STORIES OF PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS

SRI LANKA: Under the Shadow of the Bodhi Tree

With a bare pantry and no money to buy food, Chaminda and Janani took a walk to a nearby beach one afternoon, praying as they walked. No sooner had they finished praying than they saw a large fish flopping on the shore. After chasing their excited dog away, they gratefully retrieved their three-kilo

Nepal: Persecution Close to Home

Jesus tells us in Matthew 10:34-37 that He had come to “‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy o

House in Sri Lanka

SRI LANKA: The Holy Ghost House

The small red-brick house looked like any of the other buildings scattered for kilometres along a dusty rural road in North Central Province, Sri Lanka. With exposed timber beams protruding from beneath its corrugated iron roof, the house was surrounded by a bare, hard-packed dirt yard in the dapple