Open Doors has just published the 2013 World Watch List, a ranking of the top 50 countries around the world where persecution of Christians is the most severe. Along with this, Open Doors is challenging believers here in the West to take the Five Minute Challenge. Watch the video below and download the World Watch …
Christians in Egypt: Now What?…Prayer
This past Tuesday night at Eastbrook Church, we gathered as usual for prayer at 7pm. However, along with a wonderful commissioning for a dear couple from our fellowship, we set aside time to pray for Egypt and particularly for the church there. There is much confusion within the country related to the political situation. The election of …
Who Will Defend Mideast Christians? (via USA Today)
This week, USA Today featured an article entitled "Who Will Defend Mideast Christians" by Joseph Bottum. The author continues to raise a question that has been talked about online recently, and that I had raised at the turn of the new year about religious violence against Christians in the Middle East. Are we turning a …
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Global Violence Against Christians on the Rise?
This last year has seen an apparent upsurge in violence against Christians around the world. Too often, American Christians are ignorant of these things, so I thought I'd simply post some links to relevant news articles from major secular publications on recent happenings in Egypt and Iraq, plus a few other things of note. I …
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Matthew Erickson 