Indonesia.

Follow me and you’ll be free! Indonesia podcast Born into a family of imams and radicalised in the Muslim Brotherhood, Sharif never imagined he would meet Jesus in a solitary prison cell. In the first of a two-part Voice podcast, Sharif, who now works with a Release International partner in Indonesia, shares his journey to faith in Christ. To hear his fascinating testimony, click the link below. VOICE PODCAST In part two of this podcast, available next month, we’ll hear more about the opposition Sharif has faced for his faith, his eventual call to Christian ministry—and his summary of the current situation for Christians in Indonesia.

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ALL Things.

 

North Koreans.

 

It seems impossible that North Koreans could ever hear about Jesus. Yet Open Doors fieldworkers like Cho* are meeting North Korean refugees, sharing the gospel, providing safe houses and food – and seeing the impossible happen. “I give a Bible to every North Korean I meet,” Cho said. “It’s up to God to touch their hearts. And anything is possible with God.” Every £25 could provide safe housing, food and spiritual aid to someone who has fled extreme persecution. Today, with your gift, you can be part of God’s impossible plan for believers from the ten countries where following Jesus costs the most. My gift today Every blessing, Henrietta Blyth, CEO, Open Doors UK & Ireland *Name changed for security reasons, and illustrative image used

India.

Fri, 6 Feb at 18:09

View email in your browser Please Pray Pastor suffers ordeal in India A Christian pastor in India has suffered dehumanising brutality at the hands of a nationalist mob, who tried to force him to worship a Hindu deity. Pastor Bipin Bihari Naik was dragged out of his home, in a village in India’s Odisha state, forced to walk on thorns and then tied up at a Hindu temple. The attackers paraded him with a garland of footwear, tried to force him to drink water mixed with cow dung, and demanded that he chant a Hindu religious slogan. He was also beaten so badly it has affected his hearing in one ear. But his wife Bandana said that when she rushed to the local police station to get help she was told she had to first provide a written report of the assault. When the pastor was eventually found—two hours later—officers threatened to file a case against him, unless he stated that ‘the mob had misunderstood my activities and mistook me for a person carrying out illegal conversions,’ he later told Morning Star News. Naik was eventually taken to hospital. He and his family have since moved to an undisclosed location more than 40 miles away. The pastor said his daughters have been traumatised by the attack and have been unable to sleep or eat properly. Pray for Pastor Naik’s physical healing and God’s comfort and peace for him, his wife and daughters. Pray the local authorities will take appropriate action against those who attacked him. Pray for gospel ministry in that part of India; that many will be brought to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. (Source: Morning Star News) All personal data/special categories of personal data are processed in accordance with the DPA 2018 and the UK GDPR 2021. Please read our Privacy Statement published on the Release International website for full details.    Registered Charity (England No. 280577) and company limited by guarantee (England No. 1506576), Scottish Charity No: SC040456    Registered office: Betchworth House, 57-65 Station Road, REDHILL, Surrey, RH1 1DL     Copyright © 2026 Release International, All rights reserved.    Our mailing address is:  Release International, P O BOX 54, Orpington, Kent BR5 4RT  Info@releaseinternational.org  update your preferences or unsubscribe

Galatians 1. Please Take Note; Pay Heed & Give The Saviour His Due.

7 ) ... Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8) But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! 

Holocaust Heroine.

Memorial art for Holocaust heroine unveiled.

Memorial art for Holocaust heroine unveiled Staff writer Haining said she'd be "back by lunch", in fact she was on her way to Auschwitz.

A Fascinating Encounter. (Remember too the hatred between Jews and Samaritans.)

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman.

Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.  So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a]

Bible Gateway passage: John 4 - New International Version Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman - Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and bapt...

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

17 “I have no husband,” she replied.

Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”