Radio Presenter Disciplined and Suspended

Reverend Mahboob Masih presented a weekly Christian radio show on the Glasgow radio station AWAZ FM. With a live 'talk show' format, the Saturday morning programme sought to respond to questions from listeners.

Awaz FM operates under a Community Radio licence issued to serve the Asian (Indian sub continent) population of Glasgow, delivering entertainment, community information, local, national and international news broadcasting in Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi and English. The station claims to be the voice of Glasgow’s ethnic communities and their respective faiths.

Following claims by Muslim academic Dr. Zakir Naik, well known in the Asian community for his critical comments about Christianity, that Jesus was not the only person who was ‘the way, the truth and the life’ and that every "prophet" was in their own way the way, the truth and the life, Rev. Masih's programme received a number of calls asking questions about Dr Naik’s comments.

Mahboob Masih answered these questions in moderate and temporate terms, including quoting the claims of Jesus as stated in The Bible.

Despite Rev Masih's factual and honest answers to these questions, some Muslim listeners, complained the radio station.

Management at Awaz FM asked Rev Masih to offer an apology for any offence which had been caused. But after reading out a prepared apology on air, as he had been requested, the station sought to find further fault with Mahboob Masih and removed him from the rado show.

Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Reverend Masih continues to seek answers from the radio station as to the way he has been treated and papers have been filed at the Employment Tribunal.

A formal complaint will will also be made to Ofcom that AWAZ FM is breaching the terms of its broadcasting licence.



Mahboob Masih was born in the industrial city of Faisalabad, Pakistan and raised by Christian parents in a Presbyterian Church.

After receiving his first degree in English, Journalism and Literature from the University Of Punjab, Pakistan, he worked as a language teacher in a missionary language school teaching foreign missionaries local languages enabling them to be more effective in their missionary work.

Rev Masih was dedicated to Christian ministry in his childhood and entered into full time ministry when he personally felt a strong sense of calling. He then went to Gujranwala Theological Seminary where he graduated Master of Divinity.

After his ordination he worked briefly as a minister, preaching and teaching, then taking the position of national youth co-ordinator of the Pakistani church.

In March 2000 Mahboob came to Scotland and worked as a community worker with Queen’s Park Baptist Church, at the same time working towards his M.Th (Master of Theology) degree in Biblical Interpretation from International Christian College, Glasgow.

After an attachment to Croftfoot Parish Church, Rev Masih received a call to the West Kirk, East Kilbride, where he was inducted on 1st May 2008.

Scottish Christian Party - Highland Conference 2008

Scottish Christian Party
HIGHLAND ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2008
for
PROGRESS and DEVELOPMENT

INVERNESS

Saturday – 18 October 2008

MORNING PROGRAMME
10 a.m. Registration: tea and coffee

Chairman: Dr Donald Boyd

10.30 a.m. TOM SELFRIDGE

Scottish Christian Party Central Office, Wishaw

11.30 a.m. Refreshment Break

Highland Theological College, Dingwall Graduate Survey of Voter attitudes

Question and Answer Session

LUNCH
1.00 p.m. Lunch:

please bring your own packed lunch. Tea and coffee will be available.

AFTERNOON PROGRAMME

2.00 pm ROSEMARY CAMERON, Fife
Discussion on improving Party structure

3.00 pm Refreshment Break

4.00 pm Discussion:

AGENDA for SPRING CONFERENCE
Where does the Highland Region go from here?

VENUE
Kingsview Christian Centre
Balnafettack Road
INVERNESS
IV3 8TF
Click here to find venue
Adequate car parking; facilities for the disabled.
By kind permission: http://www.thekingsview.org/
Tel: 01463 716843

Everyone is welcome. Come and go as you are able.
We look forward to seeing you there, God willing.

Further information on the Scottish Christian Party is available at:
www.highlandsandislandschristianparty.co.uk
www.scottishchristianparty.org.uk
or email Dr Donald Boyd on donald.boyd@scottishchristianparty.org.uk

There will be a pre-Conference publicity venture on

Saturday 11th October

in the Dunbar Centre, at the bottom of Church Street, Inverness

This will be a walk-in event for people to drop in off the street to:

1. meet some Scottish Christian Party enthusiasts over a cup of tea or coffee

2. pick up some literature

3. learn about the Conference the following week.

