Philadelphia: A Call For 10,000 Men To Help Fight Crime

Police and Officials Want Volunteers To Patrol America’s Most Dangerous City  

Getting a dozen men to do anything is tough…hard to imagine getting 10,000. If I were a church pastor I would ask my men to volunteer. This seems like a worthy effort.

From Reuters:

PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia police and black community leaders called on Wednesday for 10,000 men to volunteer to patrol the streets of America’s most dangerous big city in a bid to halt a surge in murders and violent crime.

In an initiative that organizers hope will be copied in other cities, the unarmed and non-uniformed volunteers would patrol selected areas in an attempt to deter drug dealing and other street crimes that have given Philadelphia the highest murder rate among the 10 largest U.S. cities.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson, a key backer of the plan, said it will be officially launched on October 21 with the aim of putting the first patrols on the streets by early November. Volunteers will be asked to patrol for three hours a day for an initial period of 90 days.

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In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together; the leopard and the goat will be at peace. Calves and yearlings will be safe among lions, and a little child will lead them all. The cattle will graze among bears. Cubs and calves will lie down together. And lions will eat grass as the livestock do. Babies will crawl safely among poisonous snakes. Yes, a little child will put its hand in a nest of deadly snakes and pull it out unharmed. Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain. And as the waters fill the sea, so the earth will be filled with people who know the Lord. – Isaiah 11:6-9

Eritrea: Christian Woman Killed For Refusing to Renounce Her Faith

In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know. – 1 Thessalonians 3:4

Female prisoner dies in Eritrea for refusing to renounce faith in Christ

By ALLIE MARTIN
OneNewsNow.com

A ministry, which informs Christians about the plight of persecuted believers worldwide, says persecution is on the rise in Eritrea, a small African nation located along the southwestern coast of the Red Sea.

Open Doors USA has recently learned of the death of Eritrean prisoner Migsti Haile. The 33-year-old woman was a Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and then killed for refusing to renounce her faith in Christ.

Haile was among a group of ten single Christian women who had been arrested at a church gathering and then spent a year-and-a-half imprisoned under harsh conditions. Dr. Carl Moeller, president of Open Doors USA, says the Eritrean government is scared of religion and its influence.

“It’s incredulous for most Americans to think about a small country like this, taking out such aggressive violence against Christians — and for what reason?” he questions. “They have a quasi-Marxist government there that is power centric and … afraid of the force of religion in their country.”

He says Open Doors is maintaining an “active campaign” to raise awareness of these types of situations to European, U.S., State Department, and human rights officials. “We have programs where people can, of course, get informed about what is happening, because you’re not going to see this in the New York Times or CNN,” he states.

Moeller points out that four Christians have died in Eritrea during the past year as a result of persecution. And currently more than 2,000 Eritrean Christians are imprisoned and tortured because they refuse to renounce their faith in Christ.

From PersecutionBlog:

Haile is the fourth Christian killed in Eritrea in less than a year. She and 10 Christian women were arrested at a church gathering and spent 18 months under severe pressure. According to Compass News, Haile was killed for refusing to sign a letter recanting her faith.

Compass Direct says that more than 2,000 Eritrean Christians are imprisoned. Not a single one of them has been formally charged or had a public trial, and all have been denied legal representation. Amnesty International released a report last week that said most of the more than 2,000 imprisoned Christians have been held for more than two years in harsh conditions, with little or no medical care.

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