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The Lord Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, has given a comand to pray for one another. Below are brethren who need your prayers. If there is any way you can help them, besides prayer, contact us and we will forward your information to the brethren.
May the Lord Jesus bless you for the love your are showing to the brethren. Amen

As voice of the Martyrs workers recently met with the family of Pastor Dmitry Shestakov their hearts were touched as his 7 year old daughter Vera showed them one of her favorite videos of her and her father. It was videoed on a camera phone during Christmas of 2006 just one month before Uzbek police arrested Dmitry for his involvement of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In March 2007 Dmitry was sentenced to 4 years in prison and was moved to a forced labor camp a long distance from his family.

To see the video with Pastor Dmitry dancing with his 7 year old daughter 1 month before he went to prison click on the link then use the pass code DmitryDance

 http://www.persecution.com/members/mediaRoom/index.cfm

Dearly Beloved in the Lord,

 

The state of Orissa continues to see massive violence against Christians since 24TH. The report collected by some of the native brothers reports that 65 churches burned down, more than 700 Christian homes destroyed, 19 dead bodies found hundreds of Christians forced to flee into forests to save their lives, and thousands homeless. Despite promises by state and central government the violence which began on Christmas as Eve is continuing.

 

Roads to the affected areas are continue to be blocked by Hindu fundamentalists by cutting down the tree on the road, and other blocked, and police curfews prevent any one traveling to the affected arias. Confirmed reports from one village give a sense of the carnage which is likely being under-reported. In Barkhama, a village near Baliguda in Kandhamal district, three pastors emerged after hiding in the jungle for five days with out food and water has reported:

 

  • over 100 Christian homes destroyed
  • two Christians killed and burnt in front of the local church and another murdered in a market on Christmas Eve
  • At least fifteen Christians missing and suspected to be killed and buried in the nearby forest.

Efforts by our brothers to visit Baminigaon, called the epicenter of the trouble, were unsuccessful because of the restriction for traveling to those areas.

The government’s actions seem to be too little, too late. We are deeply worried by media reports that police and other local authorities in Orissa stood by and watched attacks on Christians.

 

There are reports that some who were missing has returned but still there is a large number who are missing.

These brothers and sister needs our prayers for the time of persecution.

 

Regi Mathai