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...Indonesia, Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sandra Burton watched a Mennonite missionary weigh bleating goats hung by their hoofs from a hook scale. And in the village of Mulia, in the untramped interior of Irian Jaya, the Indonesian half of New Guinea, she met Missionary Leon Dillinger, photographed for the cover by Roland Neveu...
...make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:19). Their numbers include Roman Catholic priests in the Himalayas who wear the maroon robes of Buddhist monks. There are born-again Protestant bush pilots coming in on a wing and a prayer to land on narrow runways in the Amazonian and Indonesian jungles. They are seeking to spread the good news of Christ in a vast variety of situations: amid revolution and civil war in Central America; in parched, famine-haunted lands in Africa; in the forests of Southeast Asia, where the demons worshiped by animistic tribes are almost a palpable presence...
...supplies into the Indonesian jungles: "Suddenly the people are feeling that they must throw out everything from the past and learn everything new." In rebuttal, missionaries argue that evolution toward modern ways is inevitable and that they can buffer the struggles more humanely for the tribes than would land and mineral developers...
...Asia: the interior of Irian Jaya (formerly Dutch New Guinea and now part of Indonesia). Dillinger, 51, and wife Lorraine, 48, work among Dani tribesmen cut off from the outside world by crocodile-infested, malarial lowlands and mountain ranges that soar to 13,000 ft. It is against Indonesian law to convert any person who already has a religion, and 88% of the country is Muslim. But the government does allow Christian missionary work, Minister for Religious Affairs Haji Alamajah Ratuprawiranegara acknowledged to TIME, "as long as it is only aimed at the animists." When Dillinger arrived 24 years...
...used in underdeveloped lands. Products that are outlawed or severely restricted in the Western world-clioquinol and aminopyrine, a fever and pain remedy linked to a serious blood ailment-are dumped in the unregulated markets of Southeast Asia. Many of these products are elaborately promoted. Clioquinol was touted on Indonesian television until the government banned all TV commercials last year. Other products, including vitamins and "tonics," are promoted as cures for malnutrition in such impoverished areas as Nigeria and Central America, although, as Silverman pointed out in an interview, "these people don't need vitamins, they need food...