“This land, this undivided land, is your inheritance,” Elizabeth Torrey tells her students during the prayer session. “And your prayers of your heart matter to see that happen.”
To those watching on TV, religion may seem absent from the Winter Olympic Games. Away from the spotlight, though, an estimated 3,000 missionaries are on hand.
Pakistan's interior ministry has confirmed that the two Chinese nationals who were kidnapped and killed by Islamic State militants in May were preachers.
China has expelled between 30 to 70 missionaries in South Korea’s Jilin province in what is being called an “unprecedented” ejection, according to reports.
An American missionary has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing four children while he was serving in a children’s ministry home in Kenya.