So Job died old and full of days

Crammed and jammed
Bursting with days
Job died old and full of days

So full of days
He died
Died from days clotted with friends,
Eliphaz, Bildad and
Zophar
And don’t forget Elihu
Late but stuffed with wisdom too
Friends certain and smug
Wiseacres knowing all
Everything about this life
Except of course the life of Job

After coup attempt, Turkey cracks down on Protestants

After a weeklong business trip in the U.K., American pastor Ryan Keating was detained at the Istanbul airport over­night, interrogated, and then put on a plane back to London.

“They locked me in a room they called the guest house with 15 to 20 other people,” Keating said, recalling the night of October 8. “Some were suspected of being terrorists and ISIS members.”

Yemen’s Bahá’ís keep faith amid conflict, crackdown

For 11 days in August, Ruhiyeh Thabet al-Sakkaf and Nafheh Sanai al-Sakkaf shared a jacket and a damp cell at Yemen’s National Security Bureau after armed officers stormed a multifaith youth event the sisters-in-law were leading and arrested 65 men, women, and children.

“They raided us how they would raid a terrorist cell, with masked gunmen shouting, ‘Quiet! Sit down! Nobody move!’” Ruhiyeh said.