They hate you because of me - Here are a number of headlines and snippets from around the web.
Christianity Today: "Hindu Radical Redux":
Church leaders report more than 200 new incidents of persecution.
Agape Press: "U.N. Ejects Minister After His Address on China's Religious Persecution".
This, too me, is very telling about the politics in play and just where the United Nation stands.
Allie Martin writes about China Aid Association president, Bob Fu, being asked by the UN to address the Commission on Human Rights and then being escorted out when they didn't like what they heard on China's practices of torture on Christians.
Read it. There's a prayer request at the end. In fact, if you have a blog it might be a real good idea to inform others about this occurrence.
Having said that, I guess I should note what happened. Bob Fu showed the Commission one of the type of electric torture devices which they were able to smuggle out of China that are used on fellow Christians. The Chinese delegate filed a complaint and so Bob Fu ha his pass pulled and was then escorted out of the UN.
The prayer request is from Voice of the Martyrs. The prayer is that this information would get national attention and that the Chinese government would "loose face" and try to "save face" by releasing our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ whom they are currently imprisoning.
AsiaNews reports, "Repression of Montagnards continues":
Persecution of predominantly Christian Montagnards, who live in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, goes on unabated.
The Conservative Voice has an Agape Press report, "VOM Points Out Eritrea's Heightening Anti-Christian Persecution":
An official with Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) says conditions for Christians in one East African nation are becoming increasingly dangerous. Recently, more than 500 believers were arrested by Eritrean government officials as part of a crackdown on evangelical Christianity.
Forum18.org reports, "NAGORNO-KARABAKH: Beating and 12 day imprisonment for Baptist soldier":
Baptist conscript Gagik Mirzoyan – who is conducting unarmed service in the army of the unrecognised Nagorno-Karabakh republic - has been beaten and punished with more than ten days in detention since the beginning of April for sharing his faith with other soldiers and possessing several Christian calendars, his relatives and friends told Forum 18 News Service from Nagorno-Karabakh on 14 April. Before being transferred to an unknown location, he was threatened with a prison sentence of two years.
Continue to remember our fellow brothers and sisters in prayer.
If we don't meet them soon in the flesh, we will see them on the way up clothed in Christ.
The Great Separation continues.
