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A New Home and Life in Moldova
In one of Europe’s poorest countries, one young man finally found a safe home and also humanity’s Savior.
The first thing you will notice about a Moldovan orphanage is its silence.
Children in these institutions are often not allowed outside, forced to lay in their cots and ignored by workers who only address their most basic needs.
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Rising Against the Dark Tide of Persecution
As believers in India face growing hatred and harassment, God continues to provide for his most vulnerable children.
In 2014, elections in India brought the Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People’s Party) into power.
They are often described as the “Hindu Nationalist Party.” If that title summoned up shades of another nationalist government and social group that the West knew all too well in the 1940s, the comparison wouldn’t be far off.
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The Unexpected Blessings of Siberia
The many believers exiled to Siberia has helped to turn this region into a bastion of Christianity in Russia.
Under the boot of Communism, many Christians in the Soviet Union faced harsh oppression. Evangelicals worshipped in underground churches, taking communion out in the forest and being baptized at night. Bibles and Christian literature were confiscated and destroyed.
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A Land Desperate for Water
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Pray for the Persecuted Church in India
Believers in Central Asia are facing some of the worst persecution in the world currently, and they need the prayers of the whole Christian family.
The first or second Sunday of November—the date depends on your church or denomination—is considered an international day of prayer for the persecuted church, and the believers in India could certainly use our prayers.
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Fighting Off a Gambling Addiction
One woman felt that lottery tickets offered hope that life had denied her until members of the church helped her find peace in better sources.
As soon as someone mentions “addiction,” most people automatically think of drugs or alcohol. Those two substances, however, only represent a fraction of potential addictions that can entangle people.
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Investigating a Fall From Grace
A church leader in India is helping one family find purpose and unity after their son was snared by despair and addiction.
Very little can be harder for a loving parent than seeing their child choose a self-destructive lifestyle.
For one mother and father in India, they watched in despair as their oldest son seemed to swerve deliberately away from the model they had set in their own household onto the path to indolence and addiction.
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The Story of an Overgrown Garden
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Autistic Children, Abandonment and Appointments With God
Two mothers struggling to raise their children with autism ended up finding strength in God and church community.
“Nothing about autism is easy,” one contributor to Huffpost commented. “You can embrace it; you can find coping mechanisms and you can find small ways to make daily life a little easier. But that doesn't make autism easy.”