOU CAN SEE THE FULL

  • INTERVIEW AT OUR WEBSITE,

  • CBNNEWS.COM.

  • BY THE WAY, ISIS IS ALSO

  • TRYING TO ERASE BIBLICAL

  • HISTORY IN IRAQ.

  • A NEW VIDEO SHOWS ISLAMIC

  • STATE MILITANTS DESTROYING

  • ANCIENT ARTIFACTS IN THE

  • CITY OF MOSUL.

  • IT SHOWS MILITANTS USING

  • DRILLS AND SLEDGEHAMMERS TO

  • SMASH SEVERAL STATUES AND

  • TABLETS.

  • MOSUL IS SET ON ANCIENT

  • NINEVEH, THE BURIAL PLACE OF

  • THE PROPHET JONAH.

  • THE ARMED MEN ARE DEMANDING

  • A RANSOM OF NEARLY

  • $300,000.

  • PHYLLIS SORTER WAS

  • ABDUCTED.

  • THE METHOD CHURCH SAYS THE

  • STATE DEPARTMENT AND THE

  • F.B.I. ARE WORKING WITH

  • NIGERIAN AUTHORITIES TO FIND

  • HER.

  • FAMILY AND FRIENDS SAY

  • SORTER UNDERSTOOD THE RISKS

  • OF WORKING IN A COUNTRY

  • KNOWN FOR ISLAMIC

  • TERRORISM.

  • >>> THE RADICAL ISLAMIC

  • GROUP BOKO HARAM IS WAGING A

  • HOLY WAR IN AFRICA, IN

  • PLACES LIKE NIGERIA, AND

  • LIKE ISIS IN THE MIDDLE

  • EAST, THEY'RE TRYING TO

  • ESTABLISH THEIR OWN

  • CALIPHATE, A MODERN ISLAMIC

  • STATE.

  • >> IN THE DUSTY CITIES OF

  • COUNTRIES IN WEST AFRICA,

  • THERE IS GROWING ANXIETY

  • OVER THE SPIRITUAL AND

  • TERRITORIAL AMBITIONS OF THE

  • RADICAL ISLAMIC GROUP BOKO

  • HARAM.

  • >> FOR YEARS BOKO HARAM

  • FOCUSED ON NIGERIA.

  • BUT NOW THEY ARE CREATING

  • CHAOS ACROSS THE REGION.

  • WE NEED TO FIND A WAY TO GET

  • RID OF THEM BEFORE IT GETS

  • WORSE.

  • >> George: BOKO HARAM IS

  • TRYING TO CREATE WHAT IS

  • CALLED A CALIPHATE ACROSS

  • WEST AFRICA, SIMILAR TO WHAT

  • THE ISLAMIC STATE IN SYRIA

  • IS TRYING TO DO.

  • TODAY THE VIOLENCE IN

  • NIGERIA IS SPILLING ACROSS

  • THE BORDERS INTO CAMEROON,

  • CHAD, AND NIGER.

  • THOSE FOUR COUNTRIES, PLUS

  • BENET, HAVE FORMED A

  • MILITARY FORCE.

  • IN RECENT DAYS THEY HAVE

  • KILLED HUNDREDS OF ISLAMIC

  • FIGHTERS AND RECAPTURED

  • SEVERAL TOWNS.

  • STILL, IN PLACES LIKE THIS

  • TOWN, WHERE PEOPLE HAVE

  • PLANTED SEVERAL CHURCHES,

  • THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE,

  • INCLUDING CHRISTIANS, AND

  • STILL FLEEING THE MILITANTS'

  • REIGN OF TERROR.

  • >> MANY HAVE HAD TO LEAVE.

  • IT IS A SERIOUS SITUATION.

  • RIGHT NOW, AS WE SPEAK,

  • THERE ARE PEOPLE ON THE

  • ROAD, TRYING TO GET AWAY

  • FROM BOKO HARAM.

  • >> George: BOKO HARAM

  • STARTED IN 2002.

  • THEIR GOAL: TURN NIGERIA,

  • AFRICA'S TOP OIL PRODUCER

  • AND BIGGEST ECONOMY, INTO AN

  • ISLAMIC STATE RULED BY

  • SHAR'IA LAW.

  • >> BOKO HARAM IS A JIHADIST

  • MOVEMENT, THAT HAS THE SAME

  • IDEOLOGY AS ALL OF THE

  • OTHERS, AS al-QAEDA, THE

  • TALIBAN, AS AL-SHABAAB.

