{"id":5190,"date":"2025-04-24T07:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/shunned-christian-widow-embraces-hope\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T07:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:07:05","slug":"shunned-christian-widow-embraces-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/shunned-christian-widow-embraces-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Shunned Christian Widow Embraces Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YeanFin is persevering in faith despite total rejection from her family and community. In 2015, YeanFin became a Christian and led her four children to Christ. Already a widow at that time, she was dependent on her extended family as she raised her children alone. Her relatives and the officials of her Laotian village were at first curious about her decision but then threatened her to return to the worship of their ancestral spirits. They said they would not help her if she persisted in following what they saw as a foreign religion: &ldquo;You should choose us, not choose God!&rdquo; YeanFin, now 58, struggles to find work after being ostracized by the community, but she has declared that she will not leave Christ and thanks God for taking care of her and her children for the past 10 years. &ldquo;I love God,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Even though in this earth my relatives rejected me and have not helped me, in God I have hope.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/laos\/\">Click here<\/a> to find out about Christian persecution in Laos and learn how to pray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icommittopray.com\/request\/2815\/yeanfin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Post a prayer for YeanFin on iCommitToPray.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YeanFin is persevering in faith despite total rejection from her family and community. 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