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TechnoratiIn May, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended that Eritrea be re-designated as one of 11 “countries of particular concern” for 2007. In including Eritrea on the list, the report noted that “religious freedom conditions continued to deteriorate in Eritrea, where the government engages in systematic and egregious religious freedom violations….” Despite the calls of governmental and human rights organizations to give religious freedom to all groups in the country, the Eritrean government has denied that any persecution exists.
After being imprisoned and suffering for serving the Lord, Caleb – not his real name – testified: “I learned a lot in prison. I was in isolation for five months. I was in complete darkness under very bad conditions. After five months I was moved to a bigger cell. I immediately started to share the gospel. The guards threatened to punish me and send me back to the isolation cell. When they told me this, the words of Paul came to mind: ‘For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.’ What I witnessed and experienced strengthened me more than it discouraged me.”
Please join with me in praying for Caleb and those who are suffering for their faith in Eritrea.
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Dr. Carl Moeller is president/CEO of Open Doors USA
