What This Missionary Saw Overseas Will Shock You
Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater
The First Digital Inc.
4.9 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
An American missionary, Alex Barbir, shares with Mike Slater what he witnessed firsthand while serving overseas. His account sheds light on a hidden crisis affecting Christian communities around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to Politics by Faith. Welcome to part two of our special about Islam and Muslims. |
| 0:05.1 | I want to start off here with Alex Barbier. He is a Christian missionary who has spent time in |
| 0:10.2 | Nigeria, which is not a place you want to be if you are a Christian. Wait until you hear his story. |
| 0:16.5 | And then we'll wrap up with, I hope, what is a motivating tale about how we need to be bold. |
| 0:23.9 | We need to wake up, know what time it is, and be bold. |
| 0:32.1 | Welcome back to politics by faith, our special to rise of Islam. |
| 0:36.9 | Alex Barbier is here. |
| 0:38.6 | He's a Christian missionary. |
| 0:40.3 | He is the CEO and founder of building zionorg.com. |
| 0:45.5 | And we are talking to him because he has spent time and a place where you do not want to be a Christian right now. |
| 0:50.4 | And that is Nigeria. |
| 0:51.7 | Alex, how are you, brother? |
| 0:53.2 | I'm doing good brother. |
| 0:54.0 | Thank you for having me. What brought Alex, how are you, brother? I'm doing good, brother. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:55.4 | What brought you, what made you feel the desire to go to Nigeria in the first place? |
| 1:01.6 | Yeah, to be honest, I knew that Nigeria was the most persecuted country in the world. |
| 1:08.0 | You know, it's literally a fact that there are more Christians that are |
| 1:11.6 | killed in Nigeria on a yearly basis than every country in the world combined. And so I knew that it was a |
| 1:18.7 | place of extreme need. And even more so, it also has the two most unreached people groups in Africa, |
| 1:25.0 | the Hausa and the Fulani. And so my heart is with the persecuted |
| 1:29.2 | church. And it's also to make sure that the gospel is told to every tribe and every tongue. And so |
| 1:34.7 | Nigeria really just encompassed two categories where people are persecuted, people are |
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