We URGENTLY need your prayer support in the Muslim world!

In just over a month, one of AsiaLink’s Women’s Empowerment Conferences will take place in a large Muslim city. We are anticipating 350 to 400 women attending, where they will hear dynamic preaching and teaching tailored to meet the needs of women living in a Muslim society. Pakistan is home to 251 million people. This unique conference has been one of the most effective ways to reach Muslim women and nominal Christians who feel trapped in hopeless situations, offering them the empowering message of God’s love.

Women in this Muslim country struggle to be treated fairly and equally. They constantly face the threat of domestic violence, emotional abuse, child marriage, and sexual harassment. Sadly, violence against women occurs daily behind closed doors. If you ask a woman if she is happy with her life, she will say, “I have a good husband. He doesn’t beat me.”

However, we’ve discovered that when women encounter Jesus and are radically changed from within by the affirming message of God’s love and purpose for them, a strong desire to share this new message of God’s love with their husbands and family members develops within them. It’s extraordinary to see how God uses them!

The featured speaker will be Mrs. G., a former Muslim who is an influential pastor, teacher and Christian apologist. Because of her vibrant Christian faith and knowledge of Islam, she has had many opportunities to reach Muslims. Her life is an incredible story of God’s intervention and protective care. Her intimate knowledge of Islam has enabled her to uniquely challenge women to be empowered with God’s love through Jesus Christ. Whenever she ministers, she is often sought out by Muslim clerics who are searching for answers to their questions about the unique claims of Christianity, and as a result, many have secretly come to faith.

The theme for this year’s Empowerment Conference is “Challenges of a Christian Woman Living in a Muslim Society.”

In order to make this conference available to women from all financial backgrounds AsiaLink attempts to cover the costs for every woman who attends. Last week I received an URGENT message from our AsiaLink team stating their efforts to raise their entire budget on their own has fallen short. They need our help to raise the budget shortfall for the 3-day Women’s conference. These are poor people and they struggle to survive.

• Thank God for His protection over everyone who attends.
• Pray that many will be touched by God’s presence and the teaching they receive.
• Pray for Sister G. and our other special speakers, that God will anoint and use them.
• Pray that each person attending will sense God’s love, guidance and protective care over them.
• Pray for Sister Aksa and her team as they give leadership to our women’s ministry.
• Pray that God would enable us to raise the finances needed for this conference!

On August 3, 2025, Jiaxing Zion Church in Beijing was raided, with 27 Christians, including six children, detained by over 80 officers. Among them, a young female member named Zhan Ge was sentenced to 12 days of administrative detention and fined 500 RMB for “activities under the name of a banned social group.”

The church stated that despite knowing Zhan Ge suffered from depression, five male officers brutally interrogated her. Public Security Bureau police forcibly took Zhan Ge home for a search and confiscated her personal belongings, including religious books, as so-called “evidence.” Zhan Ge denied the police’s accusations against her and filed a request for administrative review and a stay of execution, but her request was rejected. She was handcuffed even though she had not engaged in any dangerous behavior. Zhan Ge’s family has hired a lawyer on her behalf.

The Beijing Zion Church has been under constant persecution since the 2018 revision of the Regulations on Religious Affairs. In September 2018, it was shut down by the local Religious Affairs Bureau. Chinese authorities dispatched over 60 special police officers, dozens of police cars, fire trucks, and buses to storm the Zion Church’s main building after a service.

In other China news… Chinese government has targeted one of China’s larger house church networks known as All Sphere/All Range movement, also referred to as Word of Life or “Born Again,”. The crackdown specifically affects churches in Shenyang, Dalian, Benxi in Liaoning Province, and Suizhou, as authorities continue their aggressive campaign against what they consider to be “illegal” religious activity. This underground house church network is thought to have 10 to 20 million members and has long been persecuted by the Chinese government. In recent years, it has been subject to mass arrests and raids on house churches by authorities.

