After worshiping peacefully together in a tin hut for more than 10 years, a church of more than 20 families from the Chakma people group recently began constructing a church building in their village. Shortly after building began, a mostly-Buddhist organization known as the Underground Army destroyed the church building’s windows and threatened to torture or kill the men of the church, who fled into the jungle for several weeks.
Read MoreBelievers in a particular community in Bangladesh are requesting prayer after assailants destroyed their homes and attacked the women in the community. A local contact wrote that the aggressors had struck just the night before.
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His purpose was to bring as many people to Christ as he could—to point them to the Savior. It didn’t matter the danger. Godhad called him to this work, and he would follow to the end.So he packed up his belongings and began working in an outreach ministry with Campus Crusade for Christ in his native Bangladesh. Redoy Roy walked quickly up the stairs to his home in the late evening of April 23, 2003, after being dropped off by the rickshaw. It hadbeen a wonderful evening as he showed the JESUS film to almost twohundred villagers. He loved to watch the audience and the beautifulexpressions of fascination and hope that showed on their faces. And heloved even more when the film finished and some in the audience choseto follow this Jesus—their newfound Friend and Savior. Roy turned the handle, pushed the door open to his rented home, andmade his way through the dark house. Before he could reach the lightswitch, he was hit in the face and knocked to the ground. Angry radicalMuslims grabbed him and dragged him over to his bed. A couple more heldhim down as they tied his hands and feet to the bedposts. Roy screamed
Read MoreAfter Mannan left Islam to follow Jesus Christ, area Islamic leaders called for villagers to ostracize his relatives, even telling local vendors to deny them food. As animosity toward Mannan and his relatives grew, the Islamic leaders and angry Muslim villagers called for police to arrest him and his relatives, falsely accusing them of causing trouble.
Read MoreChristians were attacked during Ramadan.
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