Abigail Hofland - Mission Network News

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.