"Akawaambia wote, Mtu yeyote akitaka kunifuata, na ajikane mwenyewe, ajitwike msalaba wake kila siku, anifuate"
"naam, saa yaja atakapodhania kila mtu awauaye ya kuwa anamtolea Mungu ibada"
Sasa chukua haya maneno, kasome kwenye habari za kila siku utajua ni akina nani hao... Nitakusaidia pa kuanzia...
The European Center for Law and Justice’s (ECLJ) affiliate in Pakistan, the Organization for Legal Aid (OLA), is representing the family of Liaqat Masih, a Christian man who was brutally tortured and murdered by local police for supposedly stealing property from his Muslim employer, Raza Hameed...
aclj.org
At least 81 Christians attending Sunday worship service in their historic church were killed and 131 others were wounded after two Taliban suicide bombers stormed the building in northwest Pakistan
www.christianpost.com
A Christian community in Central India has lost their beloved pastor after he was brutally murdered by masked men on Thursday.
www.christianitydaily.com
Millions uprooted from homes, says UK-commissioned report, with many jailed and killed
www.theguardian.com
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Note: Kosa lao ni kumfuata Yesu Kristo!
Bonus: Death of Polycarp, Bishop of Smirna and Disciple of Apostle John
"As Polycarp was being taken into the arena, a voice came to him from heaven: “Be strong, Polycarp and play the man!” No one saw who had spoken, but our brothers who were there heard the voice. When the crowd heard that Polycarp had been captured, there was an uproar. The Proconsul asked him whether he was Polycarp. On hearing that he was, he tried to persuade him to apostatize, saying, “Have respect for your old age, swear by the fortune of Caesar. Repent, and say, ‘Down with the Atheists!’”
Polycarp looked grimly at the wicked heathen multitude in the stadium, and gesturing towards them, he said, “Down with the Atheists!”
“Swear,” urged the Proconsul, “reproach Christ, and I will set you free.” “86 years have I have served him,” Polycarp declared, “and he has done me no wrong. How can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?”
Yeah, you can know them not by Kanzu et al but follow Christ unto death. Two verses comes to my mind that Polycarp might have learned from Apostle John:
"Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." - Rev 2:10
And of Christians in general:
Hebrews 11
32And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: 33Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; 38(
Of whom the world was not worthy🙂 they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.