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221) Christians in Syria (part two)

From The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) newsletter, November 2013, page 3-5, by P. Todd Nettleton.  See website at  www.persecution.org     Most Americans have seen the graphic images of bombed-out Syrian cities and citizens killed by chemical weapons.  But amid these stories of chaotic civil war and tragedy is another, less publicized story.  Christian churches in Syria continue to spread hope […]

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220) Christians in Syria (part one)

From The Voice of the Martyrs newsletter, November 2013, page 2, written by James Dau, VOM executive director.  See website at  www.persecution.org      Christians in Syria today are caught in the crossfire between a ruthless authoritarian regime and jihadist warriors who have swarmed to the region to fight what they consider a holy war to reclaim land.

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188) The Death of Polycarp

From The Early Christians: In Their Own Words, (Ch. 2; #13); Selected and Edited by Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935); Copyright 2003 by The Bruderhof Foundation, Inc.  Used with permission.  View this book and many others from Plough Publishing at:  http://www.plough.com/ Polycarp (69 – 155), was an early church leader known as a kindly pastor and a defender of

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142) A Family of Martyrs

From The Fourth Dimension, by Dr. David Yonggi Cho, 1979, Logos International Press, pages 103-104.  Dr. Cho is the pastor of the largest church in the world.  It is in Seoul, South Korea.        The Communists were vicious to the ministers.  One minister’s family was captured in Inchon, Korea, and the Communist leaders put them on what

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