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January 23, 2020
As Aimar sat in a freezing tent in a makeshift refugee camp in southern Turkey, he recalled how his children had asked him what they had done to displease Allah.
Since fleeing his home and farm in Syria under cover of darkness four years ago, he’d worked day and night to keep his family fed, but three days without work had left them without food.
“There was no food to eat, and the kids were crying and asking, ‘Father, why is Allah not giving us food? What have we done to him?’”
January 16, 2020
For an ethnic Mixtec woman like Donaji, nightmares were not just scary but predicted disaster in this world and the next. The 40-year-old fruit-vendor in a remote village of western Mexico believed she was surrounded by gods of rain, trees, mountains, stones and forces in nature telling her she was doomed. No amount of animal sacrifices could ward off the destruction of her soul that the dangers and deaths in her dreams portended.
January 9, 2020
Muslim Fulani herdsmen seeking grazing lands among predominantly Christian tribes have made the north-central areas of Nigeria very volatile, the leader of a native ministry said.
Some of the ministry’s most effective church planting and humanitarian work has taken place in the area, including water boreholes in three villages and a school for the children.
“The greatest challenge remains security of the area and for our missionaries,” he said. “We have suffered losses there – some missionaries killed, and one for three years still missing. We have no idea what happened to him.”
January 2, 2020
A law passed last year providing health care for all people in the Philippines takes effect this month, but that will not matter to remote villagers where there are no doctors or medical facilities.
Impoverished villagers have long suffered from lack of access to health care in the Southeast Asian country.
Against this backdrop, a 4-year-old boy in Mindanao whose hernia made it too painful to play with other children didn’t realize how lucky he was.
December 26, 2019
In his refugee tent in Turkey, a Muslim father of two was talking with native missionaries who had just given him tarps to help keep out the rain. He wanted to know why they were doing it.
The Turkish ministry leader realized the refugee believed they would expect something in return for helping them. He needed to put him at ease.
“Who are you?” said the refugee, a schoolteacher in his native Syria. “We never heard that we should help unbelievers. If we had the chance, our priority would be to kill you.”
December 19, 2019
In a Vietnamese village where everyone worships the gods, goddesses and spirits of their ancestors, the gospel seemed a rude intruder. When a young man found Christ in another village and brought it back to his family, the God of his salvation message seemed to them a foreign imposter.
Then the Holy Spirit began to stir their hearts.
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