{"id":4206,"date":"2021-07-20T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2021-07-21T04:47:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T04:47:45","slug":"persecution-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=4206","title":{"rendered":"Persecution on the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India has now been listed as one of the top ten most persecuted countries in the world. Christianity is constantly under attack from the government as well as militant religious groups.&nbsp; Almost weekly, I personally receive reports of Christian leaders being killed and families being beaten. There are also the more subtle forms of persecution like being shunned by your family or not being able to rent a home or be accepted into a certain school.&nbsp; In the regions of India that they go to pray there are less than 2% Christian.&nbsp; Millions still have not heard the Good News even once. <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><em>Please continue to pray that our fellow believers will be full of courage and continue to preach the gospel and plant churches even in the face of much suffering especially among the unreached people groups.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><em>VOM\u2019s India Prayer Guide: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/india\/?_source_code=WHPB20C\">click here<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has now been listed as one of the top ten most persecuted countries in the world. Christianity is constantly under attack from the government as well as militant religious groups.&nbsp; Almost weekly, I personally receive reports of Christian leaders &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=4206\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4236,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}