13 Christians were freed from Eritrean prisons after Christian organization Voice of the Martyrs launched a prayer and awareness campaign bringing attention to the plight of those wrongfully prisoned in Eritrea. Two pastors have been in prison for 7,000 days but were not among those freed. VOM’s Todd Nettleton joins CBN to discuss the very latest surrounding this situation, including praising God for those released and ongoing prayer concerns for those who remain behind bars.
“All 13 of them, at least 10 years in prison, for them to be released is an amazing blessing,” Nettleton said, noting the timing was curious considering his organization had launched a massive campaign just six days earlier for the release of two pastors who have spent over 7,000 days in prison. “They were arrested more than 19 years ago,” he said. “They’ve been in prison all that time. We asked people to pray for them and for other Christians imprisoned in Eritrea.”
The Voice of the Martyrs also asked for people to contact the Eritrean embassy. While the two preachers — Pastor Haile Nayzgi and Dr. Kiflu Gebremeskel — were not along the 13 released, just days later leaders did make a decision to let some Christians out from behind bars. “It’s hard not to see those two things as connected,” Nettleton said.
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
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For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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