Christian Emergency Podcast

South Africa has been in the news lately, and for all the wrong reasons. Violence in the country has reached feverish levels. Racist laws and policies target Afrikaners and farmers, even as they’re being murdered at alarming rates. Many of these people who are being targeted and harmed are biblical Christians. Yet few know much about their plight, and far too few have raised their voice on their b...

Why do Christians – particularly Christian leaders – appear at times to relate to cultural norms more than biblicalstandards? How can believers make sense of what they’re hearing from Christian elites when the message seems off? Dr. John West joins the Christian Emergency Podcast to answer these and other related questions. Dr. John West is the vice president for the Discovery Institute and the au...

MBBs – or Muslim Background Believers – are Christianconverts who often suffer much when they choose to follow Jesus Christ. Not only do they risk many trials, but they often have few champions. When persecution strikes them, often no one bats an eye or says a word. Many MBBs have disappeared into prison cells. Authorities often presume no one cares about them and they’re forgotten. But that is no...

Something is rotten in the state of Armenia. Many know aboutthe Armenian Genocide from the early 20th Century. Few realize that the same threats continue to loom over Armenian Christians still. In recent years, Azerbaijan ethnically cleansed over 100,000 Armenians from their ethnic homeland in Nagorno-Karabakh. Is there a pattern between these actions from the last century and today? And why are t...

Many Christians around the West are perplexed by the times they are living in. Things at work, at school, on their streets –they’re just not the same as what they grew up with. Spiritually things are downgraded. The same holds true for the culture in general, which is now hostile to the Christian faith and biblical morals. So much of this is new and alien. Many Christians have no clue how they sho...

The attempted genocide of Christians in Nigeria’s central and northern regions has gone of for too long. Thousands havebeen killed, maimed and displaced. Yet few observers on the international stage take notice. Those that do fear that the situation is hopeless. Some shrug their shoulders and resign themselves that this must be the fate of Nigeria’s Christians. But the Christians of northern and c...

Violent Islamist campaigns have targeted Christians in Nigeria for decades. The violence is neither accidental nor trivial. It is strategic and organized. Similar patterns are playing out across Europe, America and very likely your own hometown. Joining the Christian Emergency Podcast to connect these dots is Larry Alex Taunton. The acclaimed apologist, journalistand commentator has studied these...

Christians in many countries are not only persecuted, but openly hunted. In the Middle Belt of Nigeria, for example, asystematic campaign of Islamist violence, kidnapping and genocide are savaging Christian communities at an industrial scale. Secular elites largely shrug off or falsely explain away the atrocities. Those that do notice the bloodshed often feel powerless to offer more than prayers a...

International Christian missions is both exciting and critical. Through evangelical missionaries, the Gospel penetrates new tribes, tongues and cultures. Churches are planted, people are saved from their sins – the Kingdom of Christ advances. As exciting and important as it is, few Christians feel like they have a solid grasp on the methods and practices that go into missions. Consequently, pastor...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was the “writer who took down an empire” His work, the Gulag Archipelago, detailed the horrors of life in the Soviet Union and made a global mockery of the evil regime. The Gulag Archipelago is a massive tome and can be challenging for many to digest. However, Sean Berube extracted helpful nuggets from the work and explored its themes. Those themes are relevant for Christian...

Smuggling bibles into the Communist East Bloc of Europe was a high stakes game back in the 1970s and 1980s. Back then, many Christians in the West had no clue that fellow believers under authoritarian regimes were actively persecuted for their faith. Some Christians did, however. A handful even took it upon themselves to try and help those suffering under Communism, by getting them Bibles and Chri...

Great Britain finds itself in the throws of a great storm. Britishflags are removed, while foreign flags are untouched. Mass migration floods the country, destabilizing cities and towns. Crime and violence stalk the streets. And the country’s “leaders” cater to illegal immigrants while clamping down on British citizens. What is one to make of this madness? Most British people aregrasping for answe...

