Category Archives: Middle East

30 Jul, 2007

Korean Missionaries Martyred in Afghanistan

It’s not everyday you hear about persecutions and martyrdom even though it is everywhere everyday. Unless of course it’s people from your own local. Americans are not known for much in the way of martyrdom. But in recent times the Koreans have been showing the world something about real faith by making appearances in some [...]

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02 Jul, 2007

Brother Andrew Interview

Recently an Interview was conducted through Christianity Today with Brother Andrew on the Muslim World. He has a powerful wakeup-call for all of us. I should also note that, if you pay attention, you can also see how there is a line throughout the interview that is evidence to the increasing separation of what is [...]

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01 May, 2007

Turks protest Turkey’s pro-Islamic Government

This is definitely a historic event for the sake of the Gospel!
Turkey is 99.7% Muslim. Now isn’t that strange that 750,000 Turks would be protesting their pro-Islamic government? What’s going on here?
For decades, Turkey has been high on the hit-list for those around the world praying for missions and the spread of the Gospel.
According to [...]

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05 Nov, 2002

Jewish Feast

November has finally rolled around. I’ve been exposed to a lot in the last few days. Last Friday evening I had the rare opportunity to attend a Shabbat feast with the Jews along with Andre, a DTS student from Brazil.
It was a fiasco. The rabbis apartment accommodates about 80 people for the feast, but about [...]

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01 Nov, 2002

Living in Jerusalem

Greetings in the name of Jesus…..
I’ve had a month now getting situated here in Israel, and have been getting involved in a lot of things.
Living
I am living in a dormitory at the top of the Mount of Olives inside the Augusta Victoria complex which contains a big Lutheran church, hospital, and a World Vision headquarters. [...]

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31 Oct, 2002

Jesus Film into Nablus, West Bank

Yesterday we took a trip with Andrew and Stevie, who are staff workers at the base, to Nablus in the West Bank of Palestine.� Tucked away in the back of our Land Rover were some boxes of Jesus videos en route to a new temporary Bible Society book shop right in the heart of [...]

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13 Oct, 2002

Palestinian Hospitality

Marhaba sabni
hello friends,
For the last week and a half that I’ve been here in Israel I’ve seen a little bit of the kind of friction there is between the Arabs and Jews. I have not had any problem yet dealing with either of them. I am living in the Palestinian neighborhood, right on top of [...]

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