In this episode of Faith without Frontiers, we meet Palmira de Sá from Angola, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, and racism who now walks alongside other survivors with the hope of Christ. She shares how God protected her as a child, met her in a Muslim-majority country with no church, and led her through a costly journey of forgiveness that even astonished a psychiatrist. Palmira also exposes systemic failures in Angola’s police, courts, and churches—where half of reported child sexual abuse cases happen in church contexts—and explains why silence, bad theology, and cultural patriarchy keep victims unprotected. Today she leads “Prince and Princess,” an association serving survivors and training church leaders, and is partnering with Angola’s First Lady to confront abuse as a national and ecclesial crisis.

Guest: Palmira de Sá, co-founder of Prince and Princess Association, Angola

This episode contains detailed descriptions of child sexual abuse, domestic violence, racism, and suicide ideation. Listener discretion is advised.

What does it mean to lose your home — not just the walls and roof, but the place where you belong, where you are known, and where you meet with God? In this deeply moving conversation, Valentyn and Luba Syniy of the Tavriysky Christian Institute (TCI) in Ukraine share their firsthand experience of war, displacement, and faith.

Valentyn, a theologian and seminary president, was born and raised in Kherson — a city that once had 350,000 residents and now has fewer than 60,000. When Russia occupied Kherson, he made the painful decision to evacuate the entire seminary — students, professors, and all — first to western Ukraine and then to Kyiv. Meanwhile, his elderly parents and his father, a pastor, stayed behind through nine months of brutal occupation.

In this interview, Valentyn and Luba open up about:
• The Russian military using TCI’s 15-acre campus as a military base and looting their library
• The emotional wound of a Russian evangelical volunteer who stole Valentyn’s Bible and used it to teach soldiers at night
• Losing staff and students to war — including a chaplain killed by a mine and a soldier killed by a drone
• The deep theological meaning of “home” — as family, city, church, and nation
• New Ukrainian churches planted across Europe by refugees
• TCI’s new master’s programs in Chaplaincy and Peace Building
• Why true reconciliation between Russia and Ukraine requires repentance first
• Valentyn’s upcoming book in English: Serving God Under Siege: How War Transformed a Ukrainian Community (releasing October 2025)

Guest: Valentyn and Luba Syniy, Tavriysky Christian Institute (TCI), Ukraine
Book: Serving God Under Siege: How War Transformed a Ukrainian Community by Valentyn Syniy
• Ukrainian/Russian title: The Man Whose Home Was Stolen
• English release: October 2025 | Publisher: Langham/Langham Publishing (Erdmans)