  • THEY WANT TO ESTABLISH AN

  • EMIRATE, AN ISLAMIC RADICAL

  • STATE, FIRST IN THE NORTHERN

  • PART OF NIGERIA, AND THEN

  • PUSH TO THE SOUTH AND

  • DECLARE AN EMIRATE ACROSS

  • NIGERIA.

  • >> George: SINCE THEN

  • THEIR FIGHTERS HAVE KILLED

  • THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.

  • IN 2014, BOKO HARAM

  • REPORTEDLY MURDERED MORE

  • THAN 2400 CHRISTIANS.

  • >> THESE ARE RUTHLESS PEOPLE

  • WHO DON'T HAVE ANY RESPECT

  • FOR RELIGION, CHRISTIAN OR

  • MUSLIM.

  • THEY ARE EVIL.

  • >> George: SOME

  • INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS WORRY

  • THE GROUP COULD NOT ONLY

  • EXPAND THEIR ATTACKS BEYOND

  • THIS REGION, THEY COULD

  • BECOME THE ISIS OF AFRICA.

  • BOKO HARAM HAS REPEATEDLY

  • PRAISED ISIS AS AN

  • APOCALYPTIC IDEOLOGY, BUT

  • U.S. OFFICIALS FEAR A

  • POSSIBLE TACTICAL AND

  • OPERATIONAL ALLIANCE BETWEEN

  • THE TWO GROUPS AS WELL.

  • IF THAT HAPPENS, IT COULD

  • GIVE RADICAL ISLAM AN EVEN

  • BIGGER AND GROWING FOOTHOLD

  • IN BOTH THE MIDDLE EAST AND

  • AFRICA.

  • >> George: AND THAT IS ONE

  • THING MOST FOLKS ARE VERY,

  • VERY CONCERNED ABOUT.

  • PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY, NOT

  • JUST FOR THE CHRISTIANS IN

  • THE MIDDLE EAST, BUT ALSO

  • FOR CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA

  • AND IN NEIGHBORING

  • COUNTRIES.

  • >>> OKAY, SO, COMING UP, THE

  • DANGERS OF STANDING UP FOR

  • THE JEWISH STATE.

  • WHY THESE CHRISTIANS BELIEVE

  • THEIR LOVE FOR ISRAEL WILL

  • BRING PERSECUTION.

  • >> George: AND WELCOME

  • BACK TO CHRISTIAN WORLD

  • NEWS.

  • MORE THAN HALF OF JEWISH

  • STUDENTS IN U.S. COLLEGES

  • REPORT THEY HAVE SEEN

  • INCIDENTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM

  • ON THEIR CAMPUSES.

  • THAT'S THE FINDING OF A

  • SURVEY JUST RELEASED BY

  • TRINITY COLLEGE AND THE

  • BRANDIS CENTER.

  • THE SURVEY SHOWS THE TREND

  • IS NATIONWIDE WITH

  • ANTI-SEMITISM ON CAMPUS

  • REPORTED IN EVERY REGION OF

  • THE COUNTRY.

  • JEWISH MEN HAVE

  • TRADITIONALLY BEEN THE CHIEF

  • TARGETS OF HATE, BUT IT IS

  • WOMEN WHO FEEL MORE

  • VULNERABLE NOW, WITH NEARLY

  • 60% SAYING THEY'VE WITNESSED

  • OR EXPERIENCED

  • ANTI-SEMITISM.

  • >>> AT A WASHINGTON

  • CONFERENCE ON EXTREMISM LAST

  • WEEK, PRESIDENT OBAMA

  • CLAIMED THE WORLD'S TERROR

  • THREATS WERE NOT ROOTED IN

  • ISLAM.

  • BUT AT ANOTHER CONFERENCE IN

  • COLORADO, CHRISTIANS AND

  • JEWS HEARD A VERY DIFFERENT

  • MESSAGE, TO STAND FIRM IN

  • THE FACE OF GROWING

  • PERSECUTION.

  • JOHN WAGGI HAS MORE.

  • >> John: THE PRESIDENT

  • SEES THE TERRORIST THREAT AS

  • A LAW ENFORCEMENT PROBLEM, A

  • BATTLE WITH DIFFICULT ROGUES

  • OF ALL FAITHS, NOT A

  • CIVILIZATION OF WAR.

