Friday we shared with you that Helen Berhane was released from prison after serving two years. VOM Canada's Glenn Penner weighs in on this issue on his blog. And I wanted to share with you what he knows about the situation. Here's what Glenn says...

Hello Dear Readers! I hope this Monday finds you doing well and ready to enter another week serving the God on High. Today I wanted to begin with an Extreme Devotion that I know will encourage you. As I read through this I was reminded of the saying..."And a child shall lead them..." Read on...

Simon Caldwell pens an article for the Daily Mail (a UK site) called Church calls for action over gruesome violence toward Christians in Iraq . Here's a snippet...

This is a very cool story from Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.

One of my new favorite things is reading the blog posts of Glenn Penner and Adele Konyndyk who serve with VOM Canada. This week they both wrote some very powerful entries that I would like to encourage you to take the time to read.

Great news comes to us today from The Voice of the Martyrs Canada as they are reporting that a well-known Eritrean Christian Gospel Singer, Helen Berhane has been released from prison!

Last Sunday as I was leaving my church I shared with my pastor that I had a few extra magazines from The Voice of the Martyrs. These were left over from the GodBlogCon....anyway, as I was telling my pastor about the magazines and offering to him for our church he got really excited because he said that our church is planning on observing the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church on November 12th! I can't tell you how happy I was to hear that my church is going to be involved in this extremely important event. And so I was wondering...

Last weekend I attended the GodBlogCon and while I was there I met a woman who was giving out CD's of Pastor Chuck Obremski's sermons. The cool thing was I had just heard about Pastor Chuck only two days prior when I attended the Mayor's prayer breakfast in the city I live in, and the speaker, Angel's player Tim Salmon shared his testimony and about this guy named Chuck who had impacted his life.