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Understanding Islamist terrorism
Understanding Islamist terrorism
This work examines the well-defined classic interpretation of the Islamic doctrine of war which was followed in the early days of Islam and to which modern Islamist terrorism looks for its justificati....
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What is Islam?
What is Islam?
This booklet provides an introduction to the basics of Islam. Topics covered are: the meaning of “Islam”, Muhammad and the origins of Islam, the Islamic sources (Qur’an, hadith and sharia), the six ar....
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Secrets Behind the Burqa (2nd Edition)
Secrets Behind the Burqa (2nd Edition)
This book goes behind the scenes into the lives of Muslim women and reveals a secret world that is unknown to outsiders. It shows how their lives are very different from those of Western women and rev....
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The Challenge of Islam to the Church and its Missi...
The Challenge of Islam to the Church and its Mission (2nd Edition)
The direct or indirect challenge to the church by the growing impact of Islam on Western societies is a vital issue. This essential reading for Christians in the West includes: comparing Islam with Ch....
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Global Jihad - The Future in the Face of Militant ...
Global Jihad - The Future in the Face of Militant Islam
What is the driving force behind Islamic terrorism. Dr. P. Sookhdeo takes an in-depth look at the teachings of Islam past and present, drawing on a wide range of sources including many Muslim writers.....
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A Call to Compassion
A Call to Compassion
This booklet explains biblical and other reasons to help our fellow `Christians`, and looks at the links between persecution and poverty.
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How to pray for persecuted Christians
How to pray for persecuted Christians
A small bookmark prayer card with ten suggestions of how to pray for the persecuted Church. Useful on its own or as part of the resources for one of the campaigns (The Other Nine; Save Iraqi Christia...
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Daily Prayer
The Lord has promised, "I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint."
(Jeremiah 31:25)
Many Christians living in ongoing situations of discrimination and persecution are weary and faint, worn down by the year-in, year-out struggle to survive and the frustration of the injustices they suffer.
Help them to find strength and hope in God by praying for them, with us, daily.
Join with us daily in praying for the persecuted church around the world.
Daily Prayer - Thursday 23 May 2013
Pray for the families of Abdoulaye and Abakachi, two converts from Islam to Christianity who were shot dead by Islamists in northern Cameroon. They were travelling with two other converts around Lake Chad on 19 February when their vehicle was stopped by four armed men who were looking for Abdoulaye. He was the leader of the converts from the Kotoko people group and had last year received a threat from militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The gunmen opened fire, killing Abakachi on the spot. Abdoulaye and another man were also shot; Abdoulaye later died of his injuries. He left a wife and 13 children; Abakachi left a wife and four children. Boko Haram had previously warned all Christian converts in northern Cameroon to return to Islam or “face Allah’s wrath”. Pray that the Lord will protect these vulnerable believers.
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 22 May 2013
Give thanks to the Lord for the courage and boldness of the Christians in North Korea who carry on witnessing for Christ despite the savage penalties imposed by the Communist regime. Those who share t...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 21 May 2013
Mohamed Ibaouene (36), a convert from Islam to Christianity, was convicted in July 2012 of “proselytising” in Algeria. The verdict was passed in his absence and without his knowledge. He was later sen...
Daily Prayer - Monday 20 May 2013
The various measures recently taken against Christian churches and institutions by the government of Sudan add up to a ruthless campaign that may be intended to eradicate Christianity from the country...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 19 May 2013
The Sudanese authorities have intensified their crackdown on Christian activities by targeting Christian-run schools. Two of these in the capital, Khartoum, have been ordered to close. One is a primar...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 18 May 2013
An upsurge of arrests and deportations of Christians in Sudan has further unsettled the country’s vulnerable Christian minority. In January three Christians of South Sudanese origin were detained and ...
Daily Prayer - Friday 17 May 2013
“We have reached here with the help of God. We shall live well with God’s help in our land.” A Christian woman gave thanks as she arrived in South Sudan after escaping from discrimination and oppressi...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 16 May 2013
Pray for 14 Christians in Nghe An, Vietnam, who were sentenced in January to between three and 13 years in prison on charges of subversion against the state. Their lawyers complained that the Christia...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 15 May 2013
“The decree is intended to provide the tools to end the house-church movement entirely.” Nguyen Van Dai, a Christian lawyer in Vietnam, added his voice to a chorus of concern among church leaders abou...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 14 May 2013
Pray for five Christian families in Vietnam who have endured repeated violent attacks by their fellow villagers since becoming Christians. The families, who came to Christ in 2012, have since suffered...
