Despairing Afghan Refugees Find Aid and Hope
Taiba and her two young children arrived at the office of a Middle East-based ministry exhausted, hungry and destitute after fleeing a Taliban raid on their home in Afghanistan. They have lived the nightmare that tens of thousands of other Afghan refugees are trying to avoid. Witnessing the execution of her father and the abduction of her husband, she and her children had to leave home, town and country with only the clothes on their backs.
Praying against a Father’s Hostility in the Middle East
Weeping, a young professional woman recently called the leader of a ministry based in her country in the Middle East at 11:30 p.m. Amal Mousa* still lived with the Muslim parents who raised her, and she told the leader that her father had learned she was attending church services against his orders.
Victims of Violence in Iraq Find Healing in Christ
A 30-year-old Kurdish woman was one of 6,000 Yazidis seized when ISIS militants invaded Iraq in 2014. Yazidi religion being especially despised by Muslim extremists, over the next three years she was sold to fighters of different factions who raped her and her daughters. When she was freed, her parents did not recognize her.
Muslim Woman’s Path to Christ Goes through Mecca
Aqilah grew up as an orphan at a Catholic boarding school – then circumstances brought her to live with Middle Eastern relatives, where she became an ardent Muslim.
Prayer Key in Transforming Middle East Muslim
The 26-year-old son of wealthy Muslims was deeply troubled – by his mother’s prayers for him. “He became a believer, and his mother heard about it,” the leader of a local ministry said. “As she is a very strict Muslim lady, she began doing 50 Muslim prayers each day – 40 of these prayers is the norm for most strict Muslims – in order to get her son back into the Muslim faith.”
COVID-19 Teaches Doctor in Iraq about Healing
Just a year out of medical school, Fadhil Jassim was skeptical when his mother, father and sisters prayed to receive Christ, and he told local missionaries that worldwide suffering from COVID-19 was a strong argument that there was no God.
Syrian Refugee Receives Desperately Needed Miracle
A refugee trying to recover from an injury to his skull sustained in war-torn Syria was in constant pain. Fellow refugees who had received food and other aid from local missionaries believed that kind-hearted people were healers, so they asked the leader of the ministry to come, believing that he was so kind he had to have power to heal.
Pandemic-Stricken Poor in Middle East See the Divine
Middle Eastern countries with pandemic-gutted economies are now even less equipped to receive refugees from war-ravaged Syria, but conditions continue to drive Syrians out.
Soft Answer Wins Hard-Line Islamist in Middle East
Like everyone else in his city, a young Muslim felt he could have no peace until his country became an Islamic power superior to all other states.
From Convicts to Kids, Workers See God’s Power
When the leader of a ministry based in the Middle East recently went to a prison to tell inmates about salvation in Christ, he knew it was not normal that an official checking his ID asked him to take a nearby seat.
