Pray for a Church Planter Receiving Death Threats

May. 19, 2017 | Colombia Xavier serves at great personal risk in paramilitary country.   “Xavier Gonzalez,” a church planter working in one of Colombia’s most dangerous areas, receives frequent death threats. Years ago, he felt God leading him to start a church in one of the country’s poorest cities. Although friends warned him that

Colombia-pray for peace with justice.

Jan. 13, 2017 | Colombia Pray for the Peace in Colombia Although the FARC has signed a peace agreement with the Colombian government, not everyone is happy with the terms. Many Christians in Colombia are deeply upset by the conditions of the agreement, some of which they believe are based on lies. After more than

Pray for Milena, whose husband and three sons were killed by FARC

Jan. 29, 2016 | Colombia A Christian woman, “Milena” and her family lives in an area of Colombia controlled by The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. Milena’s husband and three of her four sons have been killed by FARC guerillas because of their involvement in an evangelical church. She continues to hold on

Pray for Luz, Widow Being Sought by Husband’s Killer

Nov. 06, 2015 | Colombia The guerilla leader responsible for the murder of Luz’s husband was released from prison in Colombia and is now seeking Luz. The man returned to the remote community where Luz now lives, telling her neighbors that he wanted to find her. Within a few days of his release, a SWAT

Terrible Injustice

    In April 2011 Jaime Tenorio of the Nasa tribe was sent to jail for 20 years for opposing the tribe’s ancestral beliefs.He with 19 other believing families were banished from their farms. His son Ferney 17 was dreadfully treated as was his sister Lizbeth 15.Ferney, Jaime jr 11,Giselli 13 are in an Open Doors home.

Nukak Maku of Colombia

Just as in Jim Elliot’s day 1956 martyred among the Auca Indians of Ecuador (The Book “Through Gates of Splendour”) there are still unreached jungle tribes in parts of the world! Here is one. How will they hear without a preacher? Nukak Maku of Colombia The Nukak Maku are jungle nomads. At any moment, they

Pray for Widower Pastor

Jul. 24, 2014 | Colombia   The wife of a pastor serving in one of Colombia’s red zones was shot to death recently by FARC guerrillas. Two men on a motorcycle stopped by Pastor James’s home one night at 9:30 p.m., after the family had gone to bed. They lured him outside by asking him

Pastor Roberto Perez in Vaupes, Colombia

  “When I was preparing my sermon for our service, the guerrillas came into the church and started to yell at me. One of them told me that I must leave the region or I would be killed,” says Pastor Roberto Perez in Vaupes, Colombia. “I knelt and took my Bible in my arms, and

Threats widespread

  Illegal armed groups in Guaviare department and many other areas have forced pastors to stop preaching warning that any new professors will be killed. Pray for safety of pastors and families and ask God to open new ways to get the word out.  The FARC (left wing paramilitary group) has ordered 12 churches to

Widow and orphans

 Colombia is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a church leader. Between 25 and 30 pastors are killed every year. In areas of traditional religion authorities may try to close down churches and force believers to return to spiritism and animism.These actions violate Article 18 of the Human Rights Declaration.