Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices

BBC News 2026-05-19 Signs of the Times Global Source

In Afghanistan today, a staggering three in four people cannot meet their basic needs.

Prophecy Correlations

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Famines, Pestilences, and Earthquakes In Progress

The Afghan humanitarian crisis—with extreme poverty, starvation, and inability to meet basic needs—reflects the prophecy of 'famines, pestilences, and earthquakes' in various places as signs of the end times. The desperation forcing fathers to sell children exemplifies the breakdown of social order and survival desperation characteristic of eschatological famine conditions described in Matthew 24:7 and Luke 21:11.