Nations of Persecution

All around the world, persecution thrives and grows. From one nation to another, it lurks, watches, devours, and then moves on--leaving us to wonder--who will be next?
Not a pleasant thought, to say the least. But it does happen, and it is real. Pray for those in the following countries. Pray for the United States of America, for we too, are headed down that very same road. Friends...it will more than likely be in THIS generation, too, that it bursts through the doors and seeps into our land. Already it is happening. Homeschoolers are being targeted, true pastors are being railed upon. We can no longer speak against homosexuality without the risk of being mobbed and arrested. What happens when the ground finally gives? When will it give? We don't know. But we do know that the Lord is our refuge and our strength...our ever present help in trouble. He will uphold us with His righteous right hand, He will strengthen us. Pray hard, brothers and sisters. Pray that you may endure, stand strong, and never give in.

Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bangledesh, Belarus, Bhutan, Brunei, Bruma (Myanmar), Chiapas Mexico, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gaza and the West Bank, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mindanao Phillipines, Mauritania, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tibet (China), Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen.

The top on this list is North Korea. Pray for them. Pray for us.

Alimujiang Yimiti

September 2007--January 2008: China: Bookstore closed, arrested. You can help. Write a letter. www.prisoneralert.com

Location: China
Arrested: January 2008

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In September 2007 Chinese government officials closed Alimujiang Yimiti’s business and accused him of using it as a cover up for “preaching Christianity among people of Uyghur ethnicity.” He was later arrested in January 2008 and accused of “subversion of the national government and endangering national security,” a crime punishable by death. Alimujiang, a former Muslim, became a Christian more than 10 years ago and has been an active Christian in the growing Uyghur church. On May 27 Alimujiang’s case went to trial. His case was referred back to the Chinese Public Security Bureau’s prosecutors due to “insufficient evidence.” He remains in custody.

Nguyen Van Dai

May 2008: Vietnam: Arrested.
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Location: Vietnam
Arrested: March 2007

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In May 2008, Nguyen Van Dai, a Vietnamese Protestant church leader and lawyer, was sentenced to five years in prison and followed by four years of house arrest. Nguyen was accused of a wide range of crimes, including “conspiring with terrorists, in their efforts to promote human rights efforts, including religious rights and democracy.” He was also accused of compiling “evidence of Vietnam’s suppression of the Protestant religion and providing it to the U.S.-based Committee for Religious Freedom in Vietnam and the U.S. embassy.”

Shi Weihan

June 10, 2009: China: Arrested for selling Christian Books. You can help. Write a letter. www.prisoneralert.com.

Location: China
Arrested: November 2007

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On June 10, a Chinese court sentenced Christian bookstore owner, Shi Weihan,38, to three years in prison for “illegal business operations,” and imposed a US$21,975 fine, according to China Aid Association.
Shi Weihan operated a legal bookstore and only sold books with the government’s approval. His Holy Spirit Trading Company printed Bibles and Christian literature and distributed then freely to local house churches.
Weihan was arrested in November 2007 for printing and distributing Bibles and other Christian literature. He was released in January 2008 due to insufficient evidence, but was arrested again in March and held indefinitely. China Aid reported his sentence will run from November 2007 to November 2010. Believers hope that Weihan could appeal his sentence because of medical reasons. While in prison his diabetic condition worsened.

Asia Bibi

June 19, 2009: Pakistan: Woman arrested, faced blasphemy charges. You can help. Write a letter. www.prisoneralert.com.


Location: Pakistan
Arrested: June 2009

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10/30/2009 Update

Asia Bibi, a 37-year-old Pakistani woman from the village of Ittanwali, was arrested by police on Friday, June 19, and faces possible blasphemy charges. Asia is the wife of 50-year-old Ashiq Masih, and their family is one of only three Christian families in a village of more than 1,500 families.

Many of the local women work on the farm of Muslim landowner Muhammad Idrees, including Asia. During their work many of the Muslim women have pressured Asia to renounce Christianity and accept Islam. In June, the pressure became especially strong.