Christian leaders have been largely routed by the agitated and the anxious. These emotional tyrannies manifest themselves in local communities, churches and even families. What is going on and how can we navigate these insidious challenges? On this episode of the Christian Emergency Podcast, Dr. Joe Rigney joins Andy to address the emotional sabotage present in Christian circles. Dr. Rigney serves...

In January 2024, a Coptic Christian woman waskidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam in Egypt. Irene Ibrahim Shehata, a 21-year-old medical student at Asyut National University disappeared between her mid-term exams. Her frantic family sought help from the police, but none was provided. Why? What was going on? Sadly, Irene’s case is neither isolated nor rare. In Egypt, and other countries, Chris...

Christian kids and teenagers today face a gauntlet of challenges, particularly when it comes to remaining faithful in our increasingly faithless cultures. Christians parents are in a similar boat. Many have no clue how to help their young ones navigate today’s pressures. How do they even instruct their kids when things shift so swiftly? How do moms, dads or grandparents find their own bearings, le...

For Christians in the West, the concept of “tribe”might be an alien concept. For much of the world, however, the tribe is a normal part of everyday life. The tribe is the community of shared values and history, where jobs and insurance are provided, and where members are protected. The Bible also speaks of tribes and the importance of reaching them with the Gospel.   But what about the Global Chur...

Disciple-Making Movements, or DMM, is a missions strategy that has been employed by missionaries across the world. Sometimes controversial, the missions model sought to help people come to Christ, even in countries where persecution was rife. DMM followed an earlier, related strategy called Church-Planting Movements, or CPM. David Garrison helped pioneer CPM in the late 1990s and the missions stra...

Christian civilians and other religious minorities – particularlythe Druze – are facing a nightmare right now in Syria. Whole families have been wiped out – in their homes, their cars and even the streets. One evangelical pastor was even taken out, along with 14 members of his family. Suwayda (Sweida) is the epicenter of the current madnesssweeping Syria. Scenes of ethnic and religious cleansing a...

Christians don’t know their Christian history. By and large that is true. However, the more we learn of our past, the better we understand our present. But how can busy believers today gain this insight? One way is by listening to sermons delivered by great Christian pastors long ago. Troy Frasier joins the Christian Emergency Podcast to share how he brings lost sermons to life. These sermons, alo...

Christians across the globe confront chaos, confusionand cultures hostile to their faith. No wonder many feel overwhelmed, like rabbits chased by wolves. But Christians have effectively stood their ground despite hostilities throughout history. Many Christians do so today,even in the harshest countries on earth. How are they able to remain faithful and confident in the face of such withering odds....

There is a crisis in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region. Christians there have endured wave after wave of persecution at the hands of Fulani militants and Islamists. Perhaps you’ve heard of this crisis, but know little about how this situation came about. When did violent persecution arise in Nigeria? Who usheredin this dark period? Why did things spiral so badly? What can believers around the world do...

Christians by and large do not know Christian history. That is a lamentable fact we at the Christian Emergency Alliancestrive to address. But one aspect of Christian history that is most suppressed today is that of muscular Christianity. Christianity during the Middle Ages was forced to confront relentless Islamic aggression. When Christians responded –in the form of the Crusades or other actions...

Just as they have throughout the history of the Church, women today are playing important roles in advancing the Gospel around the globe. Women have served in some of the most challenging places to make Christ known in spiritually dark lands. But for women who may be sensing acall to international missions, it can be tough to know what to think or how to prepare. Emily Bennett, who served as a mis...

The Apostle Paul famously served as a tentmaker to support himself during his ministry in the First Century. What does it look like for Christians today to follow in his entrepreneurial footsteps? How can tentmaking serve Kingdom priorities in the rainy days ahead? On this episode of the Christian Emergency Podcast, Troy Albee – pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church on the South Shore of Boston – pr...

When you think of Iran, what comes to mind? Troubling thoughts and fears? That would be understandable, given recent headlines from the Middle East. But there is an encouraging story that’s playing out in Iran. It’s about the miraculous growth of Christianity in a countrywhere it has been suppressed and persecuted. Tat Stewart has a unique vantage point to share that story. Tat grew up in the land...