{"id":4881,"date":"2024-01-11T08:07:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T08:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/christian-loses-position-on-village-council\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T08:07:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T08:07:08","slug":"christian-loses-position-on-village-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/christian-loses-position-on-village-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Loses Position on Village Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Siporn is a faithful Christian and a member of the village council in his community. In August, the president of the council confronted Siporn about his faith, promising that Siporn would succeed him as council president if Siporn would recant. Siporn answered, &ldquo;I will not stop believing in my God, because I have found the truth and chosen the right path for my life.&rdquo; The council then met without Siporn and voted to remove him from his position. &ldquo;Being [on the council] or not, it does not matter to me,&rdquo; he told a front-line worker. &ldquo;I will thank God for everything.&rdquo; Pray for Brother Siporn and others in Laos who lose jobs and reputations for the sake of knowing Christ and making him known.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/laos\/\">Click here<\/a> to find out about Christian persecution in Laos and learn how to pray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icommittopray.com\/request\/2614\/siporn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Post a prayer for Siporn on iCommitToPray.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siporn is a faithful Christian and a member of the village council in his community. 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Siporn answered, &#8220;I will not stop believing in my God, because I have found the truth and chosen the right path for my life.&#8221; The council then met without Siporn and voted to remove him from his position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-commit-to-pray","tag-laos","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christian Loses Position on Village Council - Stories<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/christian-loses-position-on-village-council\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christian Loses Position on Village Council - Stories\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Siporn is a faithful Christian and a member of the village council in his community. 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