On Friday, June 19, there was an intense discussion among the women about their faith, with the Muslim women telling Asia about Islam. Asia responded by telling them about her faith in Christ. Asia told the Muslim women Christ had died on the cross for our sins, then asked them what Mohammed had done for them, according to VOM sources. She told them Jesus is alive, but Mohammed is dead. “Our Christ is the true prophet of God,” she reportedly told them, “and yours is not true.”

Upon hearing this response the Muslim women became angry and began to beat Asia Bibi. Then some men came and took her and locked her in a room. They announced from mosque loudspeakers that she would be punished by having her face blackened and being paraded through the village on a donkey. Local Christians informed the police, who took Asia into custody before the Muslims could carry out their plan. She is currently being held at the police station in Nankana city. Christians there urged the police not to file blasphemy charges, but police claimed that they must go forward due to pressure from local Muslim leaders.

The Voice of the Martyrs urges Christians around the world to pray for Asia Bibi and her family. Further, we call on the Pakistani government to insure that the rights of Christians like Asia are protected.

Gao Zhisheng

February 4, 2009: China: Man arrested and tortured--no word heard. Taken from Prisoner Alert.

Location: China
Arrested: February 2009
Days Imprisoned: 358

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08/24/2009 Update

On Feb. 4, Gao Zhisheng, was abducted by Chinese secret police from his hometown. Since 2005, Gao has been repeatedly arrested, imprisoned and severely tortured by Chinese authorities, mostly for his work defending Chinese Christians. In 2006, he and a group of prominent human rights lawyers created the Association of Human Rights Attorneys for Chinese Christians. In 2007, he was arrested and spent over 50 days behind bars where he was tortured. “I was beaten so badly that my whole body began shaking uncontrollably on the floor,” Gao writes of his torture in an open letter.The Chinese government does not acknowledge that Gao is in one of their prisons, as a result his letters of encouragement are being mailed to the Chinese embassy in Washington DC.

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Write a Letter

Write an encouraging letter to Christian prisoners in China, Viet Nam, Pakistan, North Korea and many other places around the world. I have already written three or four, and one I am very stirred for is Son Jong Nam...he has a death sentence in North Korea. To write a letter, go to the link above. There are also many others who need encouragement...stop and write to them! What happens when persecution comes here? Would you not want to be written to? PLEASE write. Go to www.prisoneralert.com and write a letter.

"If you haven't yet signed up for our prisoner alert emails, then you may not know the latest update on Father Nguyen Van Ly who was highlighted in this weeks Prisoner Alert. Click here to sign up for those alerts.

Now let me tell you the good news, since the last time VOM sent out information about Father Van Ly, the alert on him was viewed over 21,900 times and over 3800 letters of encouragement have been sent!

Now imagine what could happen if we could double, triple or increase by ten or one hundred-fold the number of people, around the World, that are praying and writing on behalf of those imprisoned and persecuted for their faith.

Please take a few minutes today to offer Father Nguyen Van Ly to the Heavenly Father in prayer today, and if you haven't yet written a letter of support, please take five minutes, because it can make a HUGE difference!! Thank you in advance for caring and for your service to the persecuted prisoners."

Sentenced Under "Blasphemy" Law

January 22, 2010: Pakistan: Man sentenced to life under "blasphemy" law.
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Pakistani Christian Sentenced to Life under ‘Blasphemy’ Law

The following is from our friends at Compass Direct. You may read the full story here. As you read this story, and see how our brother has been accused falsely, remember the words of Joseph, what man meant for evil, the Lord intended for good.

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Young man convicted of ‘desecrating Quran’ by accusation of rival shopkeeper.

FAISALABAD, Pakistan, January 22 (CDN) — A young Christian shopkeeper was sentenced to a life term in prison and fined more than $1,000 last week following a dubious conviction of desecrating the Quran, according to Pakistan’s National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP).

