Source: Mission Network News, December 13, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year, believers worldwide stayed connected with their home groups and church fellowships by going online, even though COVID-19 restrictions kept them physically apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The online church provides more than convenience in the Middle East and North Africa. Sometimes, it saves lives. \u201cI think about the moms who\u2019ve come to faith, and they\u2019re married to someone who is a non-Christian,\u201d MENA Leadership Center<\/a> CEO Jennifer Murff says. \u201cIt\u2019s very dangerous for them and their children to just step into a local church.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn many countries in MENA, it\u2019s illegal to change your religion. The digital church provides an outlet [where] they (new believers) can continue to grow in their faith and get discipled until they can step into a physical location,\u201d Murff says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also related to technology and the church, read how Brazilian Christians are ministering to Afghan refugees<\/a> or consider The Changing Face of Missions in the Digital Age<\/a> (Phil Cooke\/Outreach Magazine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Network News, December 13, 2021 Last year, believers worldwide stayed connected with their home groups and church fellowships by going online, even though COVID-19 restrictions kept them physically apart. The online church provides more than convenience in the Middle East and North Africa. Sometimes, it saves lives. \u201cI think about the moms who\u2019ve … Continue reading Middle East: Why Digital Church Matters in MENA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"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-10693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693","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=10693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10695,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions\/10695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}