Kyrgyzstan (Mission Network News) — Pray for a situation which took place in a village in the southern part of Kyrgyzstan, a Muslim-dominated country in Central Asia. Recently a group of Protestant believers from different parts of Kyrgyzstan visited a Christian family in their village. *Janysh and *Laura (real names protected for security reasons) are […]

Thailand (Mission Network News) — A palpable heaviness hits you when get off the plane in Thailand. A friend once told me that it’s much like the lead vest the dentist covers you with when he takes x-rays of your teeth. At first you really feel the weight of it, but after a few minutes […]

Africa (Mission Network News) — There are an estimated three million orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly half of them suffer from AIDS. The good news? They don’t have to suffer in silence. Christ’s Hope, a ministry with a large international presence, is working to give children hope by fighting the AIDS pandemic in Africa. “Christ’s Hope […]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (BP) — The effectiveness of a Supreme Court of Pakistan ruling that blasphemy laws be reformed to discourage false allegations hinges on the government’s response to the order, a leader of the International Christian Concern watchdog group told Baptist Press. The three-judge Pakistani bench called for reforms when it upheld the death penalty […]

Wenzhou, Zhejiang (China Aid) — Authorities placed at least 20 Christians under residential surveillance in China’s coastal Zhejiang province over the past two months. In China, “residential surveillance in a designated location,” also known as holding in “black jails,” is a more severe form of holding than “criminal detention.” Individuals under residential surveillance are held […]

(Mission Network News) — Open Doors USA’s online presence in the Middle East is growing rapidly. Several social media projects focusing on supporting Christians in the Arab-speaking world have now culminated into a combined total of 500,000 “likes.” Each week, thousands of people are engaging on one of the social media outlets supported by Open […]

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Amid ongoing dangers, Christian leaders in Nigeria this month recalled the exemplary faith of indigenous missionaries who gave their lives in areas overrun by Islamic extremist militants. While President Muhammadu Buhari told an India-African summit this week that Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has been contained to “sporadic” attacks in […]

BEIJING (New York Times) — Driven by fears that an aging population could jeopardize China’s economic ascent, the Communist Party leadership ended its decades-old “one child” policy on Thursday, announcing that all married couples would be allowed to have two children. The decision was a dramatic step away from a core Communist Party position that […]

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – On top of recent government demolitions of church buildings, suspected Muslim extremists in Sudan’s eastern city of Al Qadarif this month set fire to one used by a 500-member congregation, sources said. Leaders from the Lutheran Church of Sudan said they suspect a radical Muslim set the blaze that […]

AFRICA (Mission Network News) — Orphanages are overflowing with kids who don’t know what the word “permanent” means anymore. Ruth Olsson, a strategic partnership consultant with Bethany Christian Services, says, “Institutionalizing children is not a great plan for their future. We would say God designed the family. Man designed orphanages to respond to a crisis, […]