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One small voice cries out for the Persecuted Church.

More than 100,000,000 Christians around the world are at risk of persecution. It has become one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet, today! It is ”a crisis point in history” that can no longer be overlooked, or millions more will suffer! Sadly it’s a crisis that not enough people realize exists. Unfortunately the western media rarely reports the extreme persecution inflicted on our Christian brothers and sisters, worldwide.

We are called by our God to stand up for all who are destitute, to remember the prisoners as if imprisoned ourselves and to be a VOICE for the persecuted Church! Join us, we CAN make a difference!

For the latest news, information and updates, follow us at www.voiceofthepersecuted.org

• Pakistan Teeters on The Edge

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on September 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

    While the world news outlets focus on only one portion of the middle east crises at a time, and portray the current crises as individual separate from the other outbreaks. But there are similarities possibly linking it together as one.  (More) Christians… Read More ›

• Palestinian Church Forced Out of Building in East Jerusalem, Israel

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on September 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  Morning Star News) – Seven years of harassment and attacks by hard-line Muslims have finally forced a Palestinian church in East Jerusalem out of their building, church leaders said. The congregation of Calvary Baptist Church, under Holy Land Missions, moved… Read More ›

• Secretary Kerry Makes Impassioned Plea For American Pastor Saeed’s Release

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on August 30, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

      U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued an impassioned plea for the release of several Americans imprisoned in Iran including American Pastor Saeed Abedini. His statement focused on the immense hardship faced by Pastor Saeed’s family in his… Read More ›

• NIGERIA: Eyewitness Accounts of Slaughter in Gwoza Attack

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on August 25, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

    VOP Nigerian Foreign Correspondent (Voice of the Persecuted) The Islamic Ideology of converting the Christian community with violence has come to stay in Northern Nigeria. The capture of Gwoza local government by Islamic Militants on 6th August 2014 was… Read More ›

• Displaced Nigerian Christians Vow Return To Worship God In Attacked Village

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on August 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  By VOP Nigerian Correspondent Gwoza Local Government Area, Nigeria(Voice of the Persecuted) Brave Christian leaders from Attagara who had been displaced by Islamic insurgents after a brutal attack, vowed to return—resolute to worship the Lord in their respective churches. Our… Read More ›

• Prayers Needed Pastor Saeed Abedini Facing New Death Threats from ISIS Terrorists

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on August 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which is working to secure the release of American Pastor Saeed Abedini from an Iranian prison, said today Pastor Saeed is now facing new death threats from ISIS terrorists who are being… Read More ›

• France Offers Asylum To Iraqi Christians

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on July 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  (Voice of the Persecuted) Hundreds of years before the Muslim prophet began receiving ‘revelations’ around 600AD, the beginnings of Islam, Christians have lived in the Iraqi city of Mosul for nearly 2,000 years. ISIS militants imposing harsh Sharia law in Mosul (Iraq’s second largest city) gave Christians… Read More ›

• VICTORY! Christian woman Meriam Ibrahim stuck in Sudan Is FREE!

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on July 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  Please take this moment to PRAISE GOD! At a Congressional hearing held yesterday, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said “a warning should be sounded across America” over the Obama administration’s “virtual silence” toward the Sudanese government’s persecution of Meriam… Read More ›

• Syria: Captive Women Herded and Sold in Slave Markets

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on July 22, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  
  

  The above picture recently appeared on several Arabic social media and websites. Its caption says: “First female slave market in Deir ez-Zur,” a Syrian region that is 20 percent Christian and is currently occupied by the Islamic State of Iraq… Read More ›

• Iraq: Remaining Christian Families Forced To Leave Mosul

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on July 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  John 16….”These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling. “They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service… Read More ›

• Obama Administration Suppresses Talk of Muslim Persecution of Christians: March 2014

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on July 15, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  
  

  Why is the U.S. downplaying or denying attacks against Christians? “What about the churches which were desecrated? Is this not blasphemy? Where is justice?” — Fr. James Channan OP, Director of The Peace Center, Lahore, Pakistan. Members of the Islamic… Read More ›

• Convent attacked in Bangladesh: first such violence in country

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on July 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  A massive attack by armed men on a Catholic convent in Bangladesh happened on July 7, reports Aid to the Church in Need. The attack, by 50 to 60 men, was the first such instance of violence against a Catholic institution… Read More ›

• 2nd Annual Global Prayer Vigil for Saeed Abedini Planned for September 26th

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on July 9, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

    Last year, on the day after Prayer Vigils were held globally for Pastor Saeed, President Obama mentioned him and other imprisoned Americans on a phone call with the Iranian President. What will happen this year if we pray again?… Read More ›

• Boko Haram Attacks Relentless in Wake of Kidnapping of Girls in Nigeria

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on July 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

    (Morning Star News) – After a massacre in which members of the Islamic extremist Boko Haram group last month dressed in Nigerian Army fatigues, Christian leaders believe elements in the military must be complicit in the often-unchallenged attacks on… Read More ›

• Update ON Chaos In The Central African Republic, Making Sense & Asking Questions

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on July 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  Here is what we reported in January of this year: The Seleka have been compared to the ‘Janjaweed’ a ruthless, souless group of rebel murderers.  The Lord’s Resistance Army who also claims Christian roots,  and is hunted internationally for horrendous crimes… Read More ›

• U.S. Bank fires Teller for saying ‘Have A Blessed Day’

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on July 7, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  
  

  WALTON, Ky. – reports of discrimination forces a bank teller in Kentucky to file suit against her former employer after she claimed that she was fired for telling bank patrons to ‘have a blessed day.’ Polly Neace says that she used the phrase… Read More ›

• This Simple Prayer Request May Be the Best Request of the Year!