  • >> President Obama: THE

  • NOTION THAT THE WEST IS AT

  • WAR WITH ISLAM IS AN UGLY

  • LIE.

  • AND ALL OF US, REGARDLESS OF

  • OUR FAITH, HAVE A

  • RESPONSIBILITY TO REJECT

  • IT.

  • >> Reporter: BUT HIS

  • REMARKS COME AS MUCH OF THE

  • GLOBE IS ENGULFED IN A

  • GROWING FLOOD OF HATRED FOR

  • JEWS AND PERSECUTION OF

  • CHRISTIANS, MUCH OF IT

  • COMING FROM THE MUSLIM

  • WORLD.

  • THAT INCLUDES TERROR GROUPS

  • LIKE ISIS, WHO HAVE FOUNDED

  • AN ISLAMIC EMPIRE, AND IRAN,

  • WHO'S LEADERS HAVE PREACHED

  • THE EXTERMINATION OF ISRAEL

  • FOR DECADES.

  • ONE JERUSALEM PASTOR, WAYNE

  • HILTON, SAYS CHRISTIANS AND

  • JEWS MUST PEEK UP AN SPEAK

  • UP AND BRACE FOR

  • OPPOSITION.

  • >> THOSE WHO STAND WITH THE

  • JEWISH IN THEIR TIME OF

  • TROUBLE WILL ALSO BE HATED.

  • WE WILL ALSO BEEN

  • SLANDERED.

  • WE WILL BE LIED AGAINST AND

  • FALSELY ACCUSED.

  • IT JUST GOES WITH THE

  • PACKAGE.

  • >> Reporter: AT A SUMMIT

  • THIS MONTH IN COLORADO,

  • HILTON LAUNCHED A GROUP

  • CALLED "FIRM" THE FELLOWSHIP

  • OF ISRAEL-RELATED MINISTRY.

  • THE GOAL IS FOR BELIEVERS TO

  • LEARN FROM THE BOOK OF

  • DANIEL, TO BE AWARE OF THE

  • TIMES WE'RE IN AND TO TAKE A

  • STAND, NO MATTER WHAT IT

  • COSTS, AND TO DO IT IN

  • LOVE.

  • >> THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST

  • INTIMIDATING TIMES IN

  • HISTORY.

  • WHEN ATTACKS OF THE ENEMY

  • CAN SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE.

  • AROUND THE WORLD.

  • AND NEVER BE ERADICATED.

  • AND WHEN WE ARE ATTACKED, WE

  • WILL BE ATTEMPTED TO ATTACK

  • OUR ACCUSERS IN RETURN.

  • BUT WHEN WE STAND FIRM, LET

  • US BE LIKE DANIEL AND NOT

  • RETURN EVIL FOR EVIL.

  • LET'S LOVE OUR ENEMIES.

  • >> Reporter: MESSIANIC

  • JEWISH LEADER JONATHAN BURNA

  • SAYS FUNDAMENTAL ISLAM IS

  • THE CARRIER OF THE NEW

  • ANTI-SEMITISM, AND

  • CHRISTIANS WON'T BE SPARED

  • IN THE SPIRITUAL BATTLE THAT

  • IS UPON US.

  • >> I THINK THAT THE ANSWER

  • FOR THE MUSLIM WORLD IS THE

  • SAME AS THE ANSWER FOR THE

  • JEWISH WORLD, AND HIS NAME

  • IS USHUAIA, JESUS.

  • >> Reporter: THE LEADERS

  • SAY THERE IS A SPECIAL

  • CALLING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE,

  • WHO RESPOND BETTER TO THE

  • SUPPORT OF ISRAEL AND THE

  • JEWS WHEN THEY UNDERSTAND

  • THE CHARACTER OF GOD'S NAME

  • IS AT STAKE.

  • >> BECAUSE GOD'S COVENANT

  • ENDURES FOREVER.

  • BECAUSE HE IS A FAITHFUL

  • GOD.

  • BECAUSE THE CALLING AND THE

  • GIFTS OF GOD ARE

  • IRREVOCABLE.

  • THAT'S WHY WE STAND WITH

  • ISRAEL.

  • >> Reporter: JOHN WAGGI,

  • CBN NEWS.

  • >> George: UP NEXT, THE

  • DOCUMENTARY THAT IS BEING

  • CALLED A GAME-CHANGER.

  • CHECK OUT THE EVIDENCE FOR

  • EXODUS RIGHT AFTER THIS.

