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Arrested at the hospital where he worked, he turned the prison into a pulpit

Three Bibles and a valley of death

2010s🇪🇷Eritrea

Dr Berhane, a new believer, was jailed 11 months in Eritrea for his faith. He smuggled in three Bibles, leaned on the Psalms, and turned his cell into a place to share Jesus.

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Every day I was clapping my hands and prisoners would come forward and I shared the gospel.

Dr Berhane was a new believer in Jesus, working in a hospital in Eritrea, when the secret police came for him. His crime was his faith. They put him in prison for eleven months, in one of the harshest systems on earth, a place designed to make Christians disappear and go quiet.

He did the opposite. "Every day I was clapping my hands," he said, "and prisoners would come forward and I shared the gospel." A man who had only recently met Jesus decided his cell was simply the next place to introduce Him.

Three Bibles and a valley of death The authorities took his Bible. He smuggled another in. They took that one too, and he smuggled a third. He leaned hard on the Psalms, and when fellow prisoners were taken out and executed, the old line about walking through the valley of the shadow of death stopped being poetry and became the thing that held him upright.

Eleven months of that did not break him. It made him a preacher. The guards meant to silence a new Christian and instead handed him a congregation with nowhere to go.

Wherever they put you, Jesus goes with you, and He is not intimidated by the walls. Dr Berhane found that out in an Eritrean prison. You can trust it wherever you are.

About This Testimony

What did God do?
Faith Deepened, Experienced God's Presence
Where in life?
Prison
How did it happen?
Through Suffering, Through Scripture

Source & Attribution

Originally shared by The Voice of the Martyrs. Read or hear the original at persecution.com.

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Prison in Eritrea as a Believer: Sharing Christ Behind Bars
The Voice of the Martyrs
https://www.persecution.com/stories/former-eritrean-prisoner-shares-testimony/

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