No Matter What

THE PERSECUTED CHURCH ... I feel very strongly about the need to get the word out concerning the persecuted church. I encourage you to get informed. You should also get involved by assisting those who are helping the persecuted church around the world. Check out the websites below. Much of this information comes from www.OpenDoorsUSA.org.

In recent decades the Church has grown so rapidly in the non-Western world that today more than 70 percent of the Church now lives outside the West. Many Christians are in nations with poor human rights, weak rule of law, and limited freedoms.

Some 200 million Christians live under the dark shadow of persecution, daily risking – and regularly suffering – imprisonment, enslavement, violence or death on account of their allegiance to Jesus. A further 400 million Christians live with discrimination and non-trivial restrictions on religious liberty that create considerable hardships such as poverty and homelessness.

Christians are systematically discriminated against and often violently persecuted all through Communist East Asia. They are afflicted too throughout the Muslim world, where Islamic (Sharia) Law prohibits Christian witness, mandates death for apostates (i.e., those who leave Islam) and subjugates Christians to second-class status.

Other countries where governments repress the Gospel and systematically persecute Christians include: Belarus, states in India ruled by the Hindu nationalist party, China, Eritrea, Iran, Laos, Maldives, North Korea, the Islamic states in Northern Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam...

Religious fundamentalists and nationalists violently persecute Christians with a high degree of impunity and appeasement in: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka...

Get informed and get involved. Check out ...
www.OpenDoorsUSA.org
www.idop.org
www.martyredchurch.net
www.persecution.org
www.savedarfur.com

GO where HE sends you no matter the COST... Craig