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SUFFERING CHURCH SUNDAY 2011-

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Islam and language

The Islamising of language

The languages of Muslim-majority nations, especiallyArabic, tend to express theworldview, religious conceptsand cultural ideas of Islamicreligion and civilisation.


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The rise of Islamic English

Language as a tool of Islamisation

Islamism and Language4

The increased use of Arabic/Islamic words and phrases incontemporary English expressesthe growing influence of Islamicreligion and culture in theEnglish-speaking West.


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Islam, Christians and language

Using English phrases such asthe Muslim world, Islamiclaw and Islamophobia canstrengthen the narratives andarguments of Islamism.


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Contextual Bible translations

Conclusion

The careless use of languagewhen speaking about Islamcan diminish the significanceof the Lord Jesus Christ in ourown eyes and those of our

Muslim neighbours.


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Reasons formartyrdom

Responses tomartyrdom

Results of martyrdom

Vindicationfor the martyrs

I see heaven opened martyrdom for Christ Acts 7:53 8:4

Coming soon!


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CHINAURMA

(MYANMAR)

THAILAND

CAMBODIA

VIETNAM

LAOS

Viengkham districtLuang Prabang province

Vientiane(capital city)

Ta-Oyl districtSaravan province

Hinboun districtKhammouane province

Namtha districtLuang Namtha province


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Testimony

If you kill me, I still will never stop. If you dont like it, I am ready to go backto jail. Do not think I will leave my faith, because Christianity is my life.

[Life as a Christian in Iraqi Kurdistan] is veryhard, Jamal told the interviewer. Youcannot talk about [your faith] and it is noteasy. It is very dangerous. Anything canhappen. They will try to kill you if they can.

Jamals life changed radically in 1993 aftera Kurdish man whose home he was visitinggave him a Bible. The man asked him toread it and become his friend, but afterJamal left he did not read the Bible or visitthe man again.

One night, he heard a voice telling him toread the Bible he had received. It was veryhot, there was no electricity to work thelights, and security outside was bad, but hestarted reading John chapter 1 bycandlelight. Though I did not understandanything, he remembers, I felt comfortableafter I read the words. Strangely, I felt thatsomeone was washing my head and body. Itfelt l ike surgery.

That night and every night afterwards forseveral months he read the Bible, sometimesuntil dawn. Then he saw Jesus an a dream,and his whole life was changed. A Christianfriend introduced him to a pastor. Years of

solid grounding in his faith followed, as thepastor discipled and taught him from the Bibletwice a week, until God gave him a vision tobuild a new Kurdish church.

In 1996 the Kurdistan Regional Governmentsummoned him enquiring why he had leftIslam. He told them, I choose to go a goodway, to go to Christianity. God has chosen meto follow Him. I have no choice but to followChrist. Angered, the officials jailed him forfive days, threatening that they would hurt

him if he did not leave his newfound faith inChrist. Eventually they let him go, even thoughhe told them he would stay faithful.

Another round of threats, intimidation andimprisonment followed in 1997. His captorsinsisted that he must leave his faith, that hewas dangerous and would be killed. Afterthree days in jail, they asked him, What dowe have to do to make you stop? Jamalanswered, If you kill me, I still will never stop.If you dont like it, I am ready to go back to jail.Do not think I will leave my faith, becauseChristianity is my life.

In 2002 an informant from the government ofIraq ordered another man to spy on Jamal

instructing him to kill Jamal in Duhok .The man tried to shoot Jamal three times,but each time the gun jammed, eventhough it worked at other times. WhenJamal found out about this, he chose notto press charges, because Jesus forgavethose who killed him.

Again, the government put him in jail forseven days in 2007 because he had beena Muslim and had become a Christian. Thejudge ordered him to stop trying to convert

people because he was creating bigproblems between Christians and Muslims.Jamal replied, I cant stop and I wontstop preaching to others because this iswhat I have to do as a Christian pastor.

Despite all these harrowing experiencesJamal concluded with these brave andinspiring words, I can find no reason whyI should stop preaching the gospel.

Give praise for Pastor Jamals fervourand pray that his life will be sparedonce again.

Kurdish Pastor Jamal waskidnapped by militants in

July in northern Iraq. Nothinghas been heard of him since(at the time of writing).Jamal was very active insharing his faith withmuslims. Five days beforehis abduction he gave aninterview in which he toldhow he had been jailed manytimes by the Kurdish

authorities as they tried toput pressure on him to returnto Islam, the faith into whichhe was born. KurdishChristiansmeettogetherforabiblestudy (Source: Arabvision)


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