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Body, Soul and Spirit 

Is there a way out from the prison?

We already saw that for the New Testament believers, New Testament is the syllabus, not the Old Testament.

Our obedience to the principles and statutes of the New Testament  solves every issue.

Once your obedience is complete, we will be ready to reprimand every type of disobedience. 2 Co 10:6 

It is mandatory that every individual should work with fear and trembling for their salvation.

And so, my dear friends, ……… continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Phi 2:12 

Even when handing over the body and soul of a believer  to satan for a particular period of time, Paul‘s intention was good. i.e. to save his spirit because  our Lord had directly given this instruction to Apostle Paul when he had an encounter with him. He made it clear in Acts 26:18 

“You will help them understand and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that their sins will be forgiven and they will receive a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

He had received a command from the Lord  to turn his people from satan’s control to God. How did he accomplish this? By directly preaching to them about the  New Testament ways of the Lord, using all authority the Lord had handed over to him.

For this reason I am writing this while I am away from you: When I come I do not want to be severe in using the authority the Lord gave me to build you up and not to tear you down. 2Co 13:10 

In his letter to Titus, we see him handing over another two men to satan to torment them.

These include Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed over to Satan so that they may learn not to blaspheme. 1Ti 1:20 

Apostle Jude also is of the same opinion when he wrote the following command.

“Show mercy to those who have doubts. Save others by snatching them from the fire. To others, show mercy with fear, hating even the clothes stained by their sinful lives”. Jude 22,23

We are  to encourage our brothers and sisters  if they are chastened by God even when handed over to satan for a particular period f time.

You have forgotten the encouragement that is addressed to you as sons: "My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's discipline or give up when you are corrected by him. Heb 12:5 

 - Sr.Angelica (To be continued)

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ICE Deports Indonesian Christian Who Fled Persecution

As the U.S. tightens immigration enforcement, officials have deported an Indonesian Christian back to a country grappling with persistent Christian persecution. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on May 18 put Arino Massie on a plane back to Indonesia. ICE detained Massie and three other Indonesian Christian men earlier this month when they came for their annual routine check-in. Massie’s lawyer had applied for a stay of removal, but the court rejected it. Massie and several other Christians fled persecution in Indonesia in the 1990s, but many of them missed the deadline to apply for amnesty. The Reformed Church of Highland Park, N.J., which has been an advocate for Indonesian Christians in the state, helped to strike a deal with ICE that allowed them to stay in the United States. The immigrants in return had to keep a clean record and meet annually with ICE officials. Massie lived in New Jersey for 16 years with his wife and13-year-old son, who are both still in the country. Massie’s son said he was in school when his father was deported and pleaded for his return. Indonesia ranks 46th on the Open Doors USA list of the most difficult countries for Christians to live. An Indonesian court recently sentenced the country’s first Christian governor to two years in prison for blasphemy. Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale of the Reformed Church said Massie and the other detained Christians could be at risk in Indonesia. “They are most likely on a targeted list in Indonesia for highlighting the human rights violations and minority religious and ethnic abuses that led to their initial escape,” Kaper-Dale said.

Under the Trump administration, ICE has arrested more than 41,000 illegal immigrants—a 37.6 percent increase from last year. Officials mostly arrest criminal offenders, although the number of non-criminal arrests also has increased. ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan said the data shows the agency “continues to execute our mission professionally and in accordance with the law, and our communities will be much safer for it.” U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., wrote a letter to John Tsoukaris, ICE field office director, calling on him to realize the men’s deportation would put their lives at risk and affect families still in the country. “I understand the current administration’s immigration priorities have changed and that you are tasked with carrying out these directives,” Pallone said. “However, I ask that you continue to exercise prosecutorial discretion.”

Persecution in Egypt Continues: Terrorists Kill 26 Coptic Christians

Egypt’s Coptic Christians continue to be the target of terrorist attacks. Masked gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Christians to a monastery. At least 26 people were killed and 25 were wounded. According to CBN News, the Christians were traveling by bus to Saint Samuel the Confessor Monastery in Maghagha, south of Cairo. Witnesses reported seeing eight to 10 attackers. No terrorist organization has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but officials believe it to be the work of the Islamic State, as it bears all the tell-tale signs. The Islamic State has also issued warnings to Egypt’s Christians in recent months that more attacks are to follow ones already carried out, such as the church bombings in December and on Palm Sunday, which killed over 75 and wounded dozens more. This recent attack is the third major attack of Egyptian Christians in only six months. Children were reportedly among the victims. Steven A. Cook, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations, commented on the increased threat faced by Coptic Christians: "They have never been targeted in the way that they are now. Egypt is extremely dangerous for Copts in ways it hasn't been dangerous before."

Former Jakarta Christian Gov. Withdraws Appeal of Jail Sentence

The Christian former governor of Jakarta, Indonesia has announced that he is withdrawing his appeal after being sentenced to jail on charges of blasphemy against Islam. Basuki Tjahaja, known as “Ahok,” was sentenced to two years in jail. His political opponents accused him of blasphemy against Islam and had used his alleged anti-Islam beliefs to stir the national tide against him. Not only did Ahok end up losing the election, but he was imprisoned. He initially filed an appeal against his sentence and protests were held in favor of his release, but he has since issued a statement, saying, “It isn't easy for me...but I've learnt to forgive and accept all of this if it is for the benefit of the nation and the country. It is not right to continue to protest and hold demonstrations in the name of the process that I am going through at the moment.” His wife supported him in this decision, according to Christian Today. “The children and I, along with the whole family, we are going to try to support him in his struggle,” she said. Ahok’s imprisonment is concerning to many in Indonesia and around the world as it signals that Islam holds an oppressive sway in the country and other Christians may be at risk of discrimination and imprisonment for their faith.

