{"id":2656,"date":"2014-05-27T09:46:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2014-05-27T09:47:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:47:45","slug":"2656","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/2656\/","title":{"rendered":"Martyrdom Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"martyr\"<\/a>Just read an excerpt from a Relevant Magazine<\/a> article in On Mission<\/a>:<\/p>\n

More than 2,000 Christians died for their faith last year, according to Open Doors.\u00a0 The conflict in Syria accounted for the largest group of Christian deaths, some 1,200 casualties.\u00a0 The total number of confirmed martyr deaths reported 2,123 for 2013, includes no numbers for North Korea, where no official Christian deaths were recorded, but most certainly took place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If we think people aren’t dying for their faith in Christ all around the world even today, we are ignorant of the truth.\u00a0 If we believe that it can’t happen in America, we are naive.<\/p>\n

“…and having done all, to stand firm.” (Ephesians 6:13b<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Just read an excerpt from a Relevant Magazine article in On Mission: More than 2,000 Christians died for their faith last year, according to Open Doors.\u00a0 The conflict in Syria accounted for the largest group of Christian deaths, some 1,200 casualties.\u00a0 The total number of confirmed martyr deaths reported 2,123 for 2013, includes no numbers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[684,626],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3jKZO-2656","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1329,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/the-armor-of-god-now-what\/","url_meta":{"origin":2656,"position":0},"title":"The Armor of God…now what?","date":"March 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday saw the conclusion of The Armor of God at The Gathering. \u00a0It\u2019s been an important series, challenging us to \u201csuit up and power up\u201d every day. \u00a0If you missed any or all of it, you can watch it here on our archives page. 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