Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 19, 2009

Along with his wife Suzanne, Michael Salman of Phoenix, Arizona holds regular church services and sponsors missionaries to Syria and other Middle Eastern countries.

On June 11, the Salmans? home was besieged by a swarm of police officers who detained the family for several hours. The police had been sent by the local zoning board to collect evidence that the Salmans were conducting church services in their home.

For a year and a half, the Salmans worked to comply with the zoning board?s requirements to build a 2,000-square-foot outbuilding, which cost them some $80,000. The function of that building is to entertain visitors. According to the zoning board, it is permissible to use that building to watch movies, but not to hold worship services.

A missionary from Syria who was present during the police raid on June 11 pointed out: ?We came to America to get away from this kind of persecution.?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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