Source: Operation Mobilization, March 20, 2022
Omair [waited] for the judge to pronounce the verdict of his latest appeal. Several years prior, his business had been shut down when he’d been accused—and acquitted—of printing and distributing Christian literature. Last year, he had discovered the renewed charge via a paper slipped under the door of the church he pastored, a few months before it, too, was closed by the Algerian government.
When the judge announced a one-year suspended sentence and a fine, Omair sighed, thankful to be heading home to his wife and two teenage children rather than to prison. With brothers and sisters around the world lifting him up in prayer, Omair will continue to appeal the accusation, but it’s not the first time he’s been in court. Bold in the face of losing his freedom, he understands the cost of actively sharing God’s love in his country: spiritual opposition manifested in physical persecution.
“I have been in courts before the judge more than 14 times with all kinds of accusations,” Omair explained. “God has kept me free to continue the ministry and proclaim His love to many others. Reading the Word of God, fasting and praying, memorizing Bible verses about fear, and seeing many lives changed and transformed—this how I kept being bold for the sake of Jesus.”
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Two more stories about Africans sharing their faith caught our eyes this week. Both are from Uganda. See Head of Islamic School Burned, Fired for Becoming Christian (Morning Star News) and This Ugandan Dentist Shares the Gospel (Haggai International).