Foundations: Persecution Suffering Church

Foundations
Christian Beliefs, Teachings, Doctrines, Christian Living, Christian Ethics

Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them ...
is like a [wise] man which built a house, and digged deep, and laid the foundations on a rock:
and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it:
for it was founded upon a rock (Luke 6:47-48)

Let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
For other foundation can no man lay that is laid, which is Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 3:10b-11)

Under Islam

Christian Missionaries in Aleppo Crucified and Beheaded (16 October 2016)

"The Christian Aid Mission account of the fate of Aleppo's indigenous Christian missionaries is harrowing and humbling. ... We're not hearing much about Aleppo's Christians: the mainstream media don't care very much what happens to them..."

The Armenian Genocide (1915-18 and 1920-23)

Under Roman Catholicism

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

"This is a book that will never die. ... Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when 'a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid,' 'climbed the steep ascent of heaven, 'mid peril, toil, and pain.' ... It is more than a record of persecution..."

Under Communism and Other Atheistic Regimes

China

Brother Duan's Christmas Miracle (December 1997)

"Brother Duan was stranded. It was the middle of winter and the engine of the bus had just given up its battle with the cold. Duan was travelling south and was now stuck somewhere in Henan province. Duan was a house church leader in northern China..."

Under Political Correctness

Christian Persecution: Will You Go Against the Flow (17 September 2017)

"As anti-Christian bigotry and persecution ramps up in the West, there will be more and more reasons why Christians will be targeted. Some will be good reasons and some will be bad reasons..."

93% of Christians Say [Their] Faith is 'Marginalised' in UK (20 July 2017)

"[The survey] also found a majority of Christians thought their faith was not given the same respect as other religions in the UK, with most feeling it was considered unacceptable for them to share their beliefs in public..."

Christians' Rights: Martyred On a Cross of Secular Liberalism (12 January 2013)

"Who was the last English martyr? You might think of the Reformation or perhaps the fate of alleged witches in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But there is a much more contemporary answer:..."

Please Pray For...

all those believers who are persecuted and martyred for their faith.
There are many, many suffering brothers and sisters who desperately need us to pray for them...

http://www.persecution.org/
http://www.britishpakistanichristians.co.uk/
http://www.releaseinternational.org/index.php
http://www.barnabasfund.org/

"Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them;
and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body"
(Hebrews 13:3)

Thus saith the LORD,
Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way,
and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls
(Jeremiah 6:16)