USA--Google's Senior Vice President of Corporate Development David Drummond announced on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, that unless Google is allowed to operate their Chinese search engine without censorship, they have prepared to shut down Google.cnoperations.

For those of you who have chosen to pray for Egypt this month, this story may help you in directing your petitions to the Lord. This is a blurb from the Catholic News Agency...

Thank you all for continuing to pray for Glenn Penner, our friend from The Voice of the Martyrs Canada.

We told you about the Christmas massacre that took place at Christmas time in Egypt a few days ago. Here is an updated story, including news on attacks in Malaysia.

This morning I had a friend on Facebook share a song with me that was in another language, so I could understand it when I listened to it, he copied some of the lyrics and I wanted to share them with you.

Our friends at China Aid reported on this update a few days ago. If you are one of our prayer partners that is praying for China, this is a great request to add to your list.

Let us begin the week with another devotion from the wonderful book Extreme Devotion. Please keep all persecuted saints in your prayers.

This is some very cool news coming from Mission Network News today...700 new churches being planted every single month, despite persecution.