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Posted on Fri, Jan. 21, 2005

Christian Aid Flows to Tsunami Victims

BRIAN MURPHY
Associated Press
LADONG, Indonesia -

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The forces of faith, fund-raising and globe-trotting volunteerism have opened a stream of private Christian aid to one of the most religiously conservative corners of Muslim Indonesia.

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"This taxi driver asks me, `Are you a fanatical Christian?'" said Steve Dawson, an SWI team leader from Tacoma, Wash. "I tell him, `Well, maybe I am because Jesus says love your enemies and I love my enemies.' And then I say to him, `I even pray for Osama bin Laden.'"

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A team from evangelist Jerry Falwell's Liberty University plans to travel to regions hit by the tsunami to bring supplies and "thousands of Gospel tracts in the language of the people," according to an announcement. In 2002, Falwell called the Prophet Mohammad a "terrorist" but later apologized.

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"Just when our nation's image in the Islamic world was improving as a result of the outpouring of American aid in the tsunami disaster area, we hear from those who would exploit the tragedy to advance their own extremist agenda," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington.

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