*** Voice Of The Martyrs 15/7/08 ***


INDIA: Pastors Attacked, Accused of Forcible Conversion

On 24 June, Pastor Murugan was beaten by Hindu militants who ambushed him and two other believers while returning home from a prayer meeting in Moodalpalya, Karnataka, India. According to The Voice of the Martyrs contacts, "The other two managed to flee and escape any harm. The militants accused the pastor of forcibly converting people and 'spoiling the minds of the children' and took him to the local police station where he was detained."

In an unrelated incident on 26 June, Hindu militants barged into the home of a local believer in Hubli, Karnataka; shouted curses at the Christians gathered for a prayer meeting and beat Pastor Vinod Talakere. VOM sources added, "They dragged the pastor and another believer to the local police station where the men were detained on accusations of forcibly converting people, kidnapping local girls and enrolling them in Bible college."

- Pray for the release of these pastors.

Ask God to bless their ministry and the work of other Christians spreading the gospel in India.

from VOM USA

Bless you ....><>

Wow this is very sad i will be praying!!
Hearing about this scared me a little knowing that my dad is a pastor, and wants to preach in areas where there is less Christianity. But i know my dad is safe in the hands of God, as long as his work is for God:-]

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John 6:37-40 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
I am that bread of life.

Dear sister, Jesus says, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." John 14:27
We have great comfort in hope, in the eternal promises of God in Jesus Christ the Lord, that no matter what happens to us in this short life here on earth that the Lord will raise His people up at the last day. Please always be encouraged by this.

Our life is hid with Christ and it is in Him that we trust.

May your dad have protection as he goes to preach the word and I pray, too, that you have the peace of God in trusting Him with your dad's life.

Bless you ....><>

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
I and my Father are one.

Another believer persecuted for Jesus. We must pray for them, and say amen because their reward is in Heaven.

Matthew 5:9-11

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

See, situations like this should always re-affirm us that we have no right to complain about our problems.