“ISIS killers are now joining the ranks of the Taliban, ignoring their differences until all infidels are caught, tortured, and killed. They have names of people who have converted to Christianity and are aggressively searching them out. These Christians are not afraid to die, but want their children to live and live free. The resources are there, courage is on a dramatic rise, and the will is strong, but chaos and evil have been waiting for this moment.”
“Husbands and fathers have given their wives and daughters guns and told them that when the Taliban come, they can choose to kill them or kill themselves—it is their choice.”
Hear directly from leaders in the second-fastest growing church in the world, Afghanistan—now the seat of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, declared re-instated by the Taliban this weekend—as they flee to the mountains and move the Gospel forward in their fractured nation.
When Israel was at war with Gaza for 11 days in May 2021, international headlines and multi-national protests flooded the globe. Much of the outrage was directed at Israel, which is broadly viewed as an oppressive occupier, a breaker of international law, and easily labeled with words newly imbued with extreme emotional power like “colonial.” How could it be that such a small nation was the subject of such intense focus and denouncement? Is Israel truly guilty of the crimes of which she stands accused? Is the source of the rage against her righteous?
For 400 years, the Turkish Ottoman Empire controlled Jerusalem. To the sultan caliphs, the Holy City was a mandate to the "throne of the Caliphate." Today, a century after Jerusalem was taken by the British, and then Israel, a new Turkish leader seeks to reassert his authority in the place he calls "Our City."
