CBN News - Christian Martyrs - ISIS Calls Egypt Christians Their 'Favorite Prey'

More than 150 Egyptian Christian families fled the northern town of El-Arish in the last last week after ISIS jihadists shot and killed at least seven Christians.

Many families, like Yacoub Ishak's, who escaped with few of their possessions, are now sheltering in Ismalilia, a small town some 75 miles east of Egypt's capital city Cairo.

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Christian Martyrs Voice - Vietnam - Wives of Prisoners

In this report, you'll meet three tribal women who traveled two days from their village in the mountains to tell us their stories. One said, "My husband was put in prison because he requested freedom of religion in the faith (Christianity)." Another told us of the challenges facing Christian women in her village because of the imprisonment of their husbands, "He's not at home. No one can do heavy labor at home, only women and children. We are afraid that the government will bring more difficulties upon our lives." You'll also meet a pastor who has suffered beatings because of his Christian activities.

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100 Huntley Street - Christian Persecution - Christian Martyrs - Living the Faith It's Not Safe to Believe

Tom Doyle is Vice President & Middle East Director of E3 Partners, a global church planting ministry. Today he shares about being a Christian in the Middle East today - and real-life accounts of 21st Century believers whose lives are literally at stake for their beliefs.

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Christian Martyrs - Aaron Lindsey - 21 Martyrs video

Aaron Lindsey turns our attention to the fact that we worship in freedom while others around the world are being persecuted and killed for their faith in Jesus Christ.

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Christian Martyrs - North Korea

Kim Eun Jin tells us of the ultimate price that her father had to pay for being a Christian in North Korea.

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American Missionary and Martyr Jim Elliot

American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Christianity, disruptive in nature, has nonetheless integrating powers for the individual in the culture, though both he and it may expect revolution.'
(source studlylight.org)

Jim Elliot was born in Portland, Oregon to Fred and Clara Elliot, and became a Christian at a young age. He graduated from Wheaton College in 1949, with a degree in Greek. He arrived in Ecuador on February 21, 1952, with the purpose of evangelizing Ecuador's Quechua Indians.

On October 8, 1953, he married fellow Wheaton alumnus and missionary Elisabeth Howard in Quito, Ecuador. Their only child, Valerie, was born February 27, 1955.

There they were approached several times by small groups of Huaorani Indians, and even gave an airplane ride to one curious Huaorani who they called "George" (his real name was Naenkiwi).

Encouraged by these friendly encounters, they began plans to visit the Huaorani, but their plans were preempted by the arrival of a larger group of Huaorani, who killed Elliot and his four companions on January 8, 1956. Elliot's mutilated body was found downstream, along with those of the other men, except that of Ed McCully.

The five missionaries had guns with them in their camp, but they did not use them to fight the Indians. When the Auca men came toward them with their spears, they did not shoot back with their guns. They knew that if they would shoot the Indians, they could probably save their own lives.

The Aucas always remembered those five strange white men who had been so kind to them and had not tried to kill them. And so a year later when more missionaries tried again to speak to the Aucas about Jesus, they were ready to listen.

Several of the men who had helped to kill Jim and his friends with their spears now became Christians. One of them gave his testimony at a meeting. He counted on his fingers and said, "I have killed twelve people with my spear! But I did that when my heart was black. Now Jesus' blood has washed my heart clean, so I don't live like that anymore." God's love had changed his life!

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Pastor Tim - Jesus the Deliverer

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Christian Martyrs - 2005-2008

The United Nations Human Rights Council has been called to intervene in the case of American pastor, Saeed Abedini, who remains imprisoned in Tehran, Iran, after he was sentenced to eight years in prison following what has been widely labeled, an unjust trial.

"Pastor Saeed Abedini, a Christian with dual United States–Iranian nationality, is currently imprisoned at Evin Prison in Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran, because he encouraged peaceful assemblies of Christians in private homes,"

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A compendium of Christians murdered by religious and secular fanatics. A reminder to pray for the persecuted church around the world.

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