Middle East, and
Indonesia, but parts of many European cities are becoming no go zones for Christians and Jews alike due to Muslim extremism, (parts of
Malmo, Sweden come immediately to mind.) Please pray for our Christians brothers and sisters living under the threat of persecution around the world.
The following bible quotation is actually referencing the Jewish people, but could also easily be speaking of
Christian
Churches in Muslim countries:
"THEY WILL PUT YOU OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE; IN FACT, A TIME IS COMING WHEN ANYONE WHO KILLS YOU WILL THINK HE IS OFFERING A SERVICE TO GOD. JOHN 16:2 NIV"
"BLESSED ARE YOU WHEN MEN HATE YOU, WHEN THEY EXCLUDE YOU AND INSULT YOU AND REJECT YOUR NAME AS EVIL, BECAUSE OF THE SON OF MAN. LUKE 6:22 NIV"
From the article:As Americans celebrate Christmas in peace in our nation, many Christians across the
Middle East are in peril: Muslim fanatics seek to exterminate them. Over the past several years, Christians have endured bombings, murders, assassinations, torture, imprisonment and expulsions.Religious cleansing is taking place everywhere in
Iraq - by Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. Before the toppling of Saddam Hussein, there existed more than 1 million Christians in
Iraq. They are now mostly gone - scattered to the winds, sacrificed on the altar of erecting an Islamic state. Churches have been closed or blown up. Hundreds of thousands have been expelled. Nearly two-thirds of the 500,000 Christians in
Baghdad have fled or been killed. In
Mosul, about 100,000 Christians used to live there. Now, just 5,000 remain. Soon there will be none.
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Dozens of armed men attacked a
Nigerian
Church on Christmas Eve, dragging the pastor out of his home and shooting him to death. Two young men from the choir who were rehearsing for a late-night carol service also were slain. The group of about 30 attackers armed with guns and knives also killed two people who were passing by
Victory
Baptist
Church. The assailants only left after setting the church and pastor's house ablaze.The group blamed for the church attacks - the radical Muslim sect known as Boko Haram - used to be based in Bauchi, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) from the area where the bombs went off. The group is now headquartered in
Maiduguri, where the church attacks took place Christmas Eve."
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Two-thousand years after Jesus Christ was born in the town of
Bethlehem, the Christian cross has reportedly been banned from souvenir shops as tourists and pilgrims pour into the
Holy Land for the Christmas season. According to AsiaNews, textile shops in
Jerusalem and
Hebron have begun to print and sell tee-shirts "depicting the Church of the Nativity in
Bethlehem without the cross." The cross has also been removed from tee-shirts of local football teams "because of the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the Palestinian territories."
RADICAL ISLAM VS. CHRISTIANITY
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