Meet Hate with Hope this Easter
1 April 2026
Meet Hate with Hope: Rafael’s story
Can you imagine the anguish of a 15-year-old boy who learns his older brother has just been gunned down by terrorists on the side of a road?
Yet before the boy, called Rafael, can even start to grieve, he and his family must flee because the same murderous gang could be coming for them.
Hurriedly, they set out on a long and arduous journey on foot to find safety, leaving behind their home, their crops and their few possessions.
“If they catch you, they kill you”
Rafael is just one among hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters driven out of the far northern region of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, by the violence inflicted on Christians by Islamic State fighters.
“If they catch you, they kill you,” Rafael, now aged 21, told Barnabas Aid. “You are fleeing for your life because the moment you come into contact with them, there’s no questions asked, there’s no compromise – they just kill you.”
After many weeks of walking, Rafael and his family eventually found refuge further south in Mozambique, in a settlement camp that is home to around 10,000 others displaced by the Islamists’ long campaign of terror.
Nigeria. Mozambique. Myanmar.
In these and many other places, the followers of Christ have been left bereaved, injured, displaced and traumatised by violent persecution.
You can meet their urgent needs - food, medicines - and provide for their long-term future.
Help Christians like Rafael rebuild their lives.
