A Voice From the Wilderness
A Christian response to today’s news and the issues that matter most.
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” — Matthew 3:3
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Two Sudanese Church Leaders Freed After Nuba Mountains AbductionsTwo Sudanese Church of Christ leaders kidnapped by breakaway rebels in South Kordofan's Nuba Mountains were freed within days of capture.
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Sudan Faction Executes Pastor, Six Others in Nuba MountainsRev. Adil Idris Jangoul was seized at his Sudan church and executed with six others by an SPLM-N faction in the Nuba Mountains.
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Magnitude 7.4 Quake Kills 132, Devastates West ColombiaA 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on August 10, killing at least 132 people, injuring 570, and collapsing a Cali hospital ward.
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Gunmen Kill 30 Christians in Overnight Raid on Kaduna VillageGunmen killed at least 30 Christians, including five siblings, in a midnight raid on Naridon village in Nigeria's Kaduna State on July 27.
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Houthis Strike Saudi Aramco Refinery, Kill 11 at Yemen PortHouthi rebels struck Saudi Arabia's Jazan oil refinery and Yemen's Mokha port Sunday, killing at least 11 amid an escalating Red Sea war.
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Syria Releases Kurdish Pastor Nihad Hassan After Two WeeksSyrian authorities freed Kurdish pastor Nihad Hassan on Aug. 3 after two weeks in detention over Facebook posts Islam deemed offensive.
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Every article here is a Christian response to today’s news — the headlines, the controversies, the questions ordinary people are asking. This is not a noisy place. It is a quiet place that says hard things plainly. Lone Trumpet exists to encourage the faithful, to challenge the comfortable, and to invite the seeker — without apology and without compromise on matters of faith, but with the patience and the kindness that the gospel itself requires.
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