Monday 23 February 2009

TWO CHRISTIAN NURSING STUDENTS AND A CHRISTIAN HOSTEL WARDEN TERMINATED OVER BLASPHEMY ACCUSATION IN PAKISTAN;PRAY AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE...


Two female Christian nursing students and a Christian hostel warden have been terminated from college over a blasphemy accusation that was leveled against the students by their Muslim roommates on February 13.
Trouble for the Christian nursing students, Amara and Sitara, began when they hung a picture of Jesus Christ in a shared hostel room.
Islamic tradition explicitly prohibits images of Allah, Muhammad and all the major figures of the Christian and Jewish traditions.
Muslim students desecrated the picture by tearing it up and hurling it down after the Christian students refused to remove it voluntarily.
The administration of the nursing college allegedly took no action against the Muslim students, who committed the alleged incident.
Christian-Muslim tension among students at the nursing college escalated after Muslim students accused their Christian roommates, Amara and Sitara, of desecrating Quranic verses on February 13.
Their Muslim accusers and some staff of the hospital have threatened legal action against the Christian students.
Martha, the hostel warden, told the Sharing Life Ministry Pakistan that she had served Fatima Memorial Hospital for 15 years.
She said: “I would stay at the hostel even on my day-offs and give very little time to my family. “The nursing students and hospital administration gave me due respect before this incident,” the terminated Christian warden told SLMP.
ANS has learnt that the Muslim students allegedly turned against Martha when she asked them to restrain from blowing a trivial matter out of proportion.
The Medical Superintendent, Ayesha Nouman did not take any action against the Muslim students, who spoke harshly to Martha.
Instead of taking some disciplinary action against the Muslim students the medical superintendent terminated her.
Martha told SLMP: “I am ready to face any sort of persecution for Christ.
“This is just a termination. I don’t care about my career. I can sacrifice my life for Christ because He died for me.
“I am not afraid of persecution rather I feel honoured to be persecuted for Christ. I also encouraged Amara and Sitara to remain strong in Christ.”
Muslim students still want legal action be taken against the terminated Christian nursing students.
According to the SLMP situation at the nursing college remains tense and they received reports which said Muslim students allegedly thrashed Christian nursing students at the college.
The Ministry alleged that Pakistan TV Geo News and Channel 5 did partial reporting on the incident.
SLMP urged Christians across the world to pray for protection of Amara, Sitara and Sister Martha.

THREE-SELF PATRIOTIC MOVEMENT ( TSPM ) IN COLLISSSION WITH GOVERMENT OF CHINA TO PERSECUTE HOUSE CHURCH CHRISTIANS ; PRAY AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE..



Cheng Fenying, 54, is a preacher and evangelist. She, her husband Xie Tongxing and her 25-year-old son Xie Chengwei hosted a house church in their home with more than 200 members, but government officials threatened each believer to keep them away from the house church.
Photo: Mrs. Cheng Fengying holds a banner "Innocent Citizen From HeilongJiang Province" standing in front of the house of former Communist Party chief, Zhao Ziyang, who was under house arrest after he showed sympathy to the students in the 1989 protest.
Cheng Fengying sent the following letter on February 17, 2009:
My name is Chang Fengying and I am 54 years old. My husband's name is Xie Tongxing and he was a native of Guangming Village, Fulu Township, Muling City, Heilongjiang province. Both my husband and I were disabled in our childhood years. I gave myself to the Lord and became a Christian in 1990. I went to the Three-Self Patriotic Movement church between 1990 and 2003, then I came to see the true nature of the TSPM. I left the TSPM and began to meet in house churches. In July 2006, the TSPM church of Muling City colluded with the government. They worked in cooperation with the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA), the Public Security Bureau and the head of Guangming Village and came to put sealing tape on my house and to forbid us to meet at my house. The TSPM also sent groups of thugs to raid my house again and again in which they looted, beat up people and smashed our belongings. I called 110 (the equivalent to 911 in the U.S.) and the police wouldn't intervene. With no other alternatives, I went to Beijing and sued the authorities there. During the consecutive lawsuits, my husband was so scared that he died... Soon after my husband passed away, the TSPM colluded again with the government on July 3, 2007 and canceled my house ownership title through illegal means.
During the 2008 Olympic Games, I was detained in a black prison (prison cells privately established by government officials) where I was injured in my arms. In January 2009, the TSPM took away my housing property by making use of the court. During this time, we could not have normal meetings. In the meantime, my family was so persecuted by the TSPM and the government that it is ruined with death and misery. My child has fled from the persecution and there is no way for him to come back home.
I hereby implore my brothers and sisters around the world to pray for me and show concern for me. I also implore the Lord to protect my family so that we can still hold gatherings. I implore the Lord to enable the court to rule on a fair basis and hope that legal professionals can assist me in this case.
Your humble fellow Christian,Chang Fengying