Source: www.vomusa.org
Date: October 22, 2025
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News From the Field
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| TAJIKISTAN: Christian Afghan Refugees Forced to Return, Face Death Sentence On July 9, 2025, the Tajik government ordered all Afghan refugees to leave the country within 15 days. Tajikistan hosts around 13,000 Afghan refugees, most of whom fled when the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021. Afghan Christians who are forced to return can be charged with apostasy, which carries a death sentence, or could be killed immediately for their faith. Male members of some Christian families have already been deported back to Afghanistan. As their current status is unknown, their wives and children would have no means of survival if sent back to Afghanistan. Front-line workers reported an increase in Taliban efforts to find and arrest Christian leaders and converts in June. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: ADF Militants Kill At Least 43 in Church Militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamic extremist group, killed at least 43 people, including nine children, at a church in Komanda during the night of July 26, 2025. The militants also kidnapped several others and set homes and shops on fire. VOM supports nearly 4,000 internally displaced Christians in DRC who have fled widespread Islamist attacks. VOM RADIO: USCIRF Chair, Vicky Hartzler, Shares with VOM Radio In this episode of VOM Radio, host Todd Nettleton speaks with Vicky Hartzler, the current chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which monitors religious persecution around the world. Hartzler talks about her time serving as a volunteer at VOM and the impact it had on her. Learn about the origins of communism in this month’s resource, Karl Marx and the Satanic Roots of Communism, by VOM founder Richard Wurmbrand, free with a gift.
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