{"id":4950,"date":"2024-04-11T07:07:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T07:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/yao-christians-under-severe-pressure\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T07:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T07:07:04","slug":"yao-christians-under-severe-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/yao-christians-under-severe-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Yao Christians Under Severe Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 2.5 million Malawians are part of the Muslim Yao people group. According to front-line workers, God has been moving significantly among the Yao people in the last two decades. But in recent years, Yao Christians have experienced severe pressure. &ldquo;They are beaten and cast out of their communities,&rdquo; said a front-line worker. &ldquo;When others find out they are Christian, they have 24 hours to leave the village, and then they will put a fatwa on their life,&rdquo; he added. Churches have been burned down, Christians have been attacked and front-line workers are under extreme pressure: &ldquo;They get so many death threats that one worker&rsquo;s wife has developed severe PTSD and can no longer homeschool her own kids.&rdquo; The front-line worker asked for prayer that Yao Christians will have courage to stand firm in their faith amid intense opposition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icommittopray.com\/request\/2651\/yao-christians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Post a prayer for Yao Christians on iCommitToPray.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 2.5 million Malawians are part of the Muslim Yao people group. According to front-line workers, God has been moving significantly among the Yao people in the last two decades. But in recent years, Yao Christians have experienced severe pressure. &#8220;They are beaten and cast out of their communities,&#8221; said a front-line worker. &#8220;When others find out they are Christian, they have 24 hours to leave the village, and then they will put a fatwa on their life,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-commit-to-pray","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yao Christians Under Severe Pressure - Stories<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/yao-christians-under-severe-pressure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yao Christians Under Severe Pressure - Stories\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Roughly 2.5 million Malawians are part of the Muslim Yao people group. 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