Pray For Persecuted Christians

While I mentioned it earlier this week, I want to plead with you again to pray for persecuted Christians. Christians in Afghanistan are in far more danger today than they have been at any time over the past 20 years. But it's not just the disaster in Afghanistan. 

In countries like Iraq and Syria, where much of our biblical history took place, Christians have been hunted and killed for decades in a slow-motion genocide. 

Coptic Christians in Egypt are regularly attacked; their churches are frequently burned down. In Nigeria, radical Islamists routinely murder Christians. And it's not just the Muslim world. 

Every place where godless communism rules, the church of Jesus Christ is under siege. Christians face extreme persecution in North Korea. In China, the Communist Party has ordered churches to remove crosses and pictures of Jesus and to replace them with pictures of communist leaders like Mao and President Xi.

So, please pray for our fellow Christians facing terrible persecution. And pray that the church in America will be inspired by the bravery of our brothers and sisters in Christ around the world.