Prisoners of Hope
Welcome to Prisoners of Hope, where we bring you powerful stories, urgent updates, and firsthand testimonies from persecuted Christians. Real faith. Real persecution...And a God who does the impossible every day. These voices from the frontlines of faith will revolutionize how you pray and show you what hope in Jesus really means.
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Emergency: Jordan Church Shooting
On Friday, October 23, three gunmen opened fire outside a Greek Orthodox church in southern Jordan, where families had gathered for a funeral. Nine believers were killed, and the Islamic State claimed responsibility. In this special episode, Salam, a Help The Persecuted Field Ministry Director who calls Jordan home, tells us what he saw at the funeral for the victims, how the King and Jordan’s churches responded, and how our Field Ministry Team is reaching grieving families with Lightning Funds and prayer. Listen, and pray with us for the grieving families and for the church in Jordan to stand firm in the hope of Christ.A Field Minister's Calling to Protect Syrian Believers
When a believer in Syria is thrown out of their home for following Jesus, where do they go? For a growing number, the answer is a Help The Persecuted safe house, one of 23 homes in secure locations across 9 countries, quietly offering shelter and protection to Christians who have nowhere else to turn. Daniel, a Field Minister in Syria, will tell you he was wrong about safe houses. He didn’t think one was needed. Then, a week after it opened, a Christian family fleeing an Islamist attack arrived, followed by believers whose own families had thrown them out for leaving Islam. In this episode, Joshua Youssef talks with Daniel about life for Syrian Christians since the fall of the Assad regime, why ministering to a believer hunted by his own family is the harder work, and how we can pray for Syria’s church and the safe house.Inside a Safe House: What Refuge Actually Looks Like
When a persecuted believer has to run, where do they go? For many, the answer is a Help The Persecuted safe house, one of 23 homes in secure locations across 9 countries, quietly offering shelter and protection to Christians who have nowhere else to turn. But a safe house is more than four walls and a lock on the door. It's the people who run it, who sit with someone at two in the morning answering questions about faith they've never been allowed to ask before, who take residents out for lunch because they have no way to leave on their own, who become family to people who've lost theirs. In this episode, Joshua Youssef talks with Laila, a Field Minister in Lebanon who has spent years overseeing our safe house ministry, walking alongside believers in crisis, from those fleeing family violence after leaving Islam to those displaced entirely by war. Join our Prayer Network at: HTP.org/prayerCaught Between Two Armies: On the Ground in Sudan
While the world's attention has turned elsewhere, Sudan has become the fourth most dangerous country on earth to follow Jesus. A civil war now in its fourth year has killed an estimated 150,000 people and displaced roughly 14 million, and Christians are being crushed between two armies that answer to no one. In the Nuba Mountains, pastors are being executed and churches bombed. Across the border in South Sudan, Sudanese refugees who fled the fighting are discovering that a change of country is not a change of danger, especially the converts from Islam, who are hunted by their own families even inside the camps. In this episode, Josh Youssef talks with two of our Field Ministers serving Sudanese believers, Alaa and Mousa, about what is really happening, why almost no one is talking about it, and how the Gospel is spreading in the very places the world has written off. Join our Prayer Network at htp.org/prayer