The Worldwide Church - Persecution

• Tax: A required payment to a local, state, or national government. Where Christians are persecuted, sometimes they are made to pay extra tax.
• Forbidden buildings: Some types of buildings are forbidden in some countries. Where Christians are being persecuted, some people are forbidden to build churches.
• 1 Corinthians 12:26 Quote and Meaning: "If one part suffers, every part suffers with it." 1 Corinthians 12:26. You help the whole Church by helping individual Christians.
• Barnabus Fund: A charity that sends financial support to projects that help Christians where they suffer discrimination, oppression and persecution as a consequence of their faith.
• Brother Andrew: He saw how difficult life was for Christians in Warsaw, Poland (under communist rule) so smuggled Bibles and other Christian literature into Eastern Europe despite risk of arrest and imprisonment. When communist rule in Eastern Europe ended and Christians were free to practice without persecution, he started to help other persecuted Christians around the world.