Kindle Deals Include an Apologetics Freebie and Some Good Deals. In This Week's Websightings: Obama Says Pastor Saeed Abedini's Release a Priority, A Possession that Gave Inspiration Found on Ukrainian Soldiers Defending Donestk Airport, Churches Burned and Ten Dead in Niger in Reaction to Charlie Hebdo Cartoons, Almost One Million Chechens Protest the Cartoons



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I hope that many of you are praying for Ukraine and most especially the evangelical Christians in the eastern portion of the country. 

Unfortunately, violence has again spiked and the airport at Donestk is in the hands of the Russian-backed separatists. However, as is so often the case, God is at work behind the scenes, accomplishing spiritual results that will far outlast the present conflict. Check out what Motorola, the name given to a separatist commander, found on Ukrainian soldiers upon taking over the airport that Ukrainian soldiers had been so relentlessly and courageously defending.

 


800,000 Muslims Rally Against Charlie Hebdo in Chechnya – A Country of 1.3 Million People
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 7:06 PM

Not only are the freedoms that we take for granted in the West not experienced by believers, and people in general, in other parts of the world but they often pay the price for our chosen free exercise of some of those freedoms.  


Muslim Mobs Burn Down Churches, Pastors' Homes in Niger for Charlie Hebdo's Prophet Muhammad Cartoons; 10 People Dead in Protests




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