  • >> George: MORE THAN A

  • DECADE AGO, A MOVIE-MAKER

  • STARTED INVESTIGATING ONE OF

  • THE BIBLE'S MOST FAMOUS

  • STORIES, THE EXODUS FROM

  • EGYPT.

  • WELL, HIS JOURNEY LED TO

  • BOTH A CRISIS OF FAITH AND

  • AN AWARD-WINNING

  • DOCUMENTARY.

  • CHRIS MITCHELL BRINGS US

  • THAT STORY FROM JERICHO.

  • >> Reporter: THIS IS FROM

  • THE FILM "PATTERNS OF

  • EVIDENCE, THE EXODUS."

  • ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF

  • EXODUS, MOSES LED THE

  • CHILDREN OUT OF EGYPT IN

  • INTO THE WILDERNESS FOR

  • YEARS.

  • HE LED THEM OVER HERE, NEAR

  • JERICHO, INTO THE PROMISED

  • LAND.

  • SOME SAY IT IS JUST A FABLE,

  • BUT OTHERS SAY THIS NEW

  • DOCUMENTARY PROVIDES

  • EVIDENCE THAT DEMANDS A

  • VERDICT.

  • >> I ACTUALLY WENT TO THE

  • LOCATION WHERE THE EVENTS

  • WERE SUPPOSED TO HAD BEEN IN

  • GOSHAN, IN THE EASTERN

  • DELTA, AND I WENT TO THE

  • ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES.

  • AND THAT'S WHEN I WAS TOLD

  • THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE FOR

  • THE EXODUS.

  • >> Reporter: THE

  • FILM-MAKER'S RESEARCH INTO

  • THE EXODUS AND THE ODYSSEY

  • THAT FOLLOWED PRODUCED

  • STARTLING RESULTSMENT.

  • > RESULTS.

  • >> SIX STEPS AND WE MATCHED

  • ALL OF THE STEPS.

  • >> Reporter: THE FILM

  • PROPOSES WHEN YOU GET THE

  • TIMING RIGHT, ARCHEOLOGY

  • MATCHES HISTORY.

  • >> THE WHOLE THING, FROM THE

  • BEGINNING, THE SLAVERY, THE

  • PROMISED LAND, IT'S ALL

  • THERE IN ONE NICE, NEAT

  • LINE.

  • BUT IT IS TUA TOO EARLY.

  • >> WHEN YOU PUT THOSE THINGS

  • SIDE BY SIDE, THE BIBLICAL

  • ACCOUNT AND THE ARCHEOLOGY

  • MATCH EXTREMELY WELL.

  • >> THERE IS THIS IDEA THAT

  • RAMSES IS THE EXODUS.

  • THAT HAPPENS IN A PARTICULAR

  • TIME IN HISTORY.

  • WHEN EVERYONE LOOKS AT THAT

  • PARTICULAR TIME, THEY ARE

  • CORRECT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE

  • FOR THE EXODUS.

  • BUT OTHER ARCHEOLOGISTS WERE

  • SAYING, WAIT A MINUTE, THERE

  • ARE EVIDENCES THAT ARE

  • EARLIER THAN RAMSES THAT

  • MATCH THIS STORY.

  • >> Reporter: MAHONEY

  • PRESENTS BOTH SIDES OF THE

  • ARCHEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT, DID

  • THE EXODUS REALLY HAPPEN?

  • >> I HATE TO DISAPPOINT

  • PEOPLE, BUT WE HAVE NO

  • EVIDENCE OF A SINGLE MASS

  • MIGRATION OF PEOPLE FROM ONE

  • COUNTRY COMING INTO ANOTHER

  • COUNTRY.

  • >> I DON'T BELIEVE THERE WAS

  • A SINGLE EVENT WE CAN CALL

  • THE EXODUS.

  • >> THEY CAN'T HAVE SEEN ALL

  • OF THIS.

  • >> I'M VERY MUCH AGAINST

  • CHRONOLOGICAL REVISION.

  • >>

  • >> THE EXODUS DID NOT HAPPEN

  • IN THE WAY IT HAS BEEN

  • DESCRIBED.

  • >> THE FILM IS VERY, VERY

  • CONVINCING BECAUSE WE GET

  • BOTH SIDES OF IT.

