Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo, 54, a refugee from Yemen who converted from Islam to Christ, and an Egyptian Christian, Nour Fayez Ibrahim Girgis, were arrested in late 2021 for their connection with a private Facebook group for Christian converts from Islam. Abdulbaqi also spoke on a Christian TV program about his conversion and the persecution Yemeni Christians face. They have been in incarcerated without a trial at detention centers in Egypt for “terrorism” ever since. In May, after a prisoner reported him for copying Bible verses on scraps of paper, prison authorities placed Abulbaqi in solitary confinement.
From the countryside outside of Taiz, Yemen, Abdulbaqi and his family chose to follow Christ in 2013, but when other Muslims found out, they violently attacked the new converts, persecuting them in multiple ways. At last, after extremists set fire to their home and murdered his wife, Abdulbaqi and his four children fled to Egypt and sought asylum. Eventually, he remarried and now has a child by his second wife, who was interviewed on Fox News recently about his situation.
Abdulbaqi suffers from heart, liver and kidney diseases, and in April he was denied medical attention for chest pains. Now, in an attempt to protest his unjust detention, he has declared a health strike until it is “complete.”
An Egyptian evangelical Christian, Nour has endured repeated interrogations since his unlawful arrest and imprisonment. In June, reports emerged of abuse and torture by security staff in Al-Ashir Prison. (Read the full August 27 story at Church in Chains)
Lord, we speak LIFE and HOPE over Abdulbaqi and Nour. Please be a Shield around them. Heal their bodies and minds. Keep them from harm. Fill their jail cells with Your presence and angels. Make those angels visible to the guards who wish to harm them. Make a way for all charges to be dropped, a fair trial given, or whatever it takes for their quick release. While they’re there, use them to spread the good news to prisoners and guards, so they, too, can know the Truth who sets them free. Meet all of their Muslim persecutors in their dreams, telling them You alone are the Way, the Truth and the Life, and that Your way is love. For every Christian who has been wrongfully jailed in Egypt and every Christian family in Yemen that has been horribly persecuted, we ask You now, Lord, for 1,000 Muslim souls to come to faith, and 100s of churches to spring up all across these lands. Awaken Yemen, awaken Egypt to Your love. Make a way where there seems to be no way for Your Word to be translated into all the languages of the unreached people groups in these two countries and bring forth a church-planting movement that is out of man’s control. Be a Shield around every believer in Egypt and Yemen and empower them to preach Your good news now like never before. May Your kingdom come to every heart and home in both these countries, Lord. In Your name. Amen.
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