Every month we have special video and audio that we post on the main The Voice of the Martyrs website as a compliment to our monthly newsletter. This month we highlighted Yubelina (which we talked about yesterday here) and also this wonderful video of Iranian Christians, dancing together while chanting the many names of God. The faces have been pixelated to conceal the identity of the Christians involved, as Christians in Iran are in continual risk of persecution by government authorities. Enjoy!

Yesterday I received an email from The Voice of the Martyrs with a nice reminder about the way we can help persecuted Christians during Christmas. In case you may have missed that email, I wanted to share it with you. Here it is...

A man who planted a bomb at the home of a Messianic Jewish family in the West Bank has been declared fit to stand trial. Yaakov “Jack” Teitel, 39, is accused of bombing the home of Pastor David Ortiz in March 2008. He is additionally charged in connection with the murder of two Palestinians and with other serious offenses. Teitel’s lawyers had argued that he was not mentally competent, but a district court judge in Jerusalem ruled that he is competent to stand trial. In May 2010, Teitel had said, “I don't know if I’m sane. I don’t recognize the jurisdiction of this court. I feel good.”

Turkey (MNN) ? A startling plot involving Al Qaeda and an attack on churches in Turkey came to light Friday.

Recently we posted a new video highlighting Yubelina giving thanks to all of you who have written her letters and giving her encouragement this past year.

Last week we invited you to write a letter of support to Yang Xuan who is in prison for organizing a prayer rally. Our goal is to have two hundred more letters written to him by Christmas. Last week we started at 804 letters and as of the time of this writing we have 814 letters written to our brother.

The following is from Mission Network News and highlights the continuing persecution of Christians in Burma (Myanmar). Please pray for our brothers and sisters in this nation as daily they suffer persecution for their faith. Pray for the missionary teams that help the orphans, and other displaced people.

Middle East (MNN) ? Christian Solidarity International (CSI) issued a Genocide Warning last week for endangered religious minorities in the Islamic Middle East.

O God, accept all my sufferings, my tiredness, my humiliations, my tears, my nostalgia, my being hungry, my suffering of cold, all the bitterness accumulated in my soul. Dear Lord, have pity also on those who persecute and torture us day and night. Grant them, too, the divine grace of knowing the sweetness and happiness of your love.

ISTANBUL, December 9 (CDN) — A large-scale Al Qaeda plot to bomb “all the churches in Ankara,” as well as the Turkish Parliament and U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital, was made public today. In an exclusive splashed across the front page of the daily Taraf newspaper, contents of an official indictment against 11 alleged Al Qaeda militants arrested in July revealed the homegrown terrorist cell’s alleged plans to attack Ankara’s churches as well as their Christian clergy. Prepared and filed by the Special Prosecutor’s Office in Ankara, the 50-page indictment outlined the militants’ revised “jihad” strategy to begin focusing their attacks against Turkey before waging war against the United States and other countries. “It is more advantageous to wage jihad against Turkey than the United States,” documents seized in the July 14 raid near Ankara reportedly declared. “Let’s blow the Parliament into the sky!” Quoting from deciphered CDs and other materials, the indictment noted that the extremists reportedly referred to Turkey as a “war zone,” labeling the Turkish government as “apostates” and calling the Turkish state “Satan.” Among the CDs, detailed maps, sketches and building diagrams, police also discovered lists of the names and home addresses of Christian clergy and other church workers residing in Ankara. The news took Christian leaders in Ankara by total surprise, according to one Turkish Christian leader in Ankara.