In the three months since a secret study week for Christians in Uzbekistan, the participants have already started 6 new churches, according to the mission organisation Open Doors. She found an English article about Jesus in the Koran in front of her church in Tashkent, and translated it into her own language. He returned home encouraged, and started a house church. There, the members experienced how a woman suffering from cancer was healed following prayer and fasting. The fellowship has since grown to 34 people.
Observers report that mouth to mouth propaganda and healings play a large part in the growth.
Many young Christians made themselves available to God, ready to plant new churches in Central Asia. Charismatic revival in prayer-answering rain In Uganda, a country in central Africa with a population of some 20 million, a Charismatic revival started on Pentecost 1995 which has spread to many parts in the Southwest of the country, reports German journalist Rainer Straub. Church growth has been accelerating for 18 months, and has now reached Kampala, the capital. The unusual part is that it is taking place within the Catholic church. The new converts form cells and prayer groups in the thousands.