Daily Prayer - Monday 13 May 2013
On 27 January about 50 members of the Islamic Defenders Front, a militant Islamist group, descended on a church in Mekargalih village in West Java, Indonesia. They scaled the gates, vandalised the bui...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 12 May 2013
“The Indonesian government’s failure to take decisive action to protect religious minorities from threats and violence is undermining its claims to being a rights-respecting democracy.” The Asia direc...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 11 May 2013
Iraq’s beleaguered and dwindling Christian community continues to suffer violence and threats. Two Christians were killed in the northern city of Mosul in January amid ongoing sectarian tensions. The ...
Daily Prayer - Friday 10 May 2013
As well as being displaced from their homes and enduring the risk of violence from opposition fighters, many Syrian Christians had to suffer the harshest winter the country has seen in 20 years withou...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 09 May 2013
Kidnapping for ransom has been an opposition tactic almost since the very beginning of the civil war in Syria, and many Christians have been brutally tortured and killed. On the roads around Aleppo th...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 07 May 2013
Pray for a Christian woman in a Central Asian country whose house was raided by police twice in January. Officers confiscated three Christian books, two DVDs of a Christian film and a sermon, and a vi...
Daily Prayer - Monday 06 May 2013
The constricting grip of state regulation continues to tighten on the churches of Kyrgyzstan. Amendments to its Religion Law have imposed harsher and more wide-ranging rules on the censorship of relig...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 05 May 2013
Pray for the congregation of an Egyptian church in Benghazi, Libya, that was attacked on 28 February. Two church ministers were assaulted by Islamist gunmen, who attempted to lynch one of them, Paul I...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 04 May 2013
It was once hoped that Libya would emerge from the Arab Spring as a country where the excesses of Islamism were restrained. The Islamist Justice and Construction Party (JCP), which is affiliated with ...
Daily Prayer - Friday 03 May 2013
Arrest. Torture. The threat of the death penalty. This is what Christians accused of evangelising Muslims may face in “liberated” Libya. At least 48 Egyptian Christians were arrested and tortured on 2...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 02 May 2013
Since at least two dozen Christians were killed during a peaceful protest on 9 October 2011, in what became known as the Maspero Massacre, the Egyptian authorities have tried to pin the blame for the ...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 01 May 2013
Attacks against churches in Egypt have increased since the revolution of 2011. St George’s Church in the village of Sarsena was targeted by local Muslims twice in two days in February. They were incit...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 30 April 2013
Four Indian Christians have been living for a year under the threat of unjust punishment. On 25 March 2012 a church service in Chichgaon, in the Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh, was violently di...
Daily Prayer - Monday 29 April 2013
Pray for healing and peace for Pastor R.D. Joshua from Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh in India, who was attacked while leading a service in a village in February. About ten people stopped the meeting, tied ...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 28 April 2013
More than 30 Christians were hospitalised with serious injuries after Hindu extremists attacked a group of worshippers with iron rods on 8 February. Around 100 members of three Hindu nationalist group...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 27 April 2013
Standing firm in their faith can put Pakistani Christians in danger of their lives. Younas Masih was shot dead as he made his way home in Baluchistan on 5 February. The fatal attack followed a heate...
Daily Prayer - Friday 26 April 2013
Pray for the hundreds of Christians from Joseph Colony in the Badami Bagh area of Lahore, Pakistan, who were left homeless after a 3,000-strong Muslim mob torched their houses on 9 March. The violence...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 25 April 2013
Saudi Arabia tries to present a tolerant image to the West. On 26 November 2012 the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue was opened in Vienna,...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 24 April 2013
Pray for Henna Sarkees, a Lebanese Christian living in Saudi Arabia, who has been charged with coercing a Muslim woman who was working for him to convert to Islam. Henna and an un-named Saudi national...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 23 April 2013
“God bless you and your great efforts to wipe the tears from the eyes of the children and widows and to help restore peace and dignity to the thousands of humiliated and broken-hearted in our churches...
