{"id":5127,"date":"2024-12-05T08:07:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T08:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/brothers-minister-to-minority-people-group\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T08:07:07","slug":"brothers-minister-to-minority-people-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/brothers-minister-to-minority-people-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Brothers Minister to Minority People Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sundanese are one of the largest unreached minority groups in the world and have been resistant to the gospel. However, when three Muslim-background Sundanese brothers &mdash; Joyo, Setiaban and Wira &mdash; came to faith in Jesus Christ, they also became passionate evangelists. Their evangelistic success in their village eventually led to persecution. When the news of dozens of Christian conversions began to spread, one of the Islamic social organizations in Indonesia, Muhammadiyah, rallied members to stop the brothers and the spread of Christianity in their village. This led to two of them being arrested and all three being forced to leave their home. One brother, Wira, passed away a few years ago from illness. Pray that Joyo and Setiaban will remain vibrant witnesses for Christ among the Sundanese and that many more will come to faith in Christ through their testimony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/indonesia\/\">Click here<\/a> to find out about Christian persecution in Indonesia and learn how to pray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icommittopray.com\/request\/2756\/joyo-and-setiaban\/\" target=\"_blank\">Post a prayer for Joyo and Setiaban on iCommitToPray.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sundanese are one of the largest unreached minority groups in the world and have been resistant to the gospel. However, when three Muslim-background Sundanese brothers &#8211; Joyo, Setiaban and Wira &#8211; came to faith in Jesus Christ, they also became passionate evangelists. Their evangelistic success in their village eventually led to persecution. When the news of dozens of Christian conversions began to spread, one of the Islamic social organizations in Indonesia, Muhammadiyah, rallied members to stop the brothers and the spread of Christianity in their village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-commit-to-pray","tag-indonesia","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brothers Minister to Minority People Group - Stories<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/brothers-minister-to-minority-people-group\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brothers Minister to Minority People Group - Stories\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Sundanese are one of the largest unreached minority groups in the world and have been resistant to the gospel. 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