Posted on 04/22/2010 6:01:11 PM PDT by rae4palin
A new ministry partnership has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the fact that an estimated 176,000 Christians around the world were martyred – killed for their faith – in a one-year period from the middle of 2008 to the middle of 2009.
That's 482 deaths per day, one every three minutes.
Martyrdom didn't go away with the Middle Ages, according to reports from Open Doors USA, which now has combined efforts with actor Kirk Cameron of "The Way of the Master" ministry as well as evangelist Ray Comfort of Living Waters ministry to focus on those who are being persecuted for their faith.
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Emeal Zwayne, executive vice president of Living Waters, said that few Christians in the U.S. are even aware "that an estimated 176,000 Christians were martyred from mid-2008 to mid-2009.
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"It's so hard to believe that in this day and age so many Christians are losing their life for their faith. It's as though we in the U.S. live in a different world from the rest of the Body of Christ," he said. "We want to ask the question that is on a few people's lips – will persecution ever come to America? And if so, what can we do about it?" he said.
Zwayne said the ministries have been working together "to try and draw attention to the plight of the Persecuted Church, because Scripture tells us to remember those who are persecuted for the sake of Christ."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Queue the usual group of skeptics.
If Islam is not stopped, it will happen across the West as well.
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Yes -- the stage is being set by the far left and the current administration. Vote the current administration out, vote the liberals out, vote the far left out. Other than that, batton down the hatches and pray.
With Americans armed to the teeth? With gun sales at an all-time high?
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