The Christian Post reported on Friday about the increase in Muslim and Christian violence in Ethiopia. You may read the article here. I've cut a few excerpts for you below.

Marion Callahan has written an interesting article that you can find on the Assyrian International News Agency's website.

Crosswalk has a very interesting article today written by Wolfgang Polzer from ASSIST News Service. The article is titled "Persecution is Coming to the West". Here is the beginning...

I love beginning every Monday with a devotion from the book Extreme Devotion and the reason why is because these devotions inspire my faith and help change my attitude when maybe my attitude isn't so great. Today's wonderful devotion is no exception. Please read...and then why not tell a friend to come by the blog and read it also. You will be encouraged. I guarantee it.

More persecution—more growing!

Today we are going to begin our Persecution Blogger Round Up with an entry from Supply the Word who writes a great post titled Charity(Love)Never Fails.

I would like to thank VOM Canada's Glenn Penner for pointing me to this article on his blog - Persecuted Church Weblog. Glenn writes about an email he received from Rick Warren concerning the need for pastors and leaders to introduce the persecuted church to their congregations.

Yesterday the following prayer request was highlighted in the VOM-USA News and Prayer Update. This is just another amazing story of the power of Christ's forgiveness working through the father of the girl who was abducted.Please join us in praying for her safe return and location.

"If you believe in God, you go to Heaven when you die. If you don't, you go to North Korea." Pastor Lee, a former prisoner of North Korea