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Christians Called to Take Action on International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Church

(Photo: Reuters/Muhammad Hamed)An Iraqi Christian man from Mosul, who fled from violence in their country, reads a book at the Latin Patriarchate Church in Amman, Jordan, Aug. 21, 2014. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have fled their homes since the terrorist Islamic State group swept through much of the north and west of Iraq in June, threatening to break up the country.

Christianity is the most persecuted religion on the planet with a Christian dying for their faith every six minutes, and churches across the United States have been urged to “remember those in bonds” as the “International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church” is observed Sunday.

It’s a day “where we hope every church will take some time out to follow the scriptural mandate that says, ‘Remember those in bonds as if you were bound with them,'” says Todd Nettleton at the Voice of the Martyrs USA.

“When our VOM staff travel around the world, we sit down, we meet with Christians facing persecution, we say, ‘We’re going back to America. How can American Christians help you?’ The first thing they ask is, ‘Pray for us. Please pray for us.'”

As Christians will pray in churches, a group of Christians will gather in prayer and public witness in front of the White House for the persecuted church.

“We gather in…

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