Let us remember our brothers and sisters in Christ all around the world. Following is a recent story about attacks on Christians in Sri Lanka. Please pray for these men and women of God; that they will be protected on all sides in Jesus’ name.
Matthew 5:10 10Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Monday August 17, 2009
SRI LANKA: RASH OF ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS REPORTED
Assaults by local mobs, including Buddhist monks, surge.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, August 17 (Compass Direct News) – Attacks on Christians in Sri Lanka have surged noticeably in recent weeks, following the government’s defeat of Tamil separatists in May.
Attacks were reported in Puttlam, Gampaha and Kurunegala districts in western Sri Lanka, central Polonnaruwa district, Mannar district in the north and Matara district in the south, according to the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL).
Most recently, attackers on July 28 set fire to an Assemblies of God church in Norachcholai, Puttlam district, destroying the building. The pastor received frantic calls from neighbors at about 8:45 p.m. reporting that the building was in flames, echoing a similar arson attack almost a year ago that destroyed the original building on the site.
Church members have registered a complaint with police, but at press time no arrests had been made.
When a pastor of a Foursquare Gospel church and his wife visited a church member in Radawana village, Gampaha district during the third week of July, a 50-strong mob gathered at the door and shouted that they would not tolerate any further Christian activity in the village, NCEASL reported. The mob then prevented the couple from leaving the house, hit the pastor with a rod and threw a bucket of cow dung at him. Read Full Article Here (article courtesy of Compass Direct News)
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