Mark Granquist has written a very sobering oped at the Star Tribune that I want to commend to you all to read. Mark hits the nail on the head and tells it how it really is concerning Christian persecution. Click here to read his oped. Here's an excerpt:

The Chinese government enacted new regulations this week in a further attempt to control its growing Christian population.

The power of prayer is the greatest power the Lord has given the Christian. Please use that power today and pray for the following prayer needs.

Yesterday on our The Voice of the Martyrs Facebook page, we posted a new video of Asia Bibi's daughters talking about their recent visit to see their mother.

We would like to thank those of you who prayed for and even wrote Yang Caizhen while she was in prison. We are happy to share that she is now out of prison, but she was released in very poor health.

One of the ministries of The Voice of the Martyrs is inviting people to intern at the ministry for the summer. This year we have a new intern named Stephanie and this is her first offering for our blog. Enjoy!

One of the many reasons I just love working with The Voice of the Martyrs, is that VOM offers so many tangible and easy ways to become involved with their ministry.

Yesterday, great friend of The Voice of the Martyrs - Janet Parshall, hosted Todd Nettleton, The Director of Media Development for VOM, for most of her first hour on In the Market with Janet Parshall.

In continuing our focus on China today, The Christian Post has a very interesting article written by Michelle A. Vu that discusses how the Chinese government is open to Christianity because they see the success of the United States of America, but how they also want to contral Christianity. Interesting situation.