This story is very cool...and inspiring. Maybe in 2006 you could get your church to help the persecuted Church in the same way.

Din Syamsuddin (pictured) who chairs Muhammadiyah, a conservative Islamic organisation with millions of members has offered refuge to Christians in Indonesia during this Christmas season.

Yesterday I missed this interview that Janet Parshall did with Dr. David Hunt from World Serve Ministries, however due to her outstanding archives I was able to listen to the interview she did with him this morning and you have to listen to them talk about the Christians who are in a prison camp who string the Lights of Christmas. Go here and click on Hour 3 part 4 & 5 .

The power of Christian radio is giving hope to women in Cambodia, according to a Mission News Network article.

Open Doors released their year end report on persecution worldwide which showed increased persecution of Christians in countries such as North Korea, Indonesia, and Eritrea.

Maybe some American pastors and Christians could learn from these brave priests.

It must be terrible to live in a country, as a Christian, where you are under threat of attack on Christmas. The contrast to America Christianity is amazing to me, because here in America we have large mega churches closing on Christmas for the convenience of the church staff and members who don't think attending church on Christmas is very important, and then in Indonesia we have the church bracing for another possible attack.

I love the Mission Network News service because they always give fresh examples of news from the mission field. Today I received this in an email from them and wanted to share it with you so you can be informed and get involved.

Most of you probably don't know this, but Voice of the Martyrs does not pay me to promote them - my friend Paul does. See - Paul had a vision and this was part of the vision. To see believers get more involved in supporting and loving the persecuted church. So VOM got lucky and got us to promote them FREE. :) Now that's a pretty nice gift to them don't ya think? :)

Today I wanted to begin by saying thank you to those of you who have visited the persecution blog on a consistent basis. I also wanted to thank those of you who link to our blog and also send people here all the time because of your link. Here are a few stats...