The very first edition of the 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World was produced in India in 1992. Since that time, the Christian population in India has officially remained static at around 2.5% but non-government-led research indicates significant growth. Certainly, most of the…
Descended from one of the earliest known human civilizations, and tracing their lineage to the prophet Muhammad, the Jaaliin people of Sudan were originally Nubians who became Arabised and now form the largest Sudanese Arab population. There are four million Jaaliin…
Fatima rushed inside her small mud hut and hurriedly packed a few belongings. Rumours of conflict nearby had the whole refugee camp in a panic, and she was ready to grab her children and flee. Her family is no stranger to conflict. Fatima…
The beautiful tropical country lying on the coast between Tanzania and South Africa is Mozambique. After centuries under Portuguese colonial rule, Mozambique achieved independence in 1975 but fell into a long civil war, which finally ended in the early 1990s. The…
Just under 700,000 Kanuri Manga people live in the east of Niger and far north-east of Nigeria. They are a sub-group of the larger Kanuri tribe and before colonialism they were a very powerful empire. Most of them are farmers,…
As 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World continued to grow in the 2010’s, Christ’s message of love and reconciliation towards Muslims also gained strength. One man who personified that love was Justin Normand, a 53-year-old man from Dallas. In 2016, amid rising…
Hassan has invited his friends for sugar biscuits and sweet tea. But the mood is tense. “The Arabs have driven us out, the Kurds have abandoned us. Who are we supposed to trust anymore?” he asks. Hassan is a political…
Anwar sighed as he finished the last of the khaddi kabab – a traditional Baloch dish in which a whole sheep is stuffed with rice, and cooked in an underground fire pit. The sun is setting over the mountains and Anwar prepares…
In 2016, Turkey was shaken by an attempted military coup, organised by followers of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen. Gülen has denied instigating the violence, but he certainly is the charismatic leader and inspiration for a highly influential movement throughout Turkey and beyond.…
Hasan grew up in a poor Alevi village in eastern Turkey, speaking Zaza as his native language. At primary school he learned Turkish, and eventually became a teacher. Now retired, Hasan worried to see his grown sons struggling with alcoholism,…