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on July 7, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  
  

  There is no spiritual equivalent to the Academy Awards. Could you imagine a gala event in Nashville where Billy Bob Johnson from Plano, TX, wins this year’s Golden Bible for “Best Supporting Evangelist”?  John MacArthur and Mark Driscoll could slug… Read More ›

• Terrorist groups settle in the Christian area of Essa Nagri in Karachi Pakistan

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on July 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

    With everything that is transpiring in the Middle East and Africa one nation that the media is not covering is Pakistan.  The police are corrupt, ignoring the pleas for help from Christians and other religious minorities.  It is fact… Read More ›

• Five Christians including two nuns feared kidnapped by ISIS jihadists

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on July 1, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Since Saturday 28th June we have no news regarding Sisters Atur and Miskinta, two Chaldean religious women of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, who had returned to Mosul by car from the city… Read More ›

• Syrian Catholic Archbishop Moshe’s appeal to the international community: Save us!

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on June 28, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  
  

  Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) – Qaraqosh [The city is known by three names: Baghdede in Assyrian, Hamdaniya in Arabic and Qaraqosh in Turkish.] is almost a ghost town. More than ninety percent of the more than 40 thousand inhabitants, nearly all… Read More ›

• ‘Mystical Bees’ and ‘Mysterious Snakes’ Attack Boko Harm Insurgents

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on June 28, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  
  

  On Wednesday, a reports began circulating of bees and snakes attacking the Boko Haram militants in the Sambisa Forests. It seems the insurgents began fleeing the dreaded forest, two weeks ago as a result of some mysterious snakes that had been “haunting” them… Read More ›

• Sudanese mother is released and ‘will travel to the U.S.’ after being arrested for trying to flee country

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on June 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  Latest update reports- After spending 48 hours in jail, it is now being reported that the Sudanese Christian woman, Meriam Ibrahim has been released, again. Recently, a court overturned her death sentence for apostasy and had released her from a woman’s prison. Less than… Read More ›

• Thousands of Christians Evacuate Mosul, ISIS Advances Towards Baghdad

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on June 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  (FEBC) Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq with 1.8 million people, fell to ISIS militants early in June, after much of Northern Iraq was already taken over by Sunni militants. ISIS, which stands for “The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria,”… Read More ›

• How Often Do You Pray? And Is Prayer Necessary?

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on June 23, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  
  

  (Voice of the Persecuted) How often do you pray? Do you find yourself saying, “I’ve been so busy, or tired that I forgot”? Are you finding yourself praying less? Do you tell yourself that you will pray more, but never seem to get around to… Read More ›

• Sudan’s Meriam Ibrahim ‘Freed’ From Prison

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on June 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  A 27-year-old woman sentenced to death last month for converting from Islam to Christianity in Sudan has been released from prison. The case of Meriam Ibrahim, who is married to a Christian American, triggered an international outcry. She gave birth… Read More ›

• Desperate Situation For Iraqi Christians

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on June 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  Iraqi Chistians are in a dire situation and under extreme pressure by Islamists. They desperately need our prayers. Follow VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on Facebook and Twitter

• 55 Members of Congress call on Obama Administration to protect Religious Minorities in Iraq

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on June 20, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  
  

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Fifty-five Members of Congress today called on the Obama Administration to do more to help protect religious minorities in Iraq. In a letter to the president spearheaded by Reps. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA),… Read More ›

• Extortion of Christians in Baghdad By Sunni Muslims in Advance of ISIS Arrival

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on June 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  (AINA) – Today it was difficult to get through to Bagdad by telephone. When finally I got through late in the evening, I spoke with a woman I first met in Damascus in 2009. Back then, she and her family had… Read More ›

• How al-Shabaab militia went from door to door killing non-Muslims as Kenyan village watched World Cup

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on June 16, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  
  

  ‘My husband told them we were Christians and they shot him in the head’ Somali militants who murdered 48 people in a Kenyan village as they watched the World Cup went door to door asking residents if they were Muslim… Read More ›

• Western Media and Islamic Persecution

  By VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on June 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

    By Raymond Ibrahim   Evidence has again emerged indicting that if Western mainstream media actually reported more on the sufferings of Christians throughout the Islamic world, their lot would likely improve. Meriam Ibrahim, a woman who is imprisoned in… Read More ›