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August 10, 2012
Saudi Arabia Deports 35 Ethiopian Christians for Prayer Vigil
Group has been imprisoned since December.
A group of 35 Ethiopian Christians were finally deported from Saudi Arabia last week after being arrested and detained since December 2011 for holding a prayer meeting.
The 29 women and six men were arrested after Saudi security officials raided the home of one of the Ethiopians while they were holding an "all-night prayer vigil."
International Christian Concern and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom report that the Christians were physically and sexually "assaulted, harassed, and pressured" to convert to Islam while imprisoned for more than seven months, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The State Department has listed Saudi Arabia as a "country of particular concern" since 2004 in its annual International Religious Freedom Report.
Saudi Arabia also regularly ranks high on Open Doors' World Watch List of countries where Christians are the most persecuted.
Meanwhile, Saudi officials arrested two men in July accused of "forcibly converting" a female colleague to Christianity after giving her books on religion and inviting her to follow a religious chat room. The young woman's father filed the charges after she refused to denounce Christianity and return home after fleeing to Lebanon.
CT has reported on Saudi Arabia's intolerance toward minority religions, including when a top Saudi cleric recently declared that all churches in the Arabian Peninsula should be destroyed.
Comments
If this event was happened in China, I believed the US government and the US Congress would condemn China for violation of human rights. Since Saudi Arabia is an American ally, both the American President and the Secretary of State chose to turn a blind eye on this brutal persecution on Christian because condemning Saudi Arabia does not correspond with America’s interest. On the contrary, conniving at the persecution of Christian in Islamic countries is in tune with America’s interest. Ironically, both Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are Christians.
LA Times reported on April 2008, “Saudi Arabia remains the world's leading source of money for Al Qaeda and other extremist networks and has failed to take key steps requested by US officials to stem the flow”. The Apostle Paul started out as a persecutor of Christian. On his way to Damascus, the Lord asked “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" (Acts 9:4). USA, why do you persecute Christian? To state the obvious, the US is waltzing with the demon.
While the US is dechristianizating, the population of Christian in China is growing, they would wonder why the American President is taking actions designed to contain and blockade China, inflaming conflicts in Asia against China, spreading “China Threat” theory around the world. Despite America’s continuing financial crisis, the Pentagon is considering redeploying its military forces for a prospective war with its largest creditor, China. Former US Director of National Intelligence Admiral has confirmed that China is a principal target of a major US war plan - known as Air-Sea Battle - which was developed since the early 1990s. Why does the US government behave so belligerent? Why does the US Congress be made of warmongers?
China has never fired a bullet on Japanese soil but the Japanese had committed war crimes in China from mid 1930s to mid 1940s. China has never fired a bullet on American soil but the US with its alliance had invaded China in 1900. The Eight-Nation Alliance was an alliance of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom (with Indian troops), and the US. Except Japan, the alliance was correlated with Christianity. In July, famed evangelist Billy Graham has called for America to repent.
Let’s pray God for the peace in Asia and the atrocity experienced by all Christians living in Islamic countries.
Posted By: Tina | August 11, 2012 1:47 AM
Please Tina can you actually confirm the source of this allegation against US and its allies? The bases of your insight was not stated anywhere in your discoveries so if you can organize yourself properly and post.
Posted By: frank | August 11, 2012 6:01 PM
Frank, it was more than 100 years ago when the US and its alliances invaded China. They saw China as the world's largest untapped market and launched attack to China. US and its alliances killed Chinese people, occupied Chinese lands and ports, sold opium to Chinese, pillaged silver, gold and valuable treasures, gutted Chinese Palace, and committed many more crimes and injustices …. Did the Japanese Shinto priest condemn the Japanese King? Did the Church of England condemn the Queen? Did the Vatican condemn those violence? Did the Russian Orthodox Church condemn the Tsar? Did the US Congress condemn the American President? Did the US and its alliances apologize?
Hoss Cartwright, former vice-chairman of the Joint Staff, said, "AirSea Battle is demonizing China. That's not in anybody's interest." And Psalms 34:13 says ”Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.”
I hope the US can do something constructive to resolve the tensions in Asia but not the otherwise.
May God give peace to Asia.
Posted By: Tina | August 12, 2012 10:37 PM
Talking about waltzing with demons, it is starkly clear that the US is being sucked into the swirl.
Japan’s indigenous and dominant religion is Shinto. The US is hugging the Shinto gods and goddesses. Japan is a strong ally with the US.
India’s major indigenous religions are Hindu and Islam. Asia News reported on 18 April 2012, “The Indian state does not have any anti-conversion law, but enforces three ordinances that ban non-Hindus from proselytizing near Hindu temples. A Pentecostal clergyman could go to jail because of calendars found in his possession. Meanwhile, a court convicts 11 Christians on forced conversion charges that date back to 2007.”
Vietnam’s major is Buddhism. New York Times reported on 31 March 2011, “Vietnam has increased repression of indigenous minority Christians in the country’s Central Highlands, closing small informal churches, compelling public renunciations of faith and arresting worshipers.”
Posted By: Clara | August 13, 2012 11:11 PM
Well said Tina,you have actually proved beyond reasonable doubt in convincing me and the christian folks out there who have access to this information. Life indeed is full of aggression and injustice.The superior countries who pose to be angels are wolfs in sheep's skin as the Bible reiterated it. These nations undoubtedly seems to intervene during wars and artificial catastrophes but the gesture is done with keen interest in a particular resources.
Though many can attribute the resources to some physical wealth but the principal focus among other things is POWER.This has bred heartless leaders and followers throughout the universe. One does not care terminating countless number of life in the name of power.
The insensitivity of our leaders has made satanism an easy religion for the younger generation to mimic.The scripture tells us to teach the child the right path so that he may not depart from it.
My piece of advice to Christians all over the world is to steadfast and never compromise to the hardship,atrocities,injustice and pathetic situations worldwide. May the lost souls of the mass massacre of Christians be kept in the bosom of the Lord.
Posted By: frank | August 31, 2012 8:40 PM
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