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Women Devalued Posted: 27 Mar 2013 03:00 AM PDT Throughout the month of March, we will be posting daily about Chinese Muslims, the prayer focus for our upcoming Secret Church gathering. We invite you to learn about Chinese Muslims and pray with us for God's glory to be made known among them. If you would like to read other posts in this blog series, you can find them here. Photo Courtesy of Pray for the Hui So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27, ESV) Zai-nai-bai was too angry to eat again tonight, she told her daughter to prepare enough noodles for the three children and went out to the road to see if her husband was going to make an appearance. She hated it when he stayed out all night with another woman. She felt so helpless to change the situation. Even her brother, an Ahong (Imam), said she should just accept his infidelity and not make a fuss. When he had broken her rib by kicking her in the back, her family had at last stepped in and reported him to the police. But since his rich sister paid bail for him, the few months he spent in prison had not changed him much. She worried about what he might be doing. If she divorced her husband, he would take her only son, and she would be left with no one to care for her in her old age. Her tears fell as hopelessness and frustration overwhelmed her. The Qur'an teaches that the testimony of one man is worth as much as that of two women. It also teaches that women should be beaten if they are not submissive. For rural Hui women, their only hope of an easier life is to have a son who will eventually marry and bring a wife into the family home. This young bride becomes the unpaid slave of her mother-in-law and cares for the elderly parents when her husband is out working. Many Hui men live and work in big cities far away from their home villages and towns. They see their wives irregularly and thus infidelity is a big temptation. The Hui women who lack education or money do not have the option of leaving their unfaithful husbands. Fewer Hui men have responded to the gospel than women; perhaps fear of the equality they see in Christian marriages prevents Hui men from accepting Christ. PLEASE PRAY Ask God to enable Hui believers to value women as much as men. Ask God to heal Hui women as they come to Christ from all their past emotional wounds. This post was re-posted from Pray4Hui.com. For more information about and prayer requests for Chinese Muslims, please visit Pray for the Hui and follow @pray4hui on Twitter.

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