  • WE LET YOU HEAR FROM

  • ARCHEOLOGISTS WHO SAY THERE

  • IS NO EVIDENCE AND WHY, AND

  • THEN WE LET YOU HEAR FROM

  • ARCHEOLOGISTS WHO SAY THERE

  • IS.

  • >> Reporter: USING STATE

  • OF THE ART ANIMATION, AND

  • GROUNDBREAKING ARCHEOLOGY,

  • IT HAS ALREADY MADE A

  • PROFOUND IMPACT.

  • >> WE WOULD SHOW THESE FILMS

  • TO PEOPLE WHO HAD NO

  • UNDERSTANDING OR INTEREST IN

  • THE STORY.

  • EVEN ATHEISTS SAW IT.

  • AND WHAT THEY SAID WAS, WOW,

  • I LOVE THIS FILM.

  • ONE ATHEIST WROTE, I GUESS

  • YOU DO PROVE THIS EVENT

  • MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED, BUT IT

  • DOESN'T MEAN THERE WERE ANY

  • MIRACLES.

  • >> ISRAEL.

  • >> Reporter: MAHONEY SAYS

  • IT IS A POWERFUL TOOL TO

  • REACH THE EXCEPT TIC.

  • > SKEPTIC.

  • >> IF YOU HAVE FAMILY

  • MEMBERS THAT DON'T BELIEVE

  • IN GOD OR YOU HAVE PEOPLE

  • WHO ARE SUSPICIOUS OR WANT A

  • SCIENTIFIC APPROACH, THIS

  • FILM GIVES US THAT KIND OF

  • OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THOSE

  • KINDS OF OPPORTUNITIES.

  • IT IS ONE OF THE MOST

  • NEUTRAL AND MOST INTRIGUING

  • TYPES OF FILMS THAT ALLOW

  • YOU TO HAVE THAT

  • OPPORTUNITY.

  • >> Reporter: THE FILM

  • CHALLENGES A POWERFUL NOTION

  • THAT THE BIBLE ISN'T TRUE.

  • >> FOR THE LAST 50, 60, 70

  • YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN VERY

  • CRITICAL OF THE BIBLE.

  • IF THE STORY OF THE EXODUS

  • ISN'T TRUE, THEN WHAT JESUS

  • CHRIST SAID AND THE APOSTLES

  • ABOUT NOSES AND TH MOSES

  • AND THE EXODUS, THEN THOSE

  • STATEMENTS ARE FALSE.

  • THE WHOLE BIBLE HAS A

  • FOUNDATION IN THE STORY OF

  • EXODUS.

  • WHAT THIS FILM DOES IS SHOWS

  • WHERE THE PATTERN OF

  • EVIDENCE IS, AND THAT, I

  • THINK, HAS NEVER BEEN DONE

  • BEFORE.

  • >> Reporter: CHRIS

  • MITCHELL, CBN NEWS,

  • JERICHO.

  • >> George: AND WELCOME

  • BACK TO THE BROADCAST.

  • AN AMERICAN MISSIONARY WHO

  • CONTRACTED EBOLA IN LIBERIA

  • HAS RECOVERED.

  • NOW SHE IS HEADING BACK TO

  • THE WEST AFRICAN NATION.

  • NANCY WHITEY AND HER HUSBAND

  • SAID THEY FELL LED TO RETURN

  • AND DO ALL THEY CAN TO BE

  • THE HANDS AND FEET OF

  • JESUS.

  • THE WRITBOLS WORK WITH

  • S.I.M., INTERNATIONAL

  • MISSION ORGANIZATION.

  • NANCY CONTRACTED EBOLA LAST

  • SUMMER HELPING DOCTORS

  • DISINFECT MEDICAL

  • EQUIPMENT.

  • >>> FINALLY ON THE BROADCAST

  • THIS WEEK, THE WATOTO

  • CHILDREN'S CHOIR OUT OF

  • UGANDA HAS A MISSION TO HELP

  • AND SUPPORT THE ESTIMATED

  • 50 MILLION ORPHANS ACROSS

  • AFRICA.

  • THEY SAY SINGING IS ONLY

  • PART OF THEIR PURPOSE.

  • CHARLENE AARON RECENTLY

  • CAUGHT UP WITH THE AMAZING

  • CHOIR IN NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

  • >> Reporter: THE SONGS OF

  • AFRICA RANG OUT ACROSS

  • NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

  • BRIGHTLY CLAD MEMBERS OF THE

  • CHOIR, ALL ORPHANS, SANG

  • SONGS OF PRAISE AND DANCED

  • WHILE SHARING PERSONAL

  • STORIES OF THEIR LIFE IN

  • UGANDA.

