Voice of the Martyrs Alert

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Daily briefs of the top news stories impacting Christians around the world.
In today’s edition:
Asking about Religious Freedom Violations in Uzbekistan is Considered Stupid
New Study Offers Healing from Abortion
‘Nazi’ Pope Runs ‘Child-Abusing Cult,’ Says HBO’s Maher
Romania: Missions Remain Strong while Bucharest Summit Fragile
Asking about Religious Freedom Violations in Uzbekistan is Considered Stupid
ASSIST News Service reports that several Protestants have been detained in separate raids on churches in Samarkand, Uzbekistan since the beginning of April. According to an article by Forum 18 News Service, church member Bobur Aslamov remains in detention at an unknown location, following a raid on a meeting of a charismatic Protestant church in a private home in the central city of Samarkand on April 3. And in a raid on a Full Gospel service in the capital Tashkent on the evening of April 9, church leader Serik Kadyrov and four others were held in custody overnight before being freed. Begzot Kadyrov, the leading specialist of the government’s Religious Affairs Committee in Tashkent, refused to discuss the detention of the Protestants in early April or any of the other recent harassment of religious communities. “Don’t disturb us with stupid questions about religious liberties,” he told Forum 18 on 10 April. “How many times do I have to explain to you stupid people: write an official letter to the Foreign Ministry.”
New Study Offers Healing from Abortion
Some women “tuck an abortion away for many, many years,” said Pat Layton, author of Surrendering the Secret: Healing the Heartbreak of Abortion, according to Baptist Press. “[T]he secret of abortion is that every woman still thinks she is the only one.” But at least half of American women experience an unintended pregnancy by age 45 and, at current rates, about one-third undergo an abortion, according to statistics released by the Guttmacher Institute. Layton wrote her Surrendering the Secret study a number of years ago in response to dealing with her own abortion. The Bible study now has been released by LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. “I wrote it after becoming a Christian and realizing the church had very little knowledge on how to deal with abortion and its effect on women,” Layton said on an Inside LifeWay podcast. According to the Guttmacher Institute, 43 percent of those having abortions identify themselves as Protestant. The eight-week study includes a 20-30 minute video introduction that supports each week’s lesson in helping women through the post-abortion healing process.

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15 Responses to “Voice of the Martyrs Alert”

  1. Jewell says on April 16th, 2008 at 12:31 am :

    I think she’ll pass out the first time she sees a dead deer in the back of a truck.

  2. Eulalia says on April 16th, 2008 at 1:21 am :

    Yes but ‘whose’ heart does he have is the question we should be asking…

  3. Babette says on April 16th, 2008 at 2:12 am :

    It’s a question I think we should be asking as the federal government invests millions of dollars in emerging technology aimed at detecting and decoding brain activity. And though government funding focuses on military uses for these new gizmos, they can and do end up in the hands of civilian law enforcement and in commercial applications.

  4. Lorie says on April 16th, 2008 at 3:02 am :

    mmmm - bacon the candy of meats.

  5. Shannon says on April 16th, 2008 at 3:53 am :

    This is a weekly test of the emergency broadcast system.This is only a test.

  6. Pacey says on April 16th, 2008 at 4:43 am :

    just came in to say, “Fuck you, Joe Lieberman”

  7. Noll says on April 16th, 2008 at 5:34 am :

    Oh no, my government is trying to warn me when I may be in danger from foul weather or industrial accidents.WTF indeed!!

  8. Derek says on April 16th, 2008 at 6:25 am :

    Well, on the bright side, it makes it more convenient to flip off a cop.

  9. Leta says on April 16th, 2008 at 7:15 am :

    Yes they do. Many people, especially Tibetans simply don’t agree. Isn’t that beautiful, that the Tibetans can disagree with the Dalai Lama? Its something the Tibetans in China don’t have the freedom to do when it comes to the Chinese Government. They must listen to the Chinese government or get marginalized and shot up.

  10. Jere says on April 16th, 2008 at 8:06 am :

    this will be cool! looking forward to it.

  11. Grosvenor says on April 16th, 2008 at 8:56 am :

    English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?

  12. Alvin says on April 16th, 2008 at 9:47 am :

    Dolphins lack the nuances of human speech, but we lack some of theirs. Maybe Neanderthals could produce sounds we can’t?

  13. Cathryn says on April 16th, 2008 at 10:37 am :

    Insulin causes cancer!Edit: Okay, what about insulin contributing to cancer growth?

  14. Stacy says on April 16th, 2008 at 11:28 am :

    Maybe they want their citizens to spend their money in the country, rather than in Mexico.