Daily Prayer - Monday 22 April 2013
Thank the Lord for the courage and commitment of Christian leaders in Syria who continue to encourage and care for their people and organise the distribution of aid from Barnabas. Some of our partners...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 20 April 2013
“Ilshod” from Uzbekistan was a Muslim extremist with links to the Taliban before he found Christ and became a pastor. Under his encouraging guidance his congregation has grown from ten members in 2007...
Daily Prayer - Friday 19 April 2013
Converts from Islam in Tajikistan can experience great pressure from the Muslim community to reconvert and stop their Christian activity. Convert church leaders especially can suffer much coercion. In...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 18 April 2013
Christians in Northern Nigeria are not safe even in their own homes. On 14 November 2012, five members of one Christian family from Madauchi-Zonkwa, Kaduna state, were shot inside their house, which w...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 17 April 2013
A new church building in Kwara state, Nigeria, was burnt to the ground amid a dispute with Muslims over the ownership of the land. Members of Living Faith Church in Ilorin, the state capital, discover...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 16 April 2013
An accusation of blasphemy against a Christian tailor sparked deadly anti-Christian riots in the town of Bichi, Kano state, Northern Nigeria, on 22 November 2012. The tailor, Chibuke, accidentally mis...
Daily Prayer - Monday 15 April 2013
A 25-year-old Christian convert from Islam was beheaded by al-Shabaab militants in Somalia on 16 November 2012. Farhan Haji Mose was killed by members of the militant Islamist group in Barawa in front...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 13 April 2013
Hundreds of Muslims from a radical Islamist group descended on two congregations in West Sumatra, Indonesia, in late 2012 to protest against their planned building expansions. The mob threatened to us...
Daily Prayer - Friday 12 April 2013
Sharia law is continuing to spread in Indonesia. For example, the new mayor of Tasikmalaya in West Java, Budi Setiawan, promised on 19 November 2012 that the city’s by-laws would be based on sharia in...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 11 April 2013
“I was distressed to hear accounts of violent attacks, forced displacement, denial of identification cards and other forms of discrimination and harassment… I was also concerned to hear that the polic...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 10 April 2013
Give thanks that Barnabas Fund was able to provide much-needed maize, rice and medicines to 2,295 Christians in southern Mali last summer. Most had fled from the north following a violent take-over by...
Daily Prayer - Monday 08 April 2013
Egypt’s Islamist government is tightening its grip on the country, further undermining the safety of the large Christian population. Since coming to power in 2012, President Mohammed Morsi and his Mus...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 07 April 2013
Pray for a church in Shiraz, Iran, where an agent of the Islamic government has been installed, apparently to deter people from attending. He is said to be offensive to older members of the church and...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 06 April 2013
Forty Christians from four churches in Shiraz and Kavar, in the Fars province of Iran, were arrested in a sweep by security agents in late 2012. They were accused of “having contact with the enemies o...
Daily Prayer - Friday 05 April 2013
After Homayoun Shokouhi and his wife Fariba Nazemian, Christian converts from Islam in Iran, were arrested in early 2012, their 17-year-old son Nima was left to care for his 12-year-old sister alone. ...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 04 April 2013
Four Christians from a church in Ahwaz, Iran, were sentenced in late 2012 to a year’s imprisonment. The pastor, his wife and two assistant ministers were found guilty of “converting to Christianity, i...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 03 April 2013
Pray for church leaders in Sri Lanka, who are often targeted in attacks by Buddhist extremists and by the government. On 9 December 2012 a rock was thrown at the pastor in Weeraketiya, Hambanthota dis...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 02 April 2013
A young Christian man in Pakistan died in mysterious circumstances in police custody in late 2012 after he was accused of blasphemy. The 22-year-old, called Nadeem, was detained in Nankana Sahib witho...
Daily Prayer - Monday 01 April 2013
“The government is making fun of tribal Christians, and prevents the community from enjoying their constitutional rights.” A church leader in India was calling attention to the discrimination suffered...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 31 March 2013
A pastor in India was beaten unconscious in an assault by Hindu extremists on 30 November 2012. A group of Christians had gathered for prayer in Boothpada village, Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh when police b...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 30 March 2013
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), backed by Nigerian Christians in the US, has called over and over again for the US State Department to designate Boko Haram a Foreign Terrorist Organisation...
