Two earthquakes five hours apart shook western Nepal yesterday, killing four children and two adults. People as far away as New Delhi, India, also felt the tremors. The Himalayan country of more than 30 million people is still rebuilding after two earthquakes in 2015 killed almost 9,000 people and destroyed more 824,000 homes. With 258Continue reading “Nepal Shaken by Earthquakes, Persecution”
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Prayer for Persecuted Christians
Sunday was the International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians, and many Christians are setting aside this whole month of November, as well, to pray. Click here to view this moving video from the heart of a sister in Nigeria, by Voice of the Martyrs: Lord, we ask You for Christians all throughout the worldContinue reading “Prayer for Persecuted Christians”
Christians Released from Iranian Prison
Praise God two Christian prisoners in an Iranian prison known as the “torture factory” were recently released without explanation. Both Nasser Narvad Gol-Tapeh, a 61-year old Christian man and house church attender, and Fariba Dalir, a 51-year-old mother and house church planter, were charged with “acting against national security” because of their underground church involvement.Continue reading “Christians Released from Iranian Prison”
Letters Smuggled Out of North Korea
Yesterday, we prayed for North Korea, where between 300,000 and 500,000 Christians follow Jesus secretly. “Any North Korean caught following Jesus is at immediate risk of imprisonment, brutal torture, and/or death,” states Open Doors. An estimated 50,000 to 70,000 Christians are imprisoned in labor camps and prisons. In addition, North Koreans have been facing death byContinue reading “Letters Smuggled Out of North Korea”
Father Threatens to Sacrifice Son
We have received an urgent prayer request from Africa to pray for two Arab women and a son who just accepted the Lord. Praise God for these new lives, but they are in danger from an abusive husband, steeped in witchcraft, who now wants to sacrifice the son. Lord, we ask You, please, to protectContinue reading “Father Threatens to Sacrifice Son”
Hundreds Turn to Christ in Myanmar
Since a military coup in Myanmar early last year, thousands of innocent people have died, many of those Christians. Fighting in the mostly Christian Chin State has left countless families homeless and hiding in the jungles, their villages burned, and dozens of churches ransacked, shelled and occupied. Baptist pastor Cung Biak Hum was gunned downContinue reading “Hundreds Turn to Christ in Myanmar”
1.5 Billion Reasons to Pray
As the Chinese celebrate their New Year today and the opening of the Olympics approaches, let’s pray for this vast country of nearly 1.5 billion people, with 443 unreached people groups cut off from the Gospel by linguistic, cultural, geographic, political and other barriers. Due to an increase in persecution, China rose 26 places inContinue reading “1.5 Billion Reasons to Pray”
Praying for Closed Nations
As we pray Isaiah 51:5, for God to bring His righteousness, salvation, justice, and hope in our own nation, let’s also remember the billions throughout the world facing fear and uncertainty in these difficult days, especially in nations closed to the Good News of Christ’s love. Most of these countries are poverty-stricken and war-torn, with oppressiveContinue reading “Praying for Closed Nations”
Prayers for the Persecuted This Christmas
As we gather with loved ones this Christmas and worship God freely in our churches, let’s take a moment to pray together as a family for persecuted Christians throughout the world who don’t have that freedom. Pray for protection, strength, courage, and the Spirit’s empowering to endure suffering and share with the lost. Lord, weContinue reading “Prayers for the Persecuted This Christmas”
Haiti: Don’t Stop Praying
Let’s continue praying for the safe release of those held hostage in Haiti. Lord, please be a Shield around the abducted Christian Aid Ministries missionaries and their children (6 men, 6 women; and 5 children ages 8 months and 3, 6, 13, 15 years). Guard them from harm, and make the way for their safeContinue reading “Haiti: Don’t Stop Praying”
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