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The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday, May 19, 1987 Page 6 Korean pastor has world's biggest flock Colblbv liar 6foom SICCUS tions to mark the 50th anniversary of his denomination. He began his ministry in 1958, with a congregation of five. He says prayer, which he calls the "fourth is the key to its success. At the core of his ministry is a home cell system, in which Seoul City is divided into 19 districts, then sub-divided into 44,000 home cells. An average of 10-15 households, visited regularly by Pastor Cho or his associates, make one cell.

Korea is now officially the world's fastest-growing Christian nation. Statistical returns list 10 million Protestants and two million Catholics, with one million new Christians every year. Unlike many of the American evangelists, he avoids huge fund-raising Somehow the money comes in. This year he is spending $30 million on social work, including $10 million on an old folk's project Pastor Cho is scathing about US tele-evangelists, whom, he says, verge on seeking to advance "their own lives rather than God's ife- wife- sister Lisa, in Travers's backyard standing around a fire burning on a cement block. Mr Saunders said Mrs Greens-mith's evidence was also important in that she witnessed Travers "butchering a lamb in a most unorthodox fashion" in his backyard in the month before Mrs Cobby's murder.

She had told the jury of hav ing to rush to the toilet after seeing Travers bringing a knife towards the stomach of a a bleeding lamb he was holding. Gary and Michael Murphy and Murdoch were present, she said. Mr Saunders said that incident showed Travers' "propensity for violence" so much so that Michael Murphy denied being there and Gary Murphy's counsel had to ask him a question about it after he had finished his statement to the jury. "Damaging stuff, isn't it?" Mr Saunders said to the jury. "They knew of his propensity to use a knife.

They knew his brutality in slaughtering a lamb was part of his nature, didn't they?" All four should have contemplated that John Travers might have used a knife on Mrs Cobby, he said. Mr Saunders will continue his closing address at 10.45 am today. By JENNY COOKE Michael James Murdoch, a "born should be found guilty of five alleged crimes relating to the death of Mrs Anita Cobby, the deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor, Mr Allan Saunders, QC, told a Supreme Court jury yesterday. Continuing his closing address to the jury Mr Saunders said Murdoch, 19, the youngest of four men charged with car theft, abduction, robbery, sexual assault and murder, was a person who would say anything to get himself out of a predicament. In his statement to the jury last week, Murdoch had invited a guilty conviction on car theft but not on the other charges.

This was despite him pleading not guilty to car theft, the court was told. Mr Saunders described as "lies, lies, lies" aspects of his first police record of interview in which he denied involvement in the murder. Murdoch could allegedly give no reason for the lies, and had also allegedly admitted verbally to police that he had unsuccessfully attempted to rape Mrs Cobby despite denying in the alleged record of interview that he touched her. "It's only when you continually Computers and Commune dttons Pastor Cho in Sydney Square "I just want to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all humanity." crime risk in sexually violent videos Viewers see By STAN DENHAM A study of Australian video viewers has shown that people believe there is greater risk of violent crime resulting from viewing sexually violent material than from sexually explicit material. According to the findings of the study, released yesterday, 95 per cent of those questioned believed X-rated videos should be available, while 60 per cent thought that R-rated movies containing sexual violence should be banned.

Nearly 20 per cent said their children had seen or had probably seen an X-rated movie. But approximately 40 per cent the survey sought to examine community perceptions of the link between violent crime and X-rated and R-rated movies. Dr Wilson said the results of the survey showed that viewers were well aware of the distinction between sexually explicit and sexually violent material. By ALAN GILL, Religious Affairs Writer The Guinness- Book of Records lists Pastor Paul Yonggi Cho as having the world's largest Christian congregation 25,000 people, who worship, in shifts, in a single building in Seoul. This figure is doubled if 15 auxiliary chapels, connected to the main building by closed-circuit television, are taken into account.

Additionally, there is a television and radio ministry, beamed to several Asian countries and more recently to Europe and the US. In Sydney yesterday. Pastor Cho said: "I'm just a simple Korean pastor who wants to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all humanity." Billy Graham once said of him: "When I hear about what he does, it makes me tired." Grey-suited, dapper and softly-spoken, the 5 1 -year-old Assemblies of God minister is an enigma even to other evangelists. He dislikes "theatre" and and speaks to large crowds as if addressing his own family. He is in Australia for celebra of respondents said that their children had seen or had probably seen an R-rated movie.

