Luke 21:12 “But before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.
An American imprisoned in Libya for more than a month for spreading the Gospel is going to be freed.
U.S. diplomats have withheld the American man’s identity but reports say the man also holds Swedish citizenship. He was arrested with an Egyptian man and South Korean man along with a South African woman just days before a priest was almost assassinated in Tripoli.
The four will be freed and then deported as a “gesture of good will.”
The release comes amid reports of increasing violence against Christians in Libya. In recent weeks, communities of Roman Catholic nuns left the country because of threats of violence against them by Islamic extremists.
One of the communities had been helping the poor in Derna, Libya for almost a century.
“The situation is not good for Christians both in Tripoli and Benghazi,” the Vatican’s official news agency reported.