Daily Prayer - Friday 29 March 2013
At least 11 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a church inside a military barracks in Kaduna state, Northern Nigeria. The attack on St Andrew’s Protestant Church in Jaji happened during a serv...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 28 March 2013
Nigerian army chief Azubuike Ihejirika estimated in November 2012 that militant Islamist group Boko Haram has been responsible for 3,000 deaths since 2009; this is the highest total given by an offici...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 26 March 2013
“Children without parents are going about the city, begging for help.” A Barnabas Fund partner in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was reporting on the desperate plight of Christians in Goma, East...
Daily Prayer - Monday 25 March 2013
Praise the Lord that a pastor who was facing extradition to Uzbekistan has been freed with help from Barnabas Fund. Makset Djabbarbergenov was being held in Kazakhstan while the authorities considered...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 24 March 2013
Many churches in Kazakhstan have been closed since late 2012 as the authorities enforce a crippling and controversial religion law. Since the expiry of a deadline for recognised religious groups to re...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 23 March 2013
Laws restricting the religious and human rights of Christians are on the increase in Kyrgyzstan. To help Christians deal with this problem, Barnabas Fund recently supported a two-day legal course for ...
Daily Prayer - Friday 22 March 2013
“A society can and should be judged, in part, by how it protects the rights of its minorities.” Speaking in Dublin in December 2012, outgoing US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton highlighted r...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 21 March 2013
Praise God for an important boost for religious freedom at the United Nations! In late 2012 the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief urged the international community to uphold the r...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 20 March 2013
Praise God that a leading German politician has stood up for the small Christian minority in Turkey. Volker Kauder, chairman of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, said on 5 December 2012,...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 19 March 2013
Pray for churches and Christian organisations in the UK that may be threatened with the loss of their charitable status. Since 2006 Christian charities have been obliged to demonstrate that their acti...
Daily Prayer - Monday 18 March 2013
Give thanks that the Russian government is taking concrete steps to restore church assets that were seized during the Soviet era to their original ownership and use. An education bill and amendments t...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 17 March 2013
Give thanks to God that a church in Belarus has been given a last-minute reprieve from being forcibly evicted from its premises. New Life Pentecostal Church meets in a renovated cowshed on the outskir...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 16 March 2013
Pray for Christians on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines who were overwhelmed by a destructive storm in December 2012. Typhoon Bopha triggered flooding and landslides that devastated ...
Daily Prayer - Friday 15 March 2013
Christians in the southern Philippines are facing second-class status in their homeland. The national government has made an agreement with a Muslim separatist group to create an autonomous area calle...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 14 March 2013
Christians in Vietnam continue to experience arbitrary arrests and unjust convictions at the hands of the authorities. Seventeen young Christians were arrested for committing “anti-state” activities l...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 13 March 2013
Pray for four men from the mainly Christian Hmong ethnic group in Vietnam who have been jailed for religious activities. They were given jail sentences ranging from three to seven years at a trial in ...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 12 March 2013
Pray for Christians in Vietnam, who may face even more harassment from the authorities following the introduction of a new decree in early 2013. Decree 92 has brought more restrictions on religious fr...
Daily Prayer - Monday 11 March 2013
“After many years of suffering and prayers, God opened the way for us,” said Suzy, at Juba airport. She was one of 492 South Sudanese Christians, mainly women and children, whom Barnabas Fund flew to ...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 10 March 2013
It is becoming increasingly difficult for Christians in Sudan to continue living out their faith in this strongly Islamic country. They are experiencing growing hostility from the overwhelmingly Musli...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 09 March 2013
In a chilling foretaste of what may await Christians in Egypt under the country’s new constitution, hardline members of the ultraconservative Salafist movement forced changes to the wording of a key c...
Daily Prayer - Friday 08 March 2013
Cry out to the Lord for Christians in Egypt following the approval of a draft constitution in a referendum held in December 2012. The document was rushed through its final draft by an overwhelmingly I...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 07 March 2013
The Christians who remain in Iraq continue to be acutely vulnerable to Islamist hostility and violence. In December 2012 a radical Muslim cleric issued a fatwa threatening them with death unless they ...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 06 March 2013
Pray for a congregation in Jerusalem whose church building was defaced with hate graffiti in December 2012. The vandals spray-painted “Death to Christianity” and an offensive comment about Jesus on th...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 05 March 2013
By December 2012 the Christian area in the city of Aleppo in Syria was almost completely surrounded by opposition forces and Islamist extremists. At least 131 Christians had been killed, and around te...
