“Our Lord commanded us to remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy,” Florea calmly told the prison guards. “I cannot work on this day.”

I just finished reading the following paragraph and almost fell off my chair.

The following was published by Mission Network News.

The following quotes are from an article posted today on the BPSports.net.

Protests from Islamic extremists have stopped worship services at two churches in Sumatra and Java Island, Indonesia.

I was just reading a blog post written by Glenn Penner from The Voice of the Martyrs Canada concerning some recent comments that Condoleezza Rice made at a conference called Organization of the Islamic Conference.

Muslim militants killed at least two Christians and wounded dozens more on March 3, 2008, in the town of Nensabo located 325 km southeast of the capital Addis Ababa, according to VOMC sources and a March 6 report from International Christian Concern. The militants attacked the Christians, including women and children, while they were attending a worship service.

A church set on fire with the pastor and his family inside.

Dear Maria, At last I am able to write to you. We arrived safely at the new camp, which is about ten miles from town. I can’t describe life here, but I thank God that I am reasonably healthy and have the strength to work. I was put to work in a machine shop with another sister whose health is very bad. I have to do the work of both of us or we will both be punished. We work twelve to thirteen hours every day, and the food is scarce. But I don’t want to complain.

I've been waiting to write this post all day because I wanted to share with you some time I spent visiting a prisoner in jail today. It was quite an experience. I showed up at about 9 AM to find a line with around 100 people in it and was told that the wait could be up to four hours. Four hours...that's a long time to wait.