Imagine with me for a second if your city government had decided to shut down your church and board it up so that you could not use it. What do you think your pastor would do? Would he just give up and say, "Okay folks, we're not having church any more" or do you think that he would call to keep having church except outside of the boarded up building? - I find this a thoughtful question to think about.

Today I have a challenge for you, and I'm hoping you take me up on it. We now have over 52,000 fans on our Facebook page and we have thousands that hit this page every day too, but our Prisoner Alert page only shows right now that we have only written 945 encouraging letters to Imran Ghafur and only sent 347 letters to government officials on Imran Ghafur's behalf, so my challenge today is to ask you to take some time and join those who have written those letters, because we know that YOUR letters and calls make a difference for those who are in prison.

A few years ago when I had the opportunity to go to a VOM persecution conference, I had the blessing of seeing the types of balloons that Greg Yoder over at Mission Network News is reporting on today, that VOM Canada has recently launched into North Korea.

Unfortunately, we have to report that another Christian was targeted and successfully murdered in Mosul, Iraq yesterday.

I saw this story yesterday and my first thought was it's amazing what my brothers and sisters all over the world are enduring because they are followers of the same Jesus I am.

“Don’t do it,” Nicholas yelled as he saw the executioner lift his sword to kill another prisoner. “He’s done nothing to deserve this.” The man was about to be executed for his faith in Jesus Christ. Nicholas bravely grabbed the executioner’s sword before it penetrated the prisoner’s flesh.

You may recall a few days ago we highlighted a report from CBN News concerning the State Department and all of the Christians that have been deported from Morocco in recent days. Well, this story is not going away and today we have a story from our friends at Compass Direct who are again trying to let us all know about what's happening to believers in Morocco.