“I will not allow it,” Chinese pastor Wang Min-tao said to the Japanese soldiers. “I will not hang that picture of the emperor in my church.”

Take a minute to listen to a Jesus Freak episode called Download 08 Timothys Martyrdom.mp3 (1273.0K) Then please pray and share The Voice of the Martyrs with all of your friends.

Two years ago one of the most heard stories of persecution was what happened in Malatya, Turkey when young Muslims murdered three Christians in a Christian publishing office.

The Voice of the Martyrs needs your help in writing letters of love and support for this prisoner for Christ. If you had a chance to listen to this weeks Persecution Podcast you may have heard about this dear sister in the Lord who has been in prison and needs our letters. Will you please take a few minutes today and write a letter?

Mark and Mary Sue discuss Vietnam and Nigeria. Todd interviews Nolan Dean and Joey Shaw from Malatya, a documentary about three Christian missionaries martyred in Turkey in 2007.

Sometimes it honestly amazes me how persecution comes in various forms. Take this entry titled Muslims hack "Christians on Facebook" site, change its name to "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet" which is posted at the very popular blog Jihad Watch. Here's part of what it says,

I love finding gems regarding how The Voice of the Martyrs is being used and how people are being impacted. Take this article written by By Barrett Vanlandingham for Muskogee Phoenix.com called Fort Faith: Freedom makes our responsibility more clear

NIGERIA – Christians Killed, Homes Burned and Believers Displaced – VOM Sources

To all of our friends and brothers and sisters at The Voice of the Martyrs in Australia, we just want to send out our congratulations for forty great years in ministry to the persecuted church.