scripture
Acts 16:22-24
The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten. After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. (Read more…)
quote
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Tertullian (b. 160 - d. 225)
persecution
January 19, 2009
LRA rebels 'torch crowded church' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7837526.stm
Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army has reportedly torched a church crowded with worshippers holding a prayer vigil in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
January 18, 2009
Kony rebels burn hundreds in church http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/668519
Hundreds of civilians were on Saturday burnt to death in a church by the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels.
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