All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. - Matthew 10;22

On June 23, two Assemblies of God pastors, Shiju Kuriakose and Jayan, were attacked by unknown assailants, according to VOM contacts.

Imagine with me for a second if your city government had decided to shut down your church and board it up so that you could not use it. What do you think your pastor would do? Would he just give up and say, "Okay folks, we're not having church any more" or do you think that he would call to keep having church except outside of the boarded up building? - I find this a thoughtful question to think about.

Today I have a challenge for you, and I'm hoping you take me up on it. We now have over 52,000 fans on our Facebook page and we have thousands that hit this page every day too, but our Prisoner Alert page only shows right now that we have only written 945 encouraging letters to Imran Ghafur and only sent 347 letters to government officials on Imran Ghafur's behalf, so my challenge today is to ask you to take some time and join those who have written those letters, because we know that YOUR letters and calls make a difference for those who are in prison.

Unfortunately, we have to report that another Christian was targeted and successfully murdered in Mosul, Iraq yesterday.

I saw this story yesterday and my first thought was it's amazing what my brothers and sisters all over the world are enduring because they are followers of the same Jesus I am.

You may recall a few days ago we highlighted a report from CBN News concerning the State Department and all of the Christians that have been deported from Morocco in recent days. Well, this story is not going away and today we have a story from our friends at Compass Direct who are again trying to let us all know about what's happening to believers in Morocco.

HT: Mission Network News

In America we have laws against abusing the elderly, in Pakistan it doesn't matter how old you are especially if you are being accused by a radical Muslim who believes you've attacked the prophet Muhammad, you will be jailed.