  • POVERTY, AIDS, AND WAR HAVE

  • TAKEN A TOLL ON THESE LITTLE

  • LIVES.

  • THE CHOIR GOT ITS START IN

  • 1994, AND SINCE THEN IT HAS

  • TRAVELLED ALL OVER THE

  • WORLD, TO RAISE AWARENESS

  • ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF AFRICA'S

  • ORPHANS.

  • EACH CHILD IN THE CHOIR HAS

  • LOST ONE OR BOTH PARENTS OR

  • HAS BEEN ABANDONED.

  • >> ALL OF THE CHILDREN HAVE

  • SUFFERED THE PAIN OF LOSS,

  • THE PAIN OF BEING REJECTED

  • AND ABANDONED, OR THE PAIN

  • OF LOSING THE ONLY PEOPLE

  • THAT MEANT EVERYTHING, MOM

  • AND DAD.

  • >> Reporter: TEAM LEADER

  • EDWIN SMITH SAYS WATOTO'S

  • IMPACT ON ITS MEMBERS IS

  • LIFE-CHANGING, SOMETHING HE

  • HAS EXPERIENCED FIRSTHAND

  • BECAUSE HE, FEW, GREW UP

  • SINGING WITH THE CHOIR.

  • >> IT WAS WHEN I WAS IN THE

  • CHOIR THAT I REALIZED I

  • COULD BECOME ANYBODY IN THE

  • WORLD.

  • THAT WAS WHEN MY DREAM

  • LOOKED VERY BRIGHT, LIKE I

  • COULD DREAM AND I COULD TELL

  • YOU THAT TODAY I'M ACTUALLY

  • LIVING THE DREAM THAT I HAD

  • BACK THEN, WHEN I WAS IN THE

  • CHOIR.

  • SO IT'S A VERY MIND-OPENING

  • PLATFORM FOR THE CHILDREN.

  • >> Reporter: WATOTO MEANS

  • CHILD IN SWAHILI, AND IT

  • TAKES A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO

  • HELPING AFRICA'S MOST

  • VULNERABLE CHILDREN.

  • THEY LIVE IN A VILLAGE WITH

  • A HOME, A NEW FAMILY, AND

  • FREE EDUCATION.

  • BUT MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL,

  • THEY LEARN ABOUT THE LOVE OF

  • JESUS CHRIST.

  • 9-YEAR-OLD ALAN TOLD US WHAT

  • LIFE WAS LIKE BEFORE WATOTO

  • TOOK HIM IN.

  • >> IT WAS MUD AND I WAS

  • SAD.

  • >> WHY WAS IT SAD?

  • >> BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE

  • ANYWHERE TO SLEEP.

  • >> Reporter: THE CHILDREN

  • HAVE ALL LEARNED THAT GOD

  • HAS A GOOD PLAN FOR THEIR

  • LIVES, SOMETHING THEY WANT

  • TO SHARE WITH OTHERS AROUND

  • THE GLOBE AND BACK HOME.

  • >> THEY LOVE IT WHEN WE SING

  • AND DANCE, AND PEOPLE'S

  • LIVES GET CHANGED.

  • >> I WANT TO LIVE IN UGANDA

  • SO I CAN ALSO CHANGE THAT

  • COUNTRY AND IT BECOMES A

  • GOOD COUNTRY.

  • >> Reporter: THEIR SONGS

  • HIGHLIGHT THE HOPE OF A

  • FUTURE, FILLED WITH JOY AND

  • NEW PURPOSE.

  • >> WHEN YOU SEE THESE

  • CHILDREN, THEY'RE NO LONGER

  • SAD.

  • THEY COME FROM A SAD PAST,

  • BUT THEY ARE NOT SAD ANYMORE

  • BECAUSE WHEN GOD IS IN IT,

  • IT IS NOT OVER.

  • >> Reporter: CHARLENE

  • AARON, CBN NEWS.

  • >> George: A GREAT WAY TO

  • END THE BROADCAST.

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

  • JOINING US THIS WEEK.

  • UNTIL NEXT WEEK, GOOD-BYE

  • AND GOD BLESS YOU.

  • --------------------------

  • -"NEWSWATCH" AND PROMOS,

  • FEBRUARY 27, 2015.

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