Persecution of Christians in Bangladesh

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A coworker of mine ( a Bengali Catholic, actually) has told me that new converts to the Faith are enduring a lot of pressure from the Muslims in the country: rescuechristians.org/bangladesh-persecutions-against-christians-that-are-converted-from-islam/, world.wng.org/2014/01/christians_suffer_violent_persecution_in_bangladesh.

It’s appropriate that today is the day we remember the Sorrowful Mysteries in the Holy Rosary. Jesus died not only for the persecuted Christians, but for the persecuting Muslims, although that might be difficult to remember in times like these.
 
LutheranScholar said:
I hope that we can agree that the small and struggling ( yet growing!) Church in Bangladesh deserves prayer.
opendoorsuk.org/persecution/worldwatch/bangladesh.php
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Sadly, this will not end on this temporal existence… which makes Christian disunity so much the sadder!

…can you imagine the Power that we could release onto the world if the Body of Christ would Truly Unite?

Thank you, brother, for posting this news!

Maran atha!

Angel
 
LutheranScholar said:
I hope we can agree that the small and struggling ( yet growing!) Church in Bangladesh deserves prayer.
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Of course! There are also a number of persecuted Christians in Bhutan, oddly, despite how you never hear of violence over there. Our prayers should be with them.

However, “the blood of martyrs is the seeds of the Church,” as Tertullian said in his Apologeticus. Our brethren will be persecuted just for their reverence of Christ: they have in the past, they are now, and only God will know what the future holds.
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Sadly, this will not end on this temporal existence… which makes Christian disunity so much the sadder!
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Remember, however, we are all one in Jesus Christ. There is no other name on earth or in Heaven that has called more men together in love and faith! 🙂
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Jesus died not only for the persecuted Christians, but for the persecuting Muslims, although that might be difficult to remember in times like these.
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Yes indeed! :gopray:
LutheranScholar said:
A coworker of mine ( a Bengali Catholic, actually) has told me that new converts to the Faith…
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Sorry to bring up such a frivolous topic on such a serious thread, Scholar, but I’ve never seen any Protestants capitalize “Faith” for Christianity! I wanted to use that practice, but I’m concerned that it would be seen as me speaking specifically of Catholicism, though I am always speaking of the indivisible Church, the Body of Christ to which all Christians belong.
 
As far as I could tell, we Lutherans have generally capitalized the One True Faith in reference to Christianity ( or the Invisible Church, as opposed to visible institutions that have been used by the Holy Spirit to do their part in fulfilling the Great Commission), as this article states: firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/06/are-lutherans-catholic.

My brothers and sisters in the Faith are my spiritual siblings regardless, be they Catholics in Austria, Orthodox in Japan or Catholics in Bangladesh. Our people need our help, but all I can do for them right now is pray ( as I told my coworker, when I told her I’d be thinking about her family when I said the Rosary the next morning… this morning). Bhutan, Bangladesh, Qatar, everywhere we are persecuted, we need prayers.
 
Hatikvah said:
Of course! There are also a number of persecuted Christians in Bhutan, oddly, despite how you never hear of violence over there. Our prayers should be with them.

However, “the blood of martyrs is the seeds of the Church,” as Tertullian said in his Apologeticus. Our brethren will be persecuted just for their reverence of Christ: they have in the past, they are now, and only God will know what the future holds.

Remember, however, we are all one in Jesus Christ. There is no other name on earth or in Heaven that has called more men together in love and faith! 🙂

Yes indeed! :gopray:

Sorry to bring up such a frivolous topic on such a serious thread, Scholar, but I’ve never seen any Protestants capitalize “Faith” for Christianity! I wanted to use that practice, but I’m concerned that it would be seen as me speaking specifically of Catholicism, though I am always speaking of the indivisible Church, the Body of Christ to which all Christians belong.
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Hi!
…I do not doubt that our communal goal is Christ… yet, division is fomented daily as more and more people continue to “shop” for Gospels according to their preconceptions and when that fails they reinvent the wheel–Unity is not merely symbolic or “of like mind.”

Maran atha!

Angel
 
LutheranScholar said:
As far as I could tell, we Lutherans have generally capitalized the One True Faith in reference to Christianity ( or the Invisible Church, as opposed to visible institutions that have been used by the Holy Spirit to do their part in fulfilling the Great Commission), as this article states: firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/06/are-lutherans-catholic.

My brothers and sisters in the Faith are my spiritual siblings regardless, be they Catholics in Austria, Orthodox in Japan or Catholics in Bangladesh. Our people need our help, but all I can do for them right now is pray ( as I told my coworker, when I told her I’d be thinking about her family when I said the Rosary the next morning… this morning). Bhutan, Bangladesh, Qatar, everywhere we are persecuted, we need prayers.
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:amen::hug3::blessyou:
Maran atha!

Angel
 
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