Kidnapped. Raped. Starved. Tortured. Jailed. These are typical experiences of many Eritrean Christians who flee persecution in their homeland only to suffer unimaginable horrors in their quest for freedom.

Barnabas Fund partners in Syria are reporting an urgent need for medicines as the sick struggle to get even the most basic drugs and hospitals in some places have the capacity to treat only the war-wounded.

Most pharmaceutical factories have been destroyed and medicine storehouses robbed by opposition fighters; the drugs are then sold abroad.

Barnabas Fund has received requests for prayer and practical help from Christian leaders in Bangladesh as the Church is endangered by a violent uprising by Islamists who are demanding that the country become an Islamic state.

Christian homes have been torched and churches threatened as increasingly volatile protests have rocked the country.

Barnabas Fund is privileged to support a flourishing Christian school in Beit Jala, Bethlehem, which is so popular that every year more children want to attend.

St Aphrem’s is a remarkable work of God’s grace: an unashamedly Christian school in an area with a Muslim majority where Islamism is growing steadily.

Barnabas Fund is continuing to support impoverished and helpless Egyptian Christians with essential supplies as their country’s political crisis continues unabated.

For many years our dedicated partners on the ground have been supplying our disadvantaged brothers and sisters with food and other basics.

More funds are urgently needed to help Christians endangered by the crisis in Syria as al-Qaeda this week confirmed that one of the leading militant groups among the opposition is part of its network.

Thanks to your generous support, Barnabas Fund has so far been able to send nearly £1m (US$1.5m) to provide essential supplies...

More funds are urgently needed to help Christians endangered by the crisis in Syria as al-Qaeda this week confirmed that one of the leading militant groups among the opposition is part of its network.

Thanks to your generous support, Barnabas Fund has so far been able to send nearly £1m (US$1.5m) to provide essential supplies...

The mainly Christian population of the fledgling nation of South Sudan is desperately lacking in healthcare facilities. Barnabas Fund is helping remote communities – where the life expectancy is just 40 years – through a mobile clinic.

As the conflict in Syria enters its third year, Barnabas Fund needs your help as we continue to target aid at Christians who have been displaced by the fighting.

We have been working through Christian partners on the ground for the last 18 months to get food and other essentials, including clothing, medicine, heaters and blankets, to those in greatest need.

Another 1,500 vulnerable Christians who have been trapped in Sudan are on the road to South Sudan, taking the total rescued by our Exodus mission to 3,800 – almost double the number originally planned.

Hundreds of Christians have been left homeless in Pakistan after a 3,000-strong mob of Muslims torched their houses and shops and a church over a false blasphemy accusation against a Christian man.

The Christians of Joseph Colony in the Badami Bagh area of Lahore had fled in fear of their lives ahead of the violence on Saturday (9 March)...

The most vulnerable victims of the brutal civil war in Sri Lanka desperately need permanent homes. Barnabas is building houses for Christian widows, disabled people and pastors who have been living in tents for years.

As efforts to drive Islamist militants out of northern Mali intensify, Barnabas Fund is expanding its support to Christians affected by the crisis; their plight has been worsened by food shortages as a result of last year’s drought in the Sahel region.

As Syria endures its harshest winter in 20 years, Barnabas Fund is continuing to meet the practical needs of displaced and distressed Christians. In addition to our distribution of heaters and blankets, we are now providing mats and emergency lamps to help 1,000 families cope with freezing temperatures and power cuts.

As Bangladesh is hit by a severe cold snap that has seen temperatures drop to a record low – killing over 80 people – Barnabas Fund is providing blankets to impoverished Christian families.

The bitter weather has been spreading across northern parts of South Asia, claiming hundreds of lives and hospitalising many with respiratory problems and pneumonia.

Barnabas Fund is providing emergency aid to 4,500 Christian families affected by severe flooding that has swept through Sri Lanka; you could help feed a family of four for two weeks for just £7.50 (US$12; €9; NZ$14; AUS$11).

