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23 SEPTEMBER 2011

Persecuted Christians need your help TODAY

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Below you will find a selection of stories that vividly illustrate the harsh and painful persecution endured by so many of our Christian brothers and sisters across the world. From a Christian man brutally beheaded by radical Muslims to yet another victim of Pakistan’s notorious “blasphemy laws”; from churches threatened with violence in Syria to oppressed and vulnerable believers in the Maldives, the body of Christ across the world is often broken and bleeding. These Christians need our help.

Barnabas Fund is “The Aid Agency for the Persecuted Church”. Our calling under God is to bring hope and practical aid to Christians where they suffer discrimination, harassment or persecution for their faith. We work with project partners in more than 60 different countries to relieve the distress of our Christian family.

You can help us to help them. Any donation, however large or small, will enable us to offer comfort and help to Christians who have nowhere else to turn. Please give today if you can.

And if not, please read the stories and cry out to the Lord for these dear brothers and sisters and for our ministry to them. They, and we, value your prayers more than we can say.

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Maldives' government tightens grip on religious affairs under new rules

New religious regulations in the Maldives include a penalty of up to five years in jail for anyone who preaches anything except a version of Islam approved by the country’s Islamic Ministry.

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Religious freedom is severely restricted in the Maldives (Source: Nevit Dilmen, Wikimedia Commons)


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French interior minister Claude Guéant
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UK: Songs of Praise may “explore non-Christian faiths”

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The Belgian city of Antwerp
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