The following news is from our friends at Compass Direct. Click here for the full report.

On September 24, The Voice of the Martyrs received reports that Pastor Zhang Rongliang’s health is failing. If he is not released from prison soon, he will likely die.

The following report is from Salem Voice Ministries and can be read in online here.

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One of the great blessings of my role at VOM is to be able to draw on the expertise of our friends around the world, people who see up close the persecution of our brothers and sisters in restricted nations; people who know what’s happening on the ground in restricted nations because they are there!

Breaking News from our friends at Compass Direct... LOS ANGELES, September 7 (Compass Direct News) – Eritrean authorities tortured a woman to death on Wednesday (September 5) for refusing to recant her Christian faith, the fourth such killing in less than a year, according to a Christian support organization. Open Doors said in a statement that it had confirmed the death of 33-year-old Migsti Haile at the Wi’a Military Training Center; she was one of 10 single Christian women arrested at a church gathering in Keren who have spent 18 months under severe pressure. On February 15, Magos Solomon Semere died under torture at the Adi-Nefase Military Confinement facility outside Assab, and last October 17, two other Christians died from torture wounds in Eritrea. Two days after Immanuel Andegergesh, 23, and Kibrom Firemichel, 30, were arrested for holding a religious service in a private home south of Asmara, they died from torture injuries and severe dehydration in a military camp outside the town of Adi-Quala, eyewitnesses told Compass. Read the full report here.Stacy's Note: I'm not sure about you, but I think the media should be reporting on these stories. I would love to know more about this precious lady, see a picture of her, learn about her family and also give them all a hug who are now left without their loved one.I also want to encourage all of you who read these stories daily, like I do, and just thank you and ask you to remember these nations in prayer. But even just as important, if you can, please take one of these blog entries and copy it and email it to your pastor or email list because more people need to know. If you do this, please email me at the link on the sidebar. Thank you so much!

ISTANBUL, September 5 (Compass Direct News) – An Egyptian court on Monday (September 3) adjourned the hearing of young Christian twins legally forced to take Islamic education after their estranged father became Muslim. Mario and Andrew Medhat Ramsis unwillingly “became” Muslim after their father converted to Islam and used his legal right to change the religion on their birth certificates. The boys’ mother discovered that they had been placed in Islamic education classes at school to reflect their father’s choice, though the Muslim man was no longer living with his Christian family since his conversion and remarriage in 2002. The Ramsis twins’ future hinges on whether the court applies civil law, which allows them to remain with their mother, or certain interpretations of Islamic law, which stipulate that children belong to whichever parent is Muslim. In a related case, an administrative court yesterday postponed a verdict for another set of twins – 14-year-olds Imad and Nancy Halim of the country’s tiny Baha’i community – whose father is suing to leave the religion field on their identification papers blank.Please read the full story at Compass Direct, and we thank them for serving the persecuted church with us.

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