The Fernando Poniente Show

Beijing Olympics: Murdered American was volleyball coach’s relative

Were these people Christians? Everytime I’ve watched the Olympics and seen somebody win and be interviewed I never hear anyone giving glory to Jesus Christ. So are these people non-Christians, Christians that have forgotten who gave these people the strength to endure and ability to win even many times by one second, or are they being told for their safety to not mention the name of Jesus Christ?

Todd Bachman and his wife Barbara, who was seriously wounded in the attack, were
stabbed at the city’s 13th-century Drum Tower monument. Their daughter
Elisabeth, the wife of head indoor volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon,
witnessed
the attack but escaped unhurt.
The lone Chinese attacker
subsequently
committed suicide by jumping from the second storey of the
tower. The motive for
the murder remains a mystery, especially since it is
rare for foreigners in
China to suffer from violent crime.
Mr and Mrs
Bachman’s Chinese guide was
also injured in the attack, which happened
despite high security across the
capital, where more than 150,000 police and
other personnel were on patrol.
The violence contrasted with the joy of
Friday, when four billion people
worldwide – and 91,000 in the Bird’s Nest
stadium – saw the most dazzling
opening ceremony in the history of the Games

I wonder if Christians are safe
there?

…The murder happened the day before President George W Bush was due
to
meet President Hu Jintao of China.
Officials from the US embassy were
dispatched to hospital, where the two injured survivors were taken by
ambulance.
A spokesman for the US Olympic Committee later described Mrs
Bachman’s injuries
as “serious and life threatening”.
People at the many
restaurants and shops
in the area claimed not to have seen the incident or
to know anything about it,
raising suspicions that they had been ordered not
to speak by the police.
“No country is 100 per cent safe. These things can
happen anywhere,” Ge Sang
Lamu Cuo, the owner of a nearby Tibetan craft shop
said.
The US embassy said
it would not be issuing new guidelines on
safety to its citizens in Beijing in
the wake of the killing. “I think that
this is an isolated incident and has
nothing to do with the Olympics,” Susan
Stevenson, the press attaché, said.
“China remains one of the world’s safest
countries for foreigners.”

Would they say that foreigner Christians are safe their yet their own
Chinese citizens seem to be punished if they become Christian?