We at VOM persecution blog would like to thank Sherry Grunder for writing a very nice story in the online newspaper Morning Sentinel. Sherry's article is titled Christian Converts Are Worldwide Victims. She writes the following:
It was gratifying to hear about Abdul Rahman's release from his persecutors in Afghanistan. I wish with all my heart that Rahman's plight was an isolated case of the violent abuse of Christian converts, but that is sadly not the case.
Our family receives monthly updates from an organization called Voice of the Martyrs. They report regularly on Muslim, Communist/atheistic, and Buddhist nations where Christians are, on a regular basis, burned out of their homes, arrested and jailed on false charges, tortured, have their property and Bibles seized or destroyed, and are often raped and murdered -- sometimes without government approval, but far too often with.
Unfortunately, we are not talking about two or three isolated cases of a zealot getting out of hand. We're talking about large scale, planned, brutal persecution of hundreds and even thousands of Christian believers. Worse yet, there are more countries and more instances of Christians being horribly persecuted than can even be touched on in a short editorial letter.
So where are the news reports? Where is the public outrage? Where is our government's decisive stand for civil rights? Hopefully, they'll be starting right here, right now, with us.
Please, log on to www.persecution.com or contact Voice of the Martyrs, P.O. Box 443, Bartlesville, Okla. 74005-0443 to get more information on the widespread, violent persecution of Christian believers and, more importantly, what you can do to help them.
Sherry Grunder
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