Today I'd like to ask you to write a letter to Tohar Haydarov, who was arrested and put in prison in Uzbekistan in March of this year. Please take a few minutes to pray and write a letter or encouragement, because it could make a huge difference in Tohar's case. Below is more information from our Prisoner Alert page. Click here to write your letter now.

I recently read this story about Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand, VOM’s founders, in the book In God’s Underground. This excerpt is long, but I think it’s worth the read. I love the picture it shows of the Wurmbrand’s hearts.

On July 18, government security forces arrested 15 Christian converts traveling to the city of Bojnoord to meet with other believers, according to Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN).In what appeared to be a coordinated effort, security forces stopped the Christians’ bus in Mashhad, the capital of Razavi Khorasan, Iran. Authorities boarded the bus, arrested 15 believers and took them to the Ministry of Information’s central detention center. According to FCNN, the believers were subjected to harsh and inhumane interrogations. After being held for a week, 13 of the Christians were conditionally released after signing promissory notes and posting bail. At last report, the two remaining detainees, 48-year-old Reza and 23-year-old Ehsan Behrooz, remained in detention because they refused to sign any forms or post bail. The Voice of the Martyrs stands with persecuted believers in Iran. Pray that the Lord will strengthen these new believers as they face this trial. Pray that the two remaining detainees will be released without charge and that their strong testimony will lead others to consider the source of their peace and strength.

Over the weekend I was following this horrific story that many have been talking about in the last 48 hours. If you haven't heard, over the weekend it was reported that ten Christian aid workers working with International Assistance Mission, were brutally killed by the Taliban.

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According to reports there were approximately a dozen people injured as the Islamic extremists attacked the church members with sticks, stones and their bare hands.

“They stabbed one believer through the mouth with a long knife and poured boiling water down the throat of another who was caught with a Bible. An entire family had been drowned.”

Evangelist Sammy Tippet recently spoke to Mission Network News about the persecution that is happening in the United Kingdom and coming here to the United States and all under the guise of hate crime laws.

Here in the United States we often see a lot of politics within city governments when it comes to whether or not a church can get a permit. I remember one church I attended for awhile was trying to buy land and a building and the city told us that we needed to have some off the wall type of fire alarms installed that really no other places of business did. Needless to say, the church never got that property and the city won.