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The Bible is considered to be the most dangerous book in the world. Illegal in 52 nations, the Bible is the most banned book in the world. Tyrannical governments are completely terrified of the power of the Bible. In North Korea and Somalia, a person can be executed for simply owning one. In China last year, thousands of Bibles were

BREAKING NEWS: China is working with the United Nations to implement new facial recognition and surveillance standards, according to leaked documents obtained by Financial Times. (https://www.ft.com/content/c3555a3c-0d3e-11ea-b2d6-9bf4d1957a67) Chinese companies that have military connections are creating UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) infrastructure for facial recognition, video monitoring, city and vehicle surveillance. The ITU initiative in the UN, which comprises nearly 200 member

“The three things that the Chinese government is looking for when they attack churches is simple,” the underground house church pastor said yesterday in a private meeting, “does the church have a name, do they have a building, and are they connected to foreigners.” The underground house church senior pastor of several hundred thousand believers was sharing what the Chinese

IRAN HAS GONE DARK. All Internet access in the nation has been cut off as more than 100 people have been killed by the government. Spreading protests prompted the government to take the unusual step to cut the people off from the rest of the world by stopping all Internet communication. According to Amnesty International, at least 106 people have

Bread of Life Back to Jerusalem missionaries have set up underground networks in closed nations around the world. Through humanitarian efforts and businesses, Chinese missionaries have been able to connect with unreached people groups and share the Good News. Through these networks, BTJ has been able to deliver millions of books, Bibles, e-Bible readers, video Bible players, projectors, and audio

Hackers for Jesus There is an army in Syria that most people have not heard of before called the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). They are a group of professional computer hackers that support the Syrian government. They are Assad’s online army – which is like the Chinese Cyber Army – but on a shoestring budget. They use spamming, website defacement,

Peace in the Storm For the last few years, BTJ has had a special team on the ground in the Middle East focused on Syria. For security reasons, the details of the team cannot be released, but the team has been providing one-on-one counseling sessions with Muslim women who have been displaced from the Syrian war. Every day the women

MedEast When it comes to helping Syrians who have fled war, few have had more experience than Dr. Paul Kingery. Dr. Paul felt called to the Middle East more than 10 years ago and has spent most of his time living in northern Iraq close to the Iraq border. Nearly 4 years ago Dr. Paul felt the Lord call him

Business as Mission Often times Christians focus on humanitarian work and preaching the Gospel. Those are both needed in Syria, but there is a third thing that Christians in Syria need as well – jobs! Most businesses have fled Syria because the investment environment is not good, but BTJ has been starting businesses in restricted access nations for years and