Daily Prayer - Monday 04 March 2013
“We feel no one cares about us. The media does not show what happens to Christians. We have no hope for the future now. Our Christian area and our churches are destroyed. For Christians all is lost.” ...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 03 March 2013
Christians in Syria continue to suffer grievously as the civil war rages on without respite. Almost all the 60,000 Christians who used to live in the city of Homs have fled the anti-Christian violence...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 02 March 2013
Thank the Lord for the conviction and sentencing of twelve people involved in the brutal anti-Christian violence in Orissa in 2008. The defendants were found guilty of rioting and torching houses in J...
Daily Prayer - Friday 01 March 2013
A senior Christian leader in India has denounced the “sinister, subtle and ongoing persecution” against Christians in the Kandhamal district of Orissa. Sajan K. George, president of the Global Council...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 28 February 2013
Christians in some parts of India continue to be vulnerable to intimidation and violence by Hindu nationalists, who want to make the country a religiously “pure” Hindu nation. On 20 November 2012 a gr...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 27 February 2013
“Pastor Karma Patras is blasphemer and infidel liable to be killed.” This message from the mosque loudspeakers in Sangla Hill, Punjab province, Pakistan, brought hundreds of infuriated Muslims to the ...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 26 February 2013
Give thanks to the Lord that the blasphemy charge against Rimsha Masih, a vulnerable Christian teenager in Pakistan, has been thrown out of court. Rimsha was arrested on 16 August 2012 after being acc...
Daily Prayer - Monday 25 February 2013
Praise God for a European Union decision that those who are unable to practise their faith publicly in their homeland can now claim refugee status in EU countries. The European Court of Justice decide...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 24 February 2013
Pray for the many Christians who have been forced to flee their homelands and take refuge in other countries because of anti-Christian injustice and violence. Some of them continue to be at risk of re...
Daily Prayer - Friday 22 February 2013
Helping hardworking Christian women in Juba get out of poverty - this is the aim of a Christian microfinance ministry in South Sudan, which Barnabas Fund supported last year. Thanks to our help 197 Ch...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 21 February 2013
A woman and her three children were among 16 Christians killed in Plateau state, Nigeria, on the same day. Gunmen simultaneously attacked three villages in the Riyom area on 10 October 2012, killing 1...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 20 February 2013
Churches in Nigeria are being ruthlessly targeted in suicide bombings thought to be the work of Boko Haram (see 30 January). For example, at least seven people were killed when an explosive-laden car ...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 19 February 2013
“The gunmen were asking students if they were Christians or Muslims, and then asked Christian victims to deny Christ. Christian students who refused to do so were killed by the gunmen instantly.” This...
Daily Prayer - Monday 18 February 2013
A Christian couple in Russia have had their 14 adopted children removed by the authorities, in a case that bears the marks of religious discrimination. Although Ilya Yaroslavkin, a church pastor, and ...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 17 February 2013
Lift up to the Lord our Christian brothers and sisters in the Nuba mountains in Sudan, where they are the target of “cleansing” aimed at removing non-Arabs and non-Muslims. Asia Omer Kuku, a Christian...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 16 February 2013
Praise God that the Islamisation of constitutions in the Middle East and North Africa since the Arab Spring has been partially checked in Tunisia. The country’s Islamist rulers have withdrawn a propos...
Daily Prayer - Friday 15 February 2013
Praise God for a rare legal victory for Christians in Egypt. On 8 November 2012, the country’s prosecutor general ruled that a Cairo church was the rightful owner of a piece of land in Shubra Al-Kheim...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 14 February 2013
Give thanks that charges against two Christian children, who were accused of blasphemy and detained in Egypt, were dropped in October 2012. Mina Nady Farag (9) and Nabil Nagy Rizk (10) were arrested a...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 13 February 2013
Give thanks that ten displaced Christian families in Pakistan now have their own newly-built homes thanks to Barnabas Fund. They had all been made homeless in 2010 by devastating floods that submerged...
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