Missions Board

Voice of the Martyrs, 25 May 2023 Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, life for Christians is difficult.  Most Afghan Christians fled, but some remained.  “It is very challenging for the normal Afghan and very, very hard for Christians,” a front-line worker shared.  “Persecution has escalated from the government, local religious authorities, […]

Voice of the Martyrs, 25 May 2023 Christians in Algeria report suffering from a systematic campaign of government persecution.  Since the end of 2017, the government has reportedly closed 30 of the 47 Protestant churches in the country. In January 2023, a 54-year-old pastor from a Muslim background was sentenced to two years in prison […]

Updates on the persecuted Church Barnabas Fund, 23 May 2023 (excerpts) An Australian missionary doctor who has been held by al Qaeda-linked militants in Burkina Faso since January 2016 was released on 19 May. Dr Ken Elliott, 88 years old, is reported to be in good health, and has been reunited with his wife, Jocelyn […]

Voice of the Martyrs, 25 May 2023 Aaron is one of many church planters advancing God’s kingdom in the “Circle of Silence,” an eight-state region in central Mexico of nearly 23 million people with less than 1% evangelical witness for Christ.   There is a strong culture of Christo-paganism, which is a syncretistic blend of […]

The Mukhanyo library staff are being helpful.   Fraser has two alternative methods to improve things before the system goes live.  He starts the training when he goes in person on 26th June.  Thank God that Drakenstein Medium A Restorative Justice looks as if it’ll go ahead next week, Monday to Saturday.  Pray there’ll be no […]

Joshua Project, 29 May 2023 Sabra Jews are those born in the land of Israel, particularly since the founding of the Jewish State in 1948.  “Sabra” is derived from the Hebrew name of the prickly pear cactus.  The allusion is to a tenacious, thorny desert plant with a thick hide that conceals a sweet, softer […]

Barnabas Fund, 23 May 2023 (excerpts) The warring parties in Sudan have agreed to a seven-day ceasefire that began on the evening of 22 May – although reports indicated that fighting continued in some areas. Although this conflict is not specifically anti-Christian, there have been several reports of attacks on churches and church leaders in […]

Daniel Centre Drugs have loomed large with one of the lads having to be sent away for pepper-spraying another of the lads.  He had stolen the pepper spray from his security work at the airport and also lost his work there because of his attitude.  The lad who was pepper-sprayed is also in danger of […]

Frontiers, 15 May 2023 The easternmost region of Morocco has a multiplicity of cultures and languages but is mostly empty of gospel proclamation.   Hemmed in by the Atlas Mountains in the west and the 800 km border with Algeria, it stretches from the fertile Mediterranean to the Sahara sands. The major cities like Oujda, as […]

Updates on the persecuted Church Barnabas Fund, 10 May 2023 (excerpts) More than 50 people from the Christian-majority Kuki tribal group have been killed in anti-Christian violence that has raged in Manipur, India, since 4 May. About 114 church buildings have been burned down and there have been targeted attacks on around 67 Kuki villages. […]