Wives of Chinese Torture Victims Beg Congress for Help

Six women who testified before Congress on May 18 belonged to an exclusive, tragic club: The wives of human rights lawyers and activists imprisoned by the Chinese government. The women, two of whom addressed lawmakers in a pre-recorded video, shared similarly distressing stories of their husbands’ arrests for human rights work, the torture they faced in prison, and the emotional and physical toll on their families. Together, the wives urged the Trump administration to raise their husbands' cases to Chinese President Xi Jinping and end the torture of political prisoners. At the hearing, one woman said she did not know whether her husband was dead or alive, while another, the wife of Christian lawyer Li Heping, recently reunited with her husband, who looked about 20 years older after enduring two years of torture. A Tianjin court sentenced Li to three years in prison with a four-year reprieve, claiming he “attacked and discredited organs of the state and China’s legal system” by speaking to foreign reporters, used foreign funds, and “colluded with illegal religious activities to subvert the power of the state.”

Friends said officials spent 10 days trying to help Li gain weight before allowing him to return home. Still, he was 30 pounds thinner, his hair gray, and his frame emaciated. Li’s wife, Wang Qiaoling (Chinese women keep their maiden names after marriage), said in a video message at the hearing that officials drugged her husband while in prison, forcing him to take “hypertension medicine” even when Li never suffered from hypertension. When he refused to take the drug, guards pinned down his arms and legs and forced him to swallow. Afterward, Li experienced muscle pains, lethargy, and blurred vision. The forced medication continued for 22 months. Guards also blasted air conditioning at him for days, forced him to hold a specific position for 10 hours at a time, and placed him in shackles with a short iron chain connecting the handcuffs with ankle cuffs so he couldn’t stand upright, Wang said. After a month in those shackles, Li could no longer stand up straight.

Hearing stories of the torture Li Heping went through made Jin Bianling fearful of what her husband, human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong, could be facing. Authorities detained Jiang while traveling to meet the family of fellow lawyer Xie Yang in November. Jin does not know where her husband is, but recently the government released a short clip of Jiang walking as proof he had not been tortured. His wife noticed his face was swollen, his right arm didn’t move when he walked, and both legs were covered with purple bruises. “They said he didn’t face torture, but I don’t believe it,” Jin said at the hearing. “I’m worried for his life.”

Xie’s wife, Chen Guiqiu, also testified her husband endured “beating delivered in rotation by a roster of guards, exhausting interrogations for 20 hours at once, having cigarette smoke blown into his face and eyes, starvation, dehydration, and the refusal of medical treatment for his illnesses.” After publishing Xie’s torture account in January, national security agents threatened Chen and carefully monitored her every movement. Chen and her daughters successfully escaped to the United States through Thailand in March, but she said she still felt unsafe. Police told Xie and her family members that unless she returned to China, Xie would not be free. At the hearing, she begged the United States to protect her and her children. Wang Yanfang, the wife of human rights lawyer Tang Jingling, mentioned the personal toll she faced because of her husband’s work promoting democracy. Authorities harassed her, forced her employer to fire her, monitored her, and detained her, all of which severely damaged her physical and mental health.

Li Wenzu is the only wife without any clue about her husband’s situation because officials will not allow lawyers or family to visit Wang Quanzhang and never paraded him on television or held a sham trial. She does not know if he is died or alive; all she knows is that another imprisoned human rights lawyer said he once heard Wang screaming for help. “It filled me with dread,” Li said on the pre-recorded video. “I can’t eat or sleep.” The last wife, Lee Ching-yu, differs from the other women in that she is a Taiwanese citizen whose husband, Lee Ming-che, was detained while traveling to mainland China where he supports the families of political prisoners. In a softer, Taiwan-accented Mandarin, Lee said she struggled to find information about her husband as cross-strait relations deteriorated after the election of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.

A Chinese representative of the Taiwan Affairs Office showed Lee a letter from her husband, which she believed he wrote under duress. The representative claimed her husband violated the country’s new foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGO) law and threatened her to keep quiet and stay in Taiwan or else they would release a video of her husband “admitting to having committed criminal actions.” She refused and bought a ticket to China to visit her husband, but the Chinese government barred her from entering the country. Lee warned the United States to pay attention to her husband’s case because a similar fate could befall foreign NGO workers in the near future. His detention will also hurt China’s goal of convincing Taiwan to reunite with China, Lee said. “If China maintains that my husband's actions of spreading the values of democracy and aiding the family members of political prisoners compose a threat to its national security, I believe the people of Taiwan will become not only more certain of their unwillingness to be annexed but also hesitant to preserve a close relationship with China.”

Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., co-chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, said the panel would request President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence meet with the wives. He also promised to send the president the names of guards who tortured political prisoners to ensure they were barred from entering the United States. Smith also recognized the potential risks the wives took by speaking at the hearing. “We will monitor to ensure that because they have spoken out boldly and in an open forum like today that any further retaliation against their husbands or members of their family will be watched closely,” Smith said. “I hope the Trump administration will be bold and effective in raising individual cases.”