Hope for Persecuted Christians in the Mideast [Uplifting Article For Christmas!]

National Review ^ | December 24, 2014 | Andrew Doran

[Steelfish]

DECEMBER 24, 2014 Hope for Persecuted Christians in the Mideast After two millennia of attempts to stamp out the Church, it has proved its resilience. By Andrew Doran

If recent Christmases provide any indication of things to come, somewhere in the Middle East terrorists are constructing, as I write, bombs intended to kill Christians attending Christmas liturgies. The terrorists know that their targets will include the defenseless. They know that they will kill women, children, and the elderly but will carry out their attacks nonetheless.

For some Christians in the Middle East, this Christmas liturgy be their last. They know that there is a distinct possibility of death or injury, but they will attend Christmas services nonetheless.

This fortitude is a feature of the modern Church much as it was of the early Church, with Roman soldiers and lions replaced with terrorists and Kalashnikovs. This is the courage of the early Christian martyr who faced death on the floor of the Colosseum for refusing to renounce Christianity; it is the courage of the Carmelite nun in Germany who, when evil knocked on the convent door on a summer night in 1942, responded simply, “Let us go for our people.”

The Christians of the Middle East today cling to a variation no less courageous: Let us remain for our people.

[captmar-vell]

Pray for those believers being persecuted in the middle east.

This same evil is coming here, it may not take the same direct in your face form, it may even be extremely subtle, but it will be just as lethal if not more so spiritually,

[Biggirl]

God Bless ALL Christians of the Middle East on this Holy CHRISTmas, birthday of God the Son.

“This same evil is coming here, it may not take the same direct in your face form, it may even be extremely subtle, but it will be just as lethal if not more so spiritually,”

First of all PRAY for the CONVERSION of ALL to Christ.

Second, unlike the Middle East, many Americans have been buying over the last couple of years record numbers of guns and ammo, so that “same evil” is going to be in for a BIG surprise.

Third, good news, the Christian faith is GROWING in the global south nations, and in a special way, in Africa. This will benifit the west as it will in the future send missionaries to bring the Gospel of Jesus BACK to the west.

[captmar-vell]

Hello Biggirl, and I hear you,

But I will also say that our greater battle that is soon coming to a climax, is not one where physical weapons can win the day,

“Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” Ephesians 6:13