More than 70 people attended a GO Equipped course in Liberia in February this year. 20 of them have signed up to go as tentmakers.

My hope is that we can send the first tentmakers by the end of this year, says Tent Liberia’s director, Clinton T. Gbawoh. For him having the GO Equipped course in Monrovia is a long-term dream that became reality. In 2010 he attended an All Africa conference on tentmaking in Cameroon. Since then he has wanted to bring the GO Equipped-training to his home nation.

China is waging war with faith. The nation should respect the sacred right of people to worship, said the U.S. ambassador for International Religious Freedom as he was speaking in Hong Kong last week.

The human rights situation in China has caused many concerns in recent past years. The current president, Xi Jinping, seems to be especially active in taking religious freedom away from the citizens of the world’s most populous nation. Foreign workers who have been living in China for years, are told to leave on short notice. Many unregistered churches who operated openly a few years ago, have now moved their work to secret places.