2) Please pray for your brothers and sisters under persecution around the world on November 16. Pray every day, for that matter, but especially pray that day. Fast if you can.
3) Inform your pastor, your church's prayer ministry, and your friends (especially those who don't have email) about the International Day of Prayer on November 16, and about the persecution Christ is suffering.
Information concerning the suffering of Christians worldwide may be
obtained, in the US and Canada, from the US headquarters of IDOP. The
address is:
International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church
P.O. Box WEF, Wheaton, IL 60189-8003
INFO: 800-LETS-PRAY (1-800-538-7772)
OFFICES: 630-668-1754 FAX: 630-668-0498
EMAIL: IDOP@xc.org
WEB SITE: http://www.persecutedchurch.org
National Coordinator: Steve Haas
Director of Communications: Dr. Ed Bez
IDOP has a packet of information designed for informing your church
group and for joining the day of prayer. The packet contains a
Prayer Journal containing several articles concerning the persecuted
church, a 21-minute video tape for your church or home group, several
letters, and a Prayer Commitment Sheet to send to IDOP to register
your support this is optional. Please pray, with or without notifying
anyone. They ask for $15 to cover the cost of printing and shipping.
If you really can't afford $15, ask for the packet anyway.
Whatever you do, please don't allow this message to stop traveling.
Keep the word moving. Real people are dying real deaths out there
where we can't see them, and they need our help.
Thanks!
Amnesty International
322 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
212-807-8400/fax 212-989-5473
Cardinal Kung Foundation
P.O. Box 8086
Ridgeway Center
Stamford, CT 06905
Contact: Joseph Kung
home page:http://www.cardinalkungfoundation.org
203-329-9712/fax: 203-329-8415
Christian Life Commission, SBC
901 Commerce, Suite 550
Nashville, TN 37203-3696
Contact: Dwayne Hastings and Richard Land
615-244-2495
Christian Solidarity International
1101 17th Street NW, Suite 607
Washington, D.C. 20036
Contact: Jim Jacobson
540-636-8907
e-mail: csiusa@rma.edu
Coalition for the Defense of Human
Rights Under Islamization
231 East Carroll
Macomb, IL 61455
309-833-4249
Commission on Security and
Cooperation in Europe
("Helsinki Commission")
234 Ford House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-6460
202-225-1901
e-mail: csce@HR.house.gov
Compass Direct News Service
P.O. Box 27250
Santa Ana, CA 92799
714-862-0300/fax 714-752-6536
e-mail: compassdr@compuserve.com
Human Rights Watch
485 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10017-6104
212-972-8400/fax 212-972-0905
homepage:http://www.hrw.org
e-mail: hrwnyc@hrw.org
Institute on Religion and Democracy
1521 16th Street NW, Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20036
Contact: Faith McDonnell and Diane Knippers
202-986-1440/fax: 202-986-3159
International Christian Concern
2020 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, #941
Washington, D.C. 20006
Contact: Steve Snyder
800-ICC-5441
301-989-1708/fax: 301-989-1709
homepage:http://www.persecution.org
e-mail: icc@idsonline.com
International Justice Mission
3237 Gunston Rd.
Alexandria, VA 22302
Contact: Gary Haugen
703-379-1980
website: www.ijm.org
Iranian Christians International
P.O. Box 25607
Colorado Springs, CO 80936
Contact: Abraham Ghaffari
719-596-0010/fax 719-574-1141
website: www.farsinet.com/ici
Jubilee Campaign
9689-C Main Street
Fairfax, VA 22031
Contact: Ann Buwalda
703-503-0791/fax 703-503-0792
e-mail: ann.buwalda@gen.org
Middle East Concern
P.O. Box 295
Macomb, IL 61455
Contact: Father Keith Roderick
309-833-4249
National Association of Evangelicals
P.O. Box 28
Wheaton, IL 60189
630-665-0500
website: http://www.nae.net
e-mail: NAE@nae.net
Open Doors with Brother Andrew
P.O. Box 27000
Santa Ana, CA 92799
Contact: Mike Yoder
714-752-6600
website:http://www.opendoors.org
e-mail: usa@opendoors.org
Parliamentary Human Rights Foundation
1056 Thomas Jefferson Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20007
