We work by acting on behalf of the persecuted Church, making their needs known to Christians around the world and making the injustice of their persecution known to governments and the international community. We work by aiming the majority of our aid at Christians living in Muslim environments, channelling money from Christians through Christians to Christians. We work by using the money to fund projects which have been developed by local Christians in their own communities, countries or regions and acting as equal partners with the persecuted Church, whose leaders often help shape our overall direction.
Barnabas Fund – May 31st – Update 1
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 […]
Barnabas Fund – May 17th – Update 2
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. […]
Barnabas Fund – May 3rd – Update 1
Updates on the persecuted Church (excerpts) Barnabas Fund, 26 April 2023 Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day was observed in Christian-majority Armenia and in other parts of the world on 24 April. Between 1893 and 1923 around 3.75 million Armenian, Assyrian, Syriac and Greek Christians perished in the Ottoman Empire in a policy of extermination of Christian […]
Barnabas Fund – Update 2 – April 23rd
Updates on the persecuted Church (excerpts) Barnabas Fund, 12 April 2023 A church in Ondo State, Nigeria reopened on Easter Sunday, 9 April, 10 months after 40 worshippers were killed in an attack in June 2022. Mark the reopening, Bishop Jude Arogundade said, “Many people have even forgotten what happened in this church ten months ago […]
Barnabas Fund – April Update 1
Updates on the persecuted Church Barnabas Fund, 22 March 2023 (excerpts) Uyghur house church pastor Alimujiang Yimiti (Alim) has been released after 15 years’ imprisonment in China and is now home with his family. Alim, a convert to Christianity from Islam, served as a pastor in Kashgar, Xinjiang province, until his arrest in 2008 for […]
Barnabas Fund – March 15th – Update 2
Aid to Syrian Christians 3 days after disaster Barnabas Fund, 15 February 2023 (excerpts) Barnabas has delivered food, blankets and other aid to Christian survivors of the devastating Turkey-Syria earthquake. The distribution of 1,500 food gift boxes containing rice, lentils, chickpeas, bulgar wheat, noodles, beans and salt to families in the northern Syrian city of […]
Barnabas Fund – March 1st – Update 1
Updates on the persecuted Church Barnabas Fund, 22 February 2023 (excerpts) Fifteen Christian families have been expelled from their home village in rural north-western Laos. The families were driven out after their conversion to Christianity and have been left with no place to stay. The authorities have sought to negotiate with the village in order […]
Barnabas Fund – February 15 – Update
Updates on the persecuted Church Barnabas Fund, 15 February 2023 (excerpts) Islamic State Mozambique announced the killing of 5 Christians in Cabo Delgado Province on 4 February. The Islamists said that “the soldiers of the Caliphate … captured and slaughtered 5 Christians, praise be to God”. Pray for all those at risk of such violence […]
Barnabas Fund – No updates so far for January
Iraqi Christians were victims of IS war crimes Barnabas Fund, 8 December 2022 (excerpts) Iraqi Christians were victims of war crimes committed by Islamic State after the jihadists seized around a third of the country in 2014, investigators reported on 1 December. The United Nations team said evidence collected in Iraq supports preliminary findings that Islamic […]
Barnabas Update – December 21st (excerpts)
Iraqi Christians were victims of IS war crimes Barnabas Fund, 8 December 2022 (excerpts) Iraqi Christians were victims of war crimes committed by Islamic State after the jihadists seized around a third of the country in 2014, investigators reported on 1 December. The United Nations team said evidence collected in Iraq supports preliminary findings that Islamic […]