Thank you and blessed Christmas from our CEO

As 2025 draws to a close, thank you for all the support you have generously given this past year!

2025 is coming to an end and Christmas is rapidly approaching. At the changing of the year, we would like to express our great thanks for all your support and prayers throughout 2025, for joining us in standing with our persecuted family.

This year has seen profound joys and hardships for our brothers and sisters who count the cost of following Jesus daily and experience many kinds of persecution. Your support has meant so much as we have carried out this ministry, both to us and those who have been impacted by your help.

Christmas time especially brings with it these joys and difficulties. It remains a wonderful time of celebration but also one of increased risk for Christians around the world – above all in places where to celebrate the coming of Christ could mean the loss of one’s freedom or life.

And yet, so many continue to meet together to sing songs of thanks and praise to Immanuel, the God who became one of us. Their faith is the light of Christ shining in a dark world, and we hope it has encouraged you, too.

Robin, whose story we shared earlier in November, says, “Thank you all for praying for us. We are strangers, yet you are praying for us.” Please continue to pray for believers over the festive period, that their hope and peace would abound, protected from those who would do them harm. Pray that their witness would open the eyes of many and show them the true meaning of Christmas, by the power of God.

At the coming of 2026, we also look with great anticipation to the parliamentary launch of the World Watch List 2026 on 14 January! Please join us in prayer for this important occasion to bring the experiences of persecuted Christians before decision-makers and our government, and there is still time to invite your MP to attend.

Have a blessed Christmas!