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Christian Persecution continues unchanged in many countries.During these last years there has been an increase in persecution and has changed from isolated cases to open attacks on christians and churches almost daily,all over the world.The stories,testimonies and facts presented in this blog have the objective of helping you to be more aware of this reality and the actual situation that many of our brothers and sisters are facing right now wherever they are in the world. (Matthew 5:10-12)

Sunday, October 19, 2008

REMEMBERING RAMI AYYAD Murdered on 10/7/07:Palestinian Christian Stabbed To Death in Hamas Controlled Gaza

Rami Ayyad the director of the Protestant Holy Bible Society in Gaza was stabbed to death and his body dumped in a field near Gaza city;s Zeitoun neighborhood. Since the Hamas takeover in Gaza there have been an increasing number of attacks against Palestinian Christians who comprise a small percentage of the 1.5 million living in the Gaza Strip. Since the outbreak of the Al Aksa intifada seven years ago, thousands of Palestinian Christians have fled abroad. Bethlehem is no longer a predominently Christian city and in the Gaza Strip, the small Christian population has to depend on Hamas security forces to protect them...