“We Cannot Deny Christ”

When Ahmadi became a Christian, her family locked her in a room, shackled her to a chair, and beat her, telling her that she didn’t deserve to be a member of the family.  Neighbors smuggled her food and water. When she told her brother about her faith, he stabbed her in the stomach and broke her leg.  Despite her injuries, hospital workers were reluctant to help her because she was a Christian. 

In a hospital she met Hassan, who would later become her husband. 

Hassan was the son of an imam. After he became a Christian, his father discovered him praying. His father and relatives beat Hassan and almost blinded him.  Later he was ordered never to return home. 

He married Ahamdi, and they fled together to Khartoum, where they rented a house from her uncle. 

But after relatives in Khartoum learned that they were Christians, Ahmadi and Hassan were attacked by masked men with knives.  Her uncle ordered them to leave the house. Ahmadi suffered injuries from the attack as well as lingering injuries from previous abuse.

They don’t have food, a job, or a place to go.  She is in pain and is caring for a young baby.  Nevertheless, she says, “We cannot deny Christ—this is a big challenge to us.” 

Please pray for them.

“Preserve me, O God, for in You I take refuge.  I say to the LORD, ‘You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.’…The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You hold my lot….I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.” –Ps. 16:1-2,5,8

News source: Compass Direct News