For those of you with a heart for the nation of India, here's a special request for you.

Precious Friends, today I decided I wanted to do something different with our prayer requests. Instead of giving you one of the prayer requests that The Voice of the Martyr's offers in their weekly prayer alerts, I'm going to give you all of them in different posts.

A few days ago The Christian Post published an article titled Rick Warren's North Korea Visit Triggers Mixed Reactions from Freedom Experts in which The Voice of the Martyr's very own Todd Nettleton was quoted. Here's what Todd said...

I think I may have shared this before, but when I first received Christ as Lord & Savior, I was in need of a bible. So I asked my parents if they had one, and they didn't. So then I asked if they would get me one...and about a year later my mother finally got me a bible and gave it to me as a gift. While I was waiting for my parents to decide to actually get me a bible, my friend Gail who shared the gospel with me, asked her grandmother if I could use one of their bibles temporarily. Thankfully she said yes...and my life has never been the same.

Last week my husband and I attended a "faith fund rally" for the Gideon's International, and the reason I'm sharing this is because it was very very cool to hear the gentleman, and I mean that in every sense of the word, come and share his testimony of handing out bibles in Myanmar (aka Burma).

Since we have been following some of the news concerning Pastor Rick Warren's opportunity to go to North Korea, I wanted to give you an update and let you know that his trip has been delayed, but his invite to preach there still remains.

The following news item is from our friends at Mission Network News online.

In today's Extreme Devotion we are humbly reminded of the reality that we always choose our responses and reactions to the events around us. This is such a powerful and humbling lesson we can all learn from our persecuted family in Christ and also from Christ Himself.

It's been two weeks since we've had a Persecution Blog Carnival so let's get right to it! Our first entry is from Tidbits & Treasures who has written an entry titled Chinese Protestant Minister Sentenced to 7.5 years.

In today's Mission Network News email we read the following concerning the unraveling war in the Middle East. Please consider time today to pray and if the Lord leads, also fast, for the situation in the Middle East.