Lizzie Francis* huddled in the back seat and watched as the gang formed around the pickup truck. She clutched her friends' two toddlers as one of the men, flanked by his brothers, got out a gun and waved it at his neighbor, yelling obscenities and threatening to end his life.
Believers living in Central Asia say spiritual darkness has had a stronghold in the region for so long that you can sometimes feel the weight, or see the battle manifesting itself in visible ways.
The neighbor had been parked in the street in his way when his family came back from a picnic in the countryside. At the picnic, Lizzie had been their guest for the day, for the eating, laughing, dancing ... and now gun-slinging.
"They are incredibly hospitable," Lizzie said of the people in the Central Asian city where she lives. "But the darkness is under the surface all the time, just waiting to come out." Read more
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