Friday, October 29, 2010
Véget ért a világevangelizáció harmadik kongresszusa
Véget ért a világevangelizáció harmadik kongresszusa
2010. október 26., kedd 21:48
.Október 24-én a dél-afrikai Kapstadtban véget ért a nagyszabású világevangelizációs kongresszus, mely a keresztyén világ közvéleményéhez felhívással fordult a hitelesen megélt keresztyénség érdekében. Az alkalmon a Presbiteri Szövetség elnöke, dr. h.c. Szabó Dániel is részt vett.
Amit a keresztyének hirdetnek vagy prédikálnak, annak életük stílusában, viselkedésükben is tükröződnie kell – mondta Lindsay Brown, a lausannei missziói világmozgalom nemzetközi igazgatója. Több mint 4 000, a misszió és az evangelizáció mellett elkötelezett keresztyén szakember volt együtt egy héten át, több mint 200 országból a dél-afrikai városban. Leginkább arról tanácskoztak, miféle új utakat és lehetőségeket tudnak találni, alkalmazni a keresztyén örömüzenet terjesztéséhez.
2010. október 26., kedd 21:48
.Október 24-én a dél-afrikai Kapstadtban véget ért a nagyszabású világevangelizációs kongresszus, mely a keresztyén világ közvéleményéhez felhívással fordult a hitelesen megélt keresztyénség érdekében. Az alkalmon a Presbiteri Szövetség elnöke, dr. h.c. Szabó Dániel is részt vett.
Amit a keresztyének hirdetnek vagy prédikálnak, annak életük stílusában, viselkedésükben is tükröződnie kell – mondta Lindsay Brown, a lausannei missziói világmozgalom nemzetközi igazgatója. Több mint 4 000, a misszió és az evangelizáció mellett elkötelezett keresztyén szakember volt együtt egy héten át, több mint 200 országból a dél-afrikai városban. Leginkább arról tanácskoztak, miféle új utakat és lehetőségeket tudnak találni, alkalmazni a keresztyén örömüzenet terjesztéséhez.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Integrity - Confronting Idols | The Lausanne Global Conversation
This talk of Chris Wright, International Director of Langham Partnership International, challenges the people of God to confront the idols of power and pride, popularity and success, and wealth and greed. He called the Church to repentance and simplicity.
A milestone in Lausanne history, with much food for thought and prayer for the whole church in the whole world.
Integrity - Confronting Idols The Lausanne Global Conversation
A milestone in Lausanne history, with much food for thought and prayer for the whole church in the whole world.
Integrity - Confronting Idols The Lausanne Global Conversation
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Christianity Thrives among 'Gypsies' Despite Prejudice
Roma Revival: Missionary efforts continue to succeed.
Trevor Persaud posted 10/26/2010 09:35AM
In deporting thousands of Roma, or Gypsies, to Romania and Bulgaria this summer, France polarized the European Union and focused continent-wide attention on the ethnic minority known for its centuries-old story of discrimination. Fewer know how far the gospel is spreading among them.
"Most people still hate Gypsies, especially in France," said John Boyd, a Roma pastor who works with Light and Life, an international Assemblies of God ministry by and for Roma. "[Yet] revival hasn't stopped. God is calling Gypsies all around the world."
Read more: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/november/3.15.html
Trevor Persaud posted 10/26/2010 09:35AM
In deporting thousands of Roma, or Gypsies, to Romania and Bulgaria this summer, France polarized the European Union and focused continent-wide attention on the ethnic minority known for its centuries-old story of discrimination. Fewer know how far the gospel is spreading among them.
"Most people still hate Gypsies, especially in France," said John Boyd, a Roma pastor who works with Light and Life, an international Assemblies of God ministry by and for Roma. "[Yet] revival hasn't stopped. God is calling Gypsies all around the world."
Read more: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/november/3.15.html
International Orthodox Mission Network Conference in Veliko Tarnovo
From Oct. 20-24, 2010 the International Orthodox Mission Network held its second conference in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. The first one took place in February in Minsk, Belarus. It was hosted by the Holy Metropolia of Veliko Tarnovo. One of the main organisers of the event was Miss Olga Oleink from Minsk, Belarus. The Central and Eastern European Institute for Mission Studies and the Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies was represented by Mrs. Nóra Sümegi, a graduate from the Faculty of Divinity of the Károli Reformed University in Budapest, a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators.