Peter Jacob, general secretary of the NCJP, said 22-year-old Imran Masih of the Faisalabad suburb of Hajvairy was convicted of desecrating the Quran (Section 295-B of Pakistan’s legal code) and thereby outraging religious feelings (Section 295-A) by Additional District & Sessions Judge Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan on Jan. 11. The conviction was based on the accusation of a rival shopkeeper who, as part of an Islamic extremist proselytizing group, allegedly used a mosque loudspeaker system to incite a mob that beat Masih and ransacked his shop.

Neighboring shopkeeper Hajji Liaquat Abdul Ghafoor accused Masih of tearing out pages of the Quran and burning them on July 1, 2009. Denying that he burned any pages of the Quran, Masih told investigators that the papers he burned were a heap of old merchandise records he had gathered while cleaning his store.

Kidnapped in Southern NIgeria

January 26, 2010: Christian kidnapped in Nigeria. Taken from Persecution Blog.


Anglican Archbishop Kidnapped in Southern Nigeria

Compass Direct is reporting this sad story today. Please keep his family and supporters also in your prayers. We know that according to Romans 8:28, God will work this out for His purposes. Please read this scripture and pray with me for the bishop.

²⁸And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,^a]">[a] who^b]">[b] have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

³¹What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³²He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?³³Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."^c]">[c] ³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^d]">[d]neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Gunmen abduct Edo state chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria after service.

LAGOS, Nigeria, January 26 (CDN) — Gunmen are still holding the Anglican archbishop of Benin diocese in southern Nigeria’s Edo state after abducting him on Sunday (Jan. 24).

Peter Imasuen, who is also the state chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), was abducted in front of his official residence on his way back from a church service. The kidnappers are reportedly demanding $750,000 for his release.

The armed kidnappers reportedly followed the archbishop from the St. Matthew Cathedral to his residence, where they dragged him out of his car and took him to an unknown location.

January 17, 2010: Christians Murdered in Nigeria

January 17, 2010: Killing of Christians in Nigeria. Taken from VOM.

Nigeria: Christians Killed

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More than 100 Christians have been killed in Jos, Nigeria, since Jan. 17, when violent riots broke out between the Christian and Muslim communities, according to VOM contacts.

The Voice of the Martyrs contacts reported that the violence was triggered by a Muslim attack on St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Nasarawa Gwong, in the Jos North Local Government Area. “It appears to the Christians here that elements inside the Nigerian Muslim community actually prepare for events like this and then look for an incident which they can then escalate into a crisis. The intent is to drive Christians out of this area down to the south,” VOM contacts reported.
Church leaders said Muslim youths also attacked buildings belonging to the Christ Apostolic Church, Assemblies of God Church, three branches of the Church of Christ in Nigeria and the Evangelical Church of West Africa. On Jan. 18, authorities imposed a curfew, and the city is under the close control of Nigerian troops.

Hundreds of believers have reportedly been wounded. “We have been witnessing sporadic shootings in the last two days,” Rev. Chuwang Avou, secretary of the state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria told Compass Direct News a few days after the attacks began. “We see some residents shooting sporadically into the air. We have also seen individuals with machine guns on parade in the state.”

The Voice of the Martyrs has people on the ground in Nigeria assisting believers. VOM is providing medical assistance and other resources to those affected by the attacks. VOM has supported persecuted believers in Nigeria for more than 20 years. VOM also helps widows through the Family of Martyrs Fund and provides their children with free education. Pray that VOM contacts will be able to provide the spiritual encouragement and resources that believers in Nigeria need. Pray for peace and for the protection of believers.

Photos courtesy of Rev. Hassan John

Janurary 11, 2010: Iraq--Christian Murdered.

January 11, 2010: Christian murdered in Iraq. Taken from VOM.

Iraq: Elderly Christian Killed

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On Jan. 11, Hikmat Sleiman, a 75-year-old Christian man, was shot to death by unknown assailants in Mosul, Iraq, according to VOM Canada and Asia News.

Sleiman had just returned home from closing his grocery shop when a group of assailants opened fire, killing him instantly. Local Christians see his murder and a string of other recent attacks against believers as evidence of “ethnic cleansing” designed to force Christians from the area. Some believe Muslim extremists are targeting shopkeepers in an effort to wipe out the Christian community’s economic activity and drive believers from the area.

