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The Cat That Found Him in Solitary
Romaniaยท 1950s
Richard Wurmbrand, imprisoned for 14 years in Communist Romania, describes a stray cat that repeatedly found its way into his solitary confinement cell...
Sundar Singh: Meeting Jesus on a Himalayan Road
Himalayasยท 1900s-1920s
Sundar Singh, a Sikh teenager who burned the Bible, encountered Jesus in a vision and spent thirty years walking barefoot through the Himalayas preaching...
She Died When He Was 7 โ Her Words Saved Him in a Storm 20 Years Later
North Atlantic Oceanยท 1748
Elizabeth Newton taught her son John Scripture and hymns before dying of tuberculosis when he was 7.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Letters That Survived the Execution
Berlin & Flossenburgยท 1935-1945
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote his most profound theology from a Nazi prison โ in letters to his closest friend Eberhard Bethge. Bonhoeffer was executed in 1945.
A Beacon of Faith
Haarlemยท 1944
84-year-old watchmaker Casper ten Boom risked his life hiding Jews during WWII, demonstrating unwavering faith in God's protection even unto death in...
The New Martyrs of Russia
Soviet Union (Russia)ยท 1917-1991
Over 100,000 Russian Orthodox Christians chose martyrdom rather than deny their faith during Soviet persecution, with the Church canonizing over 1,000...
The Serbian Martyrs of Jasenovac
Jasenovacยท 1941-1945
Nearly 700,000 Serbian Orthodox Christians chose martyrdom over denying their faith during WWII at Jasenovac concentration camp.
Father Arseny: Light in the Soviet Gulag
Soviet Gulag campsยท 1930s-1950s
Orthodox priest Father Arseny survived over 20 years in Soviet prison camps, leading fellow prisoners to faith through miraculous protection and...
Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan
Mardinยท 10 Jun 1915
Armenian Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan refused to convert to Islam during the 1915 genocide, choosing martyrdom while shepherding his flock through...
Saint Maria Skobtsova: Love Unto Death
Parisยท 1940s
Saint Maria Skobtsova transformed from atheist to Orthodox nun who sacrificed her life saving Jewish families in Nazi-occupied Paris, dying in...
William Cowper - From Despair to the Light of Christ
St Albansยท 1764
In 1764, poet William Cowper found faith while reading Romans in a mental asylum after three suicide attempts. He later wrote beloved hymns with John Newton.
Anne Askew: The Woman Who Would Not Recant
Londonยท 1546
Anne Askew, a 16th-century English Protestant woman, endured torture and execution rather than deny her faith, becoming the only woman recorded to be...
