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Monday, December 13, 2010
In Pakistan, Christianity Earns a Death Sentence

It all began a year and a half ago, with a quarrel over a bowl of water. A group of women farm workers were suffering in the heat near a village in Pakistan's Punjab province. Aasia Noreen, an illiterate 45-year-old mother of five, offered them water, but was rebuffed. Noreen was a Christian, they said, and therefore her water was unclean — sadly, a common taunt hurled at Pakistan's beleaguered Christians. But rather than swallowing the indignity, she mounted a stout defense of her faith.

Word of the exchange swiftly filtered through the village of Ittan Wali, in Sheikhupura district. The local mullah took to his mosque's loudspeakers, exhorting his followers to take action against Noreen. In a depressingly familiar pattern, her defense of her faith was twisted into an accusation of blasphemy, according to her family and legal observers familiar with the case. As a frenzied mob pursued her, the police intervened, taking her into custody. But far from protecting her, they arrested and charged Noreen with insulting Islam and its prophet. And on Nov. 8, after enduring 18 months in prison, she was sentenced to death by a district court, making her the first woman to suffer that fate.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2035196,00.html

reading this article really reminds us of the truth of the world that Christians remains persecuted, and many people still die for the Christian faith. And it serves as a reminder for us, now, to pray for these people. To thank God for giving them the chance to know God, to pray that God gives them strength and the hope to hold on to their faith, and to pray that the violence against our fellow brothers and sisters will come to an end soon.

and we can thank God for our situation too, that as we live in peace, we will continue to uphold our faith and to make full use of the chance to love God more, and to thank God for the peace we have - something which we have been taking for granted for such a long long time..

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