Sudan: Three believers in Darfur request prayer

Sudan: Three believers in Darfur request prayer

Church leaders working among Muslims request prayer for three men in Darfur being pressured by their families due to their conversion to Christianity. A. is a 20 year old man whose family has discovered that he is a Christian. He reads the Bible and belongs to a home...
Sudan: Three believers in Darfur request prayer

Sudan: Hearing for couple facing adultery charges

Prayer is requested for a Sudanese couple, Hamouda and Nada,  converts from Islam charged with apostasy, who are facing a possible 100 lashes and a year in internal exile. Their marriage was forcibly dissolved due to their conversions, however they have returned to...
North Cyprus: Court hearing in ongoing trial 

North Cyprus: Court hearing in ongoing trial 

On 7 June a hearing is scheduled for Ryan Keating in Famagusta for allegedly illegally importing Bibles and Christian literature. The materials were confiscated in a raid by political division police and customs officials on his business premises in January 2021. The...
Sudan: Three believers in Darfur request prayer

Sudan: Update on convert couple facing adultery charges

At a court hearing on 12 May,  a pastor explained that, according to Christian marriage laws, Hamouda and Nada, both converts to Christianity, remain married despite being forced to divorce in an Islamic court. The pastor was the sole witness heard. Hamouda and Nada...
Iran: Iranian Armenian and two converts sentenced

Iran: Iranian Armenian and two converts sentenced

Iranian Christians request prayer for Anooshavan Avedian (60), an Iranian Armenian sentenced to ten years in prison for church activities, and converts Abbas Souri (45) and Maryam Mohammadi (46) who both received non-custodial sentences. Anooshavan, Abbas and Maryam...
Sudan: Three believers in Darfur request prayer

Sudan: Convert couple facing adultery charges

A court hearing is scheduled for 12 May for Nada and Hamouda, both Muslim when they married in 2016. They have two children. Hamouda converted to Christianity in 2018. Nada’s family forced her to dissolve the marriage as apostasy was then a capital crime in...