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A lot of times I think “the persecuted church” feels like a “big issue” and there aren’t individual things we can do. Here’s an exception.

J.D. Greear writes:

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I am writing with an urgent request and a call to immediate action.

Sayed Mossa is a new believer in Afghanistan who is in jail in Afghanistan because he decided, of his own free choice, to follow Jesus. In this letter he managed to smuggle out through the hands of a Westerner, he describes daily beatings, torture, and sexual molestation. He stands to be executed for his decision to follow Jesus next week.He has a wife and 6 children, one of whom is disabled.

Part of me flushes with anger when I consider the price America has paid to help Afghanistan escape from the Taliban, and think that this is how the new government treats its own people. Is this what we sacrificed to produce? Is freedom of conscience and freedom of speech not a fundamental right of human beings everywhere?

Continue reading to hear the simple things he is asking us to do in response.

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