AFGHANISTAN: God Faithfully Protects His Children
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The Voice of the Martyrs
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🗓️ 2 July 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In 2021, as the US prepared to withdraw its military presence from the country, radical Islamist Taliban forces swept across Afghanistan. Many Christians—especially those publicly known to follow Jesus—needed to flee the country or risk immediate execution.
Charmaine Hedding, president of The Shai Fund, has worked to help persecuted believers around the world since 2014. When Christians needed help getting out of Afghanistan, she and a committed team quickly stepped forward to help. They arranged flights, helped Afghan Christians hide and get to the airport, and helped find nations willing to accept them as refugees. They worked around the clock to help Afghan believers.
Listen as Charmaine shares how she became involved in helping persecuted Christians, first-hand stories of the hardships Afghans faced, and God's faithfulness to answer prayer amidst the chaos and upheaval of the Taliban takeover.
She will also share specific ways we can continue to pray for our Afghan brothers and sisters in Christ—both those still living in Afghanistan and those who have relocated to surrounding Islamic Nations.
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| 0:00.0 | In the Old Testament, we heard how God called the prophet Jonah to Nineveh. |
| 0:05.0 | Charmaine heading since God calling her to the same part of the world in our day. |
| 0:11.0 | She was there to welcome Christians fleeing persecution from ISIS in Iraq and Syria. |
| 0:17.5 | Charmaine says Christians were left with few options as ISIS moved in. |
| 0:23.5 | They gave three choices, basically, compared Jizia, which was an extortion tax, |
| 0:29.5 | to basically take away their money and all of their belongings and assets. |
| 0:35.5 | Convert to Islam or die. |
| 0:38.5 | And so they fled and we were helping them when they arrived just north of the Nineveh things. |
| 0:47.5 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 0:50.5 | In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them. |
| 0:53.5 | He sent them out as sheep among wolves. |
| 0:56.5 | Jesus' words came true in the life of the apostles and they're still coming true today |
| 1:01.5 | in the lives of his followers around the world. |
| 1:03.5 | Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help. |
| 1:08.5 | Right now on The Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. |
| 1:11.5 | Welcome again to The Voice of the Martyrs Radio. |
| 1:13.5 | My name is Todd Nettleton and we are going to talk this week specifically about Afghanistan. |
| 1:19.5 | About helping Afghan Christians, helping other Afghans who have been affected by the Taliban take over there. |
| 1:27.5 | Our guest is the president of the Shai Fund. |
| 1:30.5 | Sharmane Heading. |
| 1:32.5 | Shai Fund is an NGO that is helping persecuted Christians, helping Afghan Christians, |
| 1:37.5 | but also helping persecuted Christians in other parts of the world as well. |
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