Abigail Hofland - Mission Network News

In the Northwestern corner of Namibia lies the village of Opuwo. Its name means "end of the road" in Dhimba, the language spoken by residents of Opuwo. But for the Himba people who first heard the Gospel there, Opuwo was not the end of the road. It was the beginning. 

Michael Cardy with MegaVoice tells the story of a local pastor in that region who first felt the Lord calling him to reach the Himba people in 2017. 

At the time, Scripture in Dhimba was scarce. 

Erik Mock was in Ukraine last week during the first days of the USAID funding freeze. 

“There was just a growing sense of indifference and hardship that was going on,” he says. But the suspension of USAID funds wasn’t the main issue – far from it, in fact, according to Mock. 

The big culprit is hopelessness: Ukrainians are worn by the brutality and difficulty of life. 

Three pastors in Eritrea are rounding out 2024 in prison, marking 20 years since their arrest and incarceration. They are among hundreds of other Christians imprisoned in that country, where the government can make arrests without warrant and deny trials to those imprisoned.

The Indian government is ramping up enforcement of an act restricting foreign funding for NGOs, putting many Christian organizations at risk of being expelled from the country. In the last two years, more than 100 organizations have seen their licenses revoked.