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Sunday, April 22

3 believers murdered in turkey

The martyrdom last Wednesday of 3 believers in Turkey (members of the only 2 home churches in that city) put the struggles we face in planting home churches in our own context into real perspective. What follows is an account of someone closely involved. It is copied from a friends blog from San Diego; It is not easy reading.

"Early on Wednesday afternoon the 18th of April we received a phone call from fellow believers in the capital asking if we had heard anything unusual regarding our fellow-brothers in Malatya a city 250 kilometers north west from us. Soon afterwards news regarding some sort of violent incident involving several believers who worked at the Christian publishing house in Malatya began to spread like wild-fire over the internet."

The full story is here. I was in Switzerland with other missionaries, some of whom knew these guys, when the news came through.

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