Read: Persecution- A brief history Typed in/adapted from the December 1999 issue of  The Voice of The Martyrs.

Important: Persecution does not only come from secular-only sources. Some of the worst persecution in history has comes from false Christians against true Christians, or from a State/Church gov't against Christians who do not abide by the State religion.  Read: The Pilgrim Church, by E. H. Broadbent. See: Excepts from Forward by Dave Hunt

 

The Persecuted Church

Fifth Seal: The Cry of the Martyrs
 And when He broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained;  and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, wilt Thou refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, should be completed also. Revelation 6:9-10

 

In the August 1997 edition of Reader's digest,  there was an article called the "Global War on Christians"

The article quoted Michael Horowitz, a Jewish lawyer, as one of the voices sited as speaking out on behalf of the persecuted Christians:

"I didn't understand how the American Christian community, so vociferous, so committed to ending the suffering of Jews in the Soviet Union, could have been so mute, so tongue-tied, on behalf of their own."

The article states at that point that he discovered how some are very uninformed.

Some brief highlights of the article:

"3/4's of all Christians live outside the West. It may be the largest Third World religion"  Nigeria, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan,China, N. Korea, Vietnam, and Indonesia are cited as the most vehement countries in the world for violating human rights of Christians in unspeakable ways. Including rapes and torture, separating children from parents, slavery and imprisonment.

In Sudan's Nuba mountains, half a million Nuba Christians (virtually all men) have been killed in the last decade.  Muslim persecution is severe--anyone not Islam is denied food, clothing and shelter. Thousands of women and children are sold into slavery to Muslim masters.  China has also made it a policy to irradicate Christianity,citing what happened in other Communist countries as a result of Christianity (the fact that they fell), hunting down all who secretly meet at 3 a.m. to fellowship in housechurches. The U.S. gov't is highly influenced by the powerful Chinese lobby in spite of several Congressional proclamations

Please lift up your persecuted brothers and sisters in the Lord and and their families in prayer, and investigate the following outside links for some proactive and informative Websites and ministries:
 

persecutedchurch.org

Has links to get more information about groups who are key active involvement with the persecuted Church.

The Voice Of The Martyrs

(see obituary of  founder, Pastor Wurmbrand, 
in the New York Press)

See also: Prophecy from Prisoner #354-B9
 
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