Syrian Pastor, Family Massacred (BBC: They Shot Patients In Beds)│The Prison Pulpit #40 [China Compass]
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
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Summary
Today we are going to take a few minutes to remember to pray for a small group of persecuted and/or suffering Christians that have been in the news this past week…
A Christian pastor in Syria was massacred recently, along with others from the Druze community, including one from my home state of Oklahoma (and others with connections to friends in Venezuela).
Follow and/or message me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I post (among other things) daily reminders to pray for China.You can also email me @ bfwesten at gmail dot com. Lastly, to learn more about our ministry endeavors or get one of my missionary biographies, visit PrayGiveGo.us!
BTW, here’s my own humble attempt at expositing Hebrews 13:3: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/remember-my-chains
Evangelical pastor, family massacred by terrorists in Syria; at least 12 dead
https://www.osvnews.com/syrian-christian-leaders-say-islamist-government-cant-protect-them-or-druze/
CBN Video/Audio Clip I Shared On Today’s Podcast: https://youtu.be/e-iziN2MSgM?si=_PM6bCjS0OMaE5us (0:05-5:52)
'They shot patients in beds' – BBC hears claims of massacre at Suweida hospital
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly84jn000do
Family says US citizen killed in Syria’s Suwayda
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/family-says-us-citizen-killed-syrias-suwayda
From a former missionary to Venezuela and the Muslims of the Mediterranean:
Over 40 years ago a lot of Lebanese and Syrians went to Venezuela. Two young Syrian Druze girls got saved in Venezuela… Eventually more of the family got saved and made a connection with one of [our] ministers… I got to know them too although they lived far from Caracas - about 12 hours by bus. We are still in close contact and now a lot of the family has moved to Michigan. I called one friend yesterday and she told me about their family in Syria (including cousins who have been killed). In Venezuela, all our Arab friends were Druze from Lebanon and Syria and one of our missionaries [taught] English in the Druze village of Majdal Shams [in Israel’s Golan Heights], on the border of Syria and Lebanon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this 40th episode in the |
| 0:10.8 | weekly midweek prison pulpit series that I've been doing on the China Compass |
| 0:17.3 | podcast since last October. |
| 0:19.6 | We are on the Fight, laugh, Feast Network, and I'm your |
| 0:22.6 | China Travel Guide, Missionary Bin, recording tonight from Malaysia. It's tonight here. It's after |
| 0:30.7 | midnight here. Late, late on Wednesday night. It's about noon for those of you back in North |
| 0:35.7 | America. And if you're listening in other places, |
| 0:38.2 | thank you for listening. And you are obviously at many at different times, different random times |
| 0:42.3 | around the world if you're in Europe or in Australia there. You can follow or message me |
| 0:47.5 | and or message me on Twitter X at China Adventures at China Adventures, two A's in the middle there, |
| 0:53.0 | where I post, among other things, |
| 0:54.6 | daily reminders to pray for China. You can also email me at BFWestin at gmail.com. Any comments or |
| 1:03.3 | thoughts or whatever you might have. Lastly, to learn more about all of our ministry endeavors or any |
| 1:09.1 | of the missionary biographies that we've helped to publish. |
| 1:12.1 | You can get all that info detailed at pray give go.us. Pray give go.us. Now, I began this weekly |
| 1:20.9 | prison pulpit series last October. I mentioned it to Gabe Berench sometime, maybe last summer, |
| 1:26.9 | maybe during grace agenda last year. I mentioned it to him, andch sometime maybe last summer, maybe during grace agenda last year. |
| 1:29.5 | I mentioned it to him, and he thought it was a good idea to potentially do something like |
| 1:33.6 | this, where we focus on praying for the persecuted church, focus on praying for those who |
| 1:37.6 | believers who are suffering around the world. |
| 1:39.8 | And I've enjoyed doing it, and we've covered different things, mostly Pastor Wang Yi to start, |
| 1:44.3 | and we'll circle back around to him here before too long, as well as a lot of stuff from |
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