Eurasia News

By Ava Thomas NORTHERN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST — Rashida is the third wife of a Muslim man — concurrent, not consecutive — and she’s still got that honeymoon smile. She has her own flat, just like the other two wives. Her husband’s offspring are expanding in triplicate, which makes for the occasional giant [...]

By Ava Thomas NORTHERN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST — Mahfuzah* thought no one knew she believed in Jesus — until the day her mother beat her. “She said, ‘Something is different about you — what is it?’ I told her I was the same,” Mahfuzah said. “But then she went to the fortune teller, and [...]

By Ava Thomas NORTHERN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST — Sadiqah* has heard plenty of stories about what sometimes happens when people in her country turn from Islam to Christ. She heard once about some whose family tortured them with electricity and told them that’s what it will feel like when they burn in hell. [...]

By Ava Thomas NORTHERN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST — ar. It was the loudest noise 5-year-old Tobutu* had ever heard. And then he never heard anything else again. When the explosions of civil war came to Tobutu’s African town, they claimed his father, mother, brothers and sisters — and his hearing. He cried himself [...]