Our school Director messaged twice. Once was on a Saturday morning when Victory Bible Academy students were playing in a new soccer tournament for teams on the Burmese border. Another team had cursed, tripped, and hit our students during the game. Behind their actions was ethnic hostility. This is a symptom of the decades-long war where the Burmese military persecutes Christian Karen. But our students focused on the game and played harder. One referee noticed and said, “You really represent Jesus.”  At the end of the day, Victory was voted the “Most Christ-Like Team” by the other teams! W ..read more

The news from Nigeria turned quickly. First, it was heart-warming, then horrifying. Let’s start with the good news. Last Christmas children were thrilled to open bags filled with gifts. Dozens of young adults cheerfully carried new furniture into their home. The surprise Christmas gifts were for our sponsored children from supporters like you. The young adults live at the Treasure Center, a recovery and training center which together we helped to build and furnish. Thank you! These young Christians have survived terrifying persecution. Their families were brutally attacked by Islamists. B ..read more

When I watched the video, I knew something was not right. A young man looked up in fear. A loud voice spoke in Arabic, and the man repeated in barely a whisper. The video was posted on an Islamist leader’s social media. An imam was exposing this new Christian and claiming he returned to Islam by saying a Muslim creed. But was it true? And could we help this Christian who was half a world away? A Gift for the Persecuted and a Tool for Persecution The internet is both a blessing and a curse. With it, we have the greatest opportunity in history for the Church to work together with persecuted Chri ..read more

Terrorists massacred at least 160 people in predominantly Christian areas in central Nigeria on December 24 and 25. Many of those killed were preparing church Christmas programs. Most were elderly, women, and children who could not escape. Over 300 were wounded. “These terrorists who attacked these Christian communities were in the hundreds, and they carried out the attacks as the hapless Christians were preparing for Christmas programs lined up by their pastors,” Dawzino Mallau told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News Local officials in central Plateau state confirmed the massacre ..read more

Dear Friend,  There used to be hundreds of Christians in “Majd’s” village. That was 30 years ago. Now only 15 church members remain.  “This is a dangerous place since Islamic fundamentalism has spread,” he said.  “Madj” (not his name) is a pastor in his small village. He became a believer when he read in a leaflet that Jesus promised, “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.”  This changed his life. He found a godly man to teach him about Jesus. Then “Majd” eagerly told others. “When I distributed leaflets, I found that some people wanted to ..read more

Nepal’s Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a pastor who was accused of proselytizing. Pastor Keshav Raj Acharya was sentenced to one year in jail and a $75 fine. His case is the first under a new criminal code that passed in 2018. Now he fears that his case will become a precedent to imprison other Christians “The witnesses said that I did not even ask them to convert, only gave them tracts; they read it and discarded it,” Pastor Keshav told Morning Star News. “I have been convicted for something that I have not done.” “In case someone wilfully converts to Christ, the police and t ..read more

North Korea’s Treatment of Christians  North Korea considers Christians a “hostile class” and enemies of the state, deserving of discrimination, punishment, and execution.  Anyone “caught practicing religion or even suspected of harboring religious views in private is subject to severe punishment, including arrest, torture, imprisonment, and execution” reports the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.  Sentences from 15 years to life are imposed on Christians and up to three generations of their family. Escapees reported an entire family, including a two-year old chi ..read more

People escaping from North Korea need safe houses to hide in. Many stay for months.  These long stays allow escapees in shelters supported by Christian Freedom International to learn the Bible. They can meet Jesus and bring the Truth to wherever they go next, either to a free country or compelled back to North Korea.  A North Korean lady, forcibly married to a man in China, listens to a radio that can tune in to Christian broadcasting, a gift of Christian Freedom International. They carry God’s word in them to encourage other persecuted Christians.  Pray for the ability of Nort ..read more

Dear Friend,  They risk their lives in the most dangerous country in the world to follow Jesus.  North Korean Christians suffer unspeakable persecution under the cruel regime where the Bible is banned and Christianity is illegal.  Some people dare to escape through China. But if they are found, China forcibly returns them. If they are Christian, they face harsher punishment for fleeing.  North Koreans take great risks and endure horrific torment to follow Christ.  If they can do this, what are we willing to do to help them?  Our partners are getting the Bible and ..read more

 “If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.” Daniel 3:17-18  What does it take to obey God . . . when you know it will lead to suffering?  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego had what it takes to obey God.  In the book of Daniel, we learn what these young men did when faced with the choice to either bow to an idol and live . . . or serve God, suffer the king’s ..read more