European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes monday. Apri 18. 1988 world today Kiin Delisl Diu Cwihun sing kith a group it chinese cell Dpi while on a Elsil id China s great will Friday 1,500 hear evangelist Graham give his 1 St Sermon in China Beijing Al american evangelist Billy Gra Ham preached his first Sermon in China 11 fundamentalist teaching on the meaning of the Crow to More than 1,500 listeners in u Beijing Church sunday mom ing. I would like to bring greetings to you from Chris Tum All Over die in Raj Graham said at the snarl or his hour Long Sermon which was immediately trans lated into chinese. Christians All Over the world know whom inc Church in China. They think about you and they Pray for you said Graham who has spoken to evangelical Sci line sin at least 60 countries. The 69-year-old Southern Baptist minister arrive Din Beijing five Days ago for a first visit to China. He will travel to banking and Shanghai before leaving for Hong rung at the end of the month. Church workers at the Choice Wenden Church in Central a citing said Graham s appearance was not announced to he  beforehand they a Dicj that very few chinese christians know of the preacher. However the main and Side sanctuaries were Bot filled and those who arrived late were forced to stand. Some in the congregation were chinese who usually worship Al other Beijing Cli Urchin by Many were for eign its. It think he was very good/1 sail student he Qiu Qiu. What he said hits right to the  her class Nail Zhao Gotiong Satu he raised the name of god. His message was Jesus  another Young human said thai she bund Gra Ham s preaching refreshing and that he was much briefer than chinese ministers. Graham s lest was a verse from the Bible in which lilt apostle i a writes thai the Cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified was Central to his belief. His Sermon was one that i Glt have been preached in a fundamentalist Christian Church in the United Stales. However Graham added some touches for the chinese congregation. He spoke of changes inside China saying you have a great modernization pro Gram. To is my prayer that there will be a great moral modernization program also because thai goes right to the  he referred to his wife Ruth who was bom and lived for 17 Yuan in the province of i angst one of the reasons 1 like to come to China is to be with her because in some ways she is More chinese than american and to Sec you helps me to understand her he said the two hour service ended with a hymn about the universality of christianity. In Jesus Christ there is no North South East or West. The entire world is United in the lord s love the congregation Sang in chinese. China has -1,000 established churches under the state sanctioned three self movement of sell govern Mem self support and  religious worship no longer is suppressed As it was during the i 966-76 cultural revolution but proselytizing is banned and roman catholics have been imprisoned for refusing to break lies with the Vatican. According to official estimates there Are 4 million protestants and More than 3 million catholics in China. Tibet rights issues investigated Beijing a a senior . Stale department official in Tibet 15 probing human rights issues in the in Muse Mountain Region authorities said Friday. The . Embassy in Beijing said j. Simpleton Roy Deputy assistant Secretary of stale is visiting  Iri Tibet with an officer from the american consulate in Chengdu Southwest China. The main reason he saying is to see the situation for himself said press officer Andrw c. Koss. A report on Tibet regional radio said Roy had met with Mao Rubai. Deputy Secretary of the communist party in Tibet. The report said Roy raised human rights questions among other issues. Mao told Roy that the leftist Emir of he past when tibetan religion and customs were oppressed had been rectified and defended China s human right record in Tibet the radio said. Tibet has erupted in violence twice in the past Sis months with Buddhist monks leading anti chinese pro Independence riots last fall and again on March 5. The disturbances last september and october in the capital of Lhasa left an estimated 14 dead. They caused a rift in .-Chincie relations with Congress accusing China of human rights violations and China charging the United states with interference in China internal affairs. Leader of opposition gets Zimbabwe Post Harare. Zimbabwe Dpi president Robert Mugabe sunday made former opposition Leader Joshua Nkomo an interim vice president of his ruling Anu of party. Mugabe told a news conference on the eve of the 8th anniversary of Independence that Nkomo s new position resulted from his being Madea member of one of three special committees formed to Mastermind the planned merger be tween Anu of Zimbabwe african Nional Union patriotic front and Nkomo s Zimbabwe african Peoples Union a Venezuela Marine sergeant was killed and two other sol Diers were wounded when colombian guerrillas fired on their Barge on the Araucua River the defense ministry said saturday colombians fired on another venezuelan ves Sel in the same area two hours Laler but there were no casualties the ministry said in a  death is the first this year of a venezuelan Soldier in a Border clash with colombians. The fatal attack occurred when the dredging Barge was Clearing a Section of the fiver about 360 Miles South Wisl of Caracas. The River forms part of the Border Between the two countries. The ministry did not Cay if the venezuelans re Lumen fire or if there were colombian casualties. Gen. Humberto Camejo Arias said military reinforcements have been sent to the area to search for foreign subversives and probable a  Venezuela increased its military presence on the Border in january because of an increase in kidnappings of venezuelans by colombians an the use of venezuelan territory by colombian cocaine gangs. Workers donate 1 Day of labor to soviet state Moscow a workers throughout the soviet Union participated saturday in the 69th annual Subotnik a Day of unpaid labor donated to the communist  Moscow workers bustled about their jabs on a sunny but cold Spring Day. The official soviet news Agency Tan said nearly Iso million people turned put for the Subotnik which is expected to provide millions of rubles for building clinics hospitals schools libraries clubs and stadiums. The oncologic and cardio logic centers in Moscow were built with Subotnik funds according to  have become a part of soviet life since the first one in april 1919, when 15 work ers Al a Moscow railway depot voluntarily re paired a steam locomotive without additional pay. A few Days Laler after word had spread of the deed Many Moscow Varten put in a Day at their usual jobs without  i. Unin founder of the soviet suit joined in the expanded Subotnik in 1419. The annual Subbot Niks now Are held on a saturday Dene id april 22, the Date Lenin was born in 1810