International Orthodox Mission Network Veliko Tarnovo Oct. 2010 Bg Patriarshia Website Info Eng
International Orthodox Mission Network Veliko Tarnovo Oct. 2010 Bg Patriarshia Website Info Eng
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
BGU Regents excursion II Cape Town 2010
Today was a day off at the congress. With the BGU Regents we made an excursion to the main turist sights of Cape Town. It really is a city to revisit! Very interesting to realize the Dutch element in its history!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
The High Cost of Religious Persecution - Cape Town 2010
The highlight of the second day at Cape Town 2010 was the testimony of an 18 year old North Korean born teenager. Why am I often so bothered by pity things which in fact are nothing compared to the persecution some Christians go through? I asked myself, deeply moved to tears by her testimony.
Lord, help me to stay faithful to you, and to be ready to pray the price of following you.
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, 20 October 2010 - After Gyeong Ju Son, a young woman from North Korea, gave her moving testimony at The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town this week, the 4200 participants from over 190 countries, came away stunned - many moved to tears. They had just witnessed - in their midst - the tragic face of suffering.
"Her tearful testimony obviously moved the assembly. She was given a standing ovation that lasted so long she was called back to the platform to acknowledge the response.
Some have raised questions about whether Cape Town 2010 will lose the Lausanne movement's focus on evangelism in favor of social justice concerns. Apparently not, if the audience's response to this North Korean witness was any clue." http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2010/10/north_korean_wi.html
Read more: http://www.lausanne.org/articles/the-high-cost-of-religious-persecution-cape-town-2010-congress.html
Photo taken by James Krabill, courtesy of the Lausanne Movement Flickr stream.
Lord, help me to stay faithful to you, and to be ready to pray the price of following you.
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, 20 October 2010 - After Gyeong Ju Son, a young woman from North Korea, gave her moving testimony at The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town this week, the 4200 participants from over 190 countries, came away stunned - many moved to tears. They had just witnessed - in their midst - the tragic face of suffering.
"Her tearful testimony obviously moved the assembly. She was given a standing ovation that lasted so long she was called back to the platform to acknowledge the response.
Some have raised questions about whether Cape Town 2010 will lose the Lausanne movement's focus on evangelism in favor of social justice concerns. Apparently not, if the audience's response to this North Korean witness was any clue." http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2010/10/north_korean_wi.html
Read more: http://www.lausanne.org/articles/the-high-cost-of-religious-persecution-cape-town-2010-congress.html
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Highlight of day three at Lausanne III in Cape Town
Update: We have been asked to purge the full name of this speaker. I rather suspect it is a bit of a lost cause because it’s well tweeted and blogged about, but I’m going to honor the request as I can understand the security issues. Please do not repost photos or videos.
In the beginning of August, 2010, 10 people were martyred. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10903226
(She names them). And my husband, Tom.
(She names bit by bit the vocations of the 10.)
They were returning from a 3 week mobile clinic in Nuristan.
They left Kabul asking us to pray that they would share God’s mercy. That they would have a ready answer for any who should ask. That they would have stamina for the trek.
Every day he would call twice a day for 1 minute with notes on their progress. I’m going to share them with you now.
Long hiking day.
Slept under the stars tonight, because we didn’t make it to the shepherd’s hut in time.
Pass over the mountain treacherous, with freezing rain.
Never ending stream of people waiting in the rain for our clinic.
Warm welcome from the leader, with goat cheese.
Never saw or smelled so many rotten teeth.
Horrified again
Cheryl & I took turns staying through the night with a teen dying of
Made it to the shepherd’s hut beat, exhausted
Tending oozing feet. One boy with them is weeping, crying, “beautiful feet. beautiful feet.”
On August 5th, the final call: made it to the Land Rovers. Swollen river is receded enough to cross over. We will call you on the other side.
We don’t know who or why they were killed. But we do know the overarching reason they were there. Some were there a long time. Others were in their first term. Some were just visiting.
At a dinner the night before they left, they used words like: “Compelled by God. Called. Great urgency to get back to the valley.”
They all knew the risk. They had extensive permissions for each stage of the route. They went by the safer route even though it was longer and more demanding. Yet several said yes, Jesus, it is worth it.
The team had said on the way back they needed a day of rest. They were to have a day of worship. Later the FBI came and brought me some of the items from my husband’s body. In between lists were sermon notes, stained with blood. Was this what he had shared that day? In the jottings he noted Ephesians 2:8-10, Ephesians 5:2, and 2 Corinthians—we are the aroma of Christ. In the side note he had scribbled, “use the Nuristani Goat Cheese Story.”
