News – Christian Aid Mission

Unforgotten Dream Puts African on New Path

October 14, 2021

After making a purchase at a local market stall in Africa, 15-year-old Abdoul had turned to leave when he realized he’d seen the shop owner in a dream two years before. He’d dreamt about him just after returning home from 10 years under the tutelage of a teacher of Islam. “That day when I saw the man in the boutique, I didn’t know what to say, and I returned to explain to him what I had experienced – that a Prophet had instructed me in a dream to come and see him,” he said.

Woman in Cuba Turns from Sorcery to Salvation

October 7, 2021

All his life, Diego had seen sick people come to his house in Cuba so his mother, a traditional healer in the Santería religion, could fight illnesses with charms, amulets and sorcery. When the young medical student recently became a Christian, his mother saw God’s power in his life. She saw such divine power that she doubted her own traditional healing abilities, but a sick person was at the door asking for her help.

Eternal Fruit Born from Dying Grain in Laos

September 30, 2021

Family members of a woman in Laos who died earlier this year had let her waste away in poverty, refusing to care for her because of her faith. Workers for a local ministry arranged her burial, inviting villagers they had ministered to in various community and gospel outreaches.

Divine Breakthroughs in Pandemic-stricken Kenya

September 23, 2021

A 25-year-old mother of three in Kenya had obtained poison and was waiting for nightfall to administer it to her children and then herself. Abandoned by her husband when he married another woman, a 25-year-old mother of three children in Kenya saw no other way to end her agony and the suffering of her children. The door of her sunbaked home was open when a local missionary knocked on it, but Visola did not look up to see who it was.

The Tearful Struggle to Heal Battered Burma

September 16, 2021

A ministry leader in Burma (Myanmar) said he has lost 134 pastors and other workers, including his younger brother, to the pandemic or to violence from a military coup in February.

Rival Tribes Sow Kingdom Seeds in the Philippines

September 9, 2021

Members of a tribe in the Philippines lived in tense isolation from each other due to decades of conflict that at times flared into war. Then native missionaries arrived suggesting the unthinkable – rival factions working together in community farming. For the tribal villagers, it would be a necessary evil that brought unthinkable good.

Praying against a Father’s Hostility in the Middle East

September 2, 2021

Weeping, a young professional woman recently called the leader of a ministry based in her country in the Middle East at 11:30 p.m. Amal Mousa* still lived with the Muslim parents who raised her, and she told the leader that her father had learned she was attending church services against his orders.

Syrian’s Life Takes New Direction as Refugee

August 26, 2021

Hasan Qasim was a young, well-off businessman in a major city of Syria when police stopped him at a checkpoint five years ago. The government wanted him to rejoin the Syrian army. Qasim had completed his mandatory military service 11 years before. “They pushed me to fight again,” Qasim said. “And I didn’t want to fight.”

New Pandemic Wave Hits Workers in the Philippines

August 19, 2021

With the second-worst coronavirus outbreak in Asia and hundreds of cases of the highly contagious Delta variant, the Philippines saw the highest daily increase in new infections in two months at the end of July.

Raging Husband in Brazil Opens Eyes to Truth

August 12, 2021

Hungover from another night of drinking, a father of five in Brazil recalled that his wife had fled the previous night, figuring she had better chances of survival among wild animals in the jungle than at home with him.

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