I know this looks like a mug shot of Goiniri language translator Dominic Pusai (on left in upper photo), but that’s the point. This weekend he’s in jail. Last week some men from another village (Kabore) snuck up behind him in town and cut his hand with a knife. Though badly cut, he immediately went to the police station to report the incident.
He never came out.
The police are holding Dominic pending a meeting with local leaders on Monday (Sunday evening U.S. time).
Dominic says he is not afraid, but happy for this meeting to take place and he hopes that it will resolve the conflict that has been looming over him for years.
Supposedly this dispute was settled years ago in court, and Dominic did what the judge ordered. But every time he encounters these guys from Kabore, they threaten him. Dominic has said if God hadn’t called him to Bible translation, he would be hiding from this group in some other part of the country. Now we see why.
Dominic wants us all to pray that he’ll be released because he needs to come to work at the translation workshop, which begins in Arop on Monday.
This is very difficult for Dominic’s wife, Clarice. They were just married at Christmas time. Please pray for her, too.