Some aromas take some getting used to. Takes time to develop a taste for Nuristani cheese. It spends weeks in animal skins hanging from the sides of donkeys. The smell of men, horses, donkeys, and the cheese itself are all a pungent odor permeating it. You can smell it for miles. Some find it disgusting. Some—when they are hungry enough—try it and found it’s salty flavor enhances the otherwise dry and stale bread. Then you’re hooked and you can’t wait for more.
It was their 5th trip. Tom thought it would be the last. The first time we asked to go. The other times we were begged to come. “Please, please, come and care for us.”
If Tom were here, he would say: in difficult and hard to reach places, grace is not discussed or debated. The incarnation has to be seen and experienced. In powerful and vengeful communities, talk of grace and vulnerability is too foreign—too distasteful—it needs small doses over time. Some have to acquire a taste for grace. They have to be hungry enough. The aroma of grace has to permeate everything. It has to be seen as transforming. It has to change the very flavor of life. It has to bring new life. Those who dare to taste it will say: come back. We like what we have tasted, and we want more.
It takes time. Maybe a whole life time. It takes energy—the willingness to be spent, to be poured out, to wear yourself out. Bob Dylan said, “Die in your footsteps.” It takes patience with those acquiring a new taste.
She quotes John Piper’s poem:
Behold the mercy of our King,
Who takes from death its bitter sting,
And by His blood, and often ours,
Brings triumph out of hostile pow’rs,
And paints, with crimson, earth and soul
Until the bloody work is whole.
What we have lost God will restore -
That, and Himself, forevermore.
May God restore his Kingdom in Afghanistan. May Nuristanis catch a whiff of the aroma of Christ. Taste and See. May the global church be saturated with God’s infinite Christ and spread the aroma of grace in these hard places to the glory of God.
Source: http://www.justinlong.org/2010/10/capetown-2010-day-3-reflections-lcwe-incl-transcript-of-libby-littles-remarks-wife-of-martyred-tom-little/
In the beginning of August, 2010, 10 people were martyred. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10903226
(She names them). And my husband, Tom.
(She names bit by bit the vocations of the 10.)
They were returning from a 3 week mobile clinic in Nuristan.
They left Kabul asking us to pray that they would share God’s mercy. That they would have a ready answer for any who should ask. That they would have stamina for the trek.
Every day he would call twice a day for 1 minute with notes on their progress. I’m going to share them with you now.
Long hiking day.
Slept under the stars tonight, because we didn’t make it to the shepherd’s hut in time.
Pass over the mountain treacherous, with freezing rain.
Never ending stream of people waiting in the rain for our clinic.
Warm welcome from the leader, with goat cheese.
Never saw or smelled so many rotten teeth.
Horrified again
Cheryl & I took turns staying through the night with a teen dying of
Made it to the shepherd’s hut beat, exhausted
Tending oozing feet. One boy with them is weeping, crying, “beautiful feet. beautiful feet.”
On August 5th, the final call: made it to the Land Rovers. Swollen river is receded enough to cross over. We will call you on the other side.
We don’t know who or why they were killed. But we do know the overarching reason they were there. Some were there a long time. Others were in their first term. Some were just visiting.
At a dinner the night before they left, they used words like: “Compelled by God. Called. Great urgency to get back to the valley.”
They all knew the risk. They had extensive permissions for each stage of the route. They went by the safer route even though it was longer and more demanding. Yet several said yes, Jesus, it is worth it.
The team had said on the way back they needed a day of rest. They were to have a day of worship. Later the FBI came and brought me some of the items from my husband’s body. In between lists were sermon notes, stained with blood. Was this what he had shared that day? In the jottings he noted Ephesians 2:8-10, Ephesians 5:2, and 2 Corinthians—we are the aroma of Christ. In the side note he had scribbled, “use the Nuristani Goat Cheese Story.”
Some aromas take some getting used to. Takes time to develop a taste for Nuristani cheese. It spends weeks in animal skins hanging from the sides of donkeys. The smell of men, horses, donkeys, and the cheese itself are all a pungent odor permeating it. You can smell it for miles. Some find it disgusting. Some—when they are hungry enough—try it and found it’s salty flavor enhances the otherwise dry and stale bread. Then you’re hooked and you can’t wait for more.
