(Christian Aid Mission) — Abandoned by his parents, a boy in rural Paraguay had not yet hit his teenage years when he began seeing how theft made him feel self-sufficient and tough. His friends were stealing and assaulting people, and he could feel the anger in him finding release if he had to beat people […]
South Sudan (Mission Network News) — Bibles For The World plans to distribute thousands of New Testaments to children in South Sudan through a new ministry partnership. South Sudan is the youngest sovereign country in the world. The nation has a large Christian population. President John Pudaite explains how Bibles For The World received this […]
(Voice of the Martyrs Korea) — Rapid growth of the church in one of the last remaining Communist countries, Laos, has caused Voice of the Martyrs Korea to join together with several Christian organizations to meet a request from local believers for 100,000 New Testaments within the next 9 months. “In 1994 there were 400 […]
(The Christian Institute) — Stuart King, co-founder of Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), died on August 28 at age 98. After serving in the RAF during the Second World War, King founded MAF in 1945 and was one of the first British airmen to take light aircraft to Africa in 1948 to aid isolated villages. Today, […]
(Voice of the Martyrs Australia) — Surrendering all to God, a Colombian family boldly shares the gospel in a guerrilla-controlled red zone known for drug trafficking and violence. David and Gloria Martinez moved deep into Colombia’s Chocó Department in 2005 to share the gospel, distribute Bibles and plant churches. The couple studied the local language […]
(Christian Aid Mission) — Even before COVID-19 began devastating lives, trials of another nature this year were already battering a native ministry leader in the Philippines. The year began with the death under suspicious circumstances of one of his native missionaries working in an area of violent opposition. “At first I thought that he had […]
Nigeria (Christian Aid Mission/Mission Network News) — A staunch Muslim in a 90 percent Muslim area of Nigeria, Idris* was so opposed to the borehole and other services local missionaries provided that he ordered his wife not to drink the new well water. According to Christian Aid Mission, Idris had opposed the efforts of Christian […]
(Barnabas Fund) — The landslide victory of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka’s Aug. 5 general election opens the door for his government to introduce legislation against “forced” conversion. The Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP) won 145 seats in the 225-member Parliament, giving the Buddhist nationalist president an overall majority. Subsequent negotiations with political allies […]
HENGYANG, Hunan (International Christian Concern) — On Aug. 3, a Christian in China’s Hunan province was sentenced by the authorities to 10 days in administrative detention for “illegal evangelism.” Chen Wensheng, who is part of the Xiaoqun Church in Hengyang, has often preached the gospel on the streets. He often carried a wooden cross that […]
(Every Home for Christ) — Orphans in Liberia are often accused of witchcraft. So are the disabled, the elderly, and anyone who doesn’t fit neatly into the rest of society. These accusations seem to be based on the superstitious belief that those who suffer misfortune do so as a result of their own involvement in […]