Faith of Persecuted Worker in Africa Is Rewarded

A native missionary in a Muslim-majority country in sub-Saharan Africa could have guessed what persecution awaited him when he put his faith in Christ, but he never imagined what would follow. In the years since Ibrahim Kabore* received Christ’s salvation as a newly married young man, he helped plant 13 churches. The initial cost of accepting Christ was steep. “My wife and everything I had was taken away from me,” Kabore said. “I was forced to flee to save my life.”