I am bursting with great news today because now not only can you follow this Voice of the Martyrs Persecution blog on twitter (http://www.twitter.com/persecutionblog), but now you can also follow the Voice of the Martyrs main office on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/VOM_USA - isn't that cool!

The June newsletter has two Nigerian widows on the cover, and the feature story is about the "Sacrifice of Praise" Nigerian Christians are offering. It should be in your mailbox soon. If you don't receive VOM's free newsletter, subscribe at the link on the right side of this page.

Philippians 4:8 says, "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things." - So let's do that right now, because we are so honored that the Evangelical Press Association has honored The Voice of the Martyrs with an Award of Excellence for our monthly newsletter.

VOM’s Extreme Devotion Testimonies Encouraging Sudanese Church (AUDIO)

I've been wanting to tell you all about this all week and so today I am finally going to do it. I LOVE MY VOICE OF THE MARTYRS PRAYER CALENDAR!!!

Not too long ago, you may have noticed that we did an overhaul of the old design of this blog, and we wanted to know what you think of our bright new red design.

VOM staff

On August 31, Muslim extremists burned down a Christ Apostolic Church building in the capital city of Baboko, Kwara state, complaining that it was too close to a mosque. No Christians were there at the time of the attack because they were worshipping elsewhere, following a relocation order issued by the government in response to complaints, Compass Direct News reported.