![]() ![]() In 1992, when the Pratts first moved to the region, 340 million people lived in Central Asian countries, and only 4,000 were Christians. The Pratts and their IMB colleagues had the privilege of seeing the number of Christians in Central Asia grow exponentially. Zane and Catherine served among an unreached people group with one known Christian out of a total of 13 million people. In the early 1990s, more than 550 years later, Zane and Catherine Pratt moved onto Timur’s turf, and they brought the ageless message of hope with them. ![]() But this wasn’t the end of Christianity in Central Asia. Aiming to restore Khan’s Mongol Empire with the same barbarity of his hero, Timur ruthlessly eradicated Christianity from the lands he conquered. ![]() Timur the Great, known in the West as Tamerlane, portrayed himself as an heir of Genghis Khan. Zane and Catherine marched up to the tomb of a ruthless conqueror known for the eradication of Christianity in Central Asia and said, “We’re back.” ![]()
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