It was their 5th trip. Tom thought it would be the last. The first time we asked to go. The other times we were begged to come. “Please, please, come and care for us.”
If Tom were here, he would say: in difficult and hard to reach places, grace is not discussed or debated. The incarnation has to be seen and experienced. In powerful and vengeful communities, talk of grace and vulnerability is too foreign—too distasteful—it needs small doses over time. Some have to acquire a taste for grace. They have to be hungry enough. The aroma of grace has to permeate everything. It has to be seen as transforming. It has to change the very flavor of life. It has to bring new life. Those who dare to taste it will say: come back. We like what we have tasted, and we want more.
It takes time. Maybe a whole life time. It takes energy—the willingness to be spent, to be poured out, to wear yourself out. Bob Dylan said, “Die in your footsteps.” It takes patience with those acquiring a new taste.
She quotes John Piper’s poem:
Behold the mercy of our King,
Who takes from death its bitter sting,
And by His blood, and often ours,
Brings triumph out of hostile pow’rs,
And paints, with crimson, earth and soul
Until the bloody work is whole.
What we have lost God will restore -
That, and Himself, forevermore.
May God restore his Kingdom in Afghanistan. May Nuristanis catch a whiff of the aroma of Christ. Taste and See. May the global church be saturated with God’s infinite Christ and spread the aroma of grace in these hard places to the glory of God.
Source: http://www.justinlong.org/2010/10/capetown-2010-day-3-reflections-lcwe-incl-transcript-of-libby-littles-remarks-wife-of-martyred-tom-little/
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Key to Afghan crisis: Tea and Education true for Roma issue as well?
Christian Science Moniter (MA) December 04 2009
Key to Afghan crisis: tea and education by Todd Wilkinson
Greg Mortenson, author of ‘Three Cups of Tea,’ says success lies in building trust and schools in rural Afghanistan.
Greg Mortenson doesn’t need to rely on think tanks or arcane policy documents to find the road to a better Afghanistan.
The mountaineer-turned-school builder from Montana – recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize – depends on what might be called his own show-of-hands index, based on his visits to speak with children in the United States and Afghanistan. In the past few months alone, he’s spoken to tens of thousands of them.
“I always ask American schoolchildren how often they talk with their grandparents about the important events of history in the past. Invariably, maybe 10 percent at most will raise their hands,” he says.
He poses the same question in the remotest corners of Afghanistan, where he has successfully erected 80 schools, many of them focusing on education for girls. There, the range of responses he receives seems to reflect the social health of a particular community.
In rural villages where the Taliban has not exerted its will on the community, Mr. Mortenson says perhaps 80 percent of kids respond affirmatively. But in areas where home-grown and foreign Taliban fighters have established brutal strongholds, sometimes with connections to Al Qaeda, almost no child raises a hand.
As President Obama pledged another 30,000 US troops Dec. 1 to root out terrorists in Afghanistan, Mortenson is suggesting that effort must go hand in hand with another: grass-roots education.
Read more: http://www.gregmortenson.com/media-and-press/articles/
Key to Afghan crisis: tea and education by Todd Wilkinson
Greg Mortenson, author of ‘Three Cups of Tea,’ says success lies in building trust and schools in rural Afghanistan.
Greg Mortenson doesn’t need to rely on think tanks or arcane policy documents to find the road to a better Afghanistan.
The mountaineer-turned-school builder from Montana – recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize – depends on what might be called his own show-of-hands index, based on his visits to speak with children in the United States and Afghanistan. In the past few months alone, he’s spoken to tens of thousands of them.
“I always ask American schoolchildren how often they talk with their grandparents about the important events of history in the past. Invariably, maybe 10 percent at most will raise their hands,” he says.
He poses the same question in the remotest corners of Afghanistan, where he has successfully erected 80 schools, many of them focusing on education for girls. There, the range of responses he receives seems to reflect the social health of a particular community.
In rural villages where the Taliban has not exerted its will on the community, Mr. Mortenson says perhaps 80 percent of kids respond affirmatively. But in areas where home-grown and foreign Taliban fighters have established brutal strongholds, sometimes with connections to Al Qaeda, almost no child raises a hand.
As President Obama pledged another 30,000 US troops Dec. 1 to root out terrorists in Afghanistan, Mortenson is suggesting that effort must go hand in hand with another: grass-roots education.
