My husband sent me this report:
Extremists are threatening to blow up the Palestinian Bible Society in the Gaza Strip if the people who work there do not close up shop and abandon their ministry by the end of February, a Christian source told Cybercast News Service.Isn't it amazing that the Palestinian Christians are being persecuted by their own people? They were able to exist under the Israeli government but now that Hamas is in control they are being threatened (I'm not buying that this is related to the cartoons).
The threat appears to be the work of Islamic extremists who are determined to drive Christians out of the area. Arab Christians are taking the threat very seriously, said a Palestinian Bible Society information officer who asked not to be named.
There are only about 1,500 Christians living among an estimated 1.2 million Palestinian Muslims in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Bible society has been in operation there since 1999.
They ask that we pray for them and their persecutors:
"It really breaks our heart that some groups are against the whole idea. We ask Christians worldwide to pray, not only for us, but also for those who are trying to hurt us, as Christ commands us to do."