The survey was carried out in Canberra by the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Attorney-General's Department. According to the institute's assistant director, Dr Paul Wilson, Bomb on terrifies By STAN DENHAM, Police Reporter "Whoever did it was either very smart or very stupid. They either didn't want the bomb to explode or they did and didn't put it together very well." That explanation by Major Neil Bamford, the Army's operations officer at Victoria Barracks, added intrigue to the mystery surrounding yesterday's discovery of a gelignite bomb on a Sydney suburban front lawn. The bomb, two sticks of old gelignite bound together with cord and attached to two detonators, was apparently intended for Mr Fred Di Leo, a 45-year-old construction worker, and his family. His wife, Monica, spotted the device on the lawn of their home in President Avenue, Monterey, a quiet suburb on the shores of Botany Bay, at 8.30 am yesterday.

Had it exploded, there would have been a real risk that the Di Leos would have suffered serious injury. Mr Di Leo had fallen asleep in the loungeroom watching television, but his wife and 15-year-old son were asleep in the front bedrooms. His two daughters, aged 10 and 3, were in another a front lawn family The'N simplest, ier costs. cheapest wavto en tyoOTCOiir Cable links cities A S40 million communications link between MelbournJ, Canberra and Sydney will be joined today by Telecom. The optical fibre cable, which has taken seven months to lay, is expected to be commissioned this ear.

It can provide 122,000 compared with 9,000 at pres'ejit. Gunmen escape Three men armed with revolvers and a shotgun held the Turramurra branch of the; Vcst-pac Bank yesterday afternoon. Police said the men disarmed a security guard outside the bank then forced tellers to hand liver an undisclosed amount of cash. Research unit The Prince of Wales Children's Hospital is to get to conduct research into inherited disorders, including cysticfibrosis and thalassaemia. ihcTlcalth Minister.

Mr Anderson, iaid the State Government would contribute SI 5.500 towards establishing the new Genetic 'Treatment Unit. Rape, murder counts A man charged with thciuurder and rape of Susan frost in Albany, Western Australia on May 10 has been charged vvifh the aggravated sexual assault a girl. 16. in Last Perth on Apfi) 24. Darren Osborne, 23, unemploved.

of Queensland, is also tfUrged with deprivation of liberty and aggravated sexual assault at Albany on May 5. Bravery honoured Two Canberra men hate "been honoured by the Royal Humane Society of Australasia for fryihg to rescue a boy, 13. from the flooded Murrumbidgce River last November 22. Federal Police Constable Tony Lewis received the society's silver medal and Colin Trinde'r the letter of commendation. The men tried to save Brendan McHroy.

who died after becoming trapped in an inflatable dinghy. Judge stays order A federal Court judge who directed the Australian Journalists Association to withdraw its application to affiliate viitli the ACTU has stayed the order until 5 pm tomorrow. Justice gave the AJA time to seek leaye to appeal to the court's Full Bench. Killing charge A woman, 25, has been charged with manslaughter after of a South Kempsey man from an infected stab wound. Police -said James Frederick Donovan, 39.

died in Royal North Shore Hospital on May 14, two weeks after claiming he had been stabbed in the abdomen with a broker! bottle. Foetus operation. Doctors have performed what is believed to be Australia's first successful foetal operation, The team, from King Fdward Memorial Hospital in Perth, inserted a catheter in to the left kidney'df a 28-week-old foetus last August. The baby. Michael Dickejsb'n' of Coolbellup.

is now eight months old and healthy. Chelmsford inquest The NSW Court of Appeal reserved its decision yesterday on a further attempt by DrJohn Tennant Herron to block the holding of a second inquest, into the death of a patient at Chelmsford Private Hospital. Thelnquest was ordered after the Crown claimed it had fresh ev idence that Miss Audrey Francis died from an overdose of barbiturates. Jail suicide bid Dav id John Birnie, 35. serving a sentence of strict life security for the murder of three women and a teenage girl in October and November last year, was found unconscious in his Fremantlc Prison cell yesterday after apparently using sleeping tablets, prescribed to help his insomnia, in a suicide attempt.

Fromalot. ask questions about it that he is prepared to come to the party." The plain inference in Murdoch's statement to the jury, Mr Saunders said, was that John Travers alone (who has already pleaded guilty to the murder) took Mrs Cobby through the barbed wire fence into the Prospect paddock where she was murdered. With medical evidence pointing to a systematic beating of Mrs Cobby, the jury was asked if it was feasible that Travers alone had assaulted her virtually from tip to toe in the two hours between her abduction and death. He described it as a typical example of common sense being offended. On the evidence that was common against all four accused Murdoch, and brothers Michael, Gary, and Leslie Murphy Mr Saunders referred in detail to the evidence of Mrs Maxine Greensmith, who lived next door to Travers in Doonside.

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