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Isolation

Many believers in the Arab world have no personal fellowship with other believers. Ramadan can be a lonely time and the temptation to return to Islam can be greater.

Give thanks for the internet and satellite TV, which provide some sort of spiritual input for isolated believers. Pray for the Holy Spirit to be their ultimate strength.

Christ also brought you the truth, which is the good news about how you can be saved. You put your faith in Christ and were given the promised Holy Spirit to show that you belong to God. The Spirit also makes us sure that we will be given what God has stored up for his people. Then we will be set free, and God will be honored and praised. (Ephesians 1:13-14, CEV)

Meeting Raided in Morocco

Christians in Morocco are concerned. A recent raid took place on a meeting of believers. Sixty policemen, including a colonel, following orders from the new justice minister, arrested those at the meeting: 18 Moroccans (including children and non-believers) and the American teaching at the meeting. All were questioned and released; the American was taken to the airport and expelled.

This is not the first incident of this kind, which is why there is concern. Christians in Morocco are concluding that there is a new national policy concerning Moroccan Christians, who would all be from a Muslim background.

An expat living in Morocco says:

The Moroccan church is growing and I think the government is trying to figure out how this is happening. With the Islamic fundamentalists, they know how this [growth] is happening. Money comes in from Saudi Arabia and the Emirates and is given to the poor in the ...

Faint Beginnings... Far-reaching Consequences

From his dining room in Marrakesh, Morocco in 1959, Don Harris recorded an Arabic radio programme of uneven quality that was beamed over ELWA¹ in Liberia. Fifty years later, that amateurish beginning – to present Christ to all of North Africa – involves 55 adults working in four centers, focused on a website that attracts over 40,000 unique visitors each month.

Here’s an example of one of the 800 or so Arabic-speaking people who made contact with us last month after visiting the website.

I am a young Muslim and I want you to explain to me the Christian faith. Please let this be a secret between us. (Shokri*, Algeria)

Read more about what God is doing through our Media ministries 50 years later...

Yes, for 50 years Arab World Ministries has been involved in using media technologies to communicate the love of Christ to Muslims of the Arab world ...

New Generation, New Media, New Life

This year AWM Media celebrates 50 years of radio ministry in the Arab world. We have seen the Lord work in and through us, and the Gospel has transformed the lives of many people in the Arab world. Some of them are now the leaders of the Church in North Africa. 

Looking back over these 50 years, we see that much has changed. We have seen the advent of Christian satellite television, a revolution caused by the Internet, followed by the birth of new media.  Yet, while the medium of communication has evolved, our message has stayed the same. Media, for us, is a means to an end. Our desire and passion is to see Muslims find new life in Christ and grow in His likeness.

Two testimonies come to mind that reflect on the Media ministry. One is the testimony of a man from Tunisia who has been corresponding ...

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