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June 7, 2018
An indigenous missionary in South Asia has seen miraculous healings and thousands of people come to Christ, but his work has been anything but easy. Vinay’s devotion to poor, remote peoples who are without Christ means travel on perilous paths, sleeping alongside jungle insects and snakes, and preaching amid hostile Hindus and Buddhists.
May 31, 2018
Three young adults from the war-wracked city of Afrin, Syria evaded indiscriminate gunfire from Turkish border agents before they ran through Turkey to get to Greece. Turkey had seized their home city. Native missionaries in Greece are trying to meet a growing surge of needs as battles rage on in Syria. Thousands of refugees are continuing to stream into Greece, where the native ministry provides food, funds for shelter and points them toward legal assistance, but recently needs have outstripped supplies.
May 21, 2018
Recently Muslim refugees from Syria secretly put their faith in Christ, but it did not escape the notice of Muslims in their makeshift tent camp in Turkey.
May 17, 2018
An indigenous missionary with a far-reaching radio ministry in Laos was on the last day of a week-long medical outreach on the Thai side of the border when he met a villager who wanted to talk with him about Jesus.
May 10, 2018
As a young schoolgirl in the Middle East, Ayah was taught that Christians were only out to undermine and overtake her Muslim country, and she was furious when her mother became a Christian.
May 3, 2018
When the director of an indigenous ministry in the Philippines visited a pastor on the island of Mindanao for a few days, the pastor and his son vowed not to sleep at night during their stay. “We will stay up all night keeping watch with guns,” Pastor Enso told the director, Bayani Leyson.
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