Persecuted Church
Her Help Comes from the Lord
Than is a housewife, a Christian, and a farmer. She understands the effort it takes to produce a good crop yield in more ways than one. “I wasn’t raised in a Christian home. My parents were not Christians,” she recalls. But one day, a friend gave her a copy of the New Testament. As she…
Read MoreResistance and Oppression
When Habrua first started serving his Muslim community in Africa, only one or two people would come forward to hear about Jesus. But the Holy Spirit is moving, and over the past few years, more than 2,000 people have been baptized. “Resistance is common but the harvest is plenty,” says Habrua. “We are planting small…
Read MorePrayer in the Face of Persecution
After hearing the Gospel from a local champion named Etasa, Wimal and her family received Jesus into their lives. Their new relationship with Christ did not go unnoticed and it quickly ignited local hostilities as their entire village turned against them. Without access to their rations, Wimal and her family had no subsidized food, no…
Read MoreHealed Through a Local Church
Around the time she turned 45, Pavithra began to have pain in her lower abdomen. The pain grew so severe that it became very difficult to do household chores or any of her usual daily activities. She visited hospitals and spent a lot of money on medicine. She also sacrificed chickens and goats to her…
Read MorePressed But Not Destroyed
Indah and her family live in a closed country with a predominantly Muslim population. Christians and other religious minorities face increasing hostility and persecution from neighbours and local officials. Indah, who grew up as a Muslim, learned about Jesus through her friend, Susila. Susila gave Indah a Bible. Indah read the Bible hungrily, but when…
Read MoreNew ways to share the Good News
Tens of millions of Christians like Aamir are living in communities where simply owning a Bible can lead to beatings, imprisonment or death for the sake of Jesus Christ. “We live in [a] difficult situation where we cannot freely exercise our faith,” says Aamir, a brother in East Africa who has been following Christ for four years. “There…
Read MoreStand with persecuted Christians today
Your gift will place Bibles in their hands so they can be bold in their faith. Nothing will stop Brother Pon from boldly proclaiming the gospel of Christ. Even though many people have tried to silence his witness. He was brutally attacked while passing out Biblical materials in front of a tea shop near his…
Read MoreA Muslim woman takes refuge in Jesus’s sacrifice
Each year, Sandra made sacrifices to atone for her sins. Sandra struggled to keep up with all Islam’s holy days and fasting rituals, and every Ramadan she performed cleansing rituals to ask forgiveness. “But when a church planter entered our village, she explained there is no need to make sacrifices,” recalls Sandra. “Through Jesus Christ,…
Read MoreThe Light of Truth
“I was young when a tragedy happened in my family. I lost my parents and my sister in a car accident. I thought that I wouldn’t survive this loss, but God gave me incredible strength to keep on living. I wanted to continue my education. University tuition in my country was very high, so I…
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