Source: Back to Jerusalem, August 28, 2021
The Taliban is using sophisticated biometric equipment that they have captured from the military, to go door-to-door to hunt down Christians. Back to Jerusalem (BTJ) started working with our hackers over a week ago to develop a way to disable this equipment, but prayers are desperately needed.
Over a week ago, a BTJ partner with special connections on the ground in Afghanistan alerted BTJ that the Taliban captured special US-made hand-held scanners that were used by the US military to identify people in Afghanistan. Twelve years of photos and individual biometric data was stored on the military database, including information such as sex, age, marital status, and religion. Now the Taliban know exactly who the Christians are.
One of the Taliban brigade commanders, Nawazuddin Haqqani, has bragged about it during a recent interview with Zenger News, confirming that the Taliban does indeed have the US-made hand-held scanners and have gained access to the massive database of information to identify Christians.
The biometric units were used to scan faces, eyes, and fingerprints. The information was then stored in a central military database. This means the Taliban now has several thousand of these units that were left behind and complete control of the database.
- Please pray for the BTJ hackers and team members who are working on this.
- Please pray for the Christians whose information is on this database.
- Please pray for the Christians who are still in Afghanistan and preaching the gospel.
The full story includes pictures and explains how Christian hackers can help.
Watch a video about praying for Kabul (Prayercast).
You can also sing a prayer for Afghans to the tune of “Away in a Manger” (Thanks to Global Worship and FPUC in upstate New York. The author even provides sheet music.)
Read and contribute to a conversation at Brigada Today: What’s Your Take on Extracting Christians from Afghanistan?