Prayer Alerts
After tentative hope for a peace process, Burma’s military has renewed its attacks on Karen villages. In one area, over 200 people fled the shelling and are hiding in the jungle. Burma “has not specifically said it is because the Karen in the area are Christian, but have somehow made deals with any Buddhist villages,”…
Read MoreIn 1975, following six centuries of monarchy and then colonization by France that ended in 1949, communists took over Laos and instituted socialism. Today, roughly 7.5 million people from 49 ethnic groups live in Laos, with just under two-thirds identifying as Buddhist, a third as no religion and less than two percent as Christian. What’s…
Read MoreJust like us in the U.S., every country is struggling with the COVID pandemic. But in some places it is an excuse to discriminate more against impoverished Christians. For Christians in Egypt – who already face kidnappings, forced conversions, and murder by extremists – the corona virus has led to being denied medical care and…
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