Update about our brother Abd elrahman kane

Dear Prayer Partners, 
 
I must update you about our friends in Mauritania.  Our brother there, Abd elrahman kane, and his son Isa, who is 21 years old, have just been arrested by the Mauritanian police in the city of Rosso. The story began on April 10 when Isa decided to smuggle 152 Bibles and Christian booklets in the Fulani language from Senegal into Mauritania. Immigration officials searched his bags and arrested him for carrying “illegal, infidel materials” into an Islamic country. The church leaders advised his father to go into hiding when they heard his son had been arrested. They hoped the incident would die down and the young man would be released. The police allowed Isa to stay in his home overnight and return to the police station each day. He could not escape without endangering his family. 

Finally, on April 20, Abd elrahman decided he had to go to the police station to ask the officers to release his son. He told them he would take the responsibility and consequences for his son’s actions. The chief officer said he would gladly release them both if they would simply renounce their faith in Jesus and confirm that they are devout Muslims who were just bringing the Bibles and materials to share with their friends out of idle curiosity. Abd elrahman and Isa both refused to deny Jesus and their Christian faith. The officer replied, “You have just put yourself in major trouble. I wanted to release you, but you have to denounce Jesus. If you won’t do that, I have no choice but to take you both into custody and charge you with:
 
1) converting from Islam to Christianity, which is punishable by execution
2) attempting to bring infidel books into an Islamic country
3) attempting to propagate infidel ideas among Islamic people
 
Both men are now being held in the Rosso City police station jail awaiting trial.
 
Dear friends, please pray fervently

1)  that God will use this case to push the government to change their laws, allowing their citizens to freely become Christians.
2)  that Americans will no longer believe the lie that Islam is tolerant of other religions
3)  for Abd elrahman and Isa’s family and church. That God will give them peace, wisdom, and boldness 
4)  that God will provide us with a good secular lawyer to advocate for them. That he is not a radical Muslim himself
 
Here is a link to a news release that came out on April 10 throughout Mauritania.  You can copy the text into Google translator (Arabic to English) to read it.

Photos of Isa (left) and Abd elrahman (right):

 

Be on the lookout for further updates with ways you can help and pray for Isa and Abd elrahman.
 
                                                                                         Blessings to you in Christ,