China Aid is reporting that yesterday, July 13 at 10:30 a.m. police raided a Christian youth camp and arrested 28 Christian youth and four adult church workers in Hubin town, Tengzhou city, Shandong province. Police threatened and beat the Christian youth. Five Christians who organized the camp are still being held by police and have been given 5-15 days administrative detention. Please pray for the Christian youth whom ChinaAid sources say are still in a state of shock.

Five churches were bombed around Baghdad in attacks that killed four people and injured another 12 on Sunday, indicating the potential renewal of Christian persecution in Iraq just days after the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraqi cities.The New York Times reported that the bombings on Sunday, “appeared to be one of the largest single coordinated assaults against churches and Christians in Baghdad.”

On June 26, more than 150 Muslim extremists launched a devastating attack on more than 150 Christian families after a fight about a personal matter between Muslims and Christians occurred three days earlier.

Many of you know that The Voice of the Martyrs has many speakers who go to churches and tell about the persecuted church. If you are in Baltimore, Maryland we have a great speaker by the name of Robert Brock who will be sharing the latest about the persecuted church. All the information you need is below:

The extremists from the group al shabaab killed 11 year-old Abdi Rahaman Musa Yusuf and 12 year-old Hussein Musa Yusuf, after abducting them in front of their mother. The terrorists are currently looking for Yusuf in Kenyan refugee camps.