Source: WEA Religious Liberty Commission, January 30, 2017<\/p>\n
For over three months, US pastor Dr. Andrew Brunson has been detained in Izmir, Turkey for his Christian faith. Charged falsely with holding \u201cmembership in an armed terrorist group,\u201d he now desperately needs your help. The WEA is launching a letter-writing campaign to demand his release. We also encourage you to sign the ACLJ petition for Andrew<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story and view the sample letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb Also pray for three men in Sudan<\/a>, one a Czech national, as they seek to appeal lengthy prison sentences (Voice of the Martyrs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: WEA Religious Liberty Commission, January 30, 2017 For over three months, US pastor Dr. Andrew Brunson has been detained in Izmir, Turkey for his Christian faith. Charged falsely with holding \u201cmembership in an armed terrorist group,\u201d he now desperately needs your help. The WEA is launching a letter-writing campaign to demand his release. We … Continue reading TURKEY: Letter Campaign Seeks Release of Imprisoned US Pastor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6954,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions\/6954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}