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News and Prayer for the Persecuted

Christians Expose Persecution During 300 Days of Modi's Rule in India

3/24/2015 India (ICC) 

 

Christians of all denominations and Civil Society groups came together in New Delhi on March 19, to protest the past 300 days of Modi's rule.  Modi has failed to restrain hate and violence against religious minorities, specifically Christians and Muslims, in various states of India. Instead, the civil society has responded to these religious minorities with unbridled targeted hate and violence with near complete impunity.


  • Pray that the peaceful co-existence of religious minorities will be achieved in India through the peaceful protests held by Christians and members of the civil society 
  • Pray that the Indian government and Prime Minister Modi will finally put an end to the violence against Christians

Police Arrest 200 Christians after Attacks in Lahore

3/24/2015 Pakistan (Asia News)

 

Following the church attacks carried out by members of the Taliban on March 15, 2015 that left nineteen dead, a mob lynched two individuals who were suspected to be responsible for the attacks. In response, police have arrested approximately 200 people in Youhanabad and it is not yet clear where they have been taken. According to the diocese of Lahore, the police raid resulted in the indiscriminate arrests of hundred without first identifying the arrestees as those named on the First Information Report.


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  • Pray for the spiritual and physical healing of the victims of this terrible crime
  • Pray for the immediate release of the innocent Christians who have been arrested 
  • Pray for the immediate release of Asia Bibi, mother of 5 on death row

Executions, Beatings and Forced Marriage: Life as a Boko Haram Captive
3/23/2015 Nigeria (Al Jazeera America)


Imagine being abducted in the prime of your life, taken away from all that you know and love: your village, your family, your church. This is life for many Christian women in northern Nigeria who have been taken by Islamist militants from Boko Haram.  They are being forced to witness brutal executions, to renounce their Christian faith, to marry combatants, and experience regular arbitrary beatings.


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  • Pray for the end of these horrific attacks by Boko Haram

  • Pray for the immediate and safe release of all kidnapped

  • Pray for Christ's healing Spirit to come upon the families as they endure these dark times

  

College Ministry Kicked off Campus for Requiring Leaders to Be Christian

3/23/2015 United States (Christian News Network) 
        

In September of 2014, California State University-Stanislaus's chapter of Chi Alpha was notified that they would no longer be officially recognized as a campus organization. The justification for the removal of recognition was that the group was guilty of "religious discrimination" because they required that leaders of the organization profess Christianity. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty who is representing the group has since urged the university to reinstate Chi Alpha.


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  • Pray that California State University would repeal the decision to not recognize the Chi Alpha as a campus organization 
  • Pray that California State University will see that Chi Alpha asking its leaders to believe in what their group teaches, isn't discrimination but integrity and will be reinstated immediately

Five Christians Killed, One Critically Wounded, by Islamic Extremists in Kenya

3/23/2015 Kenya (Morning Star News)

 

New details emerge in a series of assaults targeting Christians in the Mandera-area of Kenya last week that left five people dead and one critically wounded. Islamist militant group al-Shabaab has taken responsibility for a grenade attack in the town of Wajir, Kenya that killed four Christians March 17, and a shooting in Mandera March 15 where a Kenyan pastor has died. Christians in northern and eastern Kenya continue to face persecution for following Christ on a regular basis from al-Shabaab.

 

  • Pray that al-Shabaab will be brought to justice for destroying thousands of families in Kenya
  • Pray that God will keep Christians in Kenya from the hands of the terrorists and to preserve, protect, defend and save Kenya from the schemes of the terrorists
  • Pray that God will do a new work whereby Kenya's kings and tribal leaders will truly bow their knees and pay tribute to the Lord Jesus

Christian Pastor in China Gets One-Year Prison Term in Battle Over Crosses

3/23/2015 China  (New York Times)

 

A year in prison was the sentence handed down to pastor Huang Yizi. He was found guilty of "gathering crowds to disturb social order." Pastor Huang questioned the government as to why 50 of his parishioners were beaten while authorities attempted to illegally remove the cross from his church building. One month later, in July 2014, he was arrested. 

 

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  • Pray for Pastor Yizi's immediate release
  • Pray for the release of imprisoned Christians in China 
  • Pray for the end of China's church demolition campaign

  

 

 
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