As many of you know, we have three main aims for Bringing Good News: To advance the proclamation of the gospel To relieve poverty and suffering To encourage self sufficiency That third priority - "to encourage self-sufficiency through small income generating businesses" - has been one of the harder aspects of [...]
I was told Nepal is the only country in the world that claims to be a Hindu nation and there is a 5-year prison sentence for any Nepalese who tries to convert a Hindu, yet I met these humble, straightforward, often very poor pastors serving the Lord and sharing the [...]
Sajjid Masih and his wife Saima were brick kiln labourers working at a brick kiln owned by Yousaf Gujjat situated in Chack number 59, near Kot Rada Kishan, in Kasur district of Punjab province of Pakistan. They had 3 young children Salman, Sonya and Poona. The exact details are a [...]
n Abyei town there were 6 churches before 2011. This particular ECS church had about 800 members before it was burnt for the third time by the Arabs from North Sudan on 20th May 2011. Slowly the South Sudanese have been returning but experienced a real setback last year when in [...]
Abyei town there were 6 churches before 2011. This particular ECS church had about 800 members before it was burnt for the third time by the Arabs from North Sudan on 20th May 2011. Slowly the South Sudanese have been returning but experienced a real setback last year when in [...]
When I visited Abyei in August 2012 I met pastor Santino Jok along with many others who had run for their lives when the North Sudan troops had come in and opened fire on a defenceless civilian population. It was so sad to see every single building totally destroyed except [...]
On my recent visit to Pakistan with one of my trustees we met Agnes who had experienced outrageous injustice. Agnes was a nurse who was always ready to help the poor and needy people living in her vicinity. There was an old lady in Agnes’ town who had a piece [...]
On a recent trip to Central Asia I watched this lady baking bread in an outdoor oven. They light a fire and once the walls are heated and the wood becomes glowing embers they put the bread on the side walls and cook it. This idealistic picture is in stark [...]
I wrote in April about the terrifying ordeal of the residents of Joseph Christian colony which was attacked by an inflamed Muslim mob that burnt and destroyed 178 homes, causing 258 families to flee for their lives. SLMP, one of the organisations we support in Pakistan wanted to help these [...]
Imagine you live in a country where 95% of the population is from a different religion to yours. Imagine that you live in constant fear of that majority. Then one day that fear is fully realised as an inflamed mob comes into your small colony and burns and destroys 178 [...]
