I needed another reason to use this very cute picture. So I thought I'd share with you some prayer quotes to motivate you in your time of prayer today.

Do animals pray? Or do their owners just make them look like it :), well, I thought this cute picture would get your attention as we bring to you today a few prayer requests from The Voice of the Martyrs Canada.

I love to read others testimonies of their faith in Jesus and it also touches my heart when I see them remembering the persecuted church. This oped appeared yesterday in the Examiner.com

More than 60 people set fire to a church building used for Sunday school in Puttlam District, National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka, reported.

The irony of this story is very interesting when you really think about it. This story appears on OneNewsNow.com today. The following paragraph explains it all.

Nikolai Khamara was arrested for robbery and imprisoned for ten years. Khamara watched the Christians and wondered what kind of beings they were. They were men, but they would show joy despite their suffering and would sing in very dark hours. When they had a piece of bread, they shared it with someone who had none. Their faces would shine as they spoke to someone whom Khamara could not see.

This is a 48 minute interview about the results of this very important report concerning those who are persecuted for religious reasons.

If you enjoy reading good research and reports about what is happening around the world concerning human rights and religious freedom, then you will be thrilled with the content in this report that was just released from the United States State Department on what the current state of persecution is in the nations around the world.

VOM staff

Today I wanted to offer you a different perspective on how we need to remember the persecuted church. As I was reading an entry written by Glenn Penner over at his blog for The Voice of the Marytrs Canada, I just HAD to tell you about it because I think that we all may be able to identify with the fact that we exalt persecuted believers sometimes too much, and we forget they are human and have struggles. Here's the beginning of Glenn's post: