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Names, not Needs

The large scale of great needs tends to obscure the human face. We can focus on a tragedy—a famine, for example— and lose sight of the fact that “thousands of people” don’t face days of hunger; but Mary does, as well as her aging parents, Yasin and Elisabeth, and her newborn son, Boniface. The persecuted…
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Your Part in a Miracle…

Several weeks ago, Persecution Project received a couple of photos from the Gigaiba Referral Hospital. The photos were of three newborn baby girls. They were triplets, and had just been successfully delivered at the new maternity ward. “Thank you for being a part of this miracle,” was how Dr. Ahmed’s e-mail read. In remote, war-torn…
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Improvements Continue at the Gigaiba Referral Hospital

Burdens of Joy

The two young men pictured are (L to R) Clement and Thomas. They live near Lohutuk, South Sudan, the home of the PPF-supported Jebel Lopit Training Center. They are both full of zeal for the Gospel, despite being threatened with beatings for sharing their faith with their animist family and friends. The men are studying…
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The Lost Found

Editor’s Note: The testimony of Alsadig Mustafa Hamada is just one of many similar stories that could be told in Sudan’s war-torn Nuba mountains. Alsadig was a lost sheep wandering in a desert. But he found his Shepherd thanks to one of the several thousand audio Bibles Persecution Project has distributed – due to your…
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Medical Program Update

Tons more medicine loaded and en route to the persecuted! Persecution Project is responsible for as much as 90 percent of the medicine reaching the small clinics and regional hospitals in Sudan’s war-torn Nuba mountains, home to approximately 2.2 million souls. We can reach these people because your “active compassion” has first reached us! Thank…
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Gospel Riders

Editor’s Note: Southern Kordofan State in Sudan (home to the Nuba mountains) is about the size of the State of Georgia. It has few roads and none of them paved. Motorized vehicles are comparatively few and far between. Fuel can be even more scarce. To quickly cover vast areas, Persecution Project’s Discipleship program has equipped…
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25 Years of “Active Compassion”

Persecution Project began as a campaign in 1997 to raise awareness of Christian persecution on the continent of Africa. In 2000, the campaign incorporated as the Persecution Project Foundation. This year, we celebrate our 25th year of ministry, thanks to the faithful partnership of so many friends and ministry partners like you. The year 2021…
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Meet Samara

Editor’s Note: Evangelism backpacks are some of the most effective tools Persecution Project has deployed in remote areas like Sudan’s Nuba mountains. What follows is the testimony of one Nuba woman who was impacted by an evangelist using a PPF-supplied evangelism backpack to show The JESUS Film. “I was born into a Muslim family, but…
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Remembering Dan Chesher

by Ed Lyons My friendship with Dan began in 2006 when I started working at Persecution Project Foundation. I soon learned that Dan had a heart the size of the state of Ohio, where he lived. He loved people. He loved children. And above everything else, He loved God! It soon became apparent that Dan’s…
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