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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Please remember in our prayers today </span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Liu Xiaobo</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><span style='color:#1F497D'> the Chinese winner of the Nobel Peace Prize who died today. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I believe one pronunciation of his name would be LEE-You SHEE-AH-BOW. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo dies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>07/13/2017 9:37<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has died, the government of the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, where he was being treated for late-stage liver cancer, said on Thursday.<> Liu, 61, was jailed for 11 years in 2009 for "inciting subversion of state power" after he helped write a petition known as "Charter 08" calling for sweeping political reforms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>He was recently moved from jail to a hospital in Shenyang.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/news/story/0002/20170713/KBN19Y1MV_1"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/news/story/0002/20170713/KBN19Y1MV_1</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>= = =<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Liu Xiaobo</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>Chinese</span></a>: </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#222222'>Áõ</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft JhengHei",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Ïþ²¨</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin" title=Pinyin><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>pinyin</span></a>: <i>Li¨² Xi¨£ob¨</i>; born 28 December 1955 ¨C 13 July 2017)</span><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-1"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[1]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-2"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[2]</span></a></span></sup><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> was a Chinese literary critic, writer, human rights activist and [2010] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>Nobel Peace Prize</span></a> laureate who called for political reforms and the end of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China" title="Communist Party of China"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>communist</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-party_rule" title="Single-party rule"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>single-party rule</span></a>.</span><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-EB-3"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[3]</span></a></span></sup><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>He was incarcerated as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_prisoner" title="Political prisoner"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>political prisoner</span></a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinzhou" title=Jinzhou><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>Jinzhou</span></a>, Liaoning.</span><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-4"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[4]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-5"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[5]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-6"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[6]</span></a></span></sup><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> On 26 June 2017, he was granted medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer.</span><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-7"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[7]</span></a></span></sup><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Liu served as the President of the Independent Chinese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_PEN" title="International PEN"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>PEN</span></a>Center, from 2003 to 2007. He was also the president of <i>Minzhu Zhongguo</i> (<i>Democratic China</i>) magazine since the mid-1990s. On 8 December 2008, Liu was detained due to his participation with the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_08" title="Charter 08"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>Charter 08</span></a></i> manifesto. He was formally arrested on 23 June 2009 on suspicion of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inciting_subversion_of_state_power" title="Inciting subversion of state power"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>inciting subversion of state power</span></a>".</span><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-8"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[8]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-chnrev-9"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[9]</span></a></span></sup><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> He was tried on the same charges on 23 December 2009,</span><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-canyu-10"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[10]</span></a></span></sup><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> and sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment and two years' deprivation of political rights on 25 December 2009.</span><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-judg-11"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[11]</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></sup></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>During his fourth prison term, Liu was awarded the </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2010 Nobel Peace Prize"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0B0080;background:white;text-decoration:none'>2010 Nobel Peace Prize</span></a> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China."</span><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-12"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[12]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-nobel-announcement-13"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[13]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-rthk-nobel-14"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[14]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-15"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[15]</span></a></span></sup><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'> He is the first </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_people" title="Chinese people"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0B0080;background:white;text-decoration:none'>Chinese citizen</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'> to be awarded a Nobel Prize of any kind while residing in China.</span><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-16"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[16]</span></a></span></sup><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'> Liu is the third person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison or detention, after Germany's </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Ossietzky" title="Carl von Ossietzky"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0B0080;background:white;text-decoration:none'>Carl von Ossietzky</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'> (1935) and Burma's </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi" title="Aung San Suu Kyi"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0B0080;background:white;text-decoration:none'>Aung San Suu Kyi</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>(1991).</span><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-wachter-17"><span style='color:#0B0080;text-decoration:none'>[17]</span></a></span></sup><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'> Liu is also the second person (the first being Ossietzky) to have been denied the right to have a representative collect the Nobel prize for him.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Micah 6:8 -- ¡®do justice, love mercy¡¯ <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Peace and blessings,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Joe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>