New Year: A recap of the past two years

Happy New Year everyone.

As you have all noticed. I was inactive for the entire year of 2019 on this blog. That's all about to change: Here is a recap of what has happened in late 2018 and all of 2019:

1. Asia Bibi released

Normally, when it comes to persecution, there is always bad news. For once however, there is some good news and it is welcome

Asia Bibi was convicted and put on death row for Blasphemy back in 2009. Apparently she got into a heated discussion with some of the Muslims at a well and said,"Jesus is alive, Muhammad is dead." This caused the Muslims (as is the case in Pakistan) to call the cops and throw her in prison. She was released in October 2018 and she moved to Canada shortly afterwards.

2. Bombing in Sri Lanka
On Easter, as our Sri Lankan brethren in Christ celebrated our Lord conquering death by rising from the grave, a Muslim got it into his mind that this was the perfect time to follow his prophet's command to attack non-Muslims, hence this attack:

Some leaders say this was in retaliation to an attack that happened in New Zealand which leads us to:

3. Shooting at mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand

On March 15th, 2019, a white man went into a mosque and open fire killing numerous Muslims. He did it because he was concerned about the rapid birthrates of Muslims and that they would eventually outnumber the Caucasians.

While this blog is focused on the persecution of my brethren in Christ, I believe that all people regardless of whether they know Christ or not are made in the image of God and therefore attacking ANYONE of any faith is wrong. This blogger condemns this shooting.

4. Rise of Christians in China

More good news. 

Due to Marxism (an ideology that believes God is a myth made up to oppress the poor) being the ideology that drive their government, China has been known to oppress Christians. This has not stop the number of saints from growing in that country as this article highlights (Read here)

5. Imprisonment for Iranian Christians

9 Iranian Brethren in Christ were imprisoned on trumped up charges, due to participation in a home church earlier in the year of 2019 (between January 31 and February 23 to be exact). They were sentenced to 5 years of prison (Read more)

6. Escape from Prison in North Korea

North Korea is the WORST place for anyone who names the name of Christ to live. Considering the hell, that countries like Saudia Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt put our brethren through that is saying something and yet we have another good news story of someone who escaped from prison in this article here (Read).

Why is this considered a Miracle? Well North Korea is known for having surveillance on people's private and public life. If someone is suspected of praying or reading the Bible they are sent to prison. There, they are tortured and put in solitary confinement. If one denies their faith, they are sent to a "re-education camp," where they are in poor living conditions, subjected to 12 hours of hard labor and if they are married to someone else, they are forced to divorce them. After a number of years, they are released.

If the prisoner refuses to recant their faith, they are sent to the kwanliso, otherwise known as the Korean political prison camp where they are used as test subjects for bio-weapons, assaulted by guards (physically and sexually). To say nothing about the forced labor, poor sanitation the inmates endure there. 

That's what makes this escape from the prison a miracle.

So those are the highlights of what is happening with our brethren in Christ who are being persecuted all over the world.

I will make sure I post more regularly this year.

Be blessed.