A friend from Togo wrote to me today, "we sincerely need you to pray along with us that God will establish and lay a
solid and firm foundation for the work in Togo". We first met last November when I was in northern Nigeria. This determined and brave single Nigerian lady has been a missionary for some years. When she first went to Togo she was horrified to discover that in the north of the country local folklore taught that albino children were possessed by evil spirits. Many were killed, often by their own families. My friend offered to care for these children instead of letting them die and began to teach the people that an albino child, like any child, is a gift from God. This care for albino children was the trigger that began to release whole communities from their captivity to fear and superstition.Christian churches are growing rapidly in many parts of this west African country. Amazingly some local land owners are offering to give land so a church can be built - in fact they are pleading with the Nigerian missionaries to build a church. They see the real benefits that faith in Jesus is bringing to their local communities.
Join me, if you will, in prayer for Togo and its people - and thank God for his albino children.
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In Nepal Christian are also called devil because there body remains even after the death under the cremation and later it transformed in a form of skeleton.
ReplyDeleteEveryday in the Hindus cremation site of Kathmandu, there are many tourist comes to see the ritual way of burning the death body. That ends with nothing than ashes.