Religions and mission in the Arab world
SEPTEMBER 2008: Vivienne Stacey

This issue of our magazine is fully focused on Ms Vivienne Stacey, a lifelong missionary in the Muslim World. You will find her major writings in this issue on our frontpage. If you click the button Vivienne Stacey you find many other articles by her hand; we will continue to upload new articles there, so keep coming back!

This week we received the news that our sister Shirley Madany has passed away; her husband, Rev. Bassam Madany, regularly contributes to our magazine. We wish him comfort of God in the certainty that his beloved wife is now with our Lord. Let us pray for Bassam.

We have also made dozens of articles by Bassam and Shirley Madany available in the past weeks. Under the button Madany's you find them.

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Trends Across Middle East and North Africa
This paper attempts to look at four major trends affecting the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as a whole and discuss the effect of each on the Church and Christian ministry in the region. I believe there are both positive and negative aspects to each trend. In this paper I try to justify the prediction that the times ahead of us will be “the best of times, the worst of times”:

The best in terms of mission and growth of God’s kingdom.

The worst in terms of suffering amongst Christians in the region, i.e. the abuse or denial of their human rights

Another question that interests me is to what extent is the MENA similar to other regions of the world and in what ways is it unique? From such analysis, what can we learn or suggest that will help mission? In including this I seek partly to elicit comments that sharpen my own thinking, and to encourage others to conduct a similar analysis for their own ministry.

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