Read more: http://www.gregmortenson.com/media-and-press/articles/
A 21st Century Reformation: Back to First Principles - Rene Padilla
The sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation left a profound mark not only on the church of Jesus Christ but also on the history of the Western world and, as a sequel, on the history of the whole world. Today, the state of the Christian church in the West and beyond is such that a similar reformation is urgently needed.
A key problem of evangelical churches all over the world today is the unilateral emphasis on numerical growth. For the sake of it the Gospel is watered down, church services are turned into entertainment shows, and Jesus’ commandment to make disciples is replaced by a strategy to enroll as many “converts” as possible. In my frequent travels I find an increasing number of megachurches with a very high rate of numerical growth but with very a low concern for faithfulness to the whole Gospel and the ethical dimensions of whole-life discipleship. One wonders what has happened with the vision of whole-life discipleship projected by the First International Congress on World Evangelization (Lausanne I, held in Switzerland in 1974) in its celebrated Lausanne Covenant.
Read more:
http://conversation.lausanne.org/en/conversations/detail/11045
A key problem of evangelical churches all over the world today is the unilateral emphasis on numerical growth. For the sake of it the Gospel is watered down, church services are turned into entertainment shows, and Jesus’ commandment to make disciples is replaced by a strategy to enroll as many “converts” as possible. In my frequent travels I find an increasing number of megachurches with a very high rate of numerical growth but with very a low concern for faithfulness to the whole Gospel and the ethical dimensions of whole-life discipleship. One wonders what has happened with the vision of whole-life discipleship projected by the First International Congress on World Evangelization (Lausanne I, held in Switzerland in 1974) in its celebrated Lausanne Covenant.
Read more:
http://conversation.lausanne.org/en/conversations/detail/11045
Preparations for Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town in final stage
16 - 25 October 2010
The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Lausanne III) will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, 16-25 October 2010. The Congress, held in collaboration with the World Evangelical Alliance, will bring together four thousand leaders from more than two hundred countries to confront the critical issues of our time—other world faiths, poverty, HIV/AIDS, and persecution, among others—as they relate to the future of the Church and world evangelization. Cape Town 2010 (CT2010) is not just a one-time meeting, but God willing, will be a catalytic event in the life of the Church—drawing leaders together in purposeful prayer, humble repentance, strategic dialogue, and decisive action. For more information visit www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/about.html.
The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Lausanne III) will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, 16-25 October 2010. The Congress, held in collaboration with the World Evangelical Alliance, will bring together four thousand leaders from more than two hundred countries to confront the critical issues of our time—other world faiths, poverty, HIV/AIDS, and persecution, among others—as they relate to the future of the Church and world evangelization. Cape Town 2010 (CT2010) is not just a one-time meeting, but God willing, will be a catalytic event in the life of the Church—drawing leaders together in purposeful prayer, humble repentance, strategic dialogue, and decisive action. For more information visit www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/about.html.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Hungary fears new leak from toxic sludge reservoir
Kolontar was evacuated as a precaution, Hungarian officials said The Hungarian village of Kolontar has been evacuated after new damage was discovered at a burst reservoir that spilled toxic sludge on Monday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said it was "very likely" that an entire wall of the reservoir would collapse, releasing a fresh wave of chemical effluent.
Mr Orban also said there would be "very severe" consequences for those to blame for the disaster. At least seven people have died as a result of the accident.
In pictures: Hungary's toxic aftermath
Around 150 people were injured by the spill of up to 700,000 cubic metres (24.7m cu ft) of red toxic sludge - many receiving burns.
Most of those killed were drowned or swept away in Kolontar as the sludge hit on Monday. The village is the closest to the reservoir, and would be expected to bear the brunt if there were a second spill.
Continue reading the main story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11506713
In pictures: Hungary's toxic aftermath
Around 150 people were injured by the spill of up to 700,000 cubic metres (24.7m cu ft) of red toxic sludge - many receiving burns.
Most of those killed were drowned or swept away in Kolontar as the sludge hit on Monday. The village is the closest to the reservoir, and would be expected to bear the brunt if there were a second spill.
Continue reading the main story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11506713
Friday, October 8, 2010
Pollution from Hungarian toxic sludge disaster spreads
Fears that the toxic pollution from an aluminium plant in the village Kolontár, close to Ajka in western Hungary, would spread have proven to be true. The red sludge released by the dam break at a depository on Monday (4 October) has now reached the Danube river, causing ever more fish to die.
The country's government has given up its initial resistance to applying for international support in combating the catastrophe and activated the EU's civil protection mechanism.
