(2005-11-22) The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has just become informed that Jakarta authorities are stepping up plans to protect Churches against bombings during Christmas holidays, but are making no progress and even abetting other forms of persecution against Christians across Indonesia.
Police in Jakarta are taking an inventory of […]

This letter is supposedly from November 13th, so it does not address the alleged beating which took place in the last few days. I have not yet contacted anyone who can verify the accuracy of that report. This letter does however fill in some additional details…
Dear Prayer Partners,
This letter is the sequel of my testimony […]

As you know, a rumor recently circulated regarding the impending execution of missionary Ferdie Flores. Today I received a report that Ferdie Flores was beaten up by ten Timorese today, and was injured but will be OK. I intend to call the supposed source (Pastor Andales of Lapasan Baptist Church) to confirm the report, but […]

This actually happened four days ago, I saw it as a Yahoo headline the day it happened. However, with the recent interest in brother Ferdie Flores and persecution I decided to post this story as a reminder of the persecution that goes on everyday and is often unreported in our media. The Yahoo (AP) version […]

Today Brother Ferdie Flores’ missions organization has posted an update on the Flores family page to address the execution rumor which has quickly spread around the world wide web:
As of this morning we had received dozens of e-mails and phone calls from several countries from many concerned parties requesting information concerning rumors about the impending […]

The home page for Ferdie Flores and Family has been updated with a scrolling message:
Recent reports of the impending execution of Bro. Ferdie Flores are inaccurate. Prayer is requested for this family as they continue to deal with persecution from other religions on the island.
So praise God that the report was inaccurate. In spite […]

I received this notice via email:
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A missionary in East Timor, Ferdie Flores, is to be executed by beating tomorrow (Monday).
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I found this page on the web and believe it is the same missionary:
http://www.fbc-misawa.org/missionaries/Flores.htm
Please pray! I’ve created a place to post prayers online at:
http://www.prayway.com/prayer/index.php?showtopic=1691

Today PrayWay Global Prayer Community surpassed the 2,000 member mark. The rapid growth of PrayWay, still in its first year of existence, attests to the hand of God moving in the area of online prayer and the need for online prayer communities such as PrayWay.
Please pray for this ministry, and specifically that God would raise […]

Yesterday we launched Local Church Forums on PrayWay Global Prayer Community. I’m very excited about this new feature which I believe is inspired by God as a new step for this ministry. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time, but yesterday I was contacted by Brenda from Grass Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church […]