[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHvQXfGUBCs&feature=player_embedded] The video above shows raw emotional pain. I could have chosen worse, but I wanted only to convey the distress our brothers are in without exalting the power of the enemy. As it is, it is hard enough to take. The two year […]
Category: Persecution
Voodoo morality: Obama offers a meaningless compromise
President Obama has come out with his glorious “compromise” regarding his health care regulation that would force religious institutions to pay for contraceptive and abortifacient coverage for their employees. And what solution has The Smartest Person In The World come up with? That the […]
Keep praying for Asia Bibi
This story comes through openheaven.org. You may be aware of this Christian Pakistani woman who was accused of blasphemy, a capital crime under Islam, on phony charges and has been held in jail interminably. Just a tiny crack has appeared in the case. The […]
The Muslim Street
I’d like you to go to UNDispatch and read an initial insider reaction to the atrocity in Afghanistan yesterday. The Islamic aspect of the massacre is non-existent, of course (after all, this is the UN), but the conclusion is still germane: it is time […]
A sad day in Pakistan
Yesterday was a sad day for Christians, the nation of Pakistan, and the world. Pakistan’s leading Christian, minister for minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, was murdered in a hail of bullets as he left for work. Bhatti had worked tirelessly, against the tide, for the rights […]
Said Musa has been released
International Christian Concern is reporting that Said Musa, the Afghani convicted of apostasy and under threat of immanent execution, has been released into US custody and is out of Afghanistan. (See his moving letters a few posts down.) Here’s an excerpt from the Christian […]
Said Musa, guilty of Christianity, to be hanged within days
Our friends the Afghanis are set to hang a Christian brother for the dread crime of turning away from Islam, which he did eight years ago. We have spent precious blood, much toil, and a whole lot of money to bring this nation out […]
Day of prayer for the release of Asia Bibi
Sunday, 1/30/2011, is an international day of prayer for the release of a Pakistani woman sentenced to death for blaspheming Islam’s prophet, Muhammad. Dominant Muslim nations such as Pakistan (“Land of the Pure”) have instituted blasphemy laws which punish, often with death, any insult, […]
God’s faithfulness in the midst of genocide
Left to Tell, by Immaculee’ Ilibagiza A few weeks ago a sister sent me an email forward about a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, Immaculee’ Ilibagiza, and how God had preserved her through the horrors there. I did a little research and knew there […]
Genocide on slow-burn
I first fell in love with the Karen people of Burma decades ago, when I read Don Richardson’s amazing Eternity in Their Hearts. The Karen are a precious people that had never seen the white man, yet they began having dreams and visions that […]
Meekness is not weakness
Jesus' life was one of continually confronting the status quo that suppressed knowledge of God. He never ran from it, and He never compromised truth in order to keep the peace or be popular. And when the occasion was right, He didn’t shrink back from engaging in a verbal brawl (the “seven woes” on the Pharisees in Mt 23) or even using actual physical force (the cleansing of the temple).
Open Doors, on Wednesday’s slaughter in Nigeria
The toll is now up to 500 hacked to death, mostly women and children. A short video on what’s behind it and what we can do. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv6DLY1OW6c]
It’s open season on Christians
News comes today that five Christians from World Vision relief services were killed execution-style in Pakistan. Two days previous some two hundred Christians – men, women, children and infants – were brutalized and slaughtered in central Nigeria. In Pakistan, these Christians were delivering much-needed […]