The Hungarian authorities have identified an immediate need for three to five experts with extensive field experience in handling toxic sludge, decontamination and mitigation of environmental damage.
Read more: http://waz.euobserver.com/887/31003
The country's government has given up its initial resistance to applying for international support in combating the catastrophe and activated the EU's civil protection mechanism.
The Hungarian authorities have identified an immediate need for three to five experts with extensive field experience in handling toxic sludge, decontamination and mitigation of environmental damage.
Read more: http://waz.euobserver.com/887/31003
Dodental gifslib Hongarije loopt op
Het dodental als gevolg van de gifslibramp in Hongarije is opgelopen tot zes. Eerder vrijdag werd al bekendgemaakt dat een vijfde slachtoffer was overleden.
Lees meer op: http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/2352029/dodental-gifslib-hongarije-loopt.html##
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Colorful but colourblind
Introduction
It is generally thought that the Roma journey westward started in India more than a thousand years ago, though the group didn't appear in Europe until the fourteenth century. Estimates on the number of Roma in Europe today range between ten and twelve million, with most living in Central and Eastern Europe in conditions of social deprivation and often facing outright discrimination. The scant historical records on the Roma people and its dispersion through much of the continent account for centuries of negative stereotyping-and sometimes romanticizing-that portrays Roma as nomadic, mythical and exotic people who neither fit in, nor belong.
This project seeks to counter these age-old prejudices with twenty-five stories featuring personal insights into the daily lives of Roma people. Colorful but Colorblind, uses multimedia storytelling to promote social integration of Roma in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. The stories journey into Roma life in some of the newest EU member states, exploring contemporary Roma identities and culture and obstacles that Roma communities face in achieving equality. The stories were produced by teams comprising Roma and majority-community journalists from these countries in collaboration with graduate students from the School of Communication at the University of Miami.
Tihomir Loza
Project Director
Read the stories at:
http://roma.glocalstories.org/
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Noodstoestand in slibdorpen Hongarije
BOEDAPEST - De Hongaarse regering heeft de noodtoestand uitgeroepen in drie districten, nadat daar door een dambreuk enkele dorpen waren overstroomd met verontreinigd slib.
Hongaarse dorpen onder giftige slib. Dat meldde het Hongaarse persbureau MTI dinsdag.
Kolontar en twee andere dorpen ten zuidwesten van de Hongaarse hoofdstad Boedapest overstroomden maandag deels, toen de dam van een slibreservoir van een aluminiumfabriek het begaf.
Lees verder:
http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/2349012/noodtoestand-in-slibdorpen-hongarije.html
Redsluge tragedy
Hungary’s largest ecological disaster took place on October 4, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. when the western dam of cassette X of the sludge reservoir, belonging to a privately owned company, Magyar Alumínium ZRt (Hungarian Aluminum Co), had ruptured. Due to the ruptured dam, a mixture of 600-700 thousand m3 of red sludge and water inundated the lower sections of the settlements of Kolontar, Devecser and Somlovasarhely via the Torna creek.
The spilling red sludge flooded 800 hectares of surrounding areas. The most extreme devastation was caused in the villages of Devecser and Kolontar, which are located near the reservoir.
http://redsludge.bm.hu/
The spilling red sludge flooded 800 hectares of surrounding areas. The most extreme devastation was caused in the villages of Devecser and Kolontar, which are located near the reservoir.
http://redsludge.bm.hu/
Monday, October 4, 2010
Hongaarse dorpen onder slib na dambreuk
BOEDAPEST - Een dambreuk met giftig slib in Hongarije heeft geleid tot één dode en zestig gewonden.
© ANPTwee dorpen in het westen van Hongarije zijn maandag deels overstroomd toen de dam van een slibreservoir van een aluminiumfabriek brak, meldden regionale hulpverleningsinstanties.
De ruim 600.000 kubieke meter slib is verontreinigd met hoge doses zware metalen.
De gewonden zijn in het ziekenhuis behandeld aan brandwonden en geïrriteerde ogen. Reddingswerkers zijn nog tot dinsdag bezig om bewoners te evacueren uit de getroffen dorpen Kolontar en Devecser.
Sommige bewoners zitten op daken te wachten tot helikopters hen oppikken, aldus autoriteiten.
Het Hongaarse persbureau MTI meldde dat ook kinderen in een school in Kolontar moesten worden geëvacueerd.
Zie www.nu.nl
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