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October 18, 2018
Coastal humidity mingling with desert heat blew in through the window of his family’s third-floor apartment as Mostafa listened to a former Muslim on his laptop screen talk about Christ. His parents and siblings were away, but the 19-year-old didn’t dare try to turn the laptop volume up when, outside, the noon call to prayer from a mosque loudspeaker drowned out the speaker on his screen.
October 11, 2018
Before two native missionaries in the Philippines got married 15 years ago, they decided they wanted to have 12 children. “We hoped that God would grant our desires, for we really wanted to have a big family,” said Marco, who leads the ministry the couple began. Fifteen years later, they have one child, a girl. “God has given us one wonderful gift – a loving daughter who is now 13 years old,” he said.
October 4, 2018
A Muslim father of three in Syria, Achmed, dreamt that God told him He wanted him to know Him. It was unforgettable but left him uneasy, since he had no idea what the Almighty meant. Taking his family out of war-torn Syria, to Madrid, Spain, Achmed’s journey as a refugee was only beginning.
September 27, 2018
When her 4-year-old son disobeyed, the mother of two young children in North Africa would burn him with a hot knife. Sara* felt she was being lenient; when she was a girl, her mother had punished her with cuts from a cutlass heated over fire. Her son’s slowness to clean up his messes had seemed an afront to her and her authority, she told a social worker for a children’s rights project sponsored by a native Christian ministry.
September 20, 2018
Abdel, a young man in a Middle Eastern country, knew something was wrong when his mother showed up at his apartment with a checkbook in one hand and a burial cloth in the other. It had deeply wounded her when Abdel told her he had left Islam to become a Christian. He knew that embracing Christ would mean being shunned by his family.
September 13, 2018
Three tribal men in Vietnam had been friends for decades, helping each other through financial hardships, family struggles and illnesses by means of one great, shared love – marijuana. Illegal and condemned by the government since they were teenagers in the 1960s, marijuana seemed to be the only constant in their frequently unpredictable lives.
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