This web site has updates on the Korean medical team being held hostage by the Taliban. So far the Taliban has murdered two of the hostages. Pray for these Christian brothers and sisters who were in Afghanistan on a medical mercy mission.

Bob
Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Bae Hyung Kyu, a Presbyterian missionary from South Korea was murdered by the Taliban in Afghanistan while leading a medical mission to that country.

Bob
Fides Quaerens Intellectum

[Warning: Very difficult reading with explicit accounts of the torture of Christians]

The ancient church in Smyrna (Rev 2:8-11) sends a contemporary letter to the rest of the Body of Christ. The Church in Turkey pays the ultimate cost for their faith.

Michael Patton has an interesting blog on What Happened To the 12 Apostles. After spending much time researching the deaths of the Apostles, looking at both primary and secondary historical resources, he gives us the historical accounts of their gruesome deaths.

You have to ask yourself why these men would die for someone they had abandoned in His greatest moment of need - the cross. Why? Michael elaborates for us … “Amidst some uncertainty, one thing is clear the basis of their martyrdom was the same in all accounts. They died because they proclaimed to have seen Christ die and then to have seen Him alive. They all died because of an unwavering, unrelenting claim that Christ rose from the grave. In my mind and for my faith, the gruesome death of the Apostles as recorded below was one of the greatest gifts that God gave to the Church.”

God forgive us our apathy and help to to be fearless like these precious servants of Yours.

Bob
Fides Quaerens Intellectum

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53450

“Noviana was the only survivor, and suffered the massive slash across her face and neck; the other three girls were decapitated ….. Authorities said Theresia Morangke, 15, Yarni Sambue, 15, and Alfita Poliwo, 17, were killed in the attack. Their heads were found in bags on the steps of a church and along a road, carrying a message, ’We will murder 100 more Christian teenagers and their heads will be presented as presents’ ……