{"id":11229,"date":"2022-07-20T16:52:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T23:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2022-07-20T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T00:00:05","slug":"persecutors-of-the-year-a-kenyan-conversion-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=11229","title":{"rendered":"Persecutors of the Year, A Kenyan Conversion &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>World: \u201cPersecutor of the Year\u201d Awards for 2022<\/li><li>Crimea: Muslims and Christians Prosecuted Under Russian Anti-Missionary Law<\/li><li>Taiwan: Influence of a Chinese Christian Pop Star Going Viral<\/li><li>Kenya: Demon-Possessed Man Bursts Into Prayer Meeting, Confesses to Killings<\/li><li>Pakistan: Christian Man Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy<\/li><li>Data: Only 3 Percent of Christian Missionaries Focus on the Unreached<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/missionscatalyst\/persecutors-of-the-year-awards-kenyan-conversion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read or share the email edition<\/a>, or scroll down to read stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Kenya-prayer-meeting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Kenya-prayer-meeting.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Kenya-prayer-meeting.jpg 800w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Kenya-prayer-meeting-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Kenya-prayer-meeting-768x288.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Prompted by a series of murders of children and young women, Kenyan Christians and community leaders were praying for safety when a young man burst in and confessed to raping and killing six young women (Christian Aid Mission).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World: \u201cPersecutor of the Year\u201d Awards for 2022 Crimea: Muslims and Christians Prosecuted Under Russian Anti-Missionary Law Taiwan: Influence of a Chinese Christian Pop Star Going Viral Kenya: Demon-Possessed Man Bursts Into Prayer Meeting, Confesses to Killings Pakistan: Christian Man Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy Data: Only 3 Percent of Christian Missionaries Focus on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=11229\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Persecutors of the Year, A Kenyan Conversion &#038; More<\/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-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","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=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11232,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions\/11232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}