The Rutherford Institute
P.O. Box 7482
Charlottesville, VA 22906-7482
Contact: John Whitehead
804-978-3888/fax 804-978-1789
homepage:http://www.rutherford.org
e-mail: rutherford@fni.com
The Voice of the Martyrs
P.O. Box 443
Bartlesville, OK 74005
Contact: Tom White and Steve Cleary
918-337-8015/fax: 918-337-9287
homepage:http://www.vom.org
e-mail: vomusa@aol.com
The Trinitarian Fathers
c/o Rev. Stan Deboe
7669 Clark Road
Hanover, MD 21076
e-mail: sdeboel@AOL.com
World Evangelical Fellowship
Religious Liberty Commission
2309 139th Street SE
Mill Creek, WA 98012
Contact: John Candelin
206-742-7923
homepage:http://www.xc.org/wef/wefintro
e-mail: WEFNA@XC.org
Dr. Joseph Aldrich, President
Multnomah Bible College
Dr. Donald Argue, President
National Association of Evangelicals
Hon. William Armstrong, Senator
U.S. Senate, retired
Dr. Scott G. Bauer, Co-Pastor
The Church on the Way
William Bennett, President
Empower America
Charles E. Blake, Bishop
West Angeles Church of God in Christ
Dr. William Bright, President
Campus Crusade for Christ International
Dr. Paul Bubna, President
Christian and Missionary Alliance
William F. Buckley, Jr., Editor at Large
National Review
John Burke, Management Team
Willow Creek Community Church
Anne Buwalda, Director
Jubilee Foundation
Dr. Anthony Campolo, Professor
Eastern College
Rev. Dwight Chapman, President
General Association of General Baptists
Charles Colson, President
Prison Fellowship International
(Chairman, IDOP Advisory Board)
Johan Companjen, Intl. Director
Open Doors
Rev. Stan DeBoe, Priest
Trinitarian Order
David Engelhard, Gen. Secretary
Christian Reformed Church - N. America
Keith A. Fournier, President
Catholic Alliance
Dwight Gibson, N.A. Director
World Evangelical Fellowship
John Gimenez, Bishop
Rock Church
Dr. Os Guinness, Sr. Fellow
Trinity Forum
William J. Hamel, President
Evangelical Free Church of America
Hon. Mark O. Hatfield, Senator
U.S. Senate
Gary A. Haugen, President
International Justice Mission
Kent R. Hill, President
Eastern Nazarene College
Dr. John R. Holland, President
Intl. Church of the Foursquare Gospel
Michael Horowitz, Sr. Fellow
Hudson Institute
Jim Jacobson, Director
Christian Solidarity International
Dr. D. James Kennedy, President
Coral Ridge Ministries
Diane Knippers, President
Institute on Religion & Democracy
Dr. Richard Land, Exec. Director
Christian Life Commission, SBC
Paul E. Larsen, President
The Evangelical Covenant Church
Dr. Duane Litfin, President
Wheaton College
Dr. Paul Marshall, Sr. Fellow
Institute of Christian Studies
Dr. Jesse Miranda, President
AMEN Ministries
Pedro Moreno, Intl. Coordinator
The Rutherford Institute
Dr. Richard Mouw, President
Fuller Theological Seminary
Dr. Lloyd Ogilive, Chaplain
U.S. Senate
Dr. Robert D. Ricker, President
Baptist General Conference
Rev. Michael Scanlan, T.O.R., President
Franciscan University of Steubenville
Dr. Robert Seiple, President
World Vision
Nina Shea, Director
Puebla Program on Religious Freedom
Dr. Ronald Sider, President
Evangelicals for Social Action
Rev. Steven Snyder, President
International Christian Concern
Dr. Thomas E. Trask, Gen. Superintendent
Assemblies of God
Dr. Paul L. Walker, Gen. Overseer
Church of God
Rev. Jim Wallis, President
Sojourners
Dr. Thomas Wang, Intl. Chairman
AD 2000 & Beyond Movement
J.C. Watts, Jr., Congressman
U.S. House of Representatives
Com. Robert Watson, Commander
Salvation Army
Rev. Jack Wease, President
Evangelical Methodist Church
Tom White, Exec. Director
Voice of the Martyrs
Thomas J. Wiens, Chairman
Recycling Industries, Inc.
Frank R. Wolf, Congressman
U.S. House of Representatives
Dr. Ravi Zacharias, President
Ravi Zacharias International Ministries
(2) Specific examples of persecution from different parts of the world were obtained from "Special Introductory Issue," Voice of the Martyrs, Bartlesville, OK, 1997, and from "Prayer Journal," IDOP, 1997, cited above.
(3) Paraphrased from The Gospel According to St. Matthew, chapter 25, verse 43. The surrounding context is instructive; please read it if you are not already familiar with it.