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image from TWR Hope for Syria website Christian radio is impacting the Syrian crisis POSTED: 13 SEPTEMBER, 2013 "We bring you comfort and peace in the name of Jesus" One woman called from Aleppo, Syria's largest city, to tell of a serious bread shortage and to urge Christians to share with others. Trust in God to provide from day to day, she said, and share your bread rather than let it go bad amid the power outages. A follow-up caller endorsed the woman's appeal for more sharing and recounted his own experience. When he gave one of his two loaves of bread to a neighbor who asked for help, the Lord provided the caller with two more loaves the very next day, he told the program hosts. If you would like to help bring hope through TWR to Syria, click here .  Also the iTunes app in Arabic for TW R Arabic programs schedule God is multiplying your gifts among Syrian refugees image from Baptist Global Response Syria crisis page September 5...

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.  They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?”  Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.   Revelation 6:9-11 (NIV) The cry of the martyrs given above I understand fully.  When wholesale slaughter happens against a Christian population under an evil ruler/group, one can get how the cries would ring out, "How long, O Lord?"   What is harder to understand, though, is the response.  The Lord states that it would continue to happen until everyone who is to die a martyr's death does.   It is apparently within the will of God that His people suf...