Andy H @andyharris@dingdash.com

I've been working in Iran for years and thought I'd seen it all, until I saw this torture device that the Islamic government uses on prisoners and children.
https://backtojerusalem.com/heres-a-torture-device-in-iran-wanna-guess-what-it-does/

A new era in persecution points us to study the coming rise of house churches.
https://backtojerusalem.com/lessons-from-the-underground-and-the-coming-era-of-decline-for-the-mega-church/

This was so interesting - how a Muslim became a Christian believer BY reading the Koran.
"At the end of the road to Allah, Jesus is the One who is waiting."

Worth the watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOtHwNavd38

This week, the Afghani Islamic leadership sent out elite troops known as Haqqani on a 'search and destroy' mission to kill any Christian leaders they could find.
Believers remain in hiding, and desperately need our prayers.

https://backtojerusalem.com/accomplice-un-sends-32-million-to-afghanistan-renewing-strength-of-taliban-to-persecute-christians/

A second update about my friend Mikael who is still in hospital. Unfortunately they won't let him go because his oxygen saturation is too low. They wanted to put him in IC on ventilator - exactly what's not a good solution (according to many). Both him and his wife have refused it, and it seems like the doctors have respected it if I understood it correctly (we discuss in a Telegram group). His CRP was 84 some hours ago. His wife wrote that they won't let her visit him. We wrote that she should demand that, because she is married to him, and has just recovered from C-19. There is so much strange things going on when it comes to C-19. Why put him on a ventilator when they just have started to give him antibiotics for his pneunomia? And then they report the news about how many unvaccinated they have in IC. Please, pray for a quick recovery and for protection from harmful interventions!

More laws passed to tighten the noose even more.
https://backtojerusalem.com/china-introduces-new-laws-prohibiting-on-line-christian-services/

"The road of the cross is not always an easy one, but it is sweeter than the alternative.
During the hardest moments in life, the sweetest of sanctuaries is found in Him. The rewards are not obvious to observers, but they are unmistakable to the gladiators in the midst of raging battle.
God's ways are so much higher than our ways and allowing my fears to crumble in His mighty hands was the best thing I ever did - ALL things work together for the good of those who love the Lord."
- Pastor Shen Xiaoming (China and End Time Prophecy)

Jihadists Decapitate Pastor, Force Wife to Carry His Severed Head
According to military sources, suspected Islamic extremists decapitated a pastor in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique last Wednesday, and forced his wife to carry his head to the police station.
churchleaders.com
Dec 20, 2021
https://churchleaders.com/news/413003-jihadists-decapitate-pastor-force-wife-to-carry-his-severed-head.html?fbclid=IwAR3B24YvVyIe-icd2GOSLR1a9LTmAa_jwbuO5wfnh48mww0YlX-k9gzAR4s

God forgive us when our desire to be relevant compels us to buy into some of the most ignorant senseless ideas while throwing away life's most valuable treasure.

Ok. This hits a little close to home.
https://backtojerusalem.com/mark-of-the-beast-sweden-tests-covid-certificate-passport-injected-into-hand/

https://www.sundaytimes.lk/211128/news/this-is-the-way-we-wade-to-school-463614.html

https://english.cambodiadaily.com/environment/another-poor-wet-season-endangers-cambodias-biggest-lake-and-its-people-175815/