On October 26, 2024, Islamist militants attacked a church in Nalgbangou in northern Togo. During the attack, the Islamists burned houses and killed eight men in the village. They also filled the local church with bullet holes, knocked the metal sheeting roof down and set the building on fire.
Read MoreA Kazakh evangelist requests prayer for effective outreach to tribal leaders and heads of families. “In the very beginning, we should approach families rather than individuals,” said the Kazakh pastor, who explained that approaching an entire family group or the head of a household first can build bridges of trust that help prevent misunderstandings. The pastor said he uses a “person of peace” evangelism strategy based on Luke 10:6. In that approach, he tries to find “the person the Holy Spirit has been preparing for the gospel,” he said.
Read MoreJampa is a Christian who has experienced persecution and deprivation since coming to faith in Jesus Christ. She was beaten for praying, had to trek through the jungle to attend a distant church, and kept her Bible hidden in the woods so it would not be found and destroyed. When police disrupted a worship service she was attending, she was detained and questioned, and now her in-laws have kicked her out of their home because of her faith, leaving her to live in unsafe and unsanitary conditions.
Read MoreDespite her suffering, a Christian woman is standing firm in her faith and discipling others as well. Lenna was raised as a Muslim in northern Benin. When she came to faith in Christ a few years ago, her Muslim husband abandoned her and her three children. Not long afterward, Lenna was in a motorcycle accident and lost her right hand and part of her arm. She then struggled to support herself and her children.
Read MoreSecond-grader Khristopel Butarbutar, who was part of a Christian tribal group on Indonesia’s island of Sumatra, came home from school on May 19, 2025, injured and in pain. He had been beaten by five older Muslim boys in his school, the culmination of a week of bullying that included taunting him about his Christian faith. Khristopel continued to suffer and weaken physically, and his parents took him to the hospital, where he died on May 26. The autopsy showed the cause of death as a ruptured appendix, which may or may not have been the result of the beating, but the autopsy also showed internal bleeding and bruises that were consistent with blunt force trauma.
Read MoreChristian refugees in Türkiye face persecution and possibly death if they are forced out. Türkiye, which has the largest refugee population in the world, is actively working to reduce its numbers as roughly 3.5 million have fled there from neighboring countries. “Türkiye has been ramping up deportations in recent years,” said a front-line worker. “But in the past few months, they significantly escalated the number of refugees they are sending back to their home countries.” Some refugees are Christians who fled persecution.
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