If you've been reading this blog for any length of time you know that China is a communist nation and has a serious record of persecuting Christians. You may also know that China has one of the largest underground Christian churches in the world.

According to The Voice of the Martyrs contacts in Nigeria, “One Christian man was killed, over 60 people were seriously injured and five churches were damaged.”

This morning during my devotional time, I found myself in the book of 1 Timothy 1:12-17 which says,

Recently I shared with you how I was so blessed to share about the persecuted church with some high school students and I shared with you that part of my presentation was showing them part of the Underground Reality Vietnam DVD that The Voice of the Martyrs has produced.

After reading about Li Mei today and the torture she has had to go through, I just wish I could give her a big warm hug. Since that is not possible, I'm going to write her a letter of encouragement today. Please join me won't you? Click here to go to Prisoner Alert.com

The Iranian parliament is reviewing a bill for the Islamic Penal Law (Penal Code) that aims at legislating the death penalty for apostasy.

One of our wonderful persecution bloggers alerted me to a great post they recently wrote called A Dangerous Christian.

February 7th, Bob Fu, who is a leading advocate for the persecuted church in China, received the 2007 John Leland Religious Liberty Award for his service to the Lord and the persecuted church, from Richard Land, the President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

This morning I received an email from a blogger friend of mine who hosts a radio program in Australia. My friend, Rodney Olsen, wrote a wonderful post about The Staines family, and also posted an audio interview with Gladys Staines regarding the extraordinary story of what happened to her family.

Today you will have the opportunity to tune in to Janet Parshall's America so that you can hear The Voice of the Martyrs, very own Todd Nettleton talk to Janet about Christian persecution around the world.