Over the weekend I continued to follow the news about the church fires in Alabama because I wanted to see if the media is going to cover these tragedies or just sweep them under the rug. Well, on Saturday morning I found that people are calling for the President to do some investigating and today I found that there are more church fires!

Last week I received two different emails concerning the rise of persecution in India. One email was from my buddy Pastor John who blogs at The Sheeps Crib and the other was from Gospel for Asia.

This past Saturday another fire that investigators believe to be arson was set to another Baptist Church in Alabama. What I find interesting about this whole string of arsons, ten in all, is that there has been virtually no outrage from the Church.

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May the Church prosper under this persecution and empower those who are sleepy saints in the Church to rise up and stand for Truth.

I would like to thank the Mission News Network for all the great information they provide on a daily basis. Today they had the following in their email.

There was an interesting piece of news this week from our friends at the China Aid Association:

The Voice of the Martyrs has updated their website with a new article called Celebrating Christ’s Birth: A Time of Joy…A Time of Suffering that discusses the recent persecution that happened during the Christmas season in various regions of the world.

This story happened yesterday and as of the writing of this post there are almost 300 entries on it in Google News, just follow this link and you can see how many people have written about this atrocious story. Here is a snippet from J. Grant Swank's take on it...

Just so you know terrorists and persecutors of Christians don't take a holiday from persecuting people they hate. Unfortunately, I can't begin the new year with great news. I wish I could say that no one was killed over the holiday weekend. I wish I could say that all the people in the world came to a saving knowledge and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, but I can't. Despite the fact that it is written that someday "... at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Phil 2:10)