Our friends at Compass Direct are reporting today on a horrific attack that took place at a bible school in Sudan.

Suspected Islamic extremists throw explosive, injuring at least four.

We've been asking for prayer for months for the Christians in Sudan and today's news is another sobering reminder of the daily Christian persecution happening to believers in this nation.

Every week we like to share with you a person who is in prison because of their faith and stand for Jesus Christ. This week I'd like to remind you about Tohar Haydarov who is currently in a Uzbekistan prison for allegedly "selling narcotic or psychotropic substances in large quantities", however members of the church believe that he has been falsely accused and instead really been put in prison for his faith in Christ. It has been confirmed that he is serving a ten year sentence.

Sudan (MNN) ? Sudan's Khartoum government says the country is officially in a state of war with South Sudan.

Today is the five-year anniversary of the martyrdom of three very special men. On April 18, 2007, Necati Aydin, Ugur Yuksel and Tilmann Geske were brutally murdered at a Christian publishing house in Malatya, a city in southeastern Turkey. Five young Islamists bound and tortured the two Turkish Christians and one German Christian before killing them at the Zirve Publishing House.

A few days ago I was reading an article that brought some concern to me because I was very surprised to read that the Obama Administration's U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Ambassador Johnnie Carson, made some comments about the recent attacks against Christians in Nigeria, and specifically the group Boko Haram, that shocked me.