KATHMANDU, Nepal — With the death toll from last weekend’s massive earthquake in Nepal rising daily, Gospel for Asia’s (GFA) Compassion Services teams continue to supply life-giving relief to victims and obtain important updates on the devastation.
As Iran’s regime strives for nuclear weapons, the Middle East is engulfed in strife, and as Christians in the region are killed by ISIS, Israel remains an island of law and stability where persons of all faiths are safe, according to speakers at a gathering examining Christian support for Zionism.
When Reach Beyond established its first radio station in Mongolia in 2000, the Colorado-based ministry could confirm only about 20 Christians in the nation of 3.2 million. Today, there are at least 100,000 believers in the largely Buddhist country, and observers expect that number to grow.
This Friday, the United Nations in New York City will host an event regarding the worsening persecution of Christians in the Middle East.
Last weekend was an unusually violent one for Barranquilla, Colombia. On Saturday, a woman was found dead in a hotel, and police said she had been strangled with a chain. Another woman was found murdered in a different part of the city. The next day, a 26-year-old woman was hospitalized after her ex-husband beat her relentlessly with a broken glass bottle and almost gouged her eye out.
The distribution of 1.65 million Scripture leaflets designed to bring comfort to a nation in mourning is well under way across Egypt, following the murder of 21 young Egyptian Christians by ISIS in Libya last month.
