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A sword will pierce her heart, yet she ponders. Such is the legacy of Mary, the mother of Jesus. It is a legacy re-encountered within the history of Hagia Sophia.
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COVID-19 lockdown restrictions have increased expenses and worsened living conditions in Iraq’s Nineveh Governorate. Militias are an unwelcome presence, and concern was raised that ISIS is using lockdown for recruitment purposes. Residents continue asking the question of whether immigration or returning home is preferable.
Nineveh Plains Transitional Justice Report: July | Persecution
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COVID-19 continues exacerbating the challenges already faced by the Nineveh Governorate. Lockdown restrictions have increased expenses and worsened living conditions.
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Christian women in Pakistan must overcome impossible odds to succeed in society. Cast aside for both their gender and status as a religious minority, education and employment are difficult to come by. ICC learned of four women who were denied admittance to a local vocational school because of their faith.
In order to support these women ICC enrolled them in a 10-month beautician training course. This program will allow the women to grow in their cosmetology skills and learn alongside other women facing similar challenges. The women also received cosmetic tools and hygienic kits, so that they can eventually develop their own small businesses.
One participant in the training shared, "We never hoped or expected to get so much in life. It is God’s providence. He has listened to my cry. ICC and [partner] have played a great role in our lives. We thank them wholeheartedly. We shall make use of the opportunity to prosper and grow in life. We shall be happy and prosperous girls in the future."
With the skills and tools to develop their own small businesses, these women will be able to provide for their families, clearing the cloud of financial worries from overhead. Read more: bit.ly/3k6cCE0
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![Christian women in Pakistan must overcome impossible odds to succeed in society. Cast aside for both their gender and status as a religious minority, education and employment are difficult to come by. ICC learned of four women who were denied admittance to a local vocational school because of their faith.
In order to support these women ICC enrolled them in a 10-month beautician training course. This program will allow the women to grow in their cosmetology skills and learn alongside other women facing similar challenges. The women also received cosmetic tools and hygienic kits, so that they can eventually develop their own small businesses.
One participant in the training shared, We never hoped or expected to get so much in life. It is Gods providence. He has listened to my cry. ICC and [partner] have played a great role in our lives. We thank them wholeheartedly. We shall make use of the opportunity to prosper and grow in life. We shall be happy and prosperous girls in the future.
With the skills and tools to develop their own small businesses, these women will be able to provide for their families, clearing the cloud of financial worries from overhead. Read more: https://bit.ly/3k6cCE0](https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/116697150_10158779891352454_5324070752138459917_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_sid=2d5d41&_nc_ohc=2qmrcnZkcBMAX9JCGoH&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&_nc_tp=7&oh=a531794e437a5672e1cb1245ab8146ee&oe=5F4D07E6)
Thanking you Lord Jesus for ICC'S mission that supports to the persecuted bless their mission meet all their monitery needs. In your mercy bless all tose runs the mission and those who serve in the mission. We also pray for the persecuted give them victry over the enemy let there faith be not be shaken bless them abundantly thanking you Lord Jesus amen
Thank you ICC, you are doing God's work. Good luck ladies and may God be your guide.
"I’ve seen cigarette burns and scars, I’ve seen bruises, I’ve seen so many things on their arms…"
On this week’s episode of #IntoTheDeep, Jeff King interviews JoAnn Doyle, a leader of Not Forgotten – Uncharted Ministries, who discusses what it’s like to be a Muslim woman, confined to a religion that does not value them. She has seen firsthand the physical and mental abuse that many Muslim women have endured over the years.
She also shares how her ministry is able to minster to Muslim women and how it seeks to show the Church in the West how to engage and love Muslims in their own communities. Listen now!
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Months before talks on renewal of a 2018 Sino-Vatican deal that helped solve the problems on the appointment of bishops, Chinese hackers allegedly target the Holy See and the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, according to a monitoring group.
China Hacks Vatican to Get Ahead of a Sino-Vatican Deal Renewal | Persecution
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07/30/2020 Vatican (International Christian Concern) – Months before talks on renewal of a 2018 Sino-Vatican deal that helped solve the …
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On his first day on the mission field, Tom Doyle was forced to consider just how far he was willing to go to follow Jesus. Read more: bit.ly/39O5Bmy
2 days ago
YES!!
I can understand for only two short years ago having the police called on me for praying outside of my home. I even thought in America I would be free to pray outside in my own backyard. I lived in what I thought was a nice community that accepted Christian's. I lived next to a veteran, some elderly people, and others. Even the homosexual on my street was accepted by them all. The fact that I simply prayed outside and had them do that is heartbreaking. In the heartland of America, next to a city nicknamed A City of A Thousand Churches. The population in this area is only around 250,000 people, and if you didn't look you wouldn't know we have Buddhist temples, Mosques, a Synagogue, and many different Christian churches, including a metaphysical one. With so many religious beliefs accepted here I never would have thought they would do that, especially since was raised that we could in America. That wasn't a public school, a corporation, a government building, or some place where the phase "separation of church and state" would be accepted. It was my backyard, and I was just divorced and went outside and prayed outloud like we are taught to do, and my neighbor called the police for me praying.
I sometimes listen to the bible. I've actually listened to the whole thing straight through and started listening again to it. I made through only the first few chapters when the ones I'm by now started acting weird towards me. Again, we are allowed to listen to it.
I LOVE PHILOSOPHY! I studied much on Eastern (Asian) philosophy through my teens and into my early 20s. I studied western Christian philosophy prior to that. Of course I also know much, but never all, of other European philosophies. I have since rounded my way back to revisiting Christian philosophy with an emphasis on Judaism and and other middle eastern and north African beliefs to get a better grasp on it.
I never believed that people in this part of Indiana in America could possibly ever turn on someone for reading and listening to a Bible on their own property. It's not like I went and did a mercenary act and asked for them to join me in prayer or religion. (Like those Jehovah Witnesses that would knock on my door and leave pamphlets.) I was simply minding my own business at my own house praying to my God.
