Become Aware & Take Action
 

So many issues of persecution and injustice around the world need our prayer and advocacy. Many need our urgent attention. 

We have begun sending out email alerts to our friends who have signed up on the web site as Religious Liberty subscribers. These are issues for which we have included an action or set of actions that you can take to make a difference, right now. 

But some folks find our website through press releases, radio interviews, etc. and have not (yet!) signed on as Religious Liberty subscribers. So we will now post these action alerts on the website, as a downloadable resource. 

Some of these alerts will ask you to contact your member of Congress, some will ask you to write a letter to the newspaper or to tell all your friends on Facebook or My Space about the issue, but ALL of them require your prayer.

The first email alert we are posting is about the horrific persecution of Christians in India that has been taking place (this bout of persecution) since August. We sent this out to our email subscribers last month, but we have included follow-up to the original BECOME AWARE AND TAKE ACTION email.

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• NIGERIA
  (March 19, 2010)
    
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  "Although we are in the midst of Ten Thursdays of Prayer for China’s Church, we are interrupting our series for a special Religious Liberty Alert on recent attacks on Christians in Nigeria. Our brothers and sisters in Nigeria need your prayers and your voices. And, if you are anywhere in the New York City area, they need your presence at a rally for Nigeria’s Christians on April 7, outside the Nigerian Permanent Mission in the United States."

• Eritrea
  (November 14, 2008)
    
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  "IRD has been monitoring human rights and religious freedom violations in Eritrea since 2002. Eritrea is an egregious violator of human rights. It has an abysmal record with the U.S. State Department’s report on human rights. It has also been listed as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) by the State Department’s Office on Religious Freedom since 2004.
   
  In addition, Eritrea continues to be named as a Country of Particular Concern by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which advises that the conditions for religious freedom in Eritrea appear to have worsened over the past year, and include arbitrary arrests and detention without charge of members of unregistered religious groups, and the torture or other ill‐treatment of hundreds of persons on account of their religion, sometimes resulting in death."
    
• India
  (November 14, 2008)
   
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  "Christians in India are suffering tremendous persecution at the hands of radical Hindus."
  
  "TAKE ACTION: Contact your Member of Congress – call, write, email, or take a group of concerned friends and show up at his/her office and urge him/her to co‐sponsor Congressman Akin’s resolution #434 on religious violence in India. If they are already a co‐sponsor, thank them. You can find members’ contact info at http://www.house.gov/."
   
  "FOLLOW‐UP ON ACTION: As of November 19, 2008, U.S. Representative Todd Akin’s bill still has only seven co‐sponsors, and has been stuck with no action in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Please urge your member of Congress to sign on to the bill in the next session of Congress, when it will need to be re‐introduced."