Remembrance Sunday 2008

Remember Those Who Went Before and The Price They Paid

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION 250 MILLION CHRISTIANS ARE SUFFERING PERSECUTION OF SOME KIND AROUND THE WORLD TODAY COMMUNISM FUNDAMENTALIST HINDUISM POLITICAL BUDDHISM MILITANT ISLAM www.hart-uk.org

250 MILLION CHRISTIANS ARE SUFFERING PERSECUTION OF SOME KIND AROUND THE WORLD TODAY

COMMUNISM

FUNDAMENTALIST HINDUISM

POLITICAL BUDDHISM

MILITANT ISLAM

‘ When one part of the Body of Christ suffers, we all suffer.’ St. Paul to the church at Corinth (1 Corinthians 12, v. 26)

‘ When one part of the Body of Christ suffers, we all suffer.’

St. Paul to the church at Corinth (1 Corinthians 12, v. 26)

A Light in the Darkness: The Privilege of Making a Difference Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust

OUR MISSION To provide appropriate aid to those who are, or who have recently been, suffering oppression and persecution. Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust

To provide appropriate aid to those who are, or who have recently been, suffering oppression and persecution.

OUR PRIORITY To focus on “the forgotten people in forgotten lands”: those who are often trapped behind closed borders, not served by other major aid organisations and who tend to be unreached, unhelped, unheard. Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust

To focus on “the forgotten people in forgotten lands”: those who are often trapped behind closed borders, not served by other major aid organisations and who tend to be unreached, unhelped, unheard.

OUR PRINCIPLES Authenticity: gathering first hand evidence of oppression, persecution and humanitarian needs. Aid – assessing and providing the most appropriate type of relief. Advocacy – making known the needs and concerns of those who are suffering. Accountability – to those for whom HART speaks and to those who support our work. Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust

Authenticity: gathering first hand evidence of oppression, persecution and humanitarian needs.

Aid – assessing and providing the most appropriate type of relief.

Advocacy – making known the needs and concerns of those who are suffering.

Accountability – to those for whom HART speaks and to those who support our work.

Armenia

Burma

The SPDC has used its power to carry out brutal crimes against humanity, targeting civilians in a counter-insurgency strategy that contravenes international humanitarian law.

The SPDC has used its power to carry out brutal crimes against humanity, targeting civilians in a counter-insurgency strategy that contravenes international humanitarian law.

In February 2008, 2100 Karen villagers were displaced by SPDC military offensives with their ‘shoot to kill’ policy.

In February 2008, 2100 Karen villagers were displaced by SPDC military offensives with their ‘shoot to kill’ policy.

Since 2006, at least 30,000 Karen people have had to flee SPDC attacks on their villages to take The Long Road to Nowhere

Current Famine in Chin State Caused by Bamboo Flowering and Infestation of Rats

Pastor Simon

They call us a displaced people, But, thank God, we are not misplaced. They say they see no hope for our future, But, thank God, our future is as bright as the promises of God. They say the life of our people is a misery But, praise God, our life is a mystery. For what they say is what they see And what they see is temporal; But ours is the eternal, All because we put ourselves in the hands of the God we trust. Pastor Simon, Mae La Camp.

Sudan

‘ Pity weeps and turns away. Compassion weeps and puts out a hand to help’. St. Francis of Assisi

Nigeria

‘ If we have a faith worth living for, it is a faith worth dying for Don’t YOU compromise the faith that WE are living and dying for.’ Archbishop Ben Kwashi.

I cannot do everything, but I must not do nothing.

Pray for the church, afflicted and oppressed, For all who suffer for the Gospel’s sake, That Christ may show us how to serve them best In that one Kingdom Satan cannot shake. But how much more than us they have, to give, Who by their dying show us how to live!

Pray for the church, afflicted and oppressed,

For all who suffer for the Gospel’s sake,

That Christ may show us how to serve them best

In that one Kingdom Satan cannot shake.

But how much more than us they have, to give,

Who by their dying show us how to live!

Pray for Christ’s dissidents, who daily wait, As Jesus waited in the olive grove, The unjust trail, the pre-determined fate, The world’s contempt for reconciling love. Shall all they won for us, at such a cost, Be by our negligence or weakness lost?

Pray for Christ’s dissidents, who daily wait,

As Jesus waited in the olive grove,

The unjust trail, the pre-determined fate,

The world’s contempt for reconciling love.

Shall all they won for us, at such a cost,

Be by our negligence or weakness lost?

Pray that if times of testing should lay bare What sort we are, who call ourselves His own, We may be counted worthy then to wear, With quiet fortitude, Christ’s only crown: The crown that in His saints He wears again The crown of thorns that signifies His reign. F. Pratt Green.

Pray that if times of testing should lay bare

What sort we are, who call ourselves His own,

We may be counted worthy then to wear,

With quiet fortitude, Christ’s only crown:

The crown that in His saints He wears again

The crown of thorns that signifies His reign.

F. Pratt Green.

Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust www.hart-uk.org