Urgent for Your Church

[Chad]

Imagine that an angry mob attacked your church. They burn the church building--also your home--to the ground. They follow up this destruction by raping, torturing and murdering the individuals in your congregation--simply because they chose to follow Christ.

This horrific situation is reality for hundreds of pastors, missionaries and other believers throughout Orissa, India, during the past week. Our brothers and sisters desperately need your prayers. I am providing a link to a video outlining the situation and explaining how I'd like you to pray for these people who are literally losing everything because of their faith. Orissa Update Video - Gospel for Asia

I ask that you please download this video and show it to your congregation during your service on Sunday:
Orissa Update Video - Gospel for Asia

Then please lead your people to pray on behalf of these persecuted Christians.

We have seen this week that our enemy is crafty and strong; but this weekend, as your church meets for a time of worship, let's pray together to a God whose power and might far exceed anything we could hope or imagine. Our brothers and sisters in Orissa are depending on it.

Yours for the lost of Asia,

K.P. Yohannan
President & Founder
Gospel for Asia

P.S. You can read about the current situation in Orissa here: Orissa - Gospel for Asia
This page also contains links to information about the state and its violent history of abuse toward Christians.

 

[Br. Bear]

Thank you and bless you Chad for sharing this.

I pray that all who see it will do something with it... praying and telling others, and allowing the Lord to something deep and special in their hearts and minds.... and may all who are in this fashion touched by the Lord, then take the lessons with them and reach out to others in His name.

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


This just came in, and as it is also India, I hope it will help to show just how real this situation in India is... and even now, we must pray and become one with those who suffer.


*** Voice Of The Martyrs Prayer Alert 26/8/08 ***


INDIA: Christians Attacked after Hindu Leader Killed

The killing of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council or VHP) leader Swamiji Laxmanananda Saraswati and four associates by suspected Maoists on Saturday night (23 August) led to renewed anti-Christian attacks in Orissa state, with churches torched and two people burned alive.

Accusing local Christians of killing their leader, Hindu extremists set an orphanage on fire in Khuntapali village in Barhgarh district, burning a Catholic nun to death, according to the All India Christian Council. The attack on the orphanage in Khuntapali, 250 miles west of the state capital of Bhubaneswar, also left a priest at the orphanage hospitalised with severe burns. Over the weekend VHP extremists in Nuagon, Kandhamal district also burned alive a man suffering from paralysis, whose identity and religious affiliation were still unknown at press time, and assaulted pastors. The Hindu extremists launched arson attacks on at least 10 churches, several prayer houses, shops and vehicles in various parts of the eastern state. Numerous Christians have fled to jungles to save their lives. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, a partner in the state's ruling coalition led by the Biju Janata Dal party, and the VHP called for a 12-hour strike in which inflammatory speeches were made accusing Christians of killing Saraswati.

Compass Direct

Ask the Lord to help these Christians come to terms with these recent attacks.
* Pray for the healing of those who have been injured and ask the Lord to comfort those who have lost loved ones.
* Pray for the perpetrators of this violence.




May the Lord bless each one who joins in prayer and care for their brothers and sister in Orissa, in Jesus name .... amen


Bless you ....><>

Br. Bear