An article from the Kentucky Gleaner (published at the Stars and Stripes) notes that some missionaries in Afghanistan will continue to serve there even as US forces withdraw:

Four missionaries from Henderson and Evansville just returned from a visit there, where Uncharted International, a nonprofit mission agency based in Evansville, sponsors a school for Afghan children.

They represent just a portion of local missionaries… — many of whom are members at One Life Church in Henderson and other churches — who have made repeated trips Afghanistan, Myanmar and China in recent years through Uncharted.

While the US-supported government in Afghanistan supposedly protects religious freedom, it is officially an Islamic state, and persecution of non-Muslims is both routine and sometimes officially sanctioned.

It can be a dangerous environment in which to be a Christian.

ADVERTISEMENT