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PRAYER ALERT: Defiant pastor shot in Jaranwala

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A pastor was shot and wounded by hardline Muslims earlier this month in Jaranwala, Pakistan, just two weeks after churches and Christian properties in the area were destroyed by an Islamist-inspired mob. Rev Eleazar Sidhu was returning home with an assistant after pastoral visits to church members on September 3 when two men stopped him. […]

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“Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.”

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