Hello Everyone! I hope your weekend was great and that you enjoyed our carnival on Friday. You all did a wonderful job. Today we begin the week with another story of persecution against Christians in China. The following is exclusively from VOM Media.

Earlier this week I put forth a challenge to my persecution bloggers for this weeks carnival and I am very pleased with the entries I received as a result. If you submitted an entry that wasn't a part of the challenge, I will post that in next weeks carnival.

Earlier today VOM Media released the picture to your left, and also the following news item. Please keep Andrew in your prayers. To see a more graphic picture of his injuries, click the link below.

• On July 19th at 5:00 p.m. in the southern state of Kerala, rioters belonging to the Students Federation of India smashed and destroyed vehicles, computers, office equipment, furniture, doors and windows of Christian-run educational institutions.

The following is courtesy of Mission Network News - a great ministry that follows missions news every day.

For the last few months every Friday we've been highlighting posts that you who are apart of our persecution blog team have written. This week I'd like to ask you to write a post about a person in the bible who was persecuted, and how they overcame the persecution and what you learned about how to deal with persecution.