FAITH NEWS SERVICE – LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 11, 2025 – As Christian persecution intensifies across East Africa and Sudan, an international ministry is launching a large-scale effort to provide relief, training, and humanitarian support to frontline pastors serving in high-risk regions.
Breath of the Spirit International Ministries, led by founder Dr. Michelle Corral, will host the Fire and Anointing Sudan Pastors Conference this December in Yeida, South Sudan, in partnership with South Sudanese church leaders.
The initiative builds on more than a decade of outreach to persecuted Christian leaders across Egypt, East Africa, and India. The Fire and Anointing Pastors Conferences are distinguished by a full-sponsorship model, covering transportation, lodging, meals, and conference costs for all attending clergy. The program was first launched in Egypt during the Mubarak era to support pastors facing arrest, surveillance, and extremist threats.
Today, the initiative has expanded across East Africa, with conferences held in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, and Ethiopia. Outreach teams travel into conflict-affected and remote regions to identify pastors in crisis, provide safe passage to training hubs, and supply humanitarian aid.
Sudan is now the ministry’s most urgent focus. With escalating conflict, church burnings, displacement, and targeted violence against Christian leaders, the upcoming South Sudan gathering is expected to serve up to 500 Sudanese pastors from the Nuba Mountains, Khartoum, Darfur, and Port Sudan. Attendees will receive trauma support, ministry training, essential supplies, and secure transport to and from the event.
Humanitarian relief remains a core component of the program. In Ethiopia, the 2025 Fire and Anointing Conference provided medical treatment to more than 2,500 individuals through volunteer physicians. In Northern Uganda, the ministry continues to support displaced pastors living in refugee camps, equipping them to assist fellow refugees through spiritual care, education, and relief efforts.
About Dr. Michelle Corral
Dr. Michelle Corral is the founder of Breath of the Spirit International Ministries and the Fire and Anointing Pastors Conferences. For over 47 years, she has provided humanitarian aid, pastoral training, and support to persecuted Christian communities in crisis regions worldwide. To learn more about Dr. Michelle Corral and her humanitarian works please visit https://breathofthespirit.org/
SOURCE: Breath of the Spirit Ministries
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