Sudan (MNN) ? The United States condemned Thursday's bombardment of a refugee camp by the Sudanese armed forces of the southern town of Yida.

Yesterday, in churches all across the world, people took part in their church services to remember the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. We've asked our fans on our The Voice of the Martyrs Facebook page how their church responded to this very important day of prayer for our brothers and sisters in bonds. Here are a few responses:

The following quote is from the book Extreme Devotion and is from Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, the Founder of The Voice of the Martyrs.

Our friends at China Aid shared a story from earlier this week that was covered in the DallasNews.com press about former President Bush receiving some hand written copies of the bible that were used in the underground church in China.

Yesterday Todd Nettleton appeared on In the Market with Janet Parshall to discuss the latest news concerning the persecuted church and the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church.

Thank you all for joining us today to pray for these prayer requests we're highlighting this week.

NEW DELHI, November 10 (CDN) — Police in India’s Kashmir Valley detained and beat converts from Islam and were expected to arrest Christian workers after Muslim leaders alleged that Muslim youth were being “lured” to Christianity. Police in the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley picked up seven converts who were recently baptized in All Saints Church in Srinagar, a local Christian who spoke to the converts after their release on Nov. 2 told Compass. Srinagar is the summer capital of the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir and the main city of the Kashmir Valley. The source, who requested anonymity, said police beat the converts and asked if Christians had given them money for their conversion. Most of the converts were from Budgam district, about 18 miles from Srinagar, and pastors there fearful of being arrested were in hiding, he added. Senior Superintendent of Police of Srinagar Ashiq Bukhari was not available for comment. Police got the names of the converts and pastors from a video recording of the baptism provided by Kashmir’s grand mufti (the highest official of religious law), Bashir-ud-din Ahmad. The video was later posted on YouTube. The Rev. Chander Mani Khanna, pastor of All Saints Church, told Compass that he had been summoned by the mufti, who is also the head of the sharia (Islamic law) court. He said he would meet Ahmad on Nov. 17. The court had issued the summons for Saturday (Nov. 12), but Pastor Khanna had a prior engagement. India, home to the world’s third-largest Muslim population, has a few sharia courts pertaining only to civil matters. Ahmad alleged that Pastor Khanna, whose church is affiliated with the Church of North India (CNI) denomination, was converting young Muslim men and women by offering money, and that therefore he must be arrested. The mufti told media that the video was definitive evidence that Muslims were being “lured” to Christianity, although it only shows the baptism ceremony. Pastor Khanna said the young men converted of their own will and without his persuasion. The Indian constitution provides for religious freedom, including the right to propagate and the right to change one’s religion. The pastor told Compass that the former Muslims, who were baptized at his church facility in August, were willing to sign affidavits saying there was no duress or allurement. “That’s what they told the police also,” he said. Pastor Khanna said his church is located in the heart of Srinagar, and that many Muslims come to attend worship service on Sundays.

ZONKWA, Nigeria, November 8 (CDN) — It was a few minutes before 10 at night when the staccato sound of gunfire interrupted the serene worship of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church near Zonkwa, Kaduna state. When the chaos ended, two women lay dead and 12 people were wounded. The attack by a Muslim extremist gang in Tabak 1 village on Thursday (Nov. 3) shattered the peace long known to Christians there, area sources said. The following night at about the same time, the gang raided another Christian community near Zonkwa, Kurmin-Bi, killing one Christian and injuring another. While the Islamic extremist Boko Haram was responsible for several attacks that killed at least 150 people in Borno and Yobe states in Nigeria’s northeast over the weekend, Christians in Tabak 1 village in northern Nigeria’s centrally located Kaduna state said the church attack appeared to come from a Muslim gang not affiliated with the terrorist group. The two women killed were Justina Zugwai Isaac, 28, and Hassana Luka, 39. A Roman Catholic seminary student who was leading worship at the time, 32-year-old Emmanuel Mallam, said it was a miracle that only the two women died in the attack. Unaware that the attackers were hidden in the bushes around the church building, the two women were outside the building when they were shot, Mallam said. He had asked parishioner Julius Jacob, 38, to make closing remarks when the shooting began. “As these Muslims began shooting, they shot Mrs. Justina Isaac, a mother of three, who had all the while been hanging around by the window outside the church listening to my teachings in the church,” he said. “And when she was felled by the bullets, the cry of her baby attracted another woman, Mrs. Hassana Luka, who came out of her house close to the church to find out what the problem was, only to be killed too.”

Nigeria (MNN) ? Christians in Nigeria are saying, "Enough is enough."

In what may appear to be a controversial article on the WorldNetDaily website today, we read that about fifty percent of pastors will not talk to their churches about Christian persecution. This is according to a Barna Research Associates Survey which was commissioned by fellow persecution ministry Open Doors USA. Here's a part of the article: