US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted Tuesday that human rights abuses in North Korea should be highlighted, ignoring the risk of angering the Stalinist regime which has delayed talks designed to end its nuclear weapons drive. This according to an article on Relief Web.

I noticed an article titled Protestant Missionaries Murder Muslims for Refusing to Convert on The Jawa Report today so I just had to read it. I did and this is what I found...

VOM Canada sent out this special news/prayer alert today concerning an Eritrean wedding that was disrupted.

I believe that prayer can change the course of events which is why I get excited every time I receive my weekly prayer update from Voice of the Marytrs USA and Canada. If you haven't signed up to receive your email updates, you can do that at www.persecution.com .

This is another sad story. Christianity Today has the following article titled U.S. Court Calls for Deportation of Chinese Christian

Over the last three months I have shared with you numerous ways you can help the persecuted church through Voice of the Marytrs.

If I could hug the three Indonesian women who were recently imprisoned for teaching children the Bible during Happy Week I would. Today Christian Today has some of their responses before they were sentenced to three years in prison. This will encourage and inspire your faith.

The following story is just another sad example of Muslim intolerance. Haaretz is reporting that due to a Muslim woman falling in love with a Christian man she was promptly murdered by her family. After she was murdered numerous Muslims burned down at least 14 homes belonging to Christians, as well as torching a farm, a gas station and some stores.

Have you ever been given a mixed message by someone and tried to do what was needed but didn't have any success? As a therapist I often see this dilemma from my clients. On the one hand they are saying they want to change, but on the other hand the continue in destructive behavior.

Over the past three months, as this blog has been up, I have read numerous stories about persecution from around the world towards Christians. What I have noticed is that in most instances the persecution is coming from radical Islam. This is not to say that there aren't many peace loving Muslims in the world, but from most of the news I read concerning persecution of Christians, the majority is from the religion of Islam.