URGENT PLEA TO HELP CHRISTIAN IN AFGHANISTAN...! ADDED BY JOYCE BENNETT

URGENT PLEA TO HELP CHRISTIAN IN AFGHANISTAN...!

The letter was issued earlier in the month by a comm unity of 150 Afghan converts now living as refugees in New Delhi because of the threat to their lives in Afghanistan.

In the letter they urge Christians around the world to speak out against the "egregious injustices” and "blatant human rights violations” taking place against Christians in Afghanistan.

"We left our country because we were sentenced to death on the account of our Christian faith … Christians are called pagans and infidels and are sentenced to death by the Afghan Government. Death penalty is waiting for all those who want to leave the darkness and come to true light, repent from their sins, and put their faith on (sic) the Lord Jesus Christ,” they wrote.

The letter is a response to the riots and demonstrations that broke out in Afghanistan last month, after the independent channel Noorin TV aired a documentary revealing the names and faces of supposed Afghan
Christian converts.

Protestors called on President Hamid Karzai to arrest and execute the converts and the deputy secretary of the Afghan Parliament’s Lower House, Abdul Sattar Khawasi, made his own call for the execution of Christian converts from Islam.

The group go on to say that they have received reports of Afghan Christians being arrested and having their homes and businesses searched in recent weeks. There have also been reports that authorities are torturing arrested Christians to force them to reveal the names of other Christian converts and the location of underground churches and fellowships.

They stated: "In light of all these events, and the perplexing media silence on these atrocities occurring in plain view of the international community, we are pleading with the Body of Christ around the world to support our Afghan Christian brothers and sisters during this critical time by taking a firm and vocal stand against the severe and devastating wrongs being committed against them by their own government!"

The execution call came just days after two Christian aid groups were suspended after authorities accused them of proselytising. Church World Service and Norwegian Church Aid cannot operate while authorities
investigate the claim. Both ministries deny any wrongdoing.

CHRISTIAN ARRESTED IN MICHIGAN...!

The 15th annual Arab International Festival is being held this weekend in Dearborn, Mich., where one of the largest Arab-American populations in the United States resides. On Friday four Christian men were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly trying to convert Muslims attending festival events. According to a source I contacted at the festival today, at least two of those arrested have been released. One is a recent convert from Islam who caused controversy at last year’s festival by getting into arguments with Muslims and filming them.

According to this report, "The group was criticized by the city and residents for aggressively putting video cameras in the faces of people at a festival that draws thousands of families.” Another report called it "intense but respectful dialogue” and said the police were catering to the city’s large Muslim population.

Christians increasingly have been drawn to the festival as a way to understand Arab culture, interact with Muslims, and hopefully introduce gospel teaching to those interested. I’ve heard from several groups and
individuals who have attended the festival this week to hand out literature and converse with Muslims.

It’s important to remember that many of the Muslims who live in Dearborn are first- or second-generation immigrants who escaped tyranny and terrorism themselves in the Arab world, yet often are treated as
terror suspects and ostracized in other ways here in the United States.
They need to hear the gospel—in terms that are winning and respectful of their own culture. I’m looking forward to the release later this summer of a book by Rosemary Sookhdeo called Breaking Through the Barriers: Leading Muslims to Christ.
I just finished reading a galley proof, and it is full of good counsel from someone who has spent decades living alongside Muslims in neighborhoods of East London and elsewhere. She provides everything from a sound approach in giving out the gospel, to the practical advice—such as why it’s more acceptable to give food as a gift than flowers..

A coming War.

The Philippines Embassy in Beirut - Lebanon released a warning today to all Philippine foreign workers that work in Lebanon to leave Lebanon as soon as possible and to all Philippine workers that plan to come to Lebanon to postpone there travel to Lebanon " because of A Coming War in the very near future. "

Source of this Article : www.elnashara.com

elnashra is the number one online news site in Lebanon, it's in Arabic.

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