Topic: Forced to choose between faith and family in Somalia – Christian News 2 October   2022 – Faithwheel.com

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Forced to choose between faith and family in Somalia

After years of drought and civil war, more Somalis live outside of this country on the horn of Africa than within it. More than 99 per cent of its 12 million population are Muslims. It is extremely dangerous to be a Christian here. Believers risk being killed by al-Shabbab terrorists or their sympathisers, or even their own families.

For Lula, like so many other Somalis, believing in Christ forced her into a stark choice: her faith or her family.

Her father declared in public: ‘If you see her, kill her.’

Lula fled to another country, but she was followed by her brothers. She went into hiding for months and lived with the fear of discovery at any moment.

Then one day, while she was praying, Lula felt the Lord ask her how long she would hide. So, she left the house and went to the market. And it was there that she met her brother.

He threatened Lula, but she warned she would scream if he tried to harm her. Lula was able to walk away from the encounter and testify that God had delivered her from her fear of human beings.

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Even then, her family continued to pursue her. One day, she returned from work to find her house had been demolished and everything taken.

And yet Lula’s love for her family was undiminished. When her father died, she found a way to attend the funeral, despite the obvious risk to her life.

Like many other Christians from a Muslim background forced to live in a foreign land, Lula was regarded with suspicion by the local churches, who feared she was a terrorist or a spy.

But then Lula met ‘Abdul’, a partner of UK-based Release International, which supports the persecuted church around the world.

Abdul found Lula a job bringing milk to local schools. He helped her build a new house and introduced her to other like-minded believers. Lula is now helping to translate the Bible into her mother tongue so her own people can read it.

‘The Lord has been with me throughout my journey,’ she told Release International, ‘and in all my bad times.’

Underground cell

Samuel is a former imam, who came to know Jesus through the work of a missionary doctor. After telling his father about his new-found faith in Christ, he tied him up and threw him into an underground cell, until a group of Christians could set him free.

Samuel was able to leave the country and begin a new life. He married, had children, and served his local church as a pastor and evangelist. Through his ministry, many Muslims came to know the Lord.

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