Source: Mission Network News, July 14, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christianity in Lesotho, a small landlocked nation in southern Africa, is often blended with folk traditions like ancestor worship or witch doctors. (See related article.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mission Aviation Fellowship<\/a> (MAF) has partnered with local pastors for their Lesotho Flying Pastors program [which reaches] people in Lesotho\u2019s remote and mountainous regions for Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MAF pilot Joe Adams says, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of undercurrents and quiet obstacles that are a little hard to see at first, especially for those of us that aren\u2019t from the culture. So that is what\u2019s great about the Flying Pastors ministry. We are sending people who are Basotho, who speak the language, who understand the culture, and they\u2019re able to go out and to get to the heart of the issues very quickly and address the challenges that are faced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is what makes the ministry of local pastors so critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s not just an evangelism ministry. It\u2019s also a discipleship ministry,\u201d Adams says. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to see self-replicating groups of believers [and] churches that will be able to spread the gospel to their own communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full story<\/a> or check out the Flying Pastors website<\/a> to meet some of those involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other news from Africa includes several stories about religious liberty: Five abducted Christians in Mali have been freed<\/a> (International Christian Concern) and a Nigerian pastor was also released after an eight-month abduction<\/a> (The Christian Post). From Asia, The Christian Post also reports the acquittal of a Pakistani Catholic couple<\/a> who were on death row for seven years for allegedly sending blasphemous text messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Network News, July 14, 2021 Christianity in Lesotho, a small landlocked nation in southern Africa, is often blended with folk traditions like ancestor worship or witch doctors. (See related article.) Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) has partnered with local pastors for their Lesotho Flying Pastors program [which reaches] people in Lesotho\u2019s remote and mountainous … Continue reading LESOTHO: Flying Pastors Are Spreading the Gospel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10294,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292\/revisions\/10294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}