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Archive for April 4th, 2009

A culture that promotes persecution

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) recently published a report on the plight of Christians in India. Hindus and Christians have lived in a tense relationship since independence in 1947, but those tensions exploded into widespread open violence in the state of Orissa in August 2008, which the report calls a “tipping point”. [...]

Two imprisoned Iranian Christians in poor health

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

In a follow-up to this story, Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad (30) and Maryam Rustampoor (27), the two Christian women recently arrested by Iranian security agents, have now been in custody for 28 days and are reportedly suffering poor health.
Assist News Service has received a press release from Elam Ministries about their condition.
“They are in a cell [...]

Saint Ambrose of Milan

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

The collect for today, the Feast of St Ambrose (339-397), Bishop of Milan, Doctor of the Church, Poet (source):
Lord God of hosts,
who didst call Ambrose from the governor’s throne
to be a bishop in thy Church
and a courageous champion of thy faithful people:
mercifully grant that, as he fearlessly rebuked rulers,
so we may with like courage
contend for [...]