Feel free to drop in between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Remembrance Sunday

The Queen has decided that November 9th shall be observed as Remembrance Sunday. The customary Two Minutes' Silence will be observed from 11.00am.

MESSAGE FROM THE MODERATOR OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, THE RIGHT REV DAVID LUNAN:

'Went the day well? We died and never knew'. These are the words above the war memorial in the parish church of Duffus in Moray. They are a poignant reminder of those who gave their lives, not knowing if their deaths secured the end of war, with freedom and justice for their children and their children's children.

Only by remembering what others have done for us, and living now for the liberty and fairness and peace for which they died, can we answer yes to their haunting question."It is our memories that give us our identity.

It is what we remember, and how we choose to remember that shapes our lives. Only as we remember the lessons of history will we not repeat our mistakes. If we don't remember the sacrifice of others, we will become an ungrateful and selfish people.

Remembrance Day gives each of us, from all walks of life, from every cultural background, and from every corner of the nation, the opportunity to stop, and reflect, and give silent thanks. For there are still those who today risk their lives for our sake.

Whether in a church, or in a public place, whether standing at a war memorial or in private at home, let us acknowledge for two minutes, our debt to those who have gone before, and our responsibilities to those who come after us. What others have died for, let us now live for, lest we forget.

Scots Christian Radio Engineer Goes to be with his Lord

Source: HCJB Global

Duncan Bell, an HCJB Global missionary engineer for 18 years before retiring in 2006, died of an apparent heart attack at Hospital Vozandes-Quito in Ecuador on the morning of Friday September. 26th at the ago of 77.

Born in Hamilton, Scotland, on August 4th 1931, Duncan married Wilma Chapman in Washington state in 1974 and have two children, Duncan and Shona, 28.

In his application to join HCJB Global, Duncan wrote:-

“For most of my life I believed that Christianity was old-fashioned and that in this modern era that we had outgrown the need for superstition and religion,” Duncan wrote in his application to HCJB Global. “I believed in a god because I assumed that it all had to have come from somewhere, but the god that I believed in was one of my own imagination and certainly not the God of the Bible. I had no need for the person of Jesus Christ.

“Twelve years later [at the age of 43], I started attending church to please my wife, and after two years I was converted, having seen for the first time my fallen life, my despair and my need for a Savior, Jesus Christ.

“My almost immediate action was to serve directly then in the work of the church. Wisely, the pastor recommended that I wait on God and get involved in Bible studies. I rejoice to see the path the Lord has led us in the past 10 years.”

The Bells’ first exposure to missions and Hispanics took place when they got involved in an outreach with a missionary in Tijuana, Mexico. “The local missionary challenged us by asking what we were doing among the Hispanics in Los Angeles. We enrolled in conversational Spanish and completed the available three semesters.” Then they began attending Spanish-language church called Iglesia Bautista Bethany.

When the Bells joined HCJB Global in 1988, Duncan already had 28 years of experience as an engineer in Scotland and in the U.S. His last job before joining the mission was at Hughes Aircraft where he had worked for eight years.

Upon arriving in Quito, Duncan served on the development team in the engineering department, working alongside engineers such as Charlie Jacobson, now manager of engineering and development at the HCJB Global Technology Center in Elkhart, Ind. “I appreciate people like Duncan who, after serving in a career in industry, came to Ecuador to use their electronic skills in missions to make an impact for Christ,” Jacobson said.

After the Bells retired from HCJB Global in 2006, Duncan went on to serve with ASOMA, a Christian television ministry in Quito started by HCJB Global two decades earlier. He also taught at the Berean-affiliated Buen Pastor school in Pifo. He enjoyed bird watching, and he constructed at least two homes—one in California and one in Ecuador. He held passports from the U.K. and U.S. as well as residency status in Ecuador, and he never entirely lost his Scottish accent. His wit was quick and he enjoyed a laugh with friends.

A service to remember Duncan was held the morning of Sunday, Sept. 28, in Yaruquí, a small town near Radio Station HCJB’s international transmitter site in Pifo. Yaruquí is also where Duncan and Wilma made their home and had many friends and church family.