Torrential rain that started falling in mid-December has caused extensive flooding and triggered landslides across the South Asian island.

Barnabas Fund has transported a further 1,808 vulnerable Christians from Sudan to South Sudan, and there are plans to rescue another 1,500, as our Exodus mission expands. With your help, we can move even more needy Christian women and children to safety.

As Christmas approaches, Christian celebrations in Syria will be extremely subdued this year as the Church finds itself a haemorrhaging casualty of a war in which it has played no part.

People affected by Typhoon Bopha in the southern Philippines are in urgent need of food and water as supplies run low in isolated communities. Barnabas needs your support to help Christians caught up in this disaster.

Flooding and landslides triggered by the typhoon wiped out communities near the coast on the island of Mindanao and also left many inland villages cut off.

Barnabas Fund has received an urgent plea for help from Christians in the southern Philippines, which was ravaged by Typhoon Bopha last week.

The typhoon hit the island of Mindanao on Tuesday (4 December), triggering flash floods that have killed at least 714 people and left a trail of devastation.

Villages plundered, boys forcibly recruited, women raped; their villages too unsafe for them to stay. Thousands of Christians in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are in urgent need of food and shelter after escaping the violence of a new rebel group, called “M23”.

As winter begins to descend on war-ravaged Syria, Barnabas Fund is providing heaters and blankets for displaced Christian families to help them survive the impending bitter weather.

Hundreds of Christian families in Orissa, India, who were made homeless in one of the most horrendous outbreaks of violent persecution in recent memory, are now living in new houses built by Barnabas Fund. We need your help to put roofs over the heads of hundreds more.

Over the last 18 months, we have been building homes in Kandhamal district, where Christians were targeted by Hindu extremists in attacks that broke out at Christmas 2007 and resumed with more ferocity in August 2008. Around 60,000 Christians became homeless....

Millions of Christians around the world go to bed hungry every night. Our brothers and sisters who live in contexts of pressure and persecution are likely to be more vulnerable to food shortages than other sections of the population. Discrimination often limits their opportunities to study or get a job. Also, where Christians are seen as of less worth than the rest of the community, they may miss out in the distribution of food aid at times of famine.

Barnabas Fund needs your support to help thousands of Christians whose lives have been devastated by acts of violence and injustice recover from their ordeal and rebuild their lives.

Our Victims of Violence Fund is used to provide various kinds of practical support, including food, clothing, medical costs and accommodation...

Barnabas Fund is giving £100,000 (US$160,000; €125,000, AUS$155,000, NZ$195,000) a month in aid to Christians in Syria, and we are planning to expand our support in the months ahead as they increasingly come under targeted attack.

We are providing food parcels, milk for babies, blankets and medicine to Christians affected by the conflict between government and opposition forces.

Barnabas Fund needs your support in bringing emergency aid to thousands of Christian victims of the flooding that has ravaged Chad and Cameroon. Many are being passed over in the government distribution.

We need to raise a total of £186,000 (€230,000; US$301,000; AUS$290,000; NZ$365,000) to provide emergency food supplies for 2,200 Christian families and basic medical care...

Barnabas Fund is providing emergency aid to thousands of Christian victims of the flooding that has ravaged Chad and Cameroon; we are also preparing to restore communities by rebuilding damaged homes and churches.

Large parts of southern Chad and northern Cameroon in central Africa have been devastated by heavy rains, which began in August.

Pastors and church planters supported by Barnabas Fund are reaching out with the Gospel in often hostile contexts; one has led 21 families to Christ in Pakistan.

Tarbele is the pastor of a large congregation comprising around 150 families.

Almost 500 vulnerable Christians have so far been airlifted to South Sudan as part of Barnabas Fund’s major operation to rescue 2,000 women and children trapped in Sudan.

The second and third flights from Khartoum to Juba took place on Sunday (30 September) and Tuesday (2 October) respectively...