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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:46:20 CST
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- From: Russ Neumeier <russn@SSEC.WISC.EDU>
- Subject: Prayer Request - please read (fwd)
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- Everyone,
-
- I just pulled this off of rec.music.christian and thought that I'd post it
- here.....
-
- Russ Neumeier
- SSEC, UW-Madison
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- Forwarded message:
- > From
- uwvax!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!doc.ic.ac.
- uk!uknet!edcastle!spider!raft.spider.co.uk!alisonjw Wed Dec 23 07:41:56 1992
- > Article: 12766 of rec.music.christian
- > Path:
- uwvax!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!doc.ic.ac.
- uk!uknet!edcastle!spider!raft.spider.co.uk!alisonjw
- > From: alisonjw@spider.co.uk (Alison J Wyld)
- > Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
- > Subject: Prayer Request - please read
- > Message-ID: <1992Dec23.131640.16328@spider.co.uk>
- > Date: 23 Dec 92 13:16:40 GMT
- > Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.
- > Lines: 29
- >
- > I am posting this to r.m.c, despite its being off-topic, as there may
- > not be time for it to be posted on s.r.c while it is still relevant.
- >
- >
- > The following appeared in todays (23rd Dec's) "Scotsman" newspaper.
- > I'm typing it in verbatim (all typo's mine)
- >
- > "Appeal to Spare Preachers
- >
- > President Fidel Ramos appealed yesterday to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
- > to spare two Filipinos reported to be facing execution on Christmas
- > day for preaching Christianity in the Islamic country.
- >
- > Oswaldo Magdangal and Renato Posedio have been in prison in Saudi
- > Arabia for two months after allegedly trying to build a Christian
- > church.
- >
- > Saudi Arabia does not permit the open practive of religions other than
- > Islam and proselytising is also forbidden"
- >
- >
- > Can I suggest that we all pray that the King will have mercy and
- > commute or repeal the sentences. Maybe we should also pray for the
- > Christians who will be commemorating Christ's birth in secret in Saudi
- > and other countries, and thank God for our own freedom to worship.
- >
- > In Him
- >
- > Alison
- >
- >
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