LONDON: Pakistani Missionary Evangelist Tells of Persecution in His Country
LONDON: Pakistani Missionary Evangelist Tells of Persecution in His Country
Church bombings spread in Northern Nigeria
By David W. Virtue in London
www.virtueonline.org
April 27, 2012
A Pakistani Anglican priest, mission mobilizer, and evangelist says he has been taking the gospel to his fellow countrymen for 31 years as well as to countries in the former Soviet Union including Afghanistan and Iran. He added that God is doing a new work in these areas that is both an "encouragement" and a "challenge".
The Rev. Mike Abel addressed several hundred conferees of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) that included eight Anglican archbishops, multiple bishops, clergy and laity. As a mission mobilizer, he is seeing Pakistan become a more and more fundamentalist Islamic nation. "The Pakistan of today is not the Pakistan I grew up in. The Fundamentalists are raising their presence resulting in Christian churches being bombed as well as schools and hospitals, but the Spirit of God is at work," he observed.
"More and more Islamists are being forced to question the validity of their religion and they are asking, 'why does it call upon us to kill our neighbors.' We can engage these moderates and tell them of the One who says 'I am the way the truth and the life.' It is a great encouragement planting a church where all the members are former Muslims. This is always a great encouragement. In 2011 I saw four people come to faith in Christ from a Muslim background in one small area of Pakistan."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Church bombings spread in Northern Nigeria
By David W. Virtue in London
www.virtueonline.org
April 27, 2012
A Pakistani Anglican priest, mission mobilizer, and evangelist says he has been taking the gospel to his fellow countrymen for 31 years as well as to countries in the former Soviet Union including Afghanistan and Iran. He added that God is doing a new work in these areas that is both an "encouragement" and a "challenge".The Rev. Mike Abel addressed several hundred conferees of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) that included eight Anglican archbishops, multiple bishops, clergy and laity. As a mission mobilizer, he is seeing Pakistan become a more and more fundamentalist Islamic nation. "The Pakistan of today is not the Pakistan I grew up in. The Fundamentalists are raising their presence resulting in Christian churches being bombed as well as schools and hospitals, but the Spirit of God is at work," he observed.
"More and more Islamists are being forced to question the validity of their religion and they are asking, 'why does it call upon us to kill our neighbors.' We can engage these moderates and tell them of the One who says 'I am the way the truth and the life.' It is a great encouragement planting a church where all the members are former Muslims. This is always a great encouragement. In 2011 I saw four people come to faith in Christ from a Muslim background in one small area of Pakistan."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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