The church is passing through real persecution, dead threats are dropped in many churches; houses and Christians’ groups. the tragedy on the church Sunday 31/10 (53 killed and +77 injured and hundreds left with life truma of fear; panic and grief), was not the first but one of those events. Yesterday 3 houses were bombed, 4 killed and +26 injured.
Pray for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is coming to the U.S. November 7-9. His mission is two-fold: to meet with American Jewish leaders, and to meet with Vice President Joe Biden
Over the weekend, radical Islamic terrorists took 120 people hostage in a church in the Iraqi capital. Security forces eventually moved in to liberate the hostages. In the fire fight that ensued, 52 people were killed (including 10 policemen) and 67 were injured, many of whom were women.
A new headline in the Jerusalem Post reads: “Vatican synod calls for end to Israel’s ‘occupation’: At conference on Christians in the Middle East, US Melkite archbishop says: ‘There is no longer a chosen people.’
Please pray for an Iranian pastor who was scheduled to be executed on Sunday, October 24 for "thought crimes." A written verdict has not yet been delivered to pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, delaying his execution.
