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KASHMIR Below are the Kashmir prayer updates since the 1st of August 2021. April 29 Sarah, Kashmir Shalom everyone 🕊By the grace of God and by the prayer of all my both daughters got admission in same school. I thank everyone for their prayers. April 29 Sarah, Kashmir Kindly keep my mom in your precious prayers as she slipped and had […]
Through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond, read prayer requests and updates directly from our South Asian leaders. To aid you in reaching the updates from the country you’d like to read about, you can now choose which country’s prayer updates you’d like to read above (these are updates post-August 2021) – these are the pages […]
Pastor Peter*, Kashmir Regional Director Summer Match! We are holding our 3rd annual Summer Giving Match! A generous supporter is matching $30,000 raised. That means up to $60,000 can be raised between now & July 24th! In this worst moment of the pandemic, half of the match will go directly to Covid-19 relief & half […]
Kate, Executive Director | Pastor Shalva*, Nepal Country Director | Pastor Peter*, Kashmir Regional Director – May 22nd, 2021 On May 11th, we sent an email asking for support in the face of the COVID-19 crisis in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. You gave. As we post this, 50 families in Kashmir are receiving food packets for a […]
Thank you for joining us in prayer for the persecuted church in South Asia each weekend of November, in a continuation of International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (November 1st)! We pray the stories and wisdom shared by our country leaders have been an encouragement and challenge in your own walk with God. […]
November 1st is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Many of the believers we come alongside in South Asia are heavily persecuted – they face imprisonments, beatings, deprivation of their rights, rejection by their families, and other forms of opposition. As we pray for the persecuted church, each Sunday of November (starting […]
Kashmir Kashmir is the newest region where we work. With a population of roughly 13 million, this region is located in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. Since 1947-48, when the newly-independent nations of India and Pakistan fought their first war over which country the Muslim-majority princely state of Kashmir would accede to, the […]
As we look back on June, our directors in Bangladesh and northern India share a few stories of the hundreds of families and thousands of individuals they have provided with life-saving food packets during lockdowns. In Bangladesh, our local coordinator Pastor Darpan* shares about a couple, Padma* and Bakul*: This couple has some land […]
Without a doubt, the highlight of my visit to South Asia last month was my stay in Kashmir, a beautiful region that is disputed between India, Pakistan and China. The Indian-administered part of Kashmir is the only Muslim-majority state in Hindu-majority India. When Britain left the Indian subcontinent in 1947, partitioning it into India and […]
Sunday, November 6th, is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP). It is a day to pray for and celebrate our brothers and sisters who are persecuted for their faith. “Often I have heard people say, ‘How good God is! We prayed that it would not rain for our church picnic, and […]
