“If you want to make the biggest difference for religious freedom in the world today,” said former Congressman and Human Rights giant Frank Wolf to a group of GCR donors in Washington DC, “pick the NGO with the best ground game, because violence and conflict has risen so much that governments can’t help, or won’t help, and it’s up to the churches to bring relief like never before.” The last two years have seen violence ad conflict rise exponentially, in some cases drawing the world’s attention, as in Gaza, Lebanon and Ukraine, but in other cases going all but ignored, in Sudan, Myanmar and Yemen. Amid the spiraling violence, the Church is suffering even more while taking these new opportunities to assist, relieve, and offer peace and hope. As a preacher in Lagos put it, after returning from a visit to Sudan, “the church in the world is at a crossroads—where once it was pushed out of welfare provision by the State, now it is needed as never before as nation States accept that they are over-matched.”