The Christian community in Iraq is estimated to be 3 percent of Iraq’s population of 26 million, or about 780,000 people. Islamic extremists have targeted Christian leaders, churches and businesses in Iraq since 2003. As a result, many believers have fled.

The Voice of the Martyrs actively supports Christians in Iraq with Action Packs, resources for Christian leaders and evangelistic literature. VOM also distributes the New Testament in Arabic and supports widows through the Families of Martyrs fund in Iraq.

VOM encourages you to pray for those who mourn for Hikmat Sleiman. Pray that his attackers will come to know the Lord as their savior. Ask God to embolden the Christian community in Mosul to proclaim the gospel even while suffering. Pray that Christians in Mosul will be filled with Christ’s peace during these difficult times.

December 16, 2009: Iran-Christian Arrested.

Christian arrested in Iran. Taken from VOM.

Iran: Christian Arrested

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On Dec. 16, several Iranian security officials forcibly entered the home of Hamideh Najafi in the city of Mashhad. They arrested her and seized personal belongings, including CDs and hand-painted portraits of Jesus Christ, according to Farsi Christian News Network.

Officials interrogated Hamideh and requested the names of Christian evangelists in Iran. Officials also demanded that she deny her faith and return to Islam. When Hamideh refused, her husband was brought to the detention center and blindfolded. Officials told Hamideh that her husband would be beaten unless she signed a confession saying that she was mentally and psychologically disturbed. Hamideh reportedly succumbed to pressure and signed the confession.

Hamideh appeared in court briefly on Dec. 30, without a lawyer. Although no formal charges were brought against her, she was sentenced to house arrest for three months and has been accused of committing a “political” crime for contacting a foreign Christian television network.

While Hamideh was detained, the couple’s 10-year-old daughter, Hadi, was held under the supervision of the welfare office. Following the court’s verdict, Hadi was ordered to be transferred to foster parents because of her mother’s alleged “mental condition.” However, since Hadi is suffering from a kidney and bladder infection, she was conditionally left in her mother’s care.

Officials have told the couple that if they hold to their Christian beliefs and speak publicly about their faith, Hadi will be taken away from them immediately and transferred to the custody of the welfare office.

This is the latest in a series of arrests of believers in Iran in recent months. On March 5, 2009, Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad and Maryam Rustampoor were arrested by Iranian security forces and labeled “anti-government activists.” Marzieh and Maryam were released from prison on Nov. 18, 2009.

The Voice of the Martyrs stands with and supports persecuted believers in Iran. VOM encourages you to pray for Hamideh’s strength during her time of house arrest. Ask God to protect her and her family and to embolden them to proclaim his name in the face of great pressure. Pray that Hadi will recover from her infection and that she will be able to remain with her parents.

Janurary 10: Algeria

Church in Algeria attacked. Taken from VOM.

Algeria: Update: Church Burned

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On Jan. 10, Muslim extremists set fire to Tafath church in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, damaging church property, according to The Voice of the Martyrs contacts.

The Tafath church has been threatened since December, when extremists disrupted a Christmas celebration. “As Christians continued to come for worship to this church despite the increasing intimidation, the Muslim extremists decided to burn the church,” VOM contacts said. “The next morning, the church members were able to retrieve some unburned stuff from the church and move it to a safe place.”

A few days before the attack, extremists broke into the church and stole valuable electronic equipment. On Dec. 26, about 20 Muslim extremists tried to prevent members of Tafath church from holding a service. Extremists confronted believers and barred them from entering the building. “This land is the land of Islam! Go pray somewhere else,” some of the protestors reportedly said.

The Voice of the Martyrs encourages you to pray for this congregation and especially their pastor, Mustafa Krierch, and his family. Pray that God will protect these Algerian believers and that their courageous testimony will draw nonbelievers to Christ.

American/Korean Christian Taken

This American/Korean Christian has been detained in North Korea for crossing the NK boarder. It has also been found out that he had a small supply of Bibles with him. Taken from Fox News.

