12/18/2018 Washington D.C. ICC – Isolation. For many Muslim-background believers, also known as MBBs, this is one of the first feelings they experience when their faith becomes public. Ostracization from their family is swift and their lives are at risk. Finding a new
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It is Friday again and Marna and I are looking forward to meet up with our Turkish Bible study group. Karam* and Ismael* has been a real source of blessing for us lately. They made Jesus the Lord and Master
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In war-ravaged Syria, isolation is more harmful than bullets or bombs. Men are dying or fleeing at an astonishing rate, and the women left behind are having to learn to live in a new world. They are now both caretakers
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Frontiers USA recently published an encouraging update on the situation in Fallujah, Iraq, the town that was reclaimed from ISIL by Iraqi troops last Summer. Thousands of people from Fallujah had fled to a nearby refugee town, dubbed the City
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As students gathered for a Bible class in Hanoi, Vietnam, security forces arrived and arrested the assembled believers. On January 23rd, Pastor Nguyen (not his real name) reported that “Last week we were arrested by Hanoi security during our Bible
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House churches in China are being told to expect “unprecedented suppression” in a new report which is warning of a “major turning point” in the treatment of believers. China Aid has expressed fears that Chinese Christians will suffer under a
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Catholic and Protestant churches need to unite if Christians are to resist a rise in intolerance and radicalism in Indonesia, according to church leaders in that country. Growing incidents of hate speech and opposition to the building of places of
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According to Trans World Radio, 80 percent of those unreached with the Gospel live in a country where YouTube is the first or second most visited website? For ministries, that’s something to think about. and for TWR, it means diversification
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Women are playing a central role in the underground churches of Iran, despite the risk of rejection by their families and imprisonment by police, according to research by Open Doors. The 17-page report, ‘Women Rebuilding the Future of the Church’,
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Nissar and his wife were brought up as Muslims, but 20 years ago came to faith in Christ. Since then they and their children have been regularly abused and attacked, told to move out of the predominantly Muslim area of
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