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Wrongly Imprisoned Man Taught 140 Inmates to Read
Limaยท 2017
A wrongfully imprisoned Peruvian teacher taught 140 inmates to read using the Bible โ the literacy programme transformed Cell Block 7 and sparked a prison...
Nonverbal Autistic Boy Painted Heaven โ Never Seen Church
Osakaยท 2022-10-01
A nonverbal autistic boy in Japan painted a detailed scene of heaven โ including a figure with wounded hands โ though he had never seen a church.
Death Row Inmate Forgiven by Victim Mother โ Sentence Cut
Texasยท 2022
A death row inmate in Texas was forgiven by his victim's eighty-seven-year-old mother โ she testified before the parole board and his sentence was...
Eric Liddell: The Olympian Who Chose His Children
Weihsien Campยท 1943-1945
Olympic gold medallist Eric Liddell sends his family to safety during WWII and spends his final years caring for children in a Japanese internment camp,...
Susannah Wesley: Raising World-Changers in a Crowded Rectory
Epworthยท Early 1700s
Susannah Wesley raises ten surviving children through poverty, house fires, and an absent husband โ her disciplined kitchen-table education produces John...
Mordechai Vanunu: The Whistleblower Who Exposed Israel's Nuclear Program
Israel / Londonยท 1986-2004
Former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu exposed Israel's secret nuclear weapons program to the Sunday Times in 1986.
Walter McMillian: The Case That Inspired "Just Mercy"
Monroevilleยท 1988-1993
Convicted on fabricated evidence in the town that produced To Kill a Mockingbird, Walter McMillian spent six years on Alabama's death row before Bryan...
How a Prison Chaplain Found God Behind Bars
Washingtonยท 1974-1976
Chuck Colson went from Watergate convict to founding Prison Fellowship, the world's largest prison ministry, after finding God behind bars among broken people.
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...
They Adopted Three Daughters โ Then Their World Collapsed in a Driveway
Franklinยท 2008
Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman adopted 3 daughters from China. In May 2008, youngest daughter Maria was accidentally killed in their driveway.
Her Husband Was Killed by a Tribe โ She Moved In With Her Baby
Ecuadorยท 1958
After her husband Jim was speared to death by the Huaorani tribe in 1956, Elisabeth Elliot stayed in Ecuador and moved INTO the tribal village with her...
Boris & Dushka Vujicic: A Son Born Without Arms or Legs
Melbourneยท 1982
Boris and Dushka Vujicic were devastated when their son Nick was born without arms or legs in 1982.