North Korea Says It Has Detained American

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea acknowledged it detained an American for illegally entering the reclusive country, news welcomed by relatives of an Arizona missionary who feared they would never hear from him again after he sneaked across the border.

Activists say they last saw Robert Park as he slipped across the frozen Tumen River into North Korea on Christmas Day, carrying letters urging the country's absolute leader to step down and free the hundreds of thousands of people held in political camps.

After four days without any word, relatives of the 28-year-old Korean-American said Tuesday they were relieved when the communist country finally announced it had a U.S. citizen in custody — though analysts say Park's actions are likely to be seen as hostile to the regime and could draw a long prison sentence.

"My fear was that they say they don't know anything about it and may get rid of him secretly," Manchul Cho, an uncle of Park, told The Associated Press in California. "Once they recognize it, that's really good."

The two-sentence dispatch from the official Korean Central News Agency said an American was being investigated after "illegally entering" the country on Christmas Eve. The report did not identify the man, but activists and family believe it is Park. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy in the date of entry.

In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said that North Korea had "confirmed it is holding a U.S. citizen pending an investigation," and that the U.S., which does not have diplomatic ties with Pyongyang, would seek consular access to the citizen through the Swedish Embassy.

Cho, a Los Angeles psychiatrist, said he hopes North Korea will deport Park, a devout Christian, noting that a long incarceration would only galvanize critics of the communist regime.

The Rev. Madison Shockley, a Park family pastor in Carlsbad, California, also called the announcement positive news.

"Without acknowledging his presence, they could do anything and we'd never hear from him again. They could have said 'we don't know who you're talking about,"' he said. "Now, by acknowledging, they have accountability for it."

Just months ago, North Korea freed two U.S. journalists arrested in March whom it had sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for trespassing and engaging in "hostile acts." The women were released in August to former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who journeyed to Pyongyang to negotiate their freedom.

The latest detention could give the North bargaining power with Washington, which is trying to coax Pyongyang to return to the international talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons programs. The two countries agreed on the need to resume the negotiations during a trip to Pyongyang by President Barack Obama's special envoy earlier this month, but North Korea did not make a firm commitment on when it would rejoin the talks.

Analysts have suggested that the negotiations to free American reporters Euna Lee and Laura Ling may have been a turning point for U.S.-North Korea relations, giving the volatile regime the opportunity to make a fresh start with Washington.

Now, Pyongyang finds itself once again holding a trump card.

Park's detention presents "a diplomatic headache for the two countries," said Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea expert at Seoul's Dongguk University, adding that the North could try to take advantage of the detention issue in its negotiations with the U.S.

But he said Washington is unlikely to go to the same lengths for Park as it did in the high-profile detention of Ling and Lee, who work for the Current TV media venture started by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.

North Korea's criminal code punishes illegal entry with up to three years in prison, but it's unclear how the North might handle Park's case.

Analyst Paik Hak-soon of the private Sejong Institute think tank in South Korea predicted Pyongyang will sentence Park to a lengthy prison term, then free him.

The Rev. John Benson, pastor at Life in Christ Community Church in Park's hometown of Tucson, Arizona, supported Park's self-proclaimed mission to draw attention to the situation in North Korea.

"Drastic situations call for drastic measures. We all need to wake up and not pay lip service to North Korea," Benson said. "We need to take action, and that is what Robert is doing."

North Korea holds some 154,000 political prisoners in six large camps across the country, according to South Korean government estimates. Pyongyang has long been regarded as having one of the world's worst human rights records, but it denies the existence of prison camps.

Remember Them

Sarah's Trail of Blood

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Egypt: Happening Now

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"Christian in Egypt: ‘They Try to Kill Us’

January 26, 2010 - 11:41 AM | by: Dana Lewis

Egyptian Maher El-Gowhary and his 15 year old daughter Dina never pray twice at the same church, never stay longer than a month in any one apartment. They are constantly under threat, always on the run because they converted to Christianity in a largely Muslim country.

