Churches encourage contact with religious persecution victims overseas; American ex-Marine a pawn in showdown with Iran

Here's another bulletin board ad at a church I saw about religious persecution in Africa, this one inviting people to send text messages to specific people.  I would wonder how many people in the worst areas even have cell phones.

Tensions continue with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, with an American (ex-Marine) of Iranian descent being sentenced to death as a supposed "spy" while visiting grandparents.