Earlier this month, numerous schoolgirls were poisoned in the city of Qom (south Tehran), followed by the same incident recurring in nearly 10 other cities all over Iran. This was used as a way to shift the focus of the…
Women in Central Asia are growing and maturing in their Christian faith thanks to a training programme run by Open Doors partners. Among other things, they learn about how God worked through the lives of faithful women in the Bible.…
Digital persecution is a growing method to discriminate against Christian converts, especially women. This is one of the findings of a new gender-specific religious persecution (GSRP) report commissioned by the ministry organisation Open Doors International, which supports and strengthens persecuted Christians all…
Where did you sleep last night? That would be a weird question to my colleagues at the start of a new day. Today, after the major earthquakes in Syria and Turkey, this wasn’t a strange thing to ask at all.…
Last month on the 19th of February, it was five years since Leah, then 15 years old, was abducted with some 100 other students from her school in north-eastern Nigeria by the Islamist militant Boko Haram group. Since then, all…
Here are key prayer points for the current aftermath of the earthquake that took place in Syria and Turkey. Local partners on the ground sent these prayer requests that the global church can pray more amidst this traumatic situation: In…
In these times of turmoil, the prayers of the global Church are crucial for the country of Iran and its people. Protestors continue their call for freedom despite all the risks, and the government continues to arrest, detain, torture and…
State TV reports that the women and children were found on 20 January 2023 at a security checkpoint south of where they were taken. According to Africanews, security forces located the women during a military operation in Tougouri, in the centre-north region,…
On the 30th of December 2022, at least two people were killed and four injured in a rural village in the district of Muidumbe, in the province of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. Images of burning houses in the village of Namande…
