Source: SAT-7, August 7, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SAT-7 has been in regular contact with an Afghan man called Alborz, based in Tajikistan, whose brother was killed in Afghanistan for his faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen my brother was killed by the Taliban because of his faith in Jesus, for a long time I struggled to forgive them,\u201d Alborz told our team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After meditating on the Sermon on the Mount, he felt able to forgive, but the thought of returning to Afghanistan is still extremely concerning for his family, especially for his teenage daughter, Armita.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMany of our fellow [Afghan] believers have been deported from Tajikistan\u2026 and in Afghanistan, unmarried girls like me are being forced into marriage, which is very distressing. I don\u2019t even know how to express the terror we are experiencing. The conditions here are really tough,\u201d [said Armita].<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also saw some distressing news from Pakistan in Christian Man Dies after Years of Neglect in Prison<\/a> (ASSIST News Service) and Court Orders Investigation into Growing Abuse of Pakistan\u2019s Blasphemy Laws<\/a> (International Christian Concern).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: SAT-7, August 7, 2025 SAT-7 has been in regular contact with an Afghan man called Alborz, based in Tajikistan, whose brother was killed in Afghanistan for his faith. \u201cWhen my brother was killed by the Taliban because of his faith in Jesus, for a long time I struggled to forgive them,\u201d Alborz told our … Continue reading Tajikistan: Urgent Call to Prayer as Afghans Face Deportation\u00a0<\/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-14082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14082","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=14082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14083,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14082\/revisions\/14083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}