This week, Christian media reported: –In Ethiopia the sons of a Christian woman embraced Christianity after witnessing their mother’s martyrdom for refusing to convert to Islam from Christianity. –In China the wife of a Christian pastor was buried alive by bulldozers as she protested against the demolition of her husband’s church. –A Syrian Christian woman who was killed by Muslim extremists because she refused to renounce her faith has been described as a ‘martyr’ by Pope Francis. –In Indonesia an elderly Christian woman was publicly whipped nearly thirty times for selling alcohol as the persecution of Christians continues to rise. –In Pakistan a Christian who stood up to Muslim drug dealers was murdered for his efforts, and in Syria more than twenty Christians were brutally killed by IS when the terror group captured a Syrian community that the government had recently liberated.