The Taliban are killing people with Bibles on their cellphones: Praying for Afghan Christians and emulating their courage
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Christians in Afghanistan are facing persecution and death under the Taliban. In The Daily Article for August 20, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison describes their plight, contrasts the challenges of nation building with the advance of God's kingdom, calls us to make three empowering commitments, and closes by quoting from a powerful essay that invites us to courageous faith today.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.3 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.5 | We're hearing from reliable sources that the Taliban demand people's phones, |
| 0:25.0 | and if they find a downloaded Bible on your device, they will kill you immediately. |
| 0:30.0 | This is how Dr. Rex Rogers, North American president of the Middle East Media Ministry, |
| 0:35.9 | Sat 7, describes conditions in Afghanistan for believers |
| 0:39.8 | after the Taliban's takeover. He adds, |
| 0:43.2 | it's incredibly dangerous right now for Afghans to have anything Christian on their phones. |
| 0:48.9 | The Taliban have spies and informants everywhere. |
| 0:52.6 | Open Doors ranked Afghanistan as the second most dangerous country |
| 0:56.6 | in the world for Christians even before the Taliban took control. Now a pastor who built |
| 1:02.7 | churches in Afghanistan is warning that the Taliban will exterminate the church there. A pastor in the |
| 1:09.6 | U.S. who works with Afghan refugees reports, |
| 1:13.0 | Young Christian girls are being pursued by the Taliban. The Taliban just raided the home of another |
| 1:19.1 | church leader and confiscated his Bibles and literature. House church leaders have reportedly |
| 1:25.6 | received letters from the Taliban, warning them that they know where they are and what they are doing. |
| 1:31.3 | A member of the UK Parliament warns that there are 228 missionaries in Afghanistan currently under sentence of death. |
| 1:40.3 | Missionaries and mission groups are working feverishly to get Christian colleagues and |
| 1:46.0 | volunteers out of the country. As we have noted this week, the U.S. sent troops to Afghanistan |
| 1:54.8 | 20 years ago to keep al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups from using the country as a platform for continued |
| 2:01.8 | attacks against America and the West. Our troops succeeded admirably in performing this crucial |
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