Katie O'Malley, Mission Network News

According to a 2024 report from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), West Africa’s Burkina Faso again is the world’s most overlooked displacement crisis.

“Usually when we talk about our ministry there, I have to kind of explain where Burkina Faso is. They’ve not heard of it. It’s not been in the news,” says Greg Yoder with Christian World Outreach (CWO). 

In Haiti, gang coalitions are making the national crisis even worse than it already is.

Obed* serves with Every Man a Warrior , a ministry of Trans World Radio. 

"They say that they will take this city, and then they do that. The [authorities] are not able to stop that," he says. 

Many people have prayed for years for Susanna Koh and her family — the wife and children of Pastor Raymond Koh.

Raymond was kidnapped in Malaysia, in broad daylight on 13 February 2017. In the seven years since then, Susanna has tirelessly sought to find out what happened to him. She filed a lawsuit against the Malaysian government for negligence in the case. 

On Friday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini delivered a sermon calling for Muslim nations to unite against Israel. But what are the people of Iran saying? 

"The vast majority of Iranian people do not want their government to meddle into regional geopolitical affairs at their cost. They also don’t want to see Iran as an Islamic state," says Mike Ansari with Heart4Iran. 

What are the obstacles for gospel ministry to the Deaf?

Rob Myers with DOOR International shares three misconceptions or challenges that make Deaf-led churches rare today.

"Some of it has to do with the lens that we use to view the Deaf community. Many times when we talk about Deaf ministry, people put on the viewpoint of special needs ministry," Myers says.

Instead, Deaf communities should be viewed as minority languages, people groups with their own distinct cultures.

Government leaders in Afghanistan codified another set of morality laws last week. They claim they will prevent vice and promote virtue according to Islamic teaching. One rule bans women from speaking in public places. 

One city in Türkiye has just one operating church building. Now, that building may be facing closure.

Last month, the three congregations that meet in this historic building received an eviction notice from a government official. The notice said the building was structurally unsafe and the congregations would have to move out before August 24. 

In today’s increasingly digital age, there’s still nothing like having a Bible you can hold in your hands. It’s not as easy to miss or dismiss as digital resources are. 

Bibles for China serves to bring God’s Word into the hands of Chinese believers through every legal means possible. They have witnessed that when God’s Word is read, understood and accepted, it brings people to the brink of a life-transforming relationship with Jesus. 

You might not realize just how few resources there are for Deaf people, both for the gospel and in general. Many of us live in media-saturated cultures — can’t Deaf people with smartphones easily access captioned videos, books and other written resources? 

But there’s much more to it than that.

Persecution of Christians in Nigeria has been on the rise for more than fourteen years.  The lack of accountability from the international community hasn’t helped, but it’s a trend that does not have to continue.

“When you have the frequency and the amount of stories coming out of Nigeria, people become numb to it. But these are our brothers and sisters in Christ,” says Greg Musselman with Voice of the Martyrs Canada.