• Pray for China’s Christians as they navigate the different winds of persecution that are spreading across their nation.
• Pray for China’s government officials, that God would speak and convict them.
• Pray for China’s church and the millions who are yet to be reached with the gospel.

Today we bring you an unusual prayer request.

We are asking you to join us in praying for a Muslim scholar in Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Mirza, who posted online (Aug 24) to his 3.1 million YouTube followers that he felt the blasphemy laws used against Christians in Pakistan were too severe and misused. This put him at immediate odds with Islamic authorities who are aggressively opposed to anything that appears to be derogatory about Muhammad.

“He was arrested the next night under Pakistan’s preventive detention law and later charged with blasphemy on complaints of Islamist groups opposed to his criticism of misuse of the country’s harsh blasphemy laws and violent Islamic extremist groups.”

Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza is a Pakistani Islamic theologian whose online lectures have been circulated widely throughout Pakistan. He is referred to as “Engineer” as he has a degree in Engineering and works part-time for the government in this capacity.

He is also a man in danger. He has faced four assassination attempts on his life. In 2023, he escaped an assassination attempt when a Madrasa student armed with a knife tried to break into his Mirza Research Academy. The engineer had escaped other assassination attempts in 2019, 2021, and 2022. The extremist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan offered a reward of Rs. 500,000 to those who would succeed in killing him.

• Pray that Mirza will have an encounter with Jesus and that he will be drawn to accept Jesus as his Saviour.
• Pray that Pakistan’s blasphemy laws will be changed!
• Pray for the many who are in prison awaiting trial because they have been accused of blasphemy.
• Pray for their safety in prison as many have been killed while under police protective care by a zealous Muslim police officer.
• Pray for the families who often have to go into hiding while their loved one is in prison.

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A church in Laos has been told by authorities to stop meeting, and an evangelist has been threatened.

When Kane, 28, moved to his wife’s village in a minority area of Laos, he was the only Christian. But he shared his faith with his wife, Mae, and her parents, who came to faith in Christ. They, in turn, became bold witnesses throughout their community. By the end of 2023, 25 Christians gathered for worship each week.

The village head tried to stop them, calling Christianity a religion belonging to foreigners, but the church continued to meet. Then, in 2024, the village head and others from the village threw stones at the building and angrily burst in to stop the worship service. Police officers said the Christian faith was not allowed by the Laotian government, church members had to recant, and Kane had to stop evangelizing.

The Christians stood firm and have continued to meet, but the authorities have also continued to threaten them. • Pray for the safety of Christians in Laos.

• Pray for the safety of Christians in Laos.
• Pray for protection from surveillance by authorities and for safety in their homes and during worship gatherings.
• Ask God to give believers courage and strength to remain steadfast in their faith despite the dangers they face.
• Pray that Christians in Laos will not be anxious or scared, but will have peace of mind, knowing God is protecting them.
• Pray He will use them as a strong witness for the Gospel.

Communist authorities have now appointed attorneys of its own choosing to defend Pastor Wang Yi.

Members of his church released the following statement, “We have recently learned, through various channels, that Chengdu authorities intend to disregard the attorneys appointed by Pastor Wang Yi and his family members and to appoint and authorize other attorneys to defend him against his will.

We strongly oppose the government’s actively or passively appointing attorneys for Pastor Wang Yi (regardless of whether they are Christians), especially seeing that Pastor Wang Yi and his mother have already appointed attorneys to represent him. Even if his self-appointed attorneys are not able to represent him in this case, we would rather Pastor Wang Yi present his defense himself. We do not approve of any actions taken in his defense by state-appointed attorneys.”

• Continue to Pray for members of his congregation that are under constant harassment from the authorities forcing many families to move from their homes and hopefully find another place to live. Some have been forced to move 3 times in the last several months.
• Pray that God would strengthen Pastor Wang and his congregation with scriptures and memories of God’s past faithfulness to him. (Psalm 51:10).
• Pray he will have proper legal representation.
• Pray for the many other pastors and Christians who have been arrested and imprisoned.