One woman we’ll call Isabel works with nonprofit organizations that meet humanitarian needs in Yemen. As a Christian in that field, she sees glimmers of hope.

“I think it’s easy in a place like Yemen to think of how oppressed women can be, and so it’s even more encouraging and beautiful to hear how God is working through the lives of women there.”

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She knows one woman who grew up deeply questioning her status. After searching earnestly for answers, she discovered Christian resources that opened her eyes to life in Christ. 

“What I love about her story is that in the end, her husband ends up meeting Jesus first and totally changing. Then she does as well shortly afterwards, and their whole family, and part of their community too,” says Isabel. 

“I love that because of her courage to question and to journey through that and share with others, she ends up not only just changing her life, but changing everyone around her’s life as well.” 

Stories of devastation in Yemen are real and sobering. But you can pray in faith for God to bring hope and salvation to women in that nation. He sees every one of them. 

“God sees the injustice, the inequality, the effects that these things have. He’s there, and He’s encouraging and speaking to even those in the lowest of these situations,” Isabel says. “That continues to be encouraging to see God’s character in that way that He has not forgotten the women. He’s not forgotten the children.”

Learn more here about the specific challenges many Christians in Yemen face.

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