(Midland, Tex. – Nov. 28, 2011) ChinaAid founder and president Bob Fu will be telling the European Parliament on Wednesday that the situation with human rights and religious freedom in China has deteriorated to its lowest point since the period after the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square student-led pro-democracy demonstration.

LAHORE, Pakistan, December 1 (CDN) — In an attempted land-grab in southern Punjab Province, police and cohorts of a retired military official beat two Christian women and shot at Christians who came to help them on Friday (Nov. 25), area Christians told Compass. About eight police officials led by Sub-Inspector Muhammad Arif of Kot Sarwar Shaheed police station, along with armed associates of a retired senior military officer, Air Marshal Maqbool Shah, arrived at the fields of Nazeer Masih in the Kot Addu area and ordered the six or seven women working there to leave, said area Christian rights advocate Waseem Shakir. The women included Nazeer’s wife, Martha Bibi, and daughter-in-law, Nasreen Bibi. The men told the workers that they had come to take possession of the 12.5 acres that Nazeer Masih owns in Mauza Sadiqabad area of Muzaffargarh district, which they claimed had now been allotted by the Revenue Department to the Pakistan Army for distribution among retired officials. Martha Bibi told Compass the women were still in shock.

The last time I shared with you about the ministry of The Voice of the Martyrs Bibles Unbound program there were over 29,000 individuals we had who were waiting to receive a bible.

My favorite things about road trips are the surprises along the way, and my most recent trip didn’t let me down. I stopped in Chattanooga, Tenn. and fell in love with the people. One person I met learned of my association with The Voice of the Martyrs, and she enthusiastically told me about what the youth group at her church, Woodland Baptist Church, was doing. As she described it, my excitement grew. Here was a group of youth who are passionate for the persecuted church.

After reading the horrific story of this Christian couple who have been beaten, falsely accused and have almost lost their preborn infant, due to merciless beatings, the verse of scripture that comes to mind is Matthew 5:11 - "Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me."

Now that Thanksgiving Day is behind us, as well as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I thought I would share with you an absolutely wonderful gift idea from our The Voice of the Martyrs bookstore. Right now we have a wonderful three book collection called our Holiday Heroes Collection.

If you missed our most recent Persecution Podcast, I really wanted to encourage you to check it out and take about 13 minutes to listen to it in its entirety. Todd Nettleton and Dory give updates about what is happening in India, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. Todd also gives a special update about the Call for Mercy petition campaign for Asia Bibi. If you have not yet signed the petition, please visit http://www.callformercy.com and sign it today.

We have tragic news coming from our friends at Compass Direct concerning the slaughter of at least 45 more Christians in Northern Nigeria. Please add Christians in Nigeria to your prayer list and pray for them often. Pray for God's comfort as they grieve and for boldness to continue to stand strong in their faith.

Iran (MNN) ? It seems that Iran's government is finally taking off the gloves.

Tomorrow is the last day of November and we were hoping that we would have 1000 letters of support written to Pastor Irani by the end of the month. We are so close to reaching our goal. Last week we started with 894 letters that had already been written. Today we're at 975 letters which have been written, leaving us only 25 more letters to write! Will you be one of the twenty five people we need to write Pastor Behnam Irani a letter today?