Maher and Dina nervously agreed to meet us at a Church in Cairo. The priest at the Church said he feared problems from the Egyptian authorities and while he agreed to have us watch his Sunday mass, the Priest declined to speak to us about what is happening in Egypt and to the El-Gowhary's.

They tell their story out of fear and desperation. Born Muslims they chose to convert to the Christian Church after both claim they had religious visions.

Now Maher says "Muslims try to kill us, and will kill us if they find us."

Several religious fatwas have been issued for "spilling his blood" after Maher asked an Egyptian Court to legally recognize his conversion, so he can one day be buried as a Christian and so his daughter won't be forced into a marriage by her Muslim mother.

The court ruled a legal conversion to Christianity would threaten public order. His lawyer told us it's a dangerous double standard because in Egypt a Christian can convert to the Muslim faith in a week, but a Muslim cannot convert to the Christian faith.

Ten percent of Egypt is Christian, largely the Coptic Christians who increasingly say they face daunting discrimination and even death.

We had to hide our camera as we followed the El-Gowhary's because we were told if the authorities discovered we were preparing our story we would be arrested.

Religious tensions are running high in Egypt.

On January 6th, the Coptic Christmas eve, three Muslim men sprayed gunfire at a Church in Upper Egypt killing six Christians and wounding up to a dozen more. Christians rioted the next day and the area is still closed to outsiders including the press.

Human rights activist Hussein Bahjet say's Egypt has the potential to become like Lebanon because of growing sectarian violence.

"Civil strife that could engulf the country" Bahjet says.

The U.S. State Department reports respect of religious freedom in Egypt is declining, Christians are denied Government jobs, Priests are threatened and harassed, Christians are increasingly attacks in what State describes as "a climate of impunity that encourages violence."

In some cases authorities turn a blind eye to attacks on Christians, in other cases there is evidence police sparked the attacks.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been largely silent about the problem, but this week he spoke out saying Egyptians must up-root "fanaticism and sectarianism, which threatens the unit of our nation."

Dina has written a letter to President Obama which has been published on Christian websites. She has been pulled out of school. She has only a blue jean jacket to stay warm and little food to eat. Her letter was a desperate plea. "I wrote that we are a minority Christian Community treated very badly and I want to tell President Obama to tell the Egyptian Government to treat us well."

Her father Mayer says he can't stay in Egypt anymore. He and his daughter are in such grave danger we can't report where they are in Egypt now, or where they are planning on moving tomorrow.

In recent days the two met with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in Cairo. They asked for refugee status to get out of Egypt.

A source at the Commission say's its a complicated matter because Dina has a Muslim mother and there are legal issues, but their request is being considered.

The Commission source also says because of religious discrimination in Egypt, last year the State Department down graded Egypt to being on a watch list. This year it could potentially be downgraded further to a Country of particular concern. That means the U.S. might even consider sanctions against a Country which receives some 2 billion dollars in U.S. aid every year.

As I write this Dina and her father are packing, moving to another area of Egypt. Out of money. And running of out hope."

Welcome to This Blog

In the name of the Lord, welcome.
This blog is about the real, true persecution of Christians around the world that is happening NOW. Though all of us hope that it will not come
down to us here in America...it more than likely will. We must be strong in our faith, and consider the endurance of the Christians around us in other countries. I have a heart for those who are suffering in far away lands, and it wrenches everything inside of me to see the suffering that takes place for Christ. I've created this blog to communicate the violence and inhumane tortures that men, women and children endure for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I will be posting recent news stories that are taking place here and now in the year 2010.
Just because this is a blog about Christian persecution, do not turn away. Read. Although it may be disturbing and unsettle our hearts, it must be read and prepared for. I will post links to websites where you can help and write letters of encouragement to our brothers and sisters in Christ. Also, just as a warning, I will also post real pictures of the real thing. Some may be graphic....but we must know the signs of the times.
God be with you as you serve Him, and may your faith never, ever waver.

In our Lord's name Alone,
-Hannah

"If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you."
1 Peter 4:14