Hosted by Help The Persecuted · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 94 episodes
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Welcome to Prisoners of Hope, where we bring you powerful stories, urgent updates, and firsthand testimonies from persecuted Christians. Real faith. Real persecution...And a God who does the impossible every day. These voices from the frontlines of faith will revolutionize how you pray and show you what hope in Jesus really means.
Help The Persecuted hosts Prisoners of Hope, a religion show with 94 episodes published.
What does it cost to follow Jesus in a country where converts are turned away from churches and worship must be kept to a whisper? Joshua Youssef sits down with Bassam, one of our Field Ministers in Morocco, who shares t
Yemen is the only country we serve where it is too dangerous to bring a believer who lives there onto the podcast, even with their voice disguised. This week, Joshua Youssef sits down with Saif, a coordinator who serves
Egypt is home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, yet for those who follow Christ out of a Muslim background, that faith can cost them their family, their livelihood, and even their lives. This week,
What does it cost to follow Jesus in Iraq and Syria? This week, Joshua Youssef sits down with team leads Daniel and Nabeel, who share the testimonies that brought them to faith and the lives being changed around them thr
In Libya, converts face death if discovered. This week, Joshua Youssef sits down with Aseel, one of our Field Ministers in Libya, for a conversation about ministry in one of the most closed countries on earth. Aseel shar
Christians in Pakistan live as a small minority in a country where a single blasphemy accusation can cost them a job, a community, or their lives. This week, Joshua Youssef sits down with Rachid and Farhan, two of our Fi
What does it look like to follow Christ where war has come to your doorstep and the harvest is right in front of you? In this week's episode, Joshua Youssef sits down with Pierre and Laila from our team in Lebanon. Both
For Iranian women who follow Jesus, persecution comes from every direction—the state, the family, the community. In this episode of Prisoners of Hope, our CEO, Joshua Youssef, talks with Shirin, who ministers to women in
In this week's episode, our CEO Joshua Youssef talks with our Field Minister Feruza, who serves in Uzbekistan and across Central Asia with her husband Jasur. She shares how she came to faith after watching the Jesus film
In this podcast episode, our Field Minister Marjan shares how he came to faith, why he turned down an opportunity to flee to the United States, and what it's like worshiping Christ in the face of the constant threat of t
He went to comfort a grieving community and nearly didn't come back. In the second episode of our Steadfast series on the Prisoners of Hope podcast, Dr. Gideon Para-Mallam us into the heart of Nigeria's Middle Belt, wher
He's lost count of how many converts call him "father." In this first episode of our Steadfast series on the Prisoners of Hope podcast, Salam, who serves in a closed country in the Middle East, opens up about the weight
Iranian Christians Fares, Mahdi, Qasem, and Laith share firsthand accounts of the Iranian government's deadly crackdown on protesters, the resilience of the underground church, and what it means to be steadfast in faith
Joshua Youssef, CEO of Help The Persecuted, sits down with Field Ministers from Lebanon, Jordan, and Iran to talk about the unfolding conflict in the Middle East and how we can be praying. Give today to help persecuted C
This week, Josh sits down with our Field Minister Salam to understand the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. This time of Islamic prayer and fasting can be especially dangerous for Christians in the Islamic World. So what is
In this follow-up episode, we sit down with Dr. Sasan Tavassoli again who describes the developments from the past two weeks. He emphasizes the brutality of the Iranian Regime, explains the danger for persecuted Christia
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Sasan Tavassoli—a former Shi'ite Muslim from Iran, ordained Presbyterian minister, and co-founder of Pars Theological Centre—to talk about current political upheaval shaking the nati
As Syria's regime change continues to send waves of refugees into Lebanon, Field Ministers Pierre and Laila share stories from the frontlines of ministry—Christmas gatherings where Muslim children hear about Jesus for th
In our final episode of 2025, Joshua Youssef interviews our Field Ministers across the Islamic World to hear how they celebrate Christmas and how our Winter Relief Outreach is making a difference in thousands of people's
In this personal episode of Prisoners of Hope, Joshua Youssef sits down with his father, Dr. Michael Youssef—Egyptian-born theologian, founder of global ministry Leading the Way, and author of many books—for a conversati
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