CRISISBOOM

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Persecution is something that many people have claimed recently, yet in Mali, West Africa, Christian persecution has reached desperate levels.  According to ASSIST News Service, one Christian leader has been beheaded and others are being threatened with similar treatment as Islamic militants run amok in Mali, West Africa.  Christians have subsequently fled the town of Timbuktu in the north of the country where harsh Sharia Law has already been imposed.  There have also been reports of churches in Gao, 200 miles to the east, have been completely destroyed.  This news comes after a military coup in the country, which has cut off electricity supplies.

Local Christian Timothee (Tim) Yattara, who recently returned to his home country to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ has fled with his family to Bamako, the country’s main city roughly 400 miles south west with no money to support his family.

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