middle east

"Despite continued hostility from the late 1970s until now, Iranians have become the Muslim people most open to the gospel in the Middle East."

A Syrian Orthodox Church in Qamishli was targeted last week in a suicide bombing which claimed the lives of 11 people. Even with ISIS being pushed back, Syrian Christians live in constant fear for their lives.

Evangelism can be difficult and dangerous for Christians in the Middle East, but Christian ministries are finding a new way to deliver the gospel. And people there are responding.

For the first time since 2014, Christians in Northern Iraq were able to celebrate Easter in Mosul without a significant fear that they would be killed.  

"They let them straight through. The last thing they would think [a Chinese person could be] is a missionary,” Pastor Danny Lee says.