Rehena Continues to Stand Thanks to Your Help – Open Doors USA

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“Every home, without exaggeration, has a struggling wife, a drug addicted child, an unemployed, alcoholic son or father or someone with disease,” A lecturer from ALIVE Bible College explains, “While dealing with the realities of life as a Christian who is denied basic rights because of poverty and their faith, there is little time to revel in the truths of being a Christian.”

 

One 2013 ALIVE graduate, Rehana, knows these harsh realities all too well. She has grown up in a predominantly Muslim country where her family has long experienced persecution.

 

As part of the religious minority, living in close proximity with Hindus, Rehana says her family struggled to maintain their Christian identity. Her mother, a school teacher, taught at a school where all the students were Muslim. “She was invited every day by her students and coworkers to deny Christ and become a Muslim. She never did. Eventually she lost her job.”

 

Her father, too, struggled to find work. Despite being a well-known musician, people constantly pressured him to convert to Islam if he wanted a job. “Papa refused to give